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by bjnortier_hn 16y ago
"Several factors had combined to bring about this sorry state of affairs. Services and rates were tightly regulated. Companies were obliged to run passenger services that could not make a profit." Are you suggesting that rail companies shou
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by bjnortier_hn 16y ago
I would agree with that. If you want to learn Erlang, then I would also recommend Nitrogen first. It's at a lower level, so you would probably be exposed to more Erlang (as opposed to learning about Zotonic) Or go even more basic...
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by bjnortier_hn 16y ago
Australia doesn't have a large supply of cheap labour next door, so it's hardly surprising that wages for farm workers are much higher.
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by bjnortier_hn 16y ago
Ditto. What does it do??
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by bjnortier_hn 16y ago
Are you on MacOS? You can sync your address book to gmail contact without using a paid app. Add you gmail account in address book preferences and use iSync...
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by bjnortier_hn 16y ago
How is is NOT a knock-off? - The functionality of Q/A seems to be exactly the same - The visual design is almost indistinguishable from that of StackOverflow - The classification of questions (votes/answers/views with tags) is identical -
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by bjnortier_hn 16y ago
I've wondered if it would be beneficial to apply some control systems theory to financial systems. But I'm not convinced that it would be applicable since control systems are designed for systems that follow the laws of physics. Financial s
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by bjnortier_hn 16y ago
"Adaptive control involves modifying the control law used by a controller to cope with the fact that the parameters of the system being controlled are slowly time-varying or uncertain" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptive_control
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by bjnortier_hn 16y ago
Speculation against sovereign debt is the root cause? Have you considered profligate government spending? Using currency swaps to hide deficits with the help of Goldman Sachs? It wasn't speculators who pushed Greece's deficit up to 13%. "Sp
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by bjnortier_hn 16y ago
I'm not convinced that reasonable comparisons can be made to the circumstances surrounding WWII. WWII was a far-from-equilibrium economic situation, and decisions around debt are very different from more "normal" economic situations.
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How To choose a NoSQL database(1011ltd.com)
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by bjnortier_hn 16y ago
It's also in the Dynamo family together with Voldemort and Cassandra, but notably it has Map-Reduce (with link following) that these other two don't have.
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by bjnortier_hn 16y ago
This is the homepage for Riak: http://riak.basho.com/