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Can Binge Drinking Save Social Security?(freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com)
3 points by blogimus 18y ago|3 comments
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by blogimus 18y ago
Numerical analysis Computer architecture and organization. Intro to computer networks. And one that is underrated: Human-Computer Interaction
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Is 2008 a sui generis election?(salon.com)
1 points by blogimus 18y ago|0 comments
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by blogimus 18y ago
One late night thought: something that could come out of this that is peer-to-peer, loosely interpreted, would be to have online peer groups to pool together resources to get better insurance rates, basically create your own social network
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by blogimus 18y ago
Personally, peer to peer insurance sounds like a gamble. As I understand it, insurance companies hire armies of actuaries to determine risk plus the risk is spread out among many accounts, many make a little bit of money, some cost a bunch,
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by blogimus 18y ago
That would be a "feature."
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by blogimus 18y ago
I find this little passage (from chapter 1 of your "panda" link) is a good bit of wisdom that is just as true today as when he wrote it: "People come to Web sites looking to get a job done or a question answered. The first thing the guys at
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Polar ice loss heralds a change in the weather(arstechnica.com)
4 points by blogimus 18y ago|0 comments
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by blogimus 18y ago
My wife is in school now and it seems that the publisher uses a unique ISBN for each school the books are marketed to. This is to hamper inter-scholastic used book trading. Her accounting bundle of one text and one workbook were $190. Overa
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by blogimus 18y ago
But Chris, you left us hanging at the end your your blog entry. What was your reply? It was snarky, right?
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by blogimus 18y ago
Really? Not math and/or English?
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'Water bears' are first animal to survive space vacuum(space.newscientist.com)
1 points by blogimus 18y ago|0 comments
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by blogimus 18y ago
They calculated the compound annual growth rate CAGR = ((last number/firs tnumber)^(1/number of years))-1 The assumption is that the first year is 1.7 billion, last year is 3.6 billion and the number of years are 6, as they appear to assu
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by blogimus 18y ago
Maybe we have reached a critical point of potable water shortage because according to the this report http://www.bccresearch.com/report/MST052A.html , "The global market for seawater and brackish water desalination plants increased from $1
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by blogimus 18y ago
Because the submitter wanted it to read like a James, T., Kirk narrative?
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Tiny nuclear reactor looms large at UMass.(boston.com)
1 points by blogimus 18y ago|1 comments
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by blogimus 18y ago
It really depends on what you are doing. If all you are providing is a simple vehicle for people to get files and some basic information, then you could even get by with the most basic web page. Do you have Windows and like free software? T
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by blogimus 18y ago
I've read through your replies to comments up to the time I'm submitting this comment. Please explain why or how you think YC promotes ME TOO mentality. I'm not disagreeing or agreeing with you, I just want to know better where you're c
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by blogimus 18y ago
Dr.F: Would you mind telling me whose brain i did put in? Igor: And you won't be angry? Dr.F: I will not be angry! Igor: Abbe...someone. Dr.F: Abbe someone? Abbe who? Igor: Abbe Normal. Dr.F: Abbe Normal! Igor: I'm almost sure that was the
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by blogimus 18y ago
The short of it is, in all honesty, the only way I know of this guy is through news.yc. The long if it is I avoid the high traffic sites like techcrunch and reddit, as I really don't feel I get much value out of them, for part of the sam
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by blogimus 18y ago
I agree. Also, what is wrong with the term "programming?" Having looked through the list, he has applied the term "software engineering" rather broadly. "Programming" would fit just fine. A number of titles, such as "Mastering Regular Expre
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by blogimus 18y ago
I agree. Having your work outside your desktop can be a great boon, but look at the synchronization industry that has been active and entrenched for years. Just one case in point: Lotus Notes. Aside from data security, established synchroni
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by blogimus 18y ago
Do you trust your or your organization's private or proprietary information to Google, or some other online office software? Can you imagine the formula to Coke stored in a Google doc? I really, really, really like the idea of web based off
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by blogimus 18y ago
Normally when I get downmodded, I don't gripe, I just take it in stride, par for the course on a discussion board, but I have to reply back that this time it is simply spiteful and petty. If you don't like my counterpoint, reply back, Say w
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by blogimus 18y ago
One wrinkle in calling defamatory online comments slander rather than libel is that even though the comment is made offhand and then the discussion "moves on" (not formally thought out as a "publication"), there is still a written record l
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by blogimus 18y ago
How did they know that he was correctly identifying them? How do yo correctly identify someone by sight? Everyone who can talk (and I would guess grunt or otherwise shake the vocal cords) has a voice signature. The difference in some migh
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by blogimus 18y ago
I used to have a palm 3. I dropped it. I tried lugging my laptop around. Awkward is an understatement. As you pointed out, the mobile phone is limited or expensive or both. Since I don't need to have instant access to all my contacts and sc
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by blogimus 18y ago
Right out of "A Prairie Home Companion." (Although not from there myself, I have family from Northern Minnesota.) While listening to her speech, I could envision the air quotes when she said 'Here's a little "news flash"' I bet a bunch of c
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by blogimus 18y ago
For adding new sites to the list, how would you favor incorporating a small positive weight for sites which are not on a "positive weight" list but that have a history of generating votes (or comments/comment points/comment word count) abov
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What Did You Say? : Bob gets an iPhone.(pbs.org)
1 points by blogimus 18y ago|0 comments

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