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The State Dept can't be replaced by a federal contractor. USDS can; why not award Raytheon or L3 (or Halliburton) a contract, acquihire the best devs from the old team, and lay the rest off?
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Most Americans probably heard of this via Donald Rumsfeld, 'known unknowns' etc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiPe1OiKQuk
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It's a terrible assumption. If you believe Computer Science education has anything to do with programming ability, you shouldn't be surprised the US has many, if not most, of the best programmers already [1,2]. The trouble is i
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Very inspirational! I did not know he was the one to reformulate Maxwell's Eqs. I had a feeling an English person was behind admittance, conductance, impedance, inductance, permittance, reluctance & permeability , but I suppose
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I found the article very well-written. Barbrook's article on politics is equally fascinating [1]. I'm not sure what to make of it all, but it's certainly thought-provoking. [1] http://www.imaginaryfutures.net&#x
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It's not that you forget the content, it's that you forget how to phrase it concisely. If the author needed 70, or 200 pages to explain a concept, and you can at some point raise your hand and claim 'I get the point&#x27
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I don't know which reduction you'd use exactly, but efficiently solving Weather Modeling would be positive for most everybody. I wouldn't reduce it to vertex cover, for example, but 3SAT solver might be a more useful tool.
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What routines am I slipping into? For example, why am I still reading HN? I don't mean to imply all routines are bad, but awareness is ~60%. Why am I reading more lately? , etc.
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Uber does make campaign donations [1]. To suggest it's all about 'spreading information' seems naive at best, if not dishonest. Garcetti had a $250,000 campaign contribution from Uber (or the CEO) in his run for th
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You got that right. :| at least 26 were wrongfully held and did not meet the detention standard ... included an "intellectually challenged" man whose CIA detention was used solely as leverage to get a family me
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Classification has become a tool to protect careers, not the nation. These people all acted individually towards whatever incentives they saw desirable. Money, power over helpless detainees, I don't know. Specific people did exactly
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$ curl -vX GET http://www.illinoispolicy.org/illinois-general-assembly-revives-recording-ban/ * Hostname was NOT found in DNS cache * Trying 54.236.99.104... * Connected to www.illinoispolicy.org (54
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I don't think you can eliminate the ugliness. That's okay. I think if you can somehow cluster the ugly comments together, let the ugly people have that discussion, hidden from view, everything might work out. Perhaps textual an
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Disciplined Minds by Jeff Schmidt
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Sorry, this really grinds my gears ;) > we know what the Overdrive gear in automatic-transmission cars means, and why you use it to pass a truck on the highway That is not what overdrive is [1]. Overdrive is the very high gear that le
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Does this remind anyone of SweetCaptcha? [1] The image match games aren't new. Is one better than the other? [1] http://sweetcaptcha.com/
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The author is largely right. It all comes down to the master. And the lossless format. The numbers here don't matter, what matters is will the masters be better for 24/96..24/192..32/384 ? If yes, prefer the 24&#x
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You're fighting a lot of imperfections here. Even a well-tuned piano isn't going to be in tune lowest C to highest C, steel strings just don't allow for perfection [1]. Guitar gets even worse, as you have to deform the stri
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I like your proof better! Much simpler to read. The if part confused me a bit, though k = m + 1 P = m * (m + 2) = (k-1) * (k+1) = k^2 - 1
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With recent advances in 3D printing, is there any hope for a home vinyl record press? How much would it cost to cut my own vinyl? (google fails me: [1]) I know very little about the logistics of record pressing. [1] http://www
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Shirts are fairly standard in size, I buy those online. Jeans have to be tried on (bad online experience). /r/mfa has okay guidelines. I stick hard to certain brands, to avoid sizing uncertainty. I wouldn't go full Steve J
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How quickly could you acquire the degree? 4 semesters? Is the department going to grow any time soon? Certain commuter schools in nova seem to get bigger all the time.
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Does anyone else prefer txt2tags [1]? It also works. [1] http://txt2tags.org/features.html
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108. Whenever two programmers meet to criticize their programs, both are silent. (!?) Simpler times, indeed.
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I laughed heartily at the linked Fedora site: https://web.archive.org/web/20141020161905/http://forkfedora... I am not sure anything will come of this, but I hope it doesn't fail.
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Looks fairly good! ( I'm all OS X though :| ) If it's got Gapless Playback, definitely list that as a feature!
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(2013) First, I think the speed of C relies heavily on the compiler. C is not fast, not if I wrote the compiler. But GCC is very fast, and ICC at least as much. I was a little confused by the Erlang wariness, but the reasoning seemed so
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I found the mention of Mach's Principle beyond intriguing. How have I not heard of this?! I'm quite glad to ponder it [1] You are standing in a field looking at the stars. Your arms are resting freely at your side, and
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A gyroscope, a radiometer, pentominoes, a lego bucket, a chess set? There are also the Handy _____ Answer Books. I see you've already included the Cartoon Guides to ____, which are great. There's got to be a set of children&#x2
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BSD is often just a little bit different. Hard to be unbiased. Some people prefer GNU make, some like bsdmake. - kqueue is a very powerful event loop similar to epoll [1] - the FreeBSD ports collection is very simple to use as far as comp

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