Kadin

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841.
by Kadin 17y ago
I think it's a great idea, but I think you need to be careful how you get it started. It's the sort of thing where success or failure are going to be totally determined by the people you can fill it with. If you get a good group of people
842.
by Kadin 17y ago
Yes, basically. "Real dollars" are dollars adjusted for inflation. I think it's a little more precise than just saying "inflation-adjusted dollars" because when people hear that, they automatically assume "adjusted using CPI," which is onl
843.
by Kadin 17y ago
Also see: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=870663 (That is the same piece, but from the NYT Op-Ed page. The Google Blog is probably better from the perspective of having a permanent, non-paywalled link, which in itself is an interesti
844.
by Kadin 17y ago
Seems like a reasonable and cogent response to some of the anti-Google sentiment that has been floating around. Although I'm not a huge fan of the Google/Guild arrangement -- I would have preferred a true solution, in the form of orphan wor
845.
by Kadin 17y ago
I've heard the term used in two different ways, and I'm not sure which way is the 'correct' one: In one usage, "soft" errors are ones that are 'caught' and transparently fixed by ECC, and thus have no effect (on a system that has ECC memory
846.
by Kadin 17y ago
I don't quite get it. What is this data based on? What goods are included? The price of food, for instance, has fallen dramatically just in the past 50-75 years. In both percent-of-household-budget and real dollar terms, it's dirt cheap
847.
by Kadin 17y ago
You want to look for a few things, mostly the technology that the screen actually uses. S-IPS is one of the better systems, although apparently there are a few others today that are equally good when correctly implemented. Basically, you w
848.
by Kadin 17y ago
"Repealing existing regulations" would not suddenly make the entrenched entities who grew powerful under the protection of those regulations vanish. Sure, you'd have a level playing field (of sorts), but some of the players would have had y
849.
by Kadin 17y ago
The comparison is not apt; you seem to be invoking airlines in the belief that they are a similarly capital-intensive industry. This is not really true. You can start up an airline with a bunch of rented or chartered planes, so you don't
850.
by Kadin 17y ago
I'm about as much of a free-marketer as you're going to find, but it's not administrative red tape that's stopping you from choosing between bunches of wireless ISPs: operating one is really hard . The startup costs are immense. Satellite
851.
by Kadin 17y ago
Does OO Calc have the same tab-return behavior as Excel yet? Last time I tried it, doing data entry was a real PITA. In Excel, if you're entering data, you press 'tab' to move to the next column, and when you're done with that row, you pre
852.
by Kadin 17y ago
You can always -- provided you are sane, sober, and alert -- decline treatment or even just check yourself out of the hospital "against medical advice." Generally this involves signing some forms releasing the hospital from all responsibil
853.
by Kadin 17y ago
Don't exaggerate; it's not "three times as much." Amtrak NEC Service, New Haven (NHV) to Washington Union Station (WAS): Train 175, Northeast Regional, 5'46", $139 Train 2173, Acela Express, 4'36", $213 So for $74 extra you get there roughl
854.
by Kadin 17y ago
I am with you; I ride the northeast corridor frequently (both on the Acela and the regular regionals) and I've gotten hundreds of hours of work done while clanking along at (average) 45MPH. The key advantages Amtrak has over a plane, in ter
855.
by Kadin 17y ago
> However producers like this guy should work with the owners of the technology and negotiate a better deal. You really think an independent film producer, hell, even all independent film producers as a group, have any negotiating power
856.
by Kadin 17y ago
> College classes are not one-way broadcasts, they are interactions. Some are; some aren't. There are some college classes -- intro (100-level) courses at big state schools -- that are pretty much just broadcast. Some really big lect
857.
by Kadin 17y ago
Well that's reasonably promising. I think there's still a race between IPv6 adoption and carrier-grade NAT. If the big ISPs deploy CGN rather than IPv6, that will eliminate the big motivation behind v6 (the IPv4 address runout), while at t
858.
by Kadin 17y ago
I do not doubt the premise--that the vast majority of people who score well on that "quiz" will be male--but I do not see how that leads to the conclusion, namely that there's some sort of biological difference. That strikes me as the reifi
859.
by Kadin 17y ago
I do not have an iPhone, and I would if it were not for the closed platform and tie-in with the App Store. (For the record, I have a Nokia E61. It's not as slick but I can run whatever the hell I like on it, and it's an unlocked GSM hands
860.
by Kadin 17y ago
I agree with one of the commentators below the article ("B.Karn") that there always seems to be a bit of a "Clever Chinaman" undertone in these US/China articles. The Chinese do not have an enviable position; they're in serious trouble, an
861.
by Kadin 17y ago
Most "marine" batteries are sort of a hybrid starting and deep-cycle battery. I think they're essentially a starting battery with thicker plates. They're built that way because, on a boat, you need a lot of current to start the engines bu
862.
by Kadin 17y ago
Assuming it's a current-limited "float charger," which is I think what almost all UPSes have (they just float some voltage, like 13.8V, over the batteries with some current limiting circuitry so they don't charge them too fast), how would y
863.
by Kadin 17y ago
> "…graduating in 2005 with a double major in journalism and anthropology…" I think I see her problem right there.
864.
by Kadin 17y ago
> to a hard drive in a safe-deposit box at a bank down the street What's the problem with that? It's probably better than 95% of small businesses out there. No, it doesn't offer geographic redundancy and it might not withstand a kille
865.
by Kadin 17y ago
The legacy Class As really aren't a significant issue either. By the time you subtract out all the effort that the clawback itself would involve (nontrivial reconfiguration of quite a few major corporate and government networks), it would
866.
by Kadin 17y ago
I consider myself a "civil libertarian," in the sense of caring about the preservation of liberty -- but I don't have a problem with this. Well-placed targeted enforcement and surveillance are good things; without them, as people start to f
867.
by Kadin 17y ago
Theory != Evidence "Evidence" is by definition empirical; it's generally described as 'the result of empirical observation' or something substantially similar.
868.
by Kadin 17y ago
I don't get it either. Bugmenot already has significant mindshare among people who would actually care about / use such a site. They've decided to fight an uphill battle against an entrenched competitor, who offers an identical service. A
869.
by Kadin 17y ago
I don't think his argument is "placated" by that at all -- the point remains that lots of minutiae are apparently deemed worthy of inclusion, while arguably significant real-world people or organizations (which in many cases meet the letter
870.
by Kadin 17y ago
At what cost are you prepared to hold the "no bogus articles" line? Some of the deletionists are very far into 'burning the village in order to save it' territory. I.e., they're so obsessed over "quality" that they'll snuff out anything th

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