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by akjj 13y ago
> The science behind it seems complex and because it relies so heavily on modeling The thing is that you don't require complex modeling to get global warming. Energy comes to the earth from the sun. Energy's radiated out to sp
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by akjj 13y ago
It could be misdirection: Buy a ticket to Venezuela on Aeroflot expecting it to leak and quietly buy a Moscow-somewhere ticket on a different airline.
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by akjj 13y ago
More importantly for the future, UTF-8 is allows all of Unicode to be coded as an 8-bit extension of ASCII.
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by akjj 13y ago
Except the Nth country experiment participants designed an implosion-type bomb. The people running the experiment understood that designing a gun-type bomb would have been too easy. Nonetheless, you're right that obtaining the fissile mater
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by akjj 13y ago
This is right, but the canonical/non-canonical distinction is all or nothing. Bash echos most characters, but it needs to treat a handful, like tab, up, and down, specially so it (or readline probably) puts the terminal in non-buffered mode
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by akjj 13y ago
Two counter-arguments: First, in many disciplines, it is common to circulate pre-prints of papers which are being refereed. In this case, anonymity for the authors is impossible, practically speaking. Second, the OP describes a snob effect,
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by akjj 13y ago
Don't forget that you would need to put not just Mochizuki's work into a proof checker, but also everything that it depends on. From what I understand, this is far too much work to be feasible with currently available proof checkers and cha
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by akjj 13y ago
First of all, Tesla was not created by Musk alone. He owns a large portion of the company, but he had co-founders with more experience in the automobile industry. Second of all, there's a reason that Tesla started with a high-end sports car
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by akjj 13y ago
> SF's population density isn't Manhattan's, but it's quite high overall San Francisco has half the population density of Brooklyn and less than Queens or the Bronx. It's also less than Somerville, Massachuetts or West Hollywood in LA c
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by akjj 14y ago
Bank regulation is not the responsibility of the ECB. Each EU country is responsible for regulating its own banks. This is one of the criticisms of the EU system: the currency is continent-wide, but there's no centralized bank regulator.
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by akjj 14y ago
> No, but they are exposing an internal contradiction of academia. Academics want to research, students want them to teach. I disagree. Some academics want to do research. Some want to teach. However, the way for a university to gain pr
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by akjj 14y ago
The yields on treasury bills are extraordinarily low by historical standards (i.e. the prices are high) because they are in high demand, not low demand.
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by akjj 14y ago
> drawing the inevitable conclusion that the the failure of the system is accelerating. The natural end to an inflationary currency is BOOM! And yet inflation is as low or lower than it has been in the past 30 years. Not to mention com
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by akjj 14y ago
While algorithmic trading may provide liquidity, it tends to exit markets during crashes and abnormal events. Moreover, I suspect that high-frequency trading's real advantage is not in providing lower spreads, but in much faster reaction ti
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by akjj 14y ago
> I have yet to understand how an emissions trading system is superior to a simple tax paid on all emissions. They're more similar than you seem to think. Both internalize cost to the production of pollution. In a tax, the cost is fixed
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by akjj 14y ago
The dollar was given a central place in the international exchange system under the Bretton Woods agreement, which came just after the end of World War II, as you guessed. Before the Great Depression, I don't think there was an analogue, be
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by akjj 14y ago
The US auto industry _was_ restructured by the government and dealerships _were_ closed. The first link I found with numbers for both said that Chrysler closed 789 out of 3200 of its dealers and GM closed 2600 out of 6246 [1]. [1] http://w
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by akjj 16y ago
The Mayo recommends limiting saturated fats [1]. So does the American Heart Association [2]. Also the World Health Organization [3]. According to Wikipedia (I haven't checked the links here), Health Canada, the US Department of Health and H
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by akjj 16y ago
What is good diet? There is no common agreement (see: high carb/high protein/high fat discussions). There's no consensus on what kind of diet is good for losing weight, but there's much more consistent evidence on what a healthy diet is:
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by akjj 16y ago
It's a little different from what the OP was asking for, but my favorite toy programming project: write a shell. This brings you in contact with many of the basic aspects of the Unix system: pipes, fork, exec, environment variables. In arou
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by akjj 16y ago
I found the article he links to at the end to be a more transparent explanation: http://ghcmutterings.wordpress.com/2009/10/06/parallelism-co...
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by akjj 16y ago
This was more than just Buffet's good timing in making an investment. He was also renting out his reputation. Goldman Sachs's future was in question, so the vote of confidence from Warren Buffett, the so-called Oracle of Omaha, was very val
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by akjj 16y ago
Not sure what the complete answer is, but part of it is that spoken Arabic varies quite between Arab countries. Do you try to match the pronunciation within that country or the way it would be pronounced in standard Arabic?
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by akjj 16y ago
First of all, this will be very hard. Japanese is quite different from pretty much any language you're likely to know, and not only do you want to learn it, but you want to do it without actually being able to practice speaking. That said,
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by akjj 16y ago
I feel that the OP misunderstands TeX's virtues: it is a very powerful typesetting system whose macro system happens to be Turing complete. Typesetting is the hard problem and TeX has solved it so well that most people wanting to build a te
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by akjj 16y ago
I don't understand what you were hoping for with your random choices: If you choose randomly, you'll win, lose, and tie each one third of the time, no matter what your opponent's strategy is. Your results are consistent with that prediction
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by akjj 16y ago
Burma shut down Internet access during its 2007 protests and so far its government is still in place.