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by bhickey 14y ago
Rent control is screwing things up in the first place. For example, without the option to end leases landlord's can't empty a building, demolish it and rebuild with more units. This imposes an artificial constraint on supply. Demand isn't p
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by bhickey 14y ago
There's no Linux version of Papers ( http://mekentosj.com/papers )
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by bhickey 14y ago
Please don't artificially limit the e-mail addresses that you'll accept. My address, before adding in a + tag is 27 characters.
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by bhickey 14y ago
Why bother porting? Just cobble a parser onto a text editor and send the text off to a server for compilation.
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by bhickey 14y ago
I've spent a bit of time waffling about writing this. I hope I'm not crass. There's a major problem with incentives in attracting people to research. Why should supply and demand behave differently at universities? I believe that research i
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by bhickey 14y ago
The conversion from being a healthy person to a sick person is by and large a random phenomenon. You buy insurance because you have a non-linear utility function. Assuming that you'll be a healthy person is like going all in on a p=0.99 bet
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by bhickey 14y ago
Employees are almost certainly restricted to trading windows independent of any lockout provision. Given the lockout, it's unlikely that there is currently an open trading window. Any insider trading options outside of that window is likely
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by bhickey 14y ago
The deal was pushed through by the former Governor Don Carcieri while he was a lame duck. The incoming governor, Chafee, tried unsuccessfully to block the transaction. Meanwhile the legislature was bamboozled into increasing the EDC's devel
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by bhickey 14y ago
This is so true. Everyone wants to say we're not trying hard enough but we really are the guys with the awesome grades, extra-curriculars, part time jobs, and involved in sports plus finding time to be social. Don't confu
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by bhickey 14y ago
> Or can you manage to be at home during a 6-hour window for the grocery delivery if you want to shop once a week for that stuff? Having left London, I really do miss Ocado. Unlike the silly timing restrictions you suggest, they deliver
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by bhickey 14y ago
All but one of the beggars who approached me in Kathmandu were children. If children can productively beg there is no incentive to educate them. Just send them out on the streets. It isn't a matter of being greedy. It's avoiding counterprod
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by bhickey 15y ago
I was a middle-schooler and my parents took me to play. I recall a bug where if you rotated the square quickly enough it would travel upward. Someone (maybe Clara?) whipped out a patch and recompiled.
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by bhickey 15y ago
I'm not suggesting that this would work for subverting an agreement as it pertains to work done while an employee. The grandparent specifically referred to an employer demanding past work, presumably predating any business relationship.
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by bhickey 15y ago
Wouldn't it be possible to create a trust (or even a corporation), transfer all of your IP to the trust and then appoint trusted third parties as trustees? There seems to be a world of difference between personally holding IP and being the
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by bhickey 15y ago
Sorry for conflating duck typing with dynamic typing. I appreciate the correction!
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by bhickey 15y ago
I never said inheritance, or method for that matter. You can do H-M on typeclasses. Philip Wadler has a paper on it and it's alive and well in GHC: http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/wadler/topics/type-classes.htm... The fact that Python allo
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by bhickey 15y ago
I'm going to sign in as a partisan here. I firmly believe that Python is the worst language that people actually use. DuckTyping is the most deeply misguided aspect of python. With the discover of Hindley-Milner type inference 40 and 30 yea
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by bhickey 15y ago
And if you're interested in that, check out Paper.js, it can do path simplification amongst other things: http://paperjs.org/
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by bhickey 15y ago
I think you've misunderstood my point. If you're advertising crack in Yuma, the Feds really aren't going to care if you're selling it in Mexico. Either way, you're going to end up in prison.
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by bhickey 15y ago
I sincerely doubt that the ICE would see it that way. I presume they would liken it to putting up a billboard in Yuma that says "Free Crack at my store in Mexico!"
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by bhickey 15y ago
The sensitivity-specificity curve is going to be a roadblock. If your False Positive rate is 0.5%, True Positive rate is 100% and your incidence of disease is 0.1%, the probability that a positive result is indicative of disease is only 17%
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by bhickey 15y ago
How would this have any advantage over a defensive system like Phalanx?
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by bhickey 15y ago
I came across this paper about five years back. At the time I sent an e-mail to Professor Langston thanking him for his insights and clarity in explaining them. Here's his reply: Thanks for your kind note Brendan. It's been over
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by bhickey 15y ago
Imagine this from the perspective of an interviewer. Alice is interviewing Eve for a job at FooCorp. Eve rocks the interview. Alice is happy and gives Eve a high-five and some glowing feedback. Then Bob interviews with Alice. Bob goes belly
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by bhickey 15y ago
Often times hiking maps are so large that you couldn't practically unfurl the whole map. In these cases it would be great if you could easily access individual map sections. If you've ever had your map fall to pieces in the snow, you'll lea
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by bhickey 15y ago
You have your example backward. Feist v. Rural held that telephone books are not subject to copyright. Just because something was laborious to compile does not make it copyrightable. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feist_v._Rural
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by bhickey 15y ago
There's currently a lively debate on License-review about OSI certification of CC0. Contention is largely focused on these patent issues. I dig the public domain, but until the courts, legislature, and/or international treaty say otherwise
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by bhickey 15y ago
I've used Unlicense before, but I have since been persuaded that this was a mistake. Frankly, I think that unlicense inadequately protects user freedom. It does not contain a patent grant or estoppel. While I don't care about attribution, t
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by bhickey 15y ago
I'm not one to complain -- I don't sell cars!
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by bhickey 15y ago
I used CarWoo to buy my car. The price I paid was a clear $1000 under the "Great Price" that True Car suggested, and under the estimated Dealer Cost. Nevertheless, I don't see these services as viable long term -- it's a race to the bottom.

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