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by a-priori 13y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_exceptionalism
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by a-priori 13y ago
Try duplicating Silicon Valley, United States. If the US were some magical recipe for innovation and entrepreneurship, then I would expect Silicon Valleys to pop up in every major metropolitan area. Certainly, if you think that the world is
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by a-priori 13y ago
He is referring to the principle of the state's monopoly on violence. It's necessary for some violence to exist to maintain internal and external security (police and the military, respectively). The more effective the state, the theory goe
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by a-priori 13y ago
Hah, just as you were writing that I had the same thought and did a ninja edit where I switched from saying a specific alignment to CACHE_LINE. :)
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by a-priori 13y ago
I think instead a @ReorderingBarrier annotation might be a good solution. Like a memory barrier which doesn't allow reordering of memory operations across that point, a reordering barrier wouldn't allow fields declared before that point to
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by a-priori 13y ago
Yes it is. Originally that's how you specified parameters: just the name in the parentheses, then (optionally) the types in a format similar to variable declarations before the function body. If you didn't specify a type it would default to
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by a-priori 13y ago
The important part of that is that the OP says "This is the minimum rate you should charge per day." You should actually charge as much as you can get away with, as much as people are willing to pay you.
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by a-priori 13y ago
Names are complicated, very personal, and vary a lot depending on the culture. In English-speaking North America we're actually spoiled that most people have names that follow a standard given-middle-family convention. And also that one's g
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by a-priori 14y ago
The slightly different statement "young folk use technology the best" is closer to the truth. Just the other day I was saw my cousin's toddler pick up her father's iPhone, unlock it, and pick the game she wanted to play. Even at 4 years of
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by a-priori 14y ago
I have no ideas about the average length, but I'd guess a normal length would about 10-15 pages. You can check out recent bills passed here if you're interested: http://openparliament.ca/bills/ (Hat tip to openparliament.ca, it's an aweso
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by a-priori 14y ago
Maybe it's because I'm Canadian, but I think it's stupid not to read bills out loud at least once before they become law. In our House of Commons the procedure is to read each bill, out loud, three times before it is passed. Then it gets se
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by a-priori 14y ago
archenemy means add some text to your site, and I agree. Without watching the video I have no idea what I'm looking at other than it's related to personal finance.
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by a-priori 14y ago
They still exist. In Toronto, streetcars are still one of the major forms of public transit in the downtown. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toronto_streetcar_system
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by a-priori 14y ago
Might I suggest looking at Canada?
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by a-priori 14y ago
Ah, thanks I didn't know about that. Okay, so to correct my earlier comment to (hopefully) exclude the earlier project, Google Scholar shows about 105 results for "human brain project" in 2012-2013. http://scholar.google.ca/scholar?q=%22hu
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by a-priori 14y ago
I agree that the word "disease" is certainly overused these days, there are still some things that should rightfully use the word. Besides, whether you call them "diseases" or "disorders" or another term, there are many ways that our neurol
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by a-priori 14y ago
Google Scholar lists about 855 papers mentioning the term "blue brain project", the Human Brain Project's predecessor: http://scholar.google.ca/scholar?q=%22blue+brain+project%22&... And even though the project has just launched, there ar
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by a-priori 14y ago
Honestly, have you tried simply contacting the project? That's how I got an internship on the Blue Brain Project a few years ago (and in fact have a cameo in the video).
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by a-priori 14y ago
It's partly historical: these applications already exist on mainframes, and it would be very expensive to change, so they don't. But mainframes have a lot of advantages because they are integrated systems designed for exactly the sort of hi
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by a-priori 14y ago
You're referring to the "generate-recognize" theory of memory recall. It's actually an interesting theory, which states that you can't actually recall memories directly -- at least ones from more than a few weeks ago -- because your brain d
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by a-priori 14y ago
Canadian tea drinker checking in. I've used an electric kettle all my life and don't see what the problem is... Electric kettles are common here even though we use 110V power. I've never timed it, but I think they can bring cold water to a
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by a-priori 14y ago
Technically true, but I think that's misleading. The office of dictator in the Roman Republic wasn't something extraordinary. There were at least 76 appointments over the ~450 years that the office was used, or about one every 6 years on av
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by a-priori 14y ago
It's not a moral question because it's the buyer who determines what something is worth, not the seller. The seller just sets the price. If the buyer thinks something is worth more than the price, then they'll buy it. Otherwise they'll walk
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by a-priori 14y ago
I'm Canadian, and I support our government's decision here. They've done some boneheaded things with respect to Internet policy over the last few years, but this isn't one. I don't like the idea that the US governs major parts of the Intern
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by a-priori 14y ago
Probably clearing a biological sample through customs.
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by a-priori 14y ago
I presume that it's actually a fly-by-wire (drive-by-wire?) system where the steering wheel directs a controller to 'do the right thing' with a combination of steering and gyro changes, rather than directly controlling the front wheel as in
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by a-priori 14y ago
Followed strictly, how can two people work together in this kind of environment? If I need a bit of someone else's time to allow me to complete my objective, they can't provide it unless it also contributes to their objective, which it like
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by a-priori 14y ago
If I walked into a bank with a job offer on Mars for, say, 4x my Earthly salary, they might be willing to loan me $500k. I might be willing to pay it even if I'd only make 3x my salary after the loan payments. If this becomes a reality, ban
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by a-priori 14y ago
I have full confidence that, given enough time, Musk can create the technology necessary to ferry people to Mars and establish a colony. That's an engineering problem, and as we've seen he's very adept at building companies to tackle those.
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by a-priori 14y ago
I wonder if Google Fibre is one such breach.

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