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by benkuykendall 11y ago
Hmmm... How about a one's complement system? For example if A owed B 24 dollars, A would wear the bands 1100111 = -24 and B would wear 0011000 = 24. This way, they would only need 7 bands between the two of them, yet each person would
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by benkuykendall 11y ago
Kickstand?
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by benkuykendall 11y ago
I interpreted it as a joke.
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by benkuykendall 11y ago
Rhinoceros horn is not used as an aphrodisiac, rather to treat fevers. (of course it doesn't actually treat fevers either) That aside, there are quite a few people who have misconceptions about medicine; it seems noble but very difficu
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by benkuykendall 11y ago
How else can we evaluate good if not by it's value? I understand that not all the benefits of college are monetary, but we need some unit of account to describe the immaterial gains of a college education. Would you rather a billion do
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by benkuykendall 11y ago
A person gains some $N in financial gains and personal fulfillment for going to college. Regardless if tuition comes from the individual or the taxpayers, the society as a whole is still paying some $M for a person to go to college. Society
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by benkuykendall 11y ago
Yep! And believe it or not, you can do a ton in the browser. Aside from heavy duty programmers and creatives, most people can do everything they need to in the browser. Pretty exciting, isn't it?
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by benkuykendall 11y ago
Magnet schools can fix this issue. If you have 10 high schools, running 1 as a gifted program and the other 9 as before should not cost significantly more. Of course, people complain about negative effects on the remaining schools [0] on th
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by benkuykendall 11y ago
Wouldn't the button still call back to Amazon every time you click it? Even if it doesn't purchase anything, I don't need Amazon to know my assorted button-clicking habits.
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by benkuykendall 11y ago
Additionally, could you create multiple VMs in a way which gives them the same hardware hash? That could allow for re-use of a license.
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by benkuykendall 11y ago
(sidestepping any politics and instead discussing grammar) Anyone know why the use of demonyms as nouns is inconsistent? "American" is used as to denote one individual, while "Chinese" is always used as a collective noun
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by benkuykendall 11y ago
That's the reason I used GDP per capita instead of after-tax income. Even if employees do not need to pay for insurance, retirement, or schooling, the nation as a whole still has to.
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by benkuykendall 11y ago
Although Switzerland and America may have very different work cultures and social support policies, that's not the most obvious difference. Consider our per-capita GDPs (2013, nominal dollars)[1]: Switzerland 84,748 United S
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by benkuykendall 11y ago
> If you don’t understand how technology works — especially a technical subgenre as complex and dense as encryption and information security — then don’t write about it. This is certainly one message to draw from the situation. But it&#x
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by benkuykendall 11y ago
It's a little meta. You have to apply the techniques learned to the post itself as you read it.
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by benkuykendall 11y ago
I can't imagine this service helping me. It would easily double my ingredients' costs, and I enjoy planning and cooking meals myself. However, one related problem I have is the accumulation of ingredients. Something I cooked yeste
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by benkuykendall 11y ago
Yeah. Python has the functional programming features I expect of any modern language. However, I feel that Python has a lot of unneeded syntax. I always prefer apply() over * and map() and filter() over list comprehensions. func(*args
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by benkuykendall 11y ago
Huh. So they are really talking about a pressure. 1 kWh/(acre ft) = 2919 Pa It makes a great deal of intuitive sense that the quantity that describes how hard it is to move water over a path is a pressure.
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by benkuykendall 11y ago
It doesn't seem at all practical. Given a maximum yield of 30000 lbs/(acre*year) [1], and with an area of < 16 square feet, we get < 1 pound of coffee a year. Maybe you could grow something else. Flowers, strawberries, herbs
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by benkuykendall 11y ago
The textbook pro-patent argument is that giving out a short-term monopoly increases the benefits of R&D. A company would have less to gain from developing a new product if anyone could then produce it. If you want to abolish patents, yo
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by benkuykendall 11y ago
It really matters a lot more if an employee finds his or her own job interesting than if you find it interesting. I can personally attest that at least one employee finds his job in software development interesting, even though it involves
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by benkuykendall 11y ago
Sorry, could you explain this a little further? As an American, my income taxes seem to be pretty solid evidence that I am bearing American liabilities. Especially in a case like space exploration, where the only cost is monetary, I don&#x2
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by benkuykendall 11y ago
finance, jQuery, or both?
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by benkuykendall 11y ago
It changes the allocation of resources. Let's play with some numbers. We will say that 5 people have the following monthly incomes [ 0, 500, 500, 2000, 3000, 4000] Our economy only makes one good: bread. There are 1000 loaves of bread
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by benkuykendall 11y ago
Do you really believe that? "Can't bring any good to anyone" is such a low bar for making something illegal. I understand restrictions in the case that an action actively hurts someone, but only permitting actions that the go
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Reddit Enacts Anti-Harassment Policy After User Complaints(nytimes.com)
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by benkuykendall 11y ago
Does the Google car not do parking?
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by benkuykendall 11y ago
Wow. This article addresses a lot of interesting points that I had not considered. It's amazing how different museums could become with relatively small changes. However, the deaccessioning arguments made me nervous. I agreed with the
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by benkuykendall 11y ago
This is a link to a post on /r/conspiracy that is just a screenshot of an anonymous message between two users. Needless to say, unless you have any actual evidence on this topic, I am dismissing it outright.
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by benkuykendall 11y ago
Unconscious racial bias comes up a lot in these issues. Yet I am at a loss to see a mechanism by which we could even begin to remedy it. What steps could proposed programs take?

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