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by Perceval 17y ago
Biden recently wrote an op-ed in the WSJ explaining the administration's goals for the U.S. nuclear arsenal: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870487890457503...
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by Perceval 17y ago
It's not that good really. The site you linked to only displays the discretionary budget. The NYTimes infographic is much better, because it also includes all mandatory spending. Mandatory spending is over 50% of the entire federal budge
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by Perceval 17y ago
I'm eagerly awaiting an enthusiastic article from CATO claiming credit for this development.
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My roommate in college had one. It was certainly art, if not a great computer. It got a lot more attention than my Dual 500 Mhz G4 Tower.
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by Perceval 17y ago
In addition to the five minutes of action, you're not counting: watching film, practice, training, off-season conditioning, and showing up for the job.
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by Perceval 17y ago
Grandparent is probably thinking along the lines of a local monopoly, analogous to an old company town: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_town The analogy is not perfect, since you can buy mp3s and movies and ebooks from other services
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by Perceval 17y ago
I wonder if the folks at Delicious Library are upset about Apple's new 'iBooks' app, that essentially looks the same as theirs. http://www.delicious-monster.com/images/librarypage/screensh... http://images.huffingtonpost.com/gen/136360/t
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by Perceval 17y ago
I agree that the name is lame. Regarding Apple and Flash, Gruber has a pretty good overview: http://daringfireball.net/2010/01/apple_adobe_flash
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>Bob Sauerberg, group president of consumer marketing for Conde Nast, expects digital versions of its titles on the tablet may one day command higher ad rates than those of their print versions, because readers are highly engaged with m
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by Perceval 17y ago
Is this the same concept as the 'Implicit Web'? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Implicit_Web
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Well, no one should shout racist and sexist slogans whenever they want--inside academia or out. Nevertheless, people--inside academia and outside--should have the right to say controversial and offensive things, express themselves, and r
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Minors don't necessarily have the full array of rights that people of majority age have. Schools for a very long time operated in loco parentis -- essentially possessing the same ability to restrict a minor's actions as a parent would ha
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by Perceval 17y ago
It's not any different. It is hypocritical however, given that academia is premised upon 'academic freedom.' It's defense of tenure and the controversial statements of professors is based on the notion of academic freedom. Yet the same a
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by Perceval 17y ago
There is a beta version of uTorrent for Mac OS X, but it does not have a preference option to uncheck. It simply has "Check for Updates" -- no mention of "detailed information" or the ability to disable it.
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by Perceval 17y ago
Smith is looking at the socio-economic health of the nation in aggregate. His overall project with The Wealth of Nations is to try and redefine what people thought of as 'wealth.' Part of his book is a sustained critique of the mercantil
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by Perceval 17y ago
An ongoing project was started after Fx3.5 to improve startup time: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Projects/Startup_Time_Impro... You can also read the blog of the lead engineer working on startup time improvement: http://autonome.word
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by Perceval 17y ago
It does, but only on the dev channel builds. It hasn't filtered into the beta channel builds afaik.
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by Perceval 17y ago
Adam Smith wrote, in The Wealth of Nations , Chap. XI, Part III, "Rent of Land: Conclusion": "The plans and projects of the employers of stock regulate and direct all the most important operations of labor, and profit is the end proposed
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by Perceval 17y ago
At the very beginning of the article the author writes: All my bar charts are zeroed on the average picture.
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Those interested in the topic might pick up a copy of Robert Bates' Markets and States in Sub-Saharan Africa which details some of the political-institutional points of failure for developing economies in Africa.
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by Perceval 17y ago
One of the great features of Scoop code (which runs kuro5hin and DailyKos among others) is that it can show you what comments are new since the last time you viewed a store, marking them with a red-colored '[new].' Makes coming back to an
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by Perceval 17y ago
The U.S. most certainly is a proponent of free trade, even if we aren't the best practitioner of free trade. As far as I know, only one country ever practiced fully free trade, and that was Great Britain for about thirty years starting
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by Perceval 17y ago
The Chinese model is not new. It's called mercantilism, and this was the predominant economic development model before Adam Smith's free trading capitalist critique of mercantilism. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercantilism This is how t
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by Perceval 17y ago
I just read yesterday a book on Non-parametric Statistics: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/047045461X/ref=oss_T15_prod... I found this useful and interesting, because a great deal of social phenomena are not normally distributed (do not
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by Perceval 17y ago
There is some question as to whether the attack originated from within Google's offices in China. If so, or if there was some inside knowledge used to facilitate the attacks, closing operations in China was significantly strengthen Google'
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Without a doubt a correct observation of the Senate, but somewhat non-unique, as most of the federal government (as it now operates) has become unconstitutional.
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Can you recommend a book on advanced statistical techniques or non-parametric statistics that's written mostly in English with a minimum of jargon?
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I agree with your assessment of the 'scientism' of social sciences, and the rather absurd uses of statistical methods (that should be inapplicable because of data collective and basic assumption issues). What I am to do is mostly descriptiv
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by Perceval 17y ago
I'm trying to teach myself statistics (for social sciences) right now. I got two books (Agresti & Finlay along with Knoke, Bohrnstedt & Mee) but both seem to be written in jargon instead of English. Does anyone have recommendations
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by Perceval 17y ago
Yes, I believe it's called 'false precision': http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_precision

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