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by artsrc 17y ago
The cool thing about software is that the order should reflect uncertainties and risks rather than physical structure. The incomplete parts can be stubs.
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by artsrc 17y ago
I don't know what the parent proposes, but generally people propose that kids who read at a 2nd grade level, stay in 2nd grade.
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by artsrc 17y ago
Has this been tried? Designing roads to promote desired speeds may be more effective than speed limits at reducing bicycle and pedestrian fatalities.
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by artsrc 17y ago
The article alleges that matters of fact were also lied about, such as the nature of the effect on highway funding. If there were a study that suggested similar conclusions, what would the result be? More lying? It seems to me that the pro
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by artsrc 17y ago
One problem with IP laws is that to fully enforce them you need a police state. I don't know precisely what you are thinking, but my view is that the IP framework should be: For a published work to be eligible for copyright, source code mu
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by artsrc 17y ago
Is the disparity between the two really large? What percentage of prisoners would they need to release and how much would class sizes have to rise to balance the budget? I am sure the disparity is small compared to the federal equivalent.
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by artsrc 17y ago
That is an interesting question, but I don't think it is the right one. California can innovate and do better. Where there is waste it may be worth eliminating, even if it is a below average amount of waste. If you are talking about feder
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by artsrc 17y ago
You can make a lot of money if you can correctly predict (50% + delta) of the time (on a return weighted basis). That means this guy can be both successful in a repeatable way and wrong.
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by artsrc 17y ago
clint eastwood
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by artsrc 17y ago
My reaction to this is that people who are easily offended must have some insecurity. Where this insecurity is not justified, it reduces my respect.
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by artsrc 17y ago
The best budgetary policy is to run a deficit during recessions. The fact that this is difficult in is a mistake. If you want trust the citizen voters (and I don't) I would suggest an independent California Reserve should set property and
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by artsrc 17y ago
> But the costs of prevention are 100% real and enormous. We don't know everything about climate. But we also don't know the return on investment for R&D in generation and consumption of power. Are you so sure that buying hybrid ca
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by artsrc 17y ago
I suspect that reducing our emissions is actually not just cheap but cost negative. You invest in energy saving infrastructure, like insulation, solar hot water, public transport, more efficient appliances, lights, cars etc. Increase the u
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by artsrc 17y ago
Basically the bulk of the article says malaria is better characterized as a disease of poverty than as a disease of warming. It seems to me that this is the best analysis based on our knowledge. Are there any reputable scientists who hold
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by artsrc 17y ago
I thought Clojure was duck typed, so I thought it would not require extra boiler plate. Consider a max function that returns the largest of two entities by using a "compare" function. In Python/C++ Templates you must: 1. Have a compar
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by artsrc 17y ago
A long time ago it was proven than a number of different abstract notions of computers could all solve the same set of problems. We now have a number of different ways of articulating abstractions in source code. I suspect there is a mecha
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by artsrc 17y ago
It seems to me the value the scalper providers is an exchange not an arbitrage. Sellers probably don't care when they sell as long as they do. Buyers probably find the lack of transparency inconvenient. If you setup a fair exchange where
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by artsrc 17y ago
Taking small amounts from very large numbers of other market participants trades, and doing nothing else justifies being removed from the trading arena. I understand that large market participants are starting to do this, setting up 'dark
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by artsrc 17y ago
A strategy where you went short in 2006 would do quite well. To be contrary to this guy you would be short now: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/03/business/economy/03econ.ht... "There’s nothing here to support double-dip fears." You want t
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by artsrc 17y ago
DMCA laws damage the economy, help create a police state, and are unnecessary. The fact that format shifting DVD's is illegal harms the billion dollar market for digital video products. If format shifting CD's was illegal digital music pro
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by artsrc 17y ago
You can say the same thing another way. If your code is littered with V2 = V1 + 1 "idioms", then you are coding in a way not well supported by Erlang. Or, rebinding variables is generally not the clearest way to express the intent of your
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by artsrc 17y ago
So you claim that high labour productivity is fully reflected in money spent on employees, and just not reflected in wages? He claims that competition from low wage economies means that higher labour productivity from technology and capital
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by artsrc 17y ago
> The bigger problem with posts like this is that they fail to appreciate a very simple truth: Either humans are affecting the climate or they don't These are tautologies: * Human have affected the climate or they have not. * Humans ei
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by artsrc 17y ago
I understand our best forecast is that the enhanced greenhouse effect will increase global rainfall. The local effect in the Amazon river basin is just as likely the result of local deforestation as the global carbon dioxide level. As some
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by artsrc 17y ago
Maintaining a model feature in three places, the SQL, the class and a manual mapping, violates the basic principles of database modelling (store facts once), at the meta level (rather than the data level). ORM is a flawed attempt to remedy
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by artsrc 17y ago
Are both a full featured object model, and an SQL database really essential for that kind of site? I essentially share the same SQL, OO, ORM hammer, as you, so I would likely use the same solution. It may be that all 3 complex technologies,
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by artsrc 17y ago
Maybe it you should hope that some rich company does use the exposed source code, and then sue them for all they are worth. Make sure there is a copyright notice so the legal situation of the code is clear. Just because you can play a CD d
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by artsrc 17y ago
There is certainly data you don't want to put into a relational model. There are domains where it is essentially impossible to create a reasonable relational model. For example where a class references many, quite different, classes. In t
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by artsrc 17y ago
Does Microsoft price Windows higher OSX? What is the average OEM price of Windows? What is the premium that Apple targets based on the OS part of their user experience? I think the OEM price of Windows XP on my NetBook was something like
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Seems like a scenario worth considering since it has been the case for most modern economic history.

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