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The Secret of Ant Transportation Networks(technologyreview.com)
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by benwr 15y ago
Of course I was referring to the apparent value based on the metric used in the article, and not any socially normative value.
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by benwr 15y ago
I did find the policy of rejecting proposals with costs higher than $3MM/life-saved very interesting. If saving lives made up the entire extent of the federal budget, that sort of thing would clearly be appropriate. But as it is, is the mon
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...And Scrabble Proved PSPACE-Complete(technologyreview.com)
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by benwr 15y ago
Sssshhhh - if more people thought this, Google would start charging for products
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by benwr 15y ago
Also Hanukkah: http://google.com/search?q=hanukkah
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by benwr 15y ago
> Up to half the people alive in 1930, to use Kovács' insensitive phraseology, were mentally retarded? Really? That might help explain the rise of Hitler, Stalin, and Mao. What a ridiculous conclusion.
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Stanford's Intro to AI, Free Online This Semester(ai-class.com)
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by benwr 15y ago
http://www.openwall.com/john/
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by benwr 15y ago
I hate to just insert a link into a comment, but this article is a much better response than anything I could come up with: http://www.randomhacks.net/articles/2005/12/03/why-ruby-is-a...
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ESR's Guide to Hacking With GPS(gpsd.berlios.de)
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Those Who Can't Build, Talk(esr.ibiblio.org)
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The Binding Uncertainty of the Present(kk.org)
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Organizational Charts for Tech Companies(teradome.com)
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Three Myths About Developer Effectiveness(niksilver.com)
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by benwr 15y ago
And what happens in the xkcd-inspired future where we all have neural interfaces to storage? When the lines between what's in our heads and what's written down are sufficiently blurred, what's obstruction of justice and what's a fifth-amend
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by benwr 15y ago
In these countries, despite nominally censored traffic, the majority is not routinely prevented from doing what it wants to do. Facebook is (and will continue to be) available, as will Google, and email services, and nearly everything else
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Python Interfaces Are Not Java Interfaces (2004)(dirtsimple.org)
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From Ridiculous To Brilliant: Why We Play At Work [video; skip first 4 minutes](mitworld.mit.edu)
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by benwr 15y ago
You're basically right. On the other hand (as should be apparent on HN), "implementors" don't always need management. Business does always require some sort of product.
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Life of an Implementer: If you're good at it, don't do it for someone else(undev.wordpress.com)
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by benwr 15y ago
"The future extinction of the human species cannot affect you if you are already dead": I thought one of the implications of evolution was that we have a vested interest in protecting our genes, rather than acting solely on individual-level
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by benwr 15y ago
I absolutely agree that reading some classics would be valuable for anyone, but I think it would be hard to learn anything concrete from a lot of what is considered "art". My argument was that we aren't destroying the silos because we hate
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by benwr 15y ago
I'm reading Anna Karenina right now. It's enjoyable. I think many people would get something out of it if they read it. But most people never did. The majority has never been "well-read". And so, if we can make the majority well-equipped wi
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by benwr 15y ago
I think that would be more polarizing rather than less: You would have an incentive to vote one way or the other, even when you feel the comment deserves neither.
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by benwr 15y ago
Is mob voting an observed problem with the old way? I seem to recall PG mentioning[1] that overall top comment scores are now /higher/ than before, suggesting that upvoters didn't mob in the old system, but based their votes on the perceive
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by benwr 15y ago
I'm very nervous about this. I'm a rising sophomore at Virginia Tech (best in-state engineering school for ECE), and, while it's not a diploma mill, it's also certainly not "top-tier". I wonder whether my job prospects (or, worse, my educa
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by benwr 15y ago
So why allow for a root password in GNU at all? Is Stallman really saying that everyone should have root access? If you accept that there's a use for a secret root password (which, I assume, Stallman has; otherwise why write an `su` at all?
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Universities, or Quasi-Holiday Camps? [Money Talks Podcast](economist.com)
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Magic Blue Smoke Refilling Kit(sparkfun.com)
2 points by benwr 16y ago|0 comments

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