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by Rod 18y ago
Aren't all of Pentagon's cool toys programmed in ADA? I never heard of an open-source project based on ADA...
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by Rod 18y ago
Not to mention that the "72 virgins" joke [1] was distasteful beyond belief. [1] I assume it was meant as a joke because I find it hard to believe that someone who gives a talk at TED could be that ignorant.
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Radiology Art(radiologyart.com)
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by Rod 18y ago
Would that be ethical? One does not need a CS degree to start a company. One needs to know how to program, and a CS degree is far from being the only way to learn how to program, right? It would be interesting if there were initiatives aimi
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by Rod 18y ago
Good point there. Reminds me of the immortal words of Friedrich Nietzsche: "Madness is rare in individuals - but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule."
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by Rod 18y ago
"Their process begins by taking the derivatives of every variable observed with respect to every other -- a mathematical way of measuring how one quantity changes as another changes. " In an ideal world, that could be done. But am I the on
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by Rod 18y ago
Let us imagine the doomsday scenario that China and the U.S. go to war. Let us imagine that either one loses a massive number of soldiers, say, 1 million soldiers. Using nuclear weapons would not exactly give one an advantage unless one wou
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by Rod 18y ago
Wouldn't that be a bit too dramatic?!? Once you've played the "nuclear card", you have committed suicide, basically. Given that a nuclear war would ensure mutual destruction, wouldn't China and the U.S. be better off fighting with conventio
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by Rod 18y ago
Assuming that China does have the weapon described in the article, that does not mean that China is getting ready to go to war with the United States. It could simply mean that China is looking for conventional weapons for deterrence purpos
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by Rod 18y ago
If you're interested in Finance, I suggest you read / follow Nuclear Phynance ( http://www.nuclearphynance.com ), a rather smart forum. Just make sure you don't post questions like this on NP, because those guys will eat you alive if you
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by Rod 18y ago
Those aren't models . Those are investing philosophies . And they're so general and vague that I really don't understand what point you're trying to make. You asked no concrete question, and you will get no concrete answer. If you want to
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by Rod 18y ago
I didn't mean to offend anyone, and I apologize if I have. Germany is not a representative of Europe, but this is not Germany's fault. No country alone represents all the immense diversity one can find in Europe. Nonetheless, there are stil
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by Rod 18y ago
"Also, I think it is often politicians who decide which scientists get funding for their research, so in a way people do elect scientists (not sure how the system works in the US)." You are totally right. And, in my humble opinion, it's d
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by Rod 18y ago
It is not exactly "confusing". The problem (as I see it) is that the question "does man cause Global Warming?" is ill-posed. OK, let us say that we have a mathematical model of the global climate: a bunch of partial differential equations d
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by Rod 18y ago
Science is not programming. You can't learn Climate Modeling in your spare time, without checking experimental data and interacting with other people. Scientists should investigate and report their findings. Politicians should decide what t
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by Rod 18y ago
Well, since when is the media reliable? They also said Iraq had WMDs. Read some scientific papers. Seriously.
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by Rod 18y ago
"People who know NOTHING about Science fall squarely in the "warmists" camp. The "nutcases", "tribal", or "primitives", eh?" No. You didn't get the point. Sorry for not making it explicit. The point is: people who are not trained in Scien
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by Rod 18y ago
OK, I attributed the quote to the wrong philosopher ;-) Science is not perfect. After all, Science is a human activity and humans are not perfect. Ideally, there should be no place for dogma in Science. In practise, there is some. Still, le
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by Rod 18y ago
Quoting the great Bertrand Russell: "The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts." Interesting how so many people who know NOTHING about Science are S
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by Rod 18y ago
Those are some really cool pieces of historical data. Thanks for sharing! I had no idea so many immigrants in the U.S. had gone back to Europe.
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by Rod 18y ago
I have read articles written by so-called "experts" explaining clearly and forcefully why we should let AIG go bankrupt. Then I have read articles written by other "experts" who claim the opposite, also in a convincing manner. When experts
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by Rod 18y ago
I am also a fan of "Darwinian Capitalism", but AIG and other huge financial institutions aren't called "too big to fail" without a reason. I advocate pragmatism over blind ideology. As much as I would like to see AIG implode, I think one sh
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by Rod 18y ago
Taking into consideration how the U.S. came into existence, it's understandable that helping one's community is deeply ingrained in American culture. However, your argument that people who had this tendency came to America and the other sta
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by Rod 18y ago
If I had the means, I would be happy to donate to local schools. I believe in giving back to society. Besides, I am a rather social person. I just don't like to be coerced into doing things I don't like... like having to put up with neighbo
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by Rod 18y ago
Knowing that Jim Rogers argues that we should have let AIG gone bankrupt does not affect me. What I am interested in is knowing WHY Jim Rogers believes that AIG should have gone bankrupt. I would like to know on what ground he argues that.
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by Rod 18y ago
Dude, I have no problems with you. You pointed out some flaws in my arguments. You didn't act as if you were an expert. You didn't act as a pompous fool. My problem is with the collective belief here on HN that just because most of us are g
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by Rod 18y ago
True, I concede that I didn't make my point well. Also true is that my goal was to counter the OP's argument, not present a forceful one. I don't know what you do in your professional life and I would be lying if I said I care. Before comin
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by Rod 18y ago
The argument was NOT the one you cherry-picked. The argument was that bailing out financial institutions is NOT the same as bailing out non-financial institutions. Since you did not get the idea, I assume that Finance is not your forte . M
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by Rod 18y ago
Do you realize what the consequences of letting AIG go bust could be? Do you realize that bailing out crippled financial institutions is entirely different from bailing out Motown's idiot car companies? Do you realize that AIG has various d
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by Rod 18y ago
"Sure, he can afford it, and he was a senior vp at AIG, so I am sure there is a lot more he could have done." Being a vice-president at a financial institution does not mean one has much executive power. For instance, a couple of years ag

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