Thrymr

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by Thrymr 14y ago
I was forced to read The Scarlett Letter in high school, and I have never once had to use that knowledge in my professional life. I memorized dates for history exams in high school, and that knowledge has had no practical impact on my lif
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by Thrymr 14y ago
"Redundant" is not the same as "wrong". (To pick a nit on a nit.)
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by Thrymr 14y ago
Well, they do invest the surplus of social security taxes in Treasury bonds and other U.S. government securities: http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/ProgData/describeoasi.html The trouble comes when Social Security stops bringing in a surplus and ha
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by Thrymr 14y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cats_named_Fluffy
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by Thrymr 14y ago
Yes, but the situation is reversed in television/radio news: the BBC is a pillar of objectivity, and the US market is dominated by cable news talking heads yelling at each other.
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by Thrymr 14y ago
They used to be limited liability partnerships, but now are public corporations. For example, Goldman Sachs went public in 1999. Liability in a partnerships isn't unlimited as the GP suggests, but there is a higher level of personal respo
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by Thrymr 14y ago
Some of the submissions may have been 30-40 basis points off (0.3-0.4%). "If you take this and multiply it by the $800 trillion, you start talking real money." Ever since I first heard that LIBOR is set by voluntary submissions rather than
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Is Python a legitimate data analysis tool?(slashdot.org)
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by Thrymr 14y ago
Because of the opportunity to promote Bitcoins.
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by Thrymr 14y ago
The parent post is correct about the slowing. The land ice is (mostly) at high latitudes, and the meltwater tends to raise sea level, which moves the mass to lower latitudes, hence farther from the axis of rotation. Thus warming slows the
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by Thrymr 14y ago
I wouldn't put much stock in the faster-than-light neutrino result. That was never peer-reviewed, contradicts the results of other experiments on the same path, and led to two of the leaders of the OPERA project being ousted: http://latim
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by Thrymr 14y ago
It's not about getting the "right" answer, it's about how you approach tackling the problem. If you talk through your solution as you do it, no one is going to question which assumption you make. The assumptions are baked into the answer,
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by Thrymr 14y ago
I think robot delivery men are farther off than automated long haul trucks. Having a robot that can find the front door of an arbitrary residence and get to it from the street is more than a little bit beyond our current capabilities. The
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by Thrymr 14y ago
Unless the tower reaches to geosynchronous orbit (~36,000 km altitude). Then you've got a space elevator. You do get some relative velocity due to the earth's rotation, it's just not enough to put you in orbit until you reach geosynchronous
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by Thrymr 15y ago
The author of the Forbes article also has a blog which features this sort of tongue-in-cheek graphics: http://thisisindexed.com
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Data vs. diabetes(boingboing.net)
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by Thrymr 15y ago
I agree strongly, conferences in particular are very important in this regard. Perhaps in some fields people are cautious about sharing full results at conferences, but in most it is very much encouraged and beneficial to get your ideas ou
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by Thrymr 15y ago
That's not really how gravity works. In low earth orbit you have thousands of objects moving at high relative velocities, which is why they are dangerous. You can't just "attract" them with the gravity of a large object, all you would do
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by Thrymr 15y ago
An older page on doing this with a lot more detail: http://www.kremalicious.com/2008/06/ubuntu-as-mac-file-serve... Not all of it is necessary anymore with Lion (and maybe with more recent Debian/Ubuntu, I'm not sure), but it is a nice ov
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by Thrymr 15y ago
Public university faculty in many states.
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by Thrymr 15y ago
One thing still counts more than money, and that is votes. I know that sounds naive, but there is still truth in it. There are multiple problems with using the power of the ballot box, including safe districts for incumbents, apathy of the
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by Thrymr 15y ago
Strongly agree. The big problem is not TeX, it is LaTeX. We need a better layer on top of TeX that can reset all the LaTeX cruft.
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by Thrymr 15y ago
Cool idea. A couple questions I have about it: Are graphs available on the website? (I tried clicking through to cumulonimbus.ca but it was not loading.) Does it account for elevation? A change of elevation of 100 m is about 12 mbar of pres
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Angry Birds Catapult to Life at MIT(alum.mit.edu)
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Bank Of America Just Had The Ultimate Social Media Fail(businessinsider.com)
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by Thrymr 15y ago
I'm not against the authorities being able to subpoena my cell phone records through legal action. I would be opposed to my provider passing all my records to any agency without warrant or subpoena.
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by Thrymr 15y ago
How about: they are tampering with your property (your car). I think that is inherently intrusive. If, say, they were automatically tracking your vehicle with software that recognized it in traffic cams in public, that would not be intrus
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by Thrymr 15y ago
Working in Europe?
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by Thrymr 15y ago
That is very wrong. Slave labor is extremely unproductive, that has been known by economists since Adam Smith. It turns out that forcing people to work against their will, with no hope of advancement or independence, is not a strong motiv
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by Thrymr 15y ago
I agree that it's about time, but I think Apple beat them to it on push notifications. Gmail does work with iOS 5 notifications through the default mail app.

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