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by bcgraham 12y ago
Keep your eyes on the pennies. The dollars will take care of themselves.
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by bcgraham 12y ago
I understood there were three batches of 60-65 people, three times a year, for a total of 180 or so people each year. Now there will be 35 new people every six weeks, for a total of 300 or 320 people each year.
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by bcgraham 12y ago
Houdini [1] aimed to do this, but it's been a while since I checked it out -- not sure if it launched or is still under development. [1] http://www.tryhoudini.com
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by bcgraham 12y ago
This article leaves out some of the detail from older articles (specifically [1]) about this patient where they describe the painstaking process by which they determined these patients were answering yes-or-no questions knowledgeably. See a
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by bcgraham 13y ago
I don't know how they can argue with a straight face that using short-term rent to pay mortgages and leases doesn't raise the prices of real estate. That extra income is (obviously) going to get factored into real estate prices wh
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by bcgraham 13y ago
Catching kingpins seems important for rule of law and the legitimacy of the government. Do you have any examples of when drug use was effectively combated by the policing strategy you described?
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by bcgraham 13y ago
Isn't this the same as #4?
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by bcgraham 13y ago
This used to be the Hollywood model. In the 1970s, for example, studios made movies like you describe. Over time, they've found it's more profitable to release fewer movies that are surer bets, which is how you get this endless pa
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by bcgraham 13y ago
Just for some solid numbers: Breaking Bad costs ~$3m/ep to produce. They normally pull around 3m viewers; this week's premiere pulled 5.9m viewers.
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by bcgraham 13y ago
W/r/t #2 - you're not familiar with Go but knew exactly what was going on. That's totally a feature. The language was designed around exactly that kind of reading. "break;" is implicit in Go.
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by bcgraham 13y ago
I'm not trying to tell you what you meant, but what you said, because they were different. Best of luck.
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by bcgraham 13y ago
>You imply that we can't speak ill of Marissa Mayer because she is a woman. No, you can speak all the ill of Marissa Mayer you want. Effectively saying, "She's a woman," as a way to speak ill of her is bogus, though.
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by bcgraham 13y ago
Your stated reason for opposing gay marriage is that it involves tax deductions because children are an expensive commitment. Then, in the very next sentence, you say you don't support gay adoption. So you oppose gay marriage because t
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by bcgraham 13y ago
Thanks! I didn't know that.
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by bcgraham 13y ago
Stephen King did this and wrote new novels under a pen name, and the books were also best-sellers.
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by bcgraham 13y ago
Borges had a great short story about the logical extreme of this: http://www.srs-pr.com/literature/borges-funes.pdf .
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by bcgraham 13y ago
You mean Planck, not Maxwell, right?
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by bcgraham 13y ago
> Saying "dunno - a billion?" is not going to get you anywhere, and with good reason. Not sure if you were referencing this bit from comedian Pat Brice, but here's a relevant video: http://www.youtube.com/w
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by bcgraham 13y ago
>Who's to say that an "early" death is not in fact a gift for the living? Everyone who's experienced it?
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by bcgraham 13y ago
Well, to be accurate, it's four binomial distributions, not just one. You need the sum of ~30 random variables before you're getting into the CLT, but it demonstrates the gist.
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by bcgraham 13y ago
"Taking advantage of the difficulty of contract and regulatory enforcement" finds an equilibrium at some really sour places.
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by bcgraham 13y ago
It probably is against the rental agreements for most of the people doing it.
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by bcgraham 13y ago
He just got done explaining that there are, in fact, victims. There are negative externalities that are getting pushed onto neighbors.
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by bcgraham 13y ago
No, it's not. It was made-up in the 1740s, and has never really been followed as a rule that closely.[1] Or from Geoff Pullum[2]: >"Avoid singular they if you want to; nobody is making you use it. But don't ever think that it is new (it
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by bcgraham 13y ago
Ditto. And I squeeze the hell out of their hand to relate reliability and engagement. If I shake someone's hand and they give me a weak handshake, I see it as, above all, not being engaged. I feel like it leaves emotional distance.
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by bcgraham 13y ago
Hey, everybody! A straight, white, cis man misses the good old days, when we wrote off anyone who wasn't straight, white, cis, or male as "not allowed to be successful." The best days were when women couldn't vote and before the Civil Right
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by bcgraham 13y ago
Whenever I see it, it takes too long to differentiate it from a bunch of random indentation. Whether this indentation system is needlessly time-consuming or necessary depends a lot on the type of query and the underlying schema.
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by bcgraham 13y ago
This is needlessly hostile. Being responsive is good. It's not contentless; he admits their current process sucks.
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by bcgraham 13y ago
3 and a brother. None of them live locally. I talk to my brother and another friend once or twice a week by phone, and text daily. My other friends, once every month or two by phone, several times a week by text, and once a week or so a dec
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by bcgraham 13y ago
I can't find how to link tasks to other tasks. Can you tell me which features make this better than Basecamp?

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