Umofomia

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by Umofomia 15y ago
I think the main crux of the article is ultimately dependent on the one thing he mentions at the very end: It goes (almost) without saying that the only reason I can afford to be non-technical is because I’m surrounded by a bunch of
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by Umofomia 15y ago
RentHop (YC S09) has most of these features, especially the one allowing you to draw the region on a map. The caveat is that they only serve the New York City market. http://www.renthop.com/
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by Umofomia 15y ago
For a more detailed explanation (and if you don't want to figure out where in the video he talks about it), Pinker wrote an article too: http://www.scribd.com/doc/389762/Steven-Pinker-What-the-Fuck... (I believe this is just an excerpt fr
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by Umofomia 15y ago
BTW, you guys keep talking about MWI, while the original article is categorically not about MWI. The author describes a Tegmark Level I Multiverse[1], the most conservative of the multiverse models. MWI is Level III, and the author himsel
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by Umofomia 15y ago
The author responds to this point in one of the comments; I quote: this is -- and I make no pretensions otherwise -- theoretical physics. It's not airy-fairy pie-in-the-sky speculation, but it also isn't proven the way you would prove that
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by Umofomia 15y ago
This is probably one of the main reasons why they switched the branding from "MSN Search" and "Windows Live Search" to "Bing".
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by Umofomia 15y ago
True enough, though I doubt it's going to be through HN that the Chinese government finds out about it. It's already been noticed on some Chinese-language blogs: http://chinese.winandmac.com/hotgossip/apple-store-china-mai... (this one's
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by Umofomia 15y ago
The event is referred to as the "6-4 incident" in Chinese (六四事件), so the month-day order is correct. Generally the year is listed first in full dates (e.g., 1989年6月4日), but it's arguably still recognizable when it occurs afterwards. [edit]
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Coincidence? Beijing Apple Store phone# references Tiananmen Sq. date (6-4-1989)(apple.com.cn)
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by Umofomia 15y ago
While strictly true, this statement ignores all the other taxes that people pay. Rather than rehashing the entire conversation, I'll simply point you towards the thread where this was previously addressed: http://news.ycombinator.com/item
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by Umofomia 15y ago
The link that he gave already adjusts the numbers for payroll taxes (but it's obvious from looking at how the tax is collected that it's regressive -- i.e., flat rate up to $106k and then no tax on wages above that). With regard to state ta
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by Umofomia 15y ago
It's interesting that all of these links talk about federal income taxes , but you talk about them as if they're talking about all taxes that people pay. Once you take into account payroll, sales, and sundry other taxes that people pay (m
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by Umofomia 15y ago
MinWin is not so much a product as it is a continual effort starting with Vista to untangle dependencies and move unnecessary cruft out. It's still the NT kernel, only progressively cleaner with each additional release of Windows.
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by Umofomia 15y ago
I believe this is an article you were looking for (written by Joel Spolsky): http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000020.html The gist is that even though most people only use 20% of the features, everyone's 20% is a different se
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by Umofomia 16y ago
Just because the parameters may be diverse does not mean the rules need to be just as diverse. If I may use the biological analogy again, despite the myriad combinations of DNA base pairs, they are all still translated by a universal genet
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by Umofomia 16y ago
The fact that native speakers of a single language disagree on the validity of certain utterances does not invalidate the concept of Universal Grammar. No two individuals learn their native languages in exactly the same way. The language
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by Umofomia 16y ago
The granularity doesn't necessarily need to get down to the stroke level. In fact, if you start playing the video at around the 6 minute mark, you'll see that many of the characters are composed of the same elements, known as radicals (see
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by Umofomia 16y ago
The correct term is logogram or logograph. Hieroglyphs more commonly refer to the Ancient Egyptian writing system, whereas logogram and logograph are more general terms. Ideogram/graph refer to a specific type of logogram in which the cha
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by Umofomia 16y ago
I only disputed that 颱 was related to the meanings of "stand" or "platform". As for the meanings of "great" or "big", the OED and etymonline entries actually refer to a different character, 大, from the Cantonese pronunciation of 大風 (IPA: ta
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by Umofomia 16y ago
The original traditional Chinese character is 颱; the Japanese adopted the character 台 as a simplification of the original character (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinjitai ). Therefore, the "stand" or "platform" meanings of the 台 char