MichaelDickens

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by MichaelDickens 13y ago
> It's probably the worst product name in history. It certainly gets people's attention, though, doesn't it?
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by MichaelDickens 13y ago
Ah, thanks for the correction. I haven't read the article in a while and I just glanced back through it. > Which is rather suspect, considering it appears to have been cherry-picked from amongst the seven studies the author referenc
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by MichaelDickens 13y ago
On rape accusations: http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/02/17/lies-damned-lies-and-so... TLDR: About 20% (with a wide margin of error) of rape accusations are false. > "1 in 4 women is raped" was a f
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by MichaelDickens 13y ago
> This could be just to tell how much of a nerd/geek you are. Could work in your favor if you show them how passionate you are about technology or having fun? But I think this is the sort of thing on which a lot of men give women pa
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by MichaelDickens 13y ago
Some atomic clocks are considerably less accurate. I can't find a citation, but IIRC, older cesium atomic clocks are accurate to about 1 second every 300 years.
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by MichaelDickens 13y ago
It could, except that Harvard already uses a lot of the interest on that endowment to cover expenses. If they didn't have the endowment, tuition would have to be a lot higher.
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by MichaelDickens 13y ago
> Stanford has the most generous tuition exemption I think, charging $0 tuition if your family makes under $100k As someone with a family making under $100k who did not receive free tuition, this is false.
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by MichaelDickens 13y ago
I believe Stanford University gets something like 40% of its annual budget from tuition (other top universities are similar). That's not huge, but it's big enough to make it totally infeasible to simply stop charging tuition.
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by MichaelDickens 13y ago
Not only are they regular enough to make clocks, but they're 5 times more accurate than atomic clocks.
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by MichaelDickens 13y ago
What makes you say it's equally stupid? Why don't you think it's optimal? I've never tried it before, and I'm curious how it works.
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by MichaelDickens 13y ago
The five-paragraph essay isn't structured the way it is because that's a good structure, but because it's easy to write and grade quickly. The AP graders don't have time to read thousands of 5+ page essays with myriad la
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by MichaelDickens 13y ago
I'm not a young woman so it's hard for me to say, but it looks to me like people are doing a much better job of encouraging young women to program. There are lots of programs to support women in CS. On the other hand, I don't
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by MichaelDickens 13y ago
There's also an org-mode plugin for Sublime Text: https://github.com/danielmagnussons/orgmode
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by MichaelDickens 13y ago
> But I think the 0 scenario will only happen if a massive exploitable flaw is found, or, if a clearly better replacement/successor (most likely another digital/crypto-currency) to Bitcoin comes along What about something like
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by MichaelDickens 13y ago
Right now, M1 money supply in the US is about $2.6 trillion (source: http://www.tradingeconomics.com/country-list/money-supply-m1 ). I couldn't find any data on world money supply, but extrapolating from US money s
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by MichaelDickens 13y ago
> Reintroducing fiat currency will not work if people have already moved over to bitcoin. Why not? > With smaller fiat currencies collapsing one by one -- as they always do -- bitcoin will keep growing stronger and stronger. Why would
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by MichaelDickens 13y ago
> If everyone is talking doom and gloom, buy in. If everybody is talking about how bitcoin is the greatest thing ever and people are starting bitcoin investing clubs and "the price is going to keep skyrocketing!!!!1"...it'
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by MichaelDickens 13y ago
I close all unnecessary applications on my computer and put my work in front of me. If I need to use the Internet, I'll enable LeechBlock ( https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/leechblock/ )