DalekBaldwin

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by DalekBaldwin 13y ago
I beat it on the first try with nothing but 2's before I read the instructions and found out I could use 4's.
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by DalekBaldwin 13y ago
Sure. You could spend that time writing posts on Hacker News that influence more than one voter.
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by DalekBaldwin 13y ago
That's a miscalculation of opportunity costs. You are throwing away the time you could have spent doing better things than voting. How many times have you cast the deciding vote in an election?
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by DalekBaldwin 13y ago
Is it sad that they would believe those sentences, or sad that those sentences are even necessary? I can't tell whether you agree with it or not.
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by DalekBaldwin 13y ago
I'm not an academic, but I read a lot of scholarly publications in computer science and I have never seen a single reference to a patent in any of them. Usually I only discover that something is patented or patent pending later, after
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by DalekBaldwin 13y ago
I think you've summed up the goal of this PR piece.
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by DalekBaldwin 13y ago
Some might consider your model of malevolence in human affairs to be oversimplified.
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by DalekBaldwin 13y ago
We'll still have those things either way.
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by DalekBaldwin 13y ago
Remember when Karlheinz Stockhausen called 9/11 a great work of art?
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by DalekBaldwin 13y ago
Where politics really differs from JavaScript is that we are taught from a young age that it is important to hold strong opinions about it even if we know nothing about it. Flaunting one's ignorance is celebrated as civic engagement.
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by DalekBaldwin 13y ago
Or more generally, the iron law of oligarchy.
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by DalekBaldwin 13y ago
What kind of correct inference could possibly be drawn? The data is arbitrarily scaled to begin with. By criticizing the interpretation of the log graph, it seems to me you've implicitly accepted that the authors' quantification of happines
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by DalekBaldwin 13y ago
In Python: #''' some_code() ''' some_other_code() #''' ... with one character toggled, becomes: ''' some_code() ''' some_other_code() #''' If you work with anyone who says "Don't do this," don't do this.
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by DalekBaldwin 14y ago
> It's typical for one neighbor to call the nuisance abatement or police on another rather than actually go knock on the door to solve a problem. This is because they can offload all of the discomfort of confrontation onto an authority
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by DalekBaldwin 14y ago
> Buy a one way ticket to another place and work your way back, drive from the polar circle to the southern tip of Brazil. Replacing one quixotic fantasy with another will only leave him with the same void inside him when he returns hom
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by DalekBaldwin 14y ago
I see from your other posts that you attended Caltech in the '70s. You might be disappointed to read the more recent anecdata: http://www.quora.com/California-Institute-of-Technology/Why-...