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by appstateguy 6y ago
This makes intuitive sense to me, but isn't the issue that relativity states that time is intrinsically coupled with space? Ones experience of time relative to another's is directly related to the topological features of the space
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by appstateguy 6y ago
What is that "something" that is happening all at once? In my naive understanding of cosmological theories is they seem to end in probabilities (e.g., eternal inflation) that emerge from a kind of (oxymoronic) "chaotic static
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by appstateguy 6y ago
> Infinity, is still unfathomable but at least it is easier to fit Maths and Physics around. Arguably Maths requires this same discontinuity due to Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem. Consistent axiomatic systems require a Gödel sentenc
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by appstateguy 7y ago
The United States has a substantial advantage in that the dollar is considered the world's reserve currency. This is in large part due to the "petrodollar" as the vast majority of oil is only sold in dollars. This puts a larg
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by appstateguy 7y ago
What differs this scenario from individual neurons firing together in order to make the human mind? Can you keep taking that line of thinking down to the subatomic properties of the neurons themselves? I'm guessing this is the argument
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by appstateguy 7y ago
Reading through the article's comments there's one from "LegalBeagle" that criticizes the man's lawyer for using the wrong argument in the lawsuit, and instead should've filed the lawsuit as a violation of the
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by appstateguy 7y ago
To be fair, they tried to go after AT&T to kill the Time Warner deal (because they own CNN), but the judge basically threw out the case.
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by appstateguy 7y ago
maybe you shouldn't have waited until the absolute last minute to do this or it wouldn't have been replaced.
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by appstateguy 7y ago
meh. ultimately this is OSS. the maintainer was negligent. if you're not a good OSS maintainer, you don't deserve to maintain control. it's not reasonable to be indefinitely patient when the original author shows no initiativ
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by appstateguy 8y ago
It was probably the expansion of financial instruments like Collateralized Debt Obligations (CDOs) [0] along with shadow banking mortgage companies (like Country Wide [1]) that simply sell mortgages to banks that in turn securitize the mort
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by appstateguy 8y ago
> Whilst IBM research might be able to pull it off, it'll never get to market because there is nobody capable of making good products at IBM anymore. As an ex-IBMer this is so true and so frustrating at the same time. Engineers are
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by appstateguy 8y ago
The thing to understand about shorting is that your losses have no upper bounds. You short a stock at $100 and it goes up to $1,000, you now OWE $900. Here's [0] a story of a guy going to bed with $30k in his ETrade and waking up to a
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by appstateguy 8y ago
I worked with a recruiter once and the way she treated me like an object to sling around to make her commission turned me off to the entire recruiting industry. I refuse to work with them again.
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by appstateguy 9y ago
Regulatory burdens like not using customer's deposit's as a their personal piggy bank? There's good reason for exchanges to be well regulated.
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by appstateguy 9y ago
Looks great! Do you know what, if any, performance impact this has?
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by appstateguy 9y ago
There's been a brain drain [0] going on at the NSA, so it wouldn't surprise me if they missed it. [0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/the-n...
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by appstateguy 9y ago
Of course I do. I consider myself liberal.
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by appstateguy 9y ago
And I live here and it's clear you're extremely ignorant on what the culture is actually like in the Raleigh-Durham region.
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by appstateguy 9y ago
RTP doesn't sit within Raleigh. Addresses that sit within the park (like GSK, or IBM) are within the cities of Durham, maybe some in Morrisville, and some simply "Research Triangle Park." The Triangle as a whole (including
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by appstateguy 9y ago
Your comment is ignorant of both the past and future trajectories of the voting populations for both Texas and North Carolina. NC has only become "far right" since 2010. Prior to that it's legislature was controlled by democr
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by appstateguy 9y ago
There really has been some prejudiced undertones in this thread that belittle the southeast.
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by appstateguy 9y ago
Yep, I spent over $3k on my MacBook pro and I had the exact same experience. Keys stopped working consistently, brought it into the Apple Store and they cleaned it out, only to have it stop working just a few days later -- and has been gett
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by appstateguy 9y ago
Yes, but remember cabinet members are called secretaries — it's right in their titles (e.g., Secretary of State). The President's Chief of Staff has enormous power.
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by appstateguy 10y ago
If by "overly complicated" you really mean, "ambitious but nebulous and we need it now" then I 100% agree. Nothing is more stressful than basically being put into the position where you've been given nothing more th
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Flash Crash caused by single trader(bloomberg.com)
6 points by appstateguy 11y ago|1 comments
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by appstateguy 12y ago
Samsung is one of the most complex companies around. Check out their ownership structure: http://qz.com/223755/samsungs-bizarre-byzantine-ownership-st...
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by appstateguy 12y ago
It seems to me that Dawkins' response was an attempt to address the "root" of many of these problem. Essentialism is necessary for people to understand by creating idealistic meaning, but in doing so you also lose knowledge b