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by Zakharov 15y ago
I think Lomborg's got a good argument in favor of a conclusion he leaves unstated (and may, in fact, not favor) - that some portion of the money governments would spend on sustainability should instead be spent on finding a proactive soluti
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by Zakharov 15y ago
There was a market, sure. A "free market" is a particular kind of market, one with greater freedoms than a typical market. The soviet market had considerably fewer freedoms.
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by Zakharov 15y ago
Lots of people regret not accomplishing anything. Sometimes accomplishing things requires work. Creating a successful startup is an example. Earning enough in a regular job to be able to fund your own startup is another.
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by Zakharov 15y ago
It would also result in a lot of good content written by respected community members being hidden.
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by Zakharov 15y ago
"Power without transparency inevitably leads to power that is abused" is true only for some value of "inevitably". You can have a benevolent dictator; you can't have three consecutive benevolent dictators. So long as we don't expect HN to o
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by Zakharov 15y ago
When I drag the red rectangle around in the left container, bits of it sometimes get "stuck" in the right container. I'm doing this in Chrome 11.0.696.71 on Ubuntu 10.04, if that helps.
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by Zakharov 15y ago
Hiring based on interest will answer the question, "does this person want to solve the problem we want to solve". A good recruit is both willing and able. So, hire based on interest, but don't disregard credentials either. Focusing too much
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by Zakharov 15y ago
Is there really that much difference between getting Congressional approval for Mueller to stay for two more years, and getting Congressional ratification of a law allowing Mueller to stay for two more years? This isn't a rhetorical questio
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by Zakharov 15y ago
What happens if somebody puts you in a barrel full of concrete and dumps the barrel in the bottom of the ocean? Or worse, blasts you off into space? Given an immortal lifespan, it seems inevitable that someone would at some point do this to
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by Zakharov 16y ago
This guy made $227k largely because he has very little competition in the 99c market. I don't think it's likely that "within 5 years, all digital books will cost 99 cents"; unless e-reader ownership dramatically increases, the market is not
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by Zakharov 16y ago
Here in Melbourne, SE is a 4-year version of CS which requires you to take 2 years of math, 1 year of physics, some EE subjects, and two projects with industry clients. Most of the time little distinction was made between the degrees; they
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by Zakharov 16y ago
This is exactly what we'd do in tutorial classes for most of the CS subjects I took during my degree. I can see it being harder to do in lectures, especially in early years, where large class sizes make it more difficult to keep everyone en
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by Zakharov 16y ago
Nobody has idle cash. When you put your cash in the bank, it's invested by the bank.
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by Zakharov 16y ago
If the company does hire an already-employed person, isn't that person's previous employer likely to look for a replacement? If the total number of jobs increases by one, the total number of unemployed people should decrease by one. This se
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by Zakharov 16y ago
Don't you run up against the minimum wage here?
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by Zakharov 16y ago
There are four levels of anonymity on the Internet 1) Complete anonymitiy, e.g. 4chan - there's either no name, or it's trivially easy to change one's name. This removes any consequences from what you write, and hence often results in immat
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by Zakharov 16y ago
> Does anyone think cannabis is deadlier than Jim Beam? I think the vast majority of the population of America thinks that, which is why cannabis is much more highly regulated. What he should have said was, "cannabis is less deadly than
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by Zakharov 16y ago
"In chats, Convore ... automatically embeds images" This seems risky. There's a lot of public IRC rooms I'd avoid if they allowed anyone to show me anything they wanted. IRC solves this by not embedding images, Wave solves this by being ori
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by Zakharov 16y ago
As someone who's never used Lisp before, what's the difference between Lisp and Haskell? I keep hearing old stories about the virtues of Lisp, but it doesn't seem like anyone uses it anymore. Has it just been replaced by newer functional la
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by Zakharov 16y ago
How long until someone pays for blatant black-hat SEO on a rival's site in order to get it trashed in the google ratings? How would you be able to tell whether that's happened?
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by Zakharov 16y ago
It's fine if some people dig it up and get sick; the lives of a dozen people in 10000 years really aren't that much of our concern. What they're trying to avoid is people building a city on top of the waste, drilling down for water or other
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by Zakharov 16y ago
It's fairly hard to tell from the graph, but it seems that if you look at any particular industry, the gradient is much less steep.
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by Zakharov 16y ago
America is not a single person. Most if not all of those who made the decisions in the 70s no longer have any power.
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by Zakharov 16y ago
"But what sort of scale are you using where 6 means "cannot do the job"?" Maybe 1-5 are people who are actively harming the company?
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I think the most immediately obvious solution to the problem of disruptive students is to separate them from the other students, and put them into a separate class. However, someone who enters that class at age 10 isn't going to learn anyth