blastrat

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by blastrat 10y ago
In terms of dining with small children, do you mean fast food or do you specifically mean McDonalds, compared to Burger King, etc.? just curious.
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by blastrat 10y ago
I just want to add this bit of Finance Theory / Econ 101 to the mix, it's interesting: Markets function better (or really, they function at all, it's the definition) when prices are what they should be. Trading on insider inf
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by blastrat 10y ago
most "private jets" are "fractional" timeshares, so you don't have to pay the full $110 million. See http://NetJets.com/ still, it's also "fractional" 1% anyway, 1% doesn't get y
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by blastrat 10y ago
it's difficult to analyze the truth value of your thesis because you use words that all have dual meanings, "religious word" vs "naughty word" (swear, oath, profane) and we see from "don't take the Lord&#x
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by blastrat 10y ago
I get the idea of what you said, but did he, really measurably? plus: the information released about him was accurate; who says you get to have secrets that disqualify you from jobs that you hide from your employer? I'm not saying we w
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by blastrat 10y ago
I'm not saying Gawker is OK or not, nor that they are hypcocrites or not. I'm talking about the standards that courts use to measure "harm". Young starlets have so many sex tapes (their own and hacked) out there, and it
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by blastrat 10y ago
so, count on a smart interviewer because if the interviewer is not top notch, you don't want the job? that's throwing your future to the wind.
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by blastrat 10y ago
You don't need to explain your goals, I get it, it's obvious. What I'm saying is, you won't achieve them by giving politicians more control over elections, they already have too much control over elections. "public
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by blastrat 10y ago
it's a buncha hogwash. Companies need a board with a chairman, a president and treasurer, and vice presidents of things like engineering and marketing. If you have 20 people, you don't need more executives than that. If you have a
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by blastrat 10y ago
wait, you are proposing government control of election funding so you can change the government?... hahahahahahahahaha there are plenty of rich people on all parts of the political spectrum always trying to unseat the current government. T
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by blastrat 10y ago
big E economists are entirely aware of the pitfalls and the limitations of their field, they know it's far from exact, and they know it much better than people who don't study economics. Those who are ignorant of historical mistak
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by blastrat 10y ago
but if that 100B annual sales includes periodic down-time, and this down-time is within the normal annual amount, then you are double counting down-times...
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by blastrat 10y ago
I knew C quite well. Haven't written any for years. The statements "zero all bytes of a struct" and "reads of the padding" contain enough ambiguity that it answers the question. Not to mention the ambiguity in the w
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by blastrat 10y ago
Hey EVERYBODY, this topic is all what actual economists , you know literal big E Economists, study; so, while actual economists can disagree about this topic, they disagree from a basis of understanding some things. People who have not s
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by blastrat 10y ago
the most precious thing to a computer should be the human input, that's the thing that your brain worked on and that's what primarily should be recorded. (that's what source code is) Computers are deterministic, replaying you
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by blastrat 10y ago
Yours is a good additional idea, but it is in no way a substitute. You might want to look at some history you forgot to log. Having intentional logging on top of comprehensive logging is like markup metadata, very handy too. it makes me s
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by blastrat 10y ago
I'm not saying it's anywhere near perfect :) but can you see that if a naming system works so well that two people would quickly write the same code, that reading that code could conceivably be easier too? That's the claim.
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by blastrat 10y ago
I really wish he'd document even the barest scraps of the CPU architecture. Is it microcoded? There's 7400 series like 7402 or 7473, and there's 7400 series like 74154, 74181, etc. "hey kid, I built one of these too, bac
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by blastrat 10y ago
it's always funny to me when people talk about the Norman Conquest with respect to Romance Languages... the Normans were Vikings, Germanic. In terms of Romantic influences, it is the Normans who were conquested by Latinate language :)
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by blastrat 10y ago
As I said, READ THE PIECE, forget about what you think you already know. A discussion of what he actually said will be more interesting than a discussion of what you misunderstand. But in response to the point you raised, the purpose of Sim
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by blastrat 10y ago
Not trying to convince anybody of anything, but as a public service to expand your mind, I strongly urge anyone interested in these types of ideas to FORGET WHAT THEY THINK THEY KNOW OR HAVE HEARD and to REREAD Charles Simonyi's (he in