Estragon

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811.
by Estragon 15y ago
To answer your original question, you want to get an H1-B visa. This will require the extensive cooperation of your prospective employer, and is far likelier at a large, established business with established immigration processes. Dependi
812.
by Estragon 15y ago
If you extended this to run in emacs and put the results in a dired buffer on the fly, it'd be awesome!
813.
by Estragon 15y ago
Funny, people call me and my colleagues "doctor" all the time...
814.
by Estragon 15y ago
What's the use case for this?
815.
Aaronsw indicted for hacking MIT network to download millions of JSTOR docs(documentcloud.org)
603 points by Estragon 15y ago|313 comments
816.
by Estragon 15y ago
An out-and-out default is extremely unlikely, but a massive devaluation in the US dollar would be just about the perfect treatment for America's economic woes. Devaluation of debt, and massive increase in export competitiveness...
817.
by Estragon 15y ago
> How is that this software do not predicts USA default too? Because it's working for the USG, of course. Smart contractors don't bite the hand that feeds.
818.
by Estragon 15y ago
Do you really think such a turnkey ML service is possible, though?
819.
by Estragon 15y ago
Rent free, but living without water and electricity (not to mention the respect of your neighbors) has got to suck, especially in Texas.
820.
by Estragon 15y ago
Yeah, came over here to say, "Looks like an excellent place to meet pompous Mensa clowns, if you're into that sort of thing."
821.
by Estragon 15y ago
It's a reddit-style joke. ("Most interesting man in the world.")
822.
by Estragon 15y ago
Based on the biography and attitude, I assumed it was George Soros, who is pretty damn smart, financially. I could be wrong, though.
823.
by Estragon 15y ago
Not interested in arguing about his time table, but the example of DNA sequencing only affording a linear increase in undersanding is bogus and he ought to know that. It has significantly accelerated genetics research by making mapping a
824.
by Estragon 15y ago
Sure, read between the lines, but discounting perfectly benign, more plausible explanations like the one I outlined is silly. (Why would the US hackers tip their hands to the Australian Government, if they got the information from hacking
825.
by Estragon 15y ago
Oh, yeah. I want to publish in PLoSOne, but my more established collaborators (the ones who have arranged the NIH grants) absolutely need to publish in Nature, etc.
826.
by Estragon 15y ago
Yes, as that article makes clear, the point is not that a voting system is perfect, it's that the current onerous system provides no benefit over much simpler arrangements.
827.
by Estragon 15y ago
Yes, the popularity of useless, emotive comments here really bugs me. There is an inverse correlation between the points I get for a comment and the amount of time and expertise I put into it. In the scientific case, though, "popularity" w
828.
by Estragon 15y ago
> allow comments (anonymous or otherwise) on each > paragraph, and refine the content based on those > comments. PLoSOne uses this model.
829.
by Estragon 15y ago
It's entirely plausible that US intellignce services have totally owned the entire IT infrastructure of the Australian Government, but this incident does not imply that. Google didn't have to hack other companies to know they'd been hacked
830.
by Estragon 15y ago
Yes, it was a very disappointing article.
831.
by Estragon 15y ago
/r/truereddit is pretty thin on discussion, but usually good for an interesting read. Edit: Also, having now read some of the thread under discussion, the top-level tree is garbage, but the subthreads after that are mostly pretty thoughtful
832.
by Estragon 15y ago
I want to kiss the feet of scumbags like Pascazi, because vile plans like this one are exactly the sort of antagonist the world is going to have to experience before it comes to a sane relationship with the concept of intellectual property.
833.
by Estragon 15y ago
I totally lack context, here, but when I saw that quote, my first thought was, "With the tastes you showed in creating PHP, it's no wonder you hate programming."
834.
by Estragon 15y ago
Miranda doesn't apply, here. That derives from the 5th amendment, but it pertains to police interviews after arrest. The ability to obviate the 5th amendment by offering immunity amounts to a way to compel potentially incriminating test
835.
by Estragon 15y ago
Yeah, I just downloaded firefox-trunk in ubuntu, and it certainly is fast, fast enough that I can go back to using it for Microsoft Exchange webmail (which was the real killer before.) But not having the extensions is going to be a pain.
836.
by Estragon 15y ago
Maybe, but it's worth noting that I wasn't signed in, and don't have a G+ account, yet.
837.
by Estragon 15y ago
That's interesting; if I anonymize by searching through Google Sharing, I also get 2.8 million results. Searching from my own IP address (though without being logged in) still gives 6.5 million.
838.
by Estragon 15y ago
The methodology offered in the comments, of googling for http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&biw=1366&bih=653&#... and taking the number of results returned for the number of users, seems more direct. Currently that returns about 6
839.
by Estragon 15y ago
I'm not seeing it, for technical searches. E.g. http://blekko.com/ws/cython+boundscheck http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&#3... Blekko results are much spottier. Google results are exactly what I needed earli
840.
by Estragon 15y ago
What do you expect from a man who advocated for liberty, yet kept hundreds of slaves to maintain his way of life? He lacked the courage of his convictions.

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