QuantumChaos

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by QuantumChaos 13y ago
The funny thing is, I was flying United and even though apparently you're not allowed to say the word "bomb" on a plane, they are happy to show a movie that glorifies terrorists ("The Company You Keep") as inflight
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by QuantumChaos 13y ago
>The research, presented at a conference in Seattle, found no link with eating disorders. >But it did find a link between time spent on social networks and negative comparisons about body image. Funny how Bayesian updating works here:
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by QuantumChaos 13y ago
implicit in the free rider problem is that the monetary value of your contribution is less than what you gain. In this case, I think it's safe to assume that a $200 contribution to OpenSSL won't repay the contributing company $200
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by QuantumChaos 13y ago
But you are not paying for a service, because funding OpenSSL is a classic free rider problem: the company would be better of not funding OpenSSL, even though all companies would be better off if they all funded OpenSSL. By that logic, the
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by QuantumChaos 13y ago
Really? That sounds like something you would get in trouble for in most places. It's not for the IT employee to effectively give away the companies money by buying something for more than they have to spend. The decision to donate to a
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by QuantumChaos 13y ago
Well Bernanke certainly has political opinions, as do many other Americans, so I guess it is best to avoid these bloodthirsty monsters.
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by QuantumChaos 13y ago
>As for "the occult" in D&D, come on. Throwing a die to check the damage of a fireball never turned anyone into Aleister Crowley. I meant that D&D contained occult themes, not that it presented these ideas as factual or
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by QuantumChaos 13y ago
Bernanke was raised Jewish, but he hasn't spoken publicly about his beliefs, so it's not clear what religion if any he follows. Do you also feel the same way about Jews?
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by QuantumChaos 13y ago
You have to ask yourself this question: If I saw a webpage like this, but with the opposite trend (or no trend), would I consider this to be strong evidence against global warming, or would I dismiss it as cherry picked data, a statistical
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by QuantumChaos 13y ago
While the idea of teenagers literally worshiping Satan was a moral panic, I suspect many Christians would find D&D incompatible with Christianity, given its emphasis on violence, personal power, and the occult.
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by QuantumChaos 13y ago
We got both kinds of science here, simulation and theoretical approximation
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by QuantumChaos 13y ago
That's nothing. Let me know when someone manage to implement 2048 in 2048 lines of Java
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by QuantumChaos 13y ago
I think the poster understood what you said, but has a moral outlook where even positive expected value interventions can be immoral. I don't really understand that viewpoint, but it is a very common one. Usually it is expressed in t
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by QuantumChaos 13y ago
>In a letter to the Foster City, Calif., company Thursday, Rep. Henry A. Waxman (D-Beverly Hills) and two other Democratic lawmakers asked Gilead Chief Executive John C. Martin to explain the rationale for selling Sovaldi for $1,000 per
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by QuantumChaos 13y ago
I haven't seen much of this myself, although I can imagine it happening. From what I've seen, bloated code tends to be code that is copied (either literally or in style) from somewhere else, which doesn't fit the task at hand
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by QuantumChaos 13y ago
I don't support the existence of institutions that operate parallel to the legal system. If they favor the victim, then they will tend to punish people who would not have been found guilty of a crime in a court of law, and so it is ver
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by QuantumChaos 13y ago
Also, it has a fairly shallow learning curve when it comes to syntax (compared to say, lisp), at least for someone coming from a C family background. I learned Haskell after a period of doing a lot of Python programming, and I find the syn
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by QuantumChaos 13y ago
>The flood of blind investing through retirement funds has further diluted shareholder influence to little more than demanding increasing share price. But this is the only thing shareholders have the right to demand anyway. As long as t
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by QuantumChaos 13y ago
Very well said, and thank you for taking on the task of debunking this flawed analysis. It is a mostly thankless task since the people who would be on your side (e.g. people with a good understanding of economics) tend to avoid articles li
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by QuantumChaos 13y ago
There is no logical relation between credit vs debit cards, and fraud. You could have a bitcoin based account with a borrowing limit, which could only make payments to registered identities (equivalent of merchants), creating a credit card
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by QuantumChaos 13y ago
Great idea. I just hope this sort of thing isn't over-regulated.
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by QuantumChaos 13y ago
The advocates of basic income are almost right on this issue. If it were the case that we have a large surplus of labor, and there was not enough work for people to do, then it would make a lot of sense to have a basic income, which would
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by QuantumChaos 13y ago
>It is no longer a market a small investor can make money in except for buying after bad news and long term. Investors need HFT to compete now. How is this a bad thing? A person is still quite able to invest, in the sense of buying an in
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by QuantumChaos 13y ago
That is the irony of progressive thinking: they are constantly torn between saying "Black people don't really do X" and "X is completely fine, people just look down on it because of racism". In this case, X = "
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by QuantumChaos 13y ago
A senior developer has to be able to lead a team of engineers in the creation of a product (or maintenance of an existing one). What this requires depends on the job, but it is a mix of technical virtuosity, social skills, and ability to na
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by QuantumChaos 13y ago
I'm not describing encouraging people to work long hours for the sake of it, but rather people working longer hours in order to get more done. It seems like you don't believe it is possible for a company to reward people based on
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by QuantumChaos 13y ago
I didn't really get the point of the article, so I'm just going to comment on work-life balance at Google in general. Basically, you are freed from any unnecessary constraints in choosing your own work life balance. You are judge