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by Darmani 18y ago
One thing that stood out for me was how they called Obama of 2007 "long-shot." It seems that we must always romanticize our next leader before inauguration, portray them as a valiant crusader who, against all odds, triumphed over obscurity
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by Darmani 18y ago
My high school banned freshman and sophomores from using to-be verbs in their English essays for a lot of the reasons discussed in the article. I soon learned to get around that without thinking hard. Instead of saying "Macbeth is malicious
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by Darmani 18y ago
The big question is how to stop worrying about the need to personally fetch water and make clothes, and how to start worrying about implementing your overall plans. That is, how to get enough production going where you wouldn't be screwed w
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by Darmani 18y ago
Depends how much people care about who they go to for heart surgery.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koch_Industries
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Making game was my primary ambition when I was young. I got my start "programming" by using a drag-and-drop game-making program called Multimedia Fusion, and first understood a good deal of the basics of C-descendants by reading a lengthy t
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by Darmani 18y ago
Thanks for making the connection! A while ago, when thinking about the boundary between long and short, decided that the problem was that we use discrete labels for continuous phenomena. I suppose this may be related to the Anchor Bias ( ht
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by Darmani 18y ago
Small burdens are never directly visible. No entrepreneur thinks "If taxes were 5% lower, I'd start a startup." Instead, they think "If I had twice as much savings, I'd start a startup" without stopping to realize they're saving an amount e
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by Darmani 18y ago
Options are worthless because companies can't go public in most cases and therefore options can't be sold. To attract top employees, startups need the ability to give options which can be sold and therefore aren't worthless.
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by Darmani 18y ago
I'm working on a way to play the card game Mao online, except that, as Mao is a game that lets you make your own rules, in order to be capable of playing a substantial subset, it'll have to be capable of playing any card game. (Yes, I've th
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Physicists Build 10 Atom Transistor(discovermagazine.com)
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For #2, running off the walkway gives a greater boost to speed percentage-wise; since travel time is inversely proportional to speed, it is thus reduced greater. (For positive u and v`>v>1, v`/v<(v`+u)/(v+u))
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by Darmani 18y ago
No matter where you are, "made it" is always one step above you.
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by Darmani 18y ago
I feel that most of these responses were made by bots.
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I initially thought this was supposed to be a rap, and read it as such -- it worked well. I then read the text at the bottom. That creates a scary thought: can Dr. Seuss books be rapped verbatim? (This is making a rapped version of "I am th
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by Darmani 18y ago
He actually did try to balance the budget for a while -- for the first several years, whenever he raised spending, he raised taxes as well.
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This question is similar to many seen in puzzlehunts: it has no instructions, but enough information to arrive at a definite answer. Actually, it does have instructions, but they're veiled: "determine which order we should go after these co
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by Darmani 18y ago
Microsoft's monopoly in all areas is deteriorating due to the free market. For example, the browser market is now more of an oligopoly. Microsoft only maintains a majority market share because Firefox forced it to really put some work into
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by Darmani 18y ago
I'm a little fearful of efficiency in government. I believe that, in most areas, government can never be as efficient as a free market. Making the government closer to a free-market efficiency just makes it harder to get to a fully-free mar
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Highly ironic comment from Steve Yegge (scroll down to "Lame Languages")(web.archive.org)
16 points by Darmani 18y ago|12 comments
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'"Awareness is growing, and more students are interested," said Thukral, who in 2004 became one of the inaugural students in USC's graduate program for video game development. "Computer science can be fun."' That seems to imply that the fun
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by Darmani 18y ago
It's quite interesting to look at this from a cultural point of view. Most interesting to me is the assumption that the transportation of today would be just like the centralized system of then, only bigger and better. There's been such a m
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by Darmani 18y ago
I'm currently working on a system flexible to play the card game Mao and every reasonable rule that could be made for it online. I'm also working on a nice, comfortable, abstract way to create Turing machines in Arc, with the ultimate goal
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by Darmani 18y ago
Seems I'll no longer get creativity points for giving the elite commandos a form of "half-telepathy" identical to what was described in the article (except with transmitting equipment implanted in the cranium as well) in that near-future sc
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by Darmani 18y ago
If I understand what you mean, you actually can balance tags around arbitrarily nested expressions if your regex parser supports recursion. The Ruby Way has an example of using recursive regexes to balance parentheses.
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Unfortunately, organizations have a much higher Young's modulus than languages.
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At Canada/USA Mathcamp last summer, a few kids found the Nim reduction for Brussel Sprouts for their project. Shame I don't remember it, though.
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Thanks to the influence of Milton Friedman, the US government has a fairly minor role in the micro sphere and a very active role in the macro sphere. The government interference is still there, but it's mostly invisible -- it comes in the f
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by Darmani 18y ago
Hey look...someone found that ordered announcements of events can communicate the plot of a story and created a short demonstration on a classic example. Isn't that a totally amazing and newsworthy breakthrough!?
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The author claims that if a language has features that allow patterns to be automated, there will still be patterns. Perhaps that's true, but the logic seems to be that more-than-necessary code-duplication is acceptable because eliminating

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