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by Jd 14y ago
In the case of Chinese, the pictographic properties are often retained in the construction. For example, a common radical is that of the roof, which appears at the top of this character: 安 an1 meaning peace The perception (correctly or inc
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I'm in the exact same place. I devoured fiction (especially science fiction and fantasy) in my youth (ages 7-17, including 6 full LOTR readings), but the appeal has been destroyed as I've moved into hypersonic reading speed, in which my con
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"that all writing systems, properly so called, are systems for writing out speech." This is true by definition, at least by the definition of a "writing system" commonly used by DeFrancis and others. For the Chinese system, it is true that
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The problem is that the HN front page can't be used for this sort of thing or it will be swamped with free offers of various sorts (not to mention other types of advertisements). Sadly, I don't know of a good alternative except to find some
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There was a Chinese general (Zhu Chenghu) who has made several controversial statements to this end, including that initiating nuclear war would be acceptable in case of US intrusion in Taiwan (still considered by most mainland Chinese as a
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Very interested in this also. I'd be willing to help organize too (via Facebook or other websites).
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If all value is relative then there is no such thing as value at all. Of course the converse statement, that "inherent value" is a construct is true, since people rarely agree on the value of any given object, and generally the only way we
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Although I do agree with you that the difference between Bitcoin and other fiat currencies is a matter of degree and not type, there is a rather important difference that you are skipping over. The fact is that there is accountability with
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This is a very complicated and interesting topic. Many economists believe that inflation is necessary to keep people from hoarding. Spending, either in the form of acquisition or investment, is necessary to keep the economy juiced up. In ot
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>> that value is in allowing people to make exchanges they wouldn't otherwise be able to make. Well, you could say the exact same about every currency. If you are a chicken farmer, it is easier to buy a pound of pork for $5 than try
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I think Q is closer to the size of the market rather than the size of the "economy." "Economy" implies both tangible goods and buyers and sellers for those goods. The problem with Q in the Bitcoin sense is that it can move around a lot, sin
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The problem with all fiat currencies is they have no inherent value; it is all in the eye of the beholder. So what is an "appropriate" price is quite difficult to determine. Most currencies are driven by being effective monopolies wherever
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Ask HN: Do sponsored posts on Facebook deliver value?
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McKinsey Quarterly Report emphasis social media skills(e.mckinseyquarterly.com)
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That was easy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExWfh6sGyso
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These over-hyped stories are getting amusing. Next year I expect: Headline Nine year old African girl develops brain-enhancing neuroimplants with a set of toothpicks after watching a educational video on $25 laptop received from microfina
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Generally speaking, I agree, but the Samwer teams often overstep the bounds and going beyond simply duplicating functionality (i.e. blatantly ripping the design features and html/css theme of the website landing page). I think if you talk t
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Can someone give this a meaningful title? Like perhaps, "Bill Gates comments on the state of higher education" ? I think this is a bot produced post...
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Nope, it is to have multiple Harvard degrees, worked at top law firm, run a company, been featured in a magazine article, and already built a product that has paying customers.
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tl;dr: Student resells textbooks produced in Thailand making $1.2 million. Publishers sue him. They win first two rounds because "first sale" law does not apply overseas. Ebay and a hodgepodge of other groups support student. Case about to
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I agree, but I'm not sure that there is any other way to establish positive discourse -- for most posts there are the enthusiasts and the middlebrow detractors, and virtue may often only appear after both of these positions are raised and d
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An interesting idea, but probably could have been done better with an order magnitude less of maps with nice effects between (i.e. a horizontal side scroll with fade effects, rather than having to click on each little map tile). Generally s
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tl;dr: I created a 3d Model in 7.5 hrs and posted on Picasa. ~1 day later 500+ news articles, 90K web results. Did it for the lulz. btw, no one bothered to contact me to verify anything.
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http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Crushing%20it I suspect that 'crushing it' first referred to standard usage of the male sexual organ and later was extended to other usages.
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> It is not advocating a political position From the OP: "I prefer Obama too." That's a political position, pure and simple. In fact, it is as good as an endorsement (and a somewhat sneaky one given that it comes at the end of a seeming
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Additionally, when there is a potentially negative association with a particular political choice (i.e. the choice of something other than pg's preferred option), one will obviously refuse to report, and will usually not make one's refusal
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I agree, and I think the ramp up time plus the intoxication of total absorbtion almost mandates some degree of obsessiveness that makes programmers more similar to artists than other types of engineers - there has to be peace and quiet and
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If I have time later today I'll extend your snippet, but my inclination is that the differences in speed become apparent only with very large numbers. I still suspect my algorithm is about 40-50% faster if you start with a googol.
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Given that is a theoretical question that you are attempting to fit into an actual algorithm to ostensibly solve a real problem, doesn't the actual performance of the algorithm matter? I can see that within the context of theory of computer
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Hmmm. But the Mule operated outside the Seldon plan.

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