RickHull

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by RickHull 12y ago
http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/The_map_is_not_the_territory
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by RickHull 12y ago
> People funnel money into the military because they are afraid of terrorists and whatever else is the flavor of the month. Do you know any individuals who personally decided to funnel money into the military? It's an insatiable
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by RickHull 12y ago
They give away their mini cell sites now for home use.
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by RickHull 12y ago
Where is it that space does not exist? The headline seems like a contradiction in terms.
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by RickHull 12y ago
> I'm not sure if I trust what you guys did, calling the old Hitachi Drives as HGST. > I don't know if HGST drives are related to the old Hitachi models at all. FTA: > Some of the HGST drives listed were manufactured und
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by RickHull 12y ago
> Consider: how much mathematics from the 1950s is still in use and relevant, versus how much written code is still in use and relevant? This is the wrong question. CS isn't hardly about code. Most of our CS today is from before t
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by RickHull 12y ago
> We're going around in circles I think. Just you, my friend. If you recall, here is the point you were challenging: > this is a band-aid over the fact that OSes have terrible permission separation and application isolation. If
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by RickHull 12y ago
That strikes me as a reasonable assumption to hold, pending evidence to the contrary.
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by RickHull 12y ago
Hmm... I wonder if there is any sort of equivalency between the Gatekeepers of Evidence and the Guardians of Peace.
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by RickHull 12y ago
> Can anyone track and connect the dots from fed bond buying to increase in Facebook share price? Sure. Government bonds are defined as risk-free, for better or worse. Regulatory and capital requirements ensure healthy demand for ris
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David Sirlin – Playing to Win [video Games](sirlin.net)
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by RickHull 12y ago
All are fantastic. I was put off by the beginning of Snow Crash initially, as there are some tongue-in-cheek bits that struck me as too campy. But I might not say that now, having read it a few times. The Baroque Cycle is a massive pi
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by RickHull 12y ago
Gem created: http://rubygems.org/gems/loremarkov Github project moved to: https://github.com/rickhull/loremarkov
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Mathematical and fairness analysis of alternatives to plurality voting [pdf](mathaware.org)
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by RickHull 12y ago
If anyone is interested to play around with Markov chains and text, I started a tiny ruby project a few years ago: https://github.com/rickhull/markov-text-destroyer I've been meaning to make it into a proper gem a
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by RickHull 12y ago
> However, the irregular tiles actually bother more than if it was a standard geodesic sphere which only had 12 pentagons. For one, the fact that tiles are different sizes looks kind of weird. More importantly, this tile layout could ac
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by RickHull 12y ago
Oh wow. So sad to hear about a pillar and pioneer in the Ruby community.
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by RickHull 12y ago
Food for thought: any organization is vulnerable to such stagnation and dysfunction, particularly when it was born for and evolved with a state of affairs that no longer exists. Either the organization must adapt, or it should die. Thankf
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by RickHull 12y ago
I meant the "beyond a reasonable doubt, in a court of law" sense. Presumption of guilt is a very treacherous path to advocate.
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by RickHull 12y ago
Why, it's almost as if innocent until proven guilty is not a bedrock principle of our criminal justice system. That it would be better to lock up one innocent to prevent 100 guilty going free.
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by RickHull 12y ago
> Then again EVE isn't really a game it's just a strange branch of real life. True, in that it's very complex, and it does reward an analytical approach, which may or may not accord with one's own real life. Eve is
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by RickHull 12y ago
Looks like an extra opening brace in the example code under How it works : static void call_cb(const struct take_str_block *blk) { { (*blk->cb)(blk, "world"); }
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by RickHull 12y ago
My biggest concern generally is in-ear comfort. Short of molded customs, every in-ear headphone I've tried causes canal soreness within an hour or two, including the "sound delivery straw" designs with delicate foam or rubbe
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by RickHull 12y ago
This about the impedance mismatch between building everything from source and using distro package management. Mixing and matching is painful, as package managers correlate a lot of package metadata in order to provide smooth integration a
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by RickHull 12y ago
This is incoherent for a single order. When the first order hits the books, a subsequent order has no opportunity to execute before the first except at a price disadvantage . Front-running typically involves an agent (i.e. a broker) exec
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by RickHull 12y ago
Either the next SoMa or the next pets.com
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by RickHull 12y ago
Another useful way to apply EMH to the real world, especially considering that real world markets are not perfectly efficient, is in terms of asymptotic behavior, hyperbolas, mathematical limits. Paradoxically, Warren Buffett's invest
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by RickHull 12y ago
> Say the company does a buy back and spends 50 to buy the other guys share. Now I own the whole company but it's only worth $50. So I'm no better off than before. What am I missing? You're just looking at yourself and
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by RickHull 12y ago
As well, +1 for kyro expanding and expounding. I would suggest there is an opportunity for a long form magazine piece, or perhaps a Kindle short.
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by RickHull 12y ago
Obviously bug free! Regarding intelligibility / comprehensibility: it's somewhere between brainfuck and Perl's worst examples of line noise

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