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by bcoates 12y ago
I was with you until "Cap-and-trade is a sound market-based solution". It's goofy market cargo-culting of something that isn't a market. If you want a policy intervention to burn less coal, end policies that are de-facto
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by bcoates 12y ago
There was (is?) a whole mail-relay postal service culture. In the mid-90s my grandmother was a node in semi-formalized mailing list system that more than anything resembled a mimeograph version of Reddit. you'd get packets of stuff (jo
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by bcoates 12y ago
This is an interesting story I'd like to hear told by a non-crazy person.
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by bcoates 12y ago
That's an artifact of google's weird link stuffing, if you search 'site: http://www.google.com//search' by hand it still works
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by bcoates 12y ago
As far as I can tell Critical Mass is propaganda of the deed against pedestrians.
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by bcoates 12y ago
The 1990s transition from the US Internet infrastructure being a government run research project to the multiple privately owned networks. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Science_Foundation_Net...
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by bcoates 12y ago
The history of the Internet as the most successful radical deregulation since the abolition of serfdom, or some other history of the Internet?
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by bcoates 12y ago
This is almost certainly not what's going to happen; what's going to happen (assuming Uber succeeds, which is less than certain) is that Uber will attempt to kick the ladder out from behind them by bribing policymakers to enforce
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by bcoates 12y ago
I think the part about the kilogram is missing the point -- it's not that a pure silicon crystal sphere is a better artifact to be the kilogram than the platinum-iridium cylinder. The idea is that they are defining a reproducible pro
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by bcoates 12y ago
These essays make me think I don't understand why people are doing technical interviews. I give a (brief) technical question/coding question interview when I'm asked to, and I suspect it's the kind the author doesn'
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by bcoates 12y ago
I don't see the difference between this and how module systems in dynamic languages work, the key-value database is accessed with require(), include(), import() or whatever. I suppose you'd need to write a shim to invoke the packa
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by bcoates 12y ago
> making an offer (and landing the candidate) is the exceptional condition > In other words, odds are that you are not going to get the job. The first is true but it doesn't really imply the second: In my area, the active jobseek
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by bcoates 12y ago
Remember that not everybody does a tech-quiz heavy interview. When I interview people I tend to end the programming questions part about halfway through regardless of how well they do.
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by bcoates 12y ago
This really brings out the difficulty in intentionally conserving ambiguity: translating "temptation" and "evil" as "desires that are against our better judgement" and "ideas associated with the Devil&quot
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by bcoates 12y ago
That's the one thing this proposal gets right -- the returns to betting marginally better than everyone else are exponential, so they are mostly insensitive to initial conditions. In a world where everything is decided by cointoss, it&
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by bcoates 12y ago
Markets only solve the information problem, they don't address the decision problem (given unlimited knowledge of the present, how do we optimize the future? -- an intractable problem) or the measurement problem (were the decisions w
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by bcoates 12y ago
C++ lambdas are not CS-theory lambdas and they're (by definition) syntax sugar for the functor-class bullshit they're described as in the article.
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by bcoates 12y ago
Says who? If you believe the Supreme Court, calls to violence are core political speech (Brandenburg v. Ohio, NAACP v. Claiborne Hardware). I'm not even sure what law distributing videos of murder would break.
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by bcoates 12y ago
This makes me wonder, how does the NSA choose their goofy codenames?
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by bcoates 12y ago
It isn't their job to help people. They're bureaucrats, it's their job to show up after and take notes, give interviews and file paperwork. There is no reason to give these people guns, tanks, helicopters, or bombs -- giving
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by bcoates 12y ago
This does not seem like a reasonable idea in a business-rules sense. the 12345 in http://api.example.com/product/12345 is presumably a SKU, which is the natural key for a product you're selling. You don't get
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by bcoates 12y ago
Hiring the ex-employees of an organization is a roundabout way of bribing the current employees of an organization. It bootstraps a process where people who make the right decisions are "taken care of" later.
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by bcoates 12y ago
http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2011/09/how_to_be_mean_to_you... It's squishy whether it's fraud or not. The unemployability is real, the medical conditions are a matter of semantics, and it's in nob
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by bcoates 12y ago
There is evidence of the nation’s cultural divide in the results, with “Zoolander” (a 2001 movie starring Ben Stiller) and Vengaboys (a Dutch dance-pop band) popular in the easiest places and Kenneth Nixon, of the rock band Frami
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by bcoates 12y ago
It's not like this is a hypothetical -- the US military is deployed all over the world, and routinely faces protesters. Do these confrontations result in violence more often than, for example, ones involving US domestic police forces?
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by bcoates 12y ago
Does return combine( stage1(), stage2() ) bother you too? because that infers the return-types of stage1() and stage2() as well.
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by bcoates 12y ago
Uh, it's only depressing if you agree with the nutjob elitists that think everyone else is a horse that needs their constant guidance to do something with their life. Do you have any idea how the banking industry and B2B operations wor
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by bcoates 12y ago
It's a shame that everyone's so insistent on democracy without having any creativity about it. Athens had the right idea -- create a set of objective standards for people qualified to serve in the upper house, then draw lots and w
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by bcoates 12y ago
The city I live in has a large population of UK citizens and isn't part of the EU either, is there something I should know?
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by bcoates 12y ago
People can, and have, made reasonably serviceable tanks in their garage and then terrorized cities, supervillain-style. If this doesn't result fearmongering about basic construction tools, why is everyone worried about less practical b

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