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by aamar 14y ago
Quite a few of these online: MC trained on classical composers: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOZ2Q-Ls48U Iannis Xenakis was a major 20th century composer who incorporated MCs into some works: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTzOWKaDrVI
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by aamar 14y ago
Source code is intentionally kept secret and is different from the widely-distributed version. The book-equivalent of source code is the collection of discarded drafts and working notes of the author. These, too, are often lost, but that ha
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by aamar 14y ago
Point well taken. Maybe $3M is a good default value for a "credible" startup nowadays or maybe it's a bit high. Depending on the particular risk factors and assets the startup has (team track records, market, etc.), it could be either a low
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by aamar 14y ago
Probably worth bringing up Steve Yegge's 2006 "Execution in the Kingdom of the Nouns": http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/03/execution-in-kingdom... I don't think there is a single right answer that is applicable in all cases. But over
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by aamar 14y ago
This is a good comment because it steps through the math. People seem to go to amazing lengths to avoid doing back-of-the-envelope calculations of this sort. Thank you. I will say that "3% of $100M (and no other outcomes)" would be an extre
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by aamar 14y ago
Stocks can often pop on the first day after IPO, if there's a lot of demand building. There was a time when companies doing IPOs would consider a 100% increase ("shooting the moon") a realistic possibility. LinkedIn went up 117% a year ago[
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by aamar 14y ago
I was under the impression that it was an acceptable short-hand for distinguishing which culture/ethnicity is being referenced when either is equally likely. Do the PC-police now disagree? It's (basically) acceptable, but most likely not
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by aamar 14y ago
I don't think the OP--or anyone--is saying that men can't do these jobs. Very nearly the opposite. The article says that these jobs are currently "largely performed by women" and suggests that the barriers to men performing these jobs are c
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by aamar 14y ago
A 1.7 ratio is totally believable. I've worked with voter databases that suggested higher average ratios, but I'm not sure if that's because the voters have all those options to vote or because it's an artifact of the data model. Example:
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by aamar 14y ago
A ~10 year record could mean ~30 chances to vote, but hardly anyone votes in a majority of those elections. I, too, am curious how they have an average of 10 votes per voter.
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by aamar 15y ago
The experimenters want the test subjects to believe that the die roll is truly private and therefore that the subjects can, individually, get away with a lie. An easy way to do that is to actually make the die roll private. Maybe you could
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by aamar 15y ago
I've seen this post before, but I was glad to reread it. A bit off-topic, but could you tell us about your sleep schedule?
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by aamar 15y ago
There are 2p and £2 coins[1], but sadly all currency must have the monarch's head on the obverse; a second head on the reverse would probably be unwelcome. [1] They're quite beautiful: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_pounds_(British_coin)
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by aamar 15y ago
I do agree that pg's essay was not encouraging piracy. Its main thrust was prescriptive with respect to public policy-- that means prescriptive to legislators, voters, and to a degree industry. Rob's essay, as I understand it, disagrees on
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by aamar 15y ago
Copyright has on its side reams of academic literature and centuries of apparently successful implementation. Some alternate systems, like patronage, have been tried at relatively limited scales, but there are in general strong theoretical
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by aamar 15y ago
But pg's argument is prescriptive. For example, it includes the question "Should people not be able to charge for content?" and then gives a (conditional) answer. There's nothing wrong with writing a prescriptive essay; it doesn't make it i
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by aamar 15y ago
Lots of neat stuff here. "Event listings"--movies, music, etc.-- can still improve a lot in terms of ease of use, so I'm very happy to see people work in this area. A few thoughts: - I'd want more movie options & theaters (need a much b
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by aamar 15y ago
If that correlation existed, it wouldn't still indicate causation, i.e. that advertising causes the filter bias to change. Maybe the companies who eschew planting fake reviews are also the ones who are willing to pay for advertising. Yelp h
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by aamar 15y ago
Classic 1937 essay, inspired by the question: if market economies are successful, why do we have firms (companies), rather than large numbers of individual free agents contracting with each other? And under what conditions do firms have an
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by aamar 15y ago
If you have a hobby like this, allow additional time and energy and get insurance quotes from several carriers. Something like snowboarding is (or used to be?) treated seriously by some insurances and not by others. I don't know how dangero
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by aamar 15y ago
Also note the infographic/slide-enhanced version of the SotU which will stream live, Tue, Jan 24th, 9pm EST: http://www.whitehouse.gov/state-of-the-union-2012
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by aamar 15y ago
...it's about maintaining a distribution chokehold on mass produced popular entertainment. I don't think "mass produced" is right, since that term tends to refer to literal assembly lines and to exclude things produced merely in volume
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by aamar 15y ago
Better foundations? You mean utilitarianism? That's a dead end too. Currently, utilitarianism does seem to have problems, but not every framework for measuring or improving social well-being will necessarily share the problems of utilitar
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by aamar 15y ago
Better example: 18th amendment (1919) vs. 21st amendment (1933). Prohibition empowered three bureaucracies that were then disempowered over a dozen years later. I don't see how that can be seen as a ratchet. There are many such examples fr
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by aamar 15y ago
As a community of thoughtful 21st-century people, I suggest we reject entirely the idea of "natural rights" and treat it as an archaism. Natural laws exist; regardless of anything you, I, or the government does, gravity continues to exist
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by aamar 15y ago
Why is it that anyone with any kind of money that needs urgent care comes to the US? I will give you a hint: it's not because of nationalized health care. Many of the inbound medical tourists to the U.S. are coming from countries that don
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by aamar 15y ago
I agree that they've made errors, but they seem deserving of their fairly good reputation (not as high as, say, NYT).
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by aamar 15y ago
It's important to note that Obama makes clear in both his campaign assertion and his official memo that he does not consider signing statements to be problematic in and of themselves. Rather, he argues, their use should be limited in scope
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by aamar 15y ago
Ron Paul is to be commended for amending auditing standards for the Federal Reserve. However, he still hasn't had an important policy position as compared to his competitors for the presidency (excepting Bachmann). This is not a slight, but
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by aamar 15y ago
> I think you misunderstand the separation of powers in the US government. As a member of the House of Representatives, part of the Congress, it's been explicitly Paul's job to set policy. We're evaluating individuals here, not branches

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