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Gilad Bracha Interview(cdn3.libsyn.com)
2 points by azgolfer 17y ago|1 comments
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by azgolfer 17y ago
The problem is that what you are ruminating over is probably not something that can be fixed by thinking. For instance if her husband is cheating on her, the woman should confront him. So depression would be adaptive only for certain kinds
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by azgolfer 17y ago
How many prevented ?
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by azgolfer 17y ago
It's up to Mr. Allen to decide if he wants to give away his work for promotion and his wealth doesn't make stealing from him right.
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by azgolfer 17y ago
"The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings, the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of misery" - Winston Churchill How many more examples do we need of the failure of socialism ? It took 80 years to a
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by azgolfer 17y ago
The "Copenhagen Consensus Center" - LOL "Science is the organized skepticism in the reliability of expert opinion." R. Feynman
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by azgolfer 17y ago
Next they should address the spider problem. http://www.theonion.com/content/news/meth_addicts_demand_gov...
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by azgolfer 17y ago
NASA is underfunded ? The whole Space Shuttle program is a huge waste of money. Robots are far better in space than humans.
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by azgolfer 17y ago
Great article by one of my favorite authors. A couple of points - it's dangerous to have executives, regulators, and legislators dealing with financial instruments that are very difficult to understand. It's also dangerous to build models o
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by azgolfer 17y ago
Funny, I don't recall it being called "funemployment" when Bush was president. I seem to recall more articles like this one about the "shadow workforce". http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m3495/is_8_49/ai_n6171...
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by azgolfer 17y ago
The space shuttle has been a huge waste of money. AFAIK, not a single significant scientific discovery. Robots/Computers make by far the best astronauts.
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by azgolfer 17y ago
I think that it is more of a fractal pattern. For instance, graphics is supposed to be the view layer, but the implementation is full of mathematical equations, which are controller type objects. Ivar Jacobsen says all objects tend to fall
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The May Unemployment Numbers are Here, and Worse Than Predicted(michaelscomments.wordpress.com)
28 points by azgolfer 17y ago|3 comments
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by azgolfer 17y ago
Re: non relational extensions I believe it was Ted Codd who said "No real application runs in third normal form". The relational model is great, and it's important to remember that the things that make it great are that it is simple, dynami
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by azgolfer 17y ago
A different view http://www.lagriffedulion.f2s.com/math2.htm
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by azgolfer 17y ago
Reading his other posts, he seems to think that the verbose and convoluted discourse he prefers is somehow at a higher level. IMO, there is no reason for philosophy to be complex and difficult to understand. If you want to solve extremely c
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by azgolfer 17y ago
He misses the CAFE standards, which forced them to produce more low profit vehicles. Saturn was an incredibly bad business decision. 5 billion to create a noisy, slow, ugly car (with dumb innovations like the plastic panels) for the least p
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by azgolfer 17y ago
There is no way to build anything close to an accurate model of the climate. It has far too many independent variables. What really makes it ridiculous is that the are always claiming to use the latest "super" computers when every (good) CS
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by azgolfer 17y ago
Also, Java was originally targeted at very low end machines - think WebTV. IMO, the top things wrong with Java are: Too many concepts that overlap - containers, arrays, generics, iterators, classes, interfaces, etc. An important factor in w
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by azgolfer 17y ago
Animal Farm is much more to the point today. And it's not Big Brother, but Big Mother, that has taken over.
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by azgolfer 17y ago
Today's software environments are the result of a huge amount of creativity. Certainly there are many, many things in them that are valid patentable ideas.
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by azgolfer 17y ago
Ads are not speech, there are many restrictions on ads.
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by azgolfer 17y ago
AGW is a myth. http://www.climateaudit.org/
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by azgolfer 17y ago
One important factor is that naturally a lot of women die in childbirth, So a successful man in the past would often go through multiple wives.
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by azgolfer 17y ago
The real cost is putting the money in the hands of government. Successful entrepeneurs are the engine of the economy. Government is by far the worst investor. They get around 50 cents on the dollar when they spend your tax dollars. As a cha
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by azgolfer 17y ago
Science is not done by consensus. What the hell is "climate scientist" anyway. Perhaps you'd like to post some of the solved problems in "climate science". Computer models of the climate are a joke. They don't even take into account clouds.
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by azgolfer 17y ago
Hey, turns out he has a blog http://secretsofconsulting.blogspot.com/
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by azgolfer 17y ago
Gerald Weinberg's book The Secrets Of Consulting IMO is a much better view of the give and take of giving business advice. Grad school has become far more popular than it used to be and a lot of people seem to promote it as worthwhile to st
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by azgolfer 17y ago
No excuse for this, really. Led Zeppelin showed everyone how to do it in 1969. Record your own first record (very much easier to do now), own your masters, and have a good, tough business guy who is unquestionably on your side (Peter Grant)
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by azgolfer 17y ago
Those horrible days when musicians could actually make a living selling their work. Let's not go back there !

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