Estragon

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721.
by Estragon 15y ago
> I distinctly remember them being decried as Communism, for > understandable reasons. Yes, if I was a stakeholder in the financial industry whose wealth and connections afforded me a huge mouthpiece, I too would resort to
722.
by Estragon 15y ago
> The idea that we can just lift one bit of regulatory policy from > there, apply it to our financial sector, and call our problem solved > is not just misguided, it's flat-out magical thinking. It's also a straw man
723.
by Estragon 15y ago
The FDIC does this kind of thing all the time, especially these days. Yes, it would cause some pain and mayhem, but nothing compared to what will probably result from the current paralysis. If the money spent so far on propping up insolve
724.
by Estragon 15y ago
Everybody loses! A paragon of free-market efficiency!
725.
by Estragon 15y ago
Yes, Universities have become fiscalized to an extent. They increasingly behave more like businesses whose purpose is to extract grant money from the government than institutions committed to learning and research. "The Heart of Research i
726.
by Estragon 15y ago
intext: and allintext: are useful for this failure, too.
727.
by Estragon 15y ago
> I don’t like being cryptic, but in this case, I am not > going to elaborate further This reminds me of the "The Gervais Principle"[1] from the same guy. That drew people in with an appealing story mapped onto a complex
728.
by Estragon 15y ago
Huh, I just wrote a similar tool for myself a few weeks ago. I use the sawfish windowmanager and have C-F7 set to cycle between emacs windows. I wrote some elisp to add a term ("my-workspace") to the titles of the windows in the current e
729.
by Estragon 15y ago
You could set those up with separate identities authorized with forced commands, though I'm not sure how you would secure rsync from abuse.
730.
by Estragon 15y ago
This is a good book along the same lines: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Against_Method
731.
by Estragon 15y ago
It's more complicated than that. The advance was paid direct into my former solicitors’ (FSI) bank account wholly without my consent. The money sits unspent in an FSI client account. FSI has refused to release the money to Canongate
732.
by Estragon 15y ago
From the article: > 5 nm is about the space between 100 silicon atoms, so even if this > guess is wrong, it can be wrong by no more than a few technology > generations.
733.
by Estragon 15y ago
My iBook (purchased shortly before 9/11/2001) is still going strong.
734.
by Estragon 15y ago
And what do you think would happen to a politician who tried to change the laws which allowed them to get away with that?
735.
by Estragon 15y ago
Benford's law would not have stopped the groupthink, willful ignorance and corruption which actually drove the Greek disaster. It's not like Greece's problem with tax collection was a well-kept secret, it's just that nobody wanted to face
736.
by Estragon 15y ago
glusterfs is what we use at work, and I have seen some fairly strange behavior from it during heavy FS traffic. Makes me a bit nervous.
737.
by Estragon 15y ago
I basically treat my phone the way I would a windows machine. I download lots of apps without too much concern for their integrity, because I really have no way to track what's going on on it (is there tripwire for android?.) No way am I
738.
by Estragon 15y ago
> Couldn't you add something equivalent to Lisp macros to languages like > Perl or Python? > > Not without turning them into dialects of Lisp. Real macros need to > operate on the parse tree of the program.
739.
by Estragon 15y ago
Can you give an example of what an access path is and how to manage it? This concept is new to me, and I think I understand what you're saying, but would like to make sure.
740.
by Estragon 15y ago
The main question is whether it increases the clarity and flexibility of the code. I can't think of any contexts where it would, but I wouldn't rule it out.
741.
by Estragon 15y ago
Helps me to concentrate.
742.
by Estragon 15y ago
Exactly. I use scipy, and only use R when forced to, mainly because I want to know what's going on, and write my analyses in a real language.
743.
by Estragon 15y ago
The really serious funding cuts haven't started yet. By 2014, it will be an uglier story. (Not schadenfredue; I am leading a good life in academia, too, at the moment. I just don't expect it to last when the US is forced to take austerit
744.
by Estragon 15y ago
> How much of it is marketing for the kinds of books this guy writes Not to mention his $500/yr newsletter. I'm with him on the gloom and doom, though. I'm in cash.
745.
by Estragon 15y ago
> Anonymous is just a label for people who are fed up with the government. I'm fed up with the government, and I don't identify with Anonymous.
746.
by Estragon 15y ago
1) Sit down in front of your work 2) When you feel like stepping away from your work (which may be immediately), attend to the thoughts, emotions and physical sensations you are experiencing at that moment. 3) Report your findings here.
747.
by Estragon 15y ago
Thanks, I did that for the formatting, without really thinking about the impact on the links.
748.
by Estragon 15y ago
My notes have gotten pretty extensive and sprawling, so I have a cron job which every hour indexes all org-mode and python files with swish[1]. It's pretty hacky, but I've integrated this with emacs's dired-mode, so that I get a clickable
749.
by Estragon 15y ago
Do you have automation in place to do such dumping, and shut trading down if you don't have the bitcoins/funds?
750.
by Estragon 15y ago
If I place a short-sell order, who am I actually selling to? Do you have a huge reserve of bitcoins which you use to make the corresponding trade in the bitcoin market? If not, you are effectively on the other side of my short sell order.

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