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by brg 14y ago
It is not true that wait times are only an issue for urgent care situations. If my grandmother can not walk without hip replacement surgery, and she is going to wait in a bed in for months, I'm happy to send her to the states for surgery.
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by brg 14y ago
Has anyone attempted to recreate the original Fermi problem? Fermi was in a bunker during the first nuclear test, and approximated the power by measuring the displacement of paper shreds due to the shock wave.
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by brg 14y ago
Another way of saying this is that the employees are well tenured.
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by brg 15y ago
That list does not show where the money is being spent by each organization. Instead it only maps the expenditure to the lcoation of a corporations headquarters. Specifically, consider Bayer. This is listed as a German pharmaceutical comp
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by brg 15y ago
GDP is the sum total of government spending, consumer spending, and investment. So indeed, your intuition is right.
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by brg 15y ago
It depends where the dollar comes from. If the dollar is from taxes, it not only destroys the dollar but nearly two others along with it. If the dollar is from borrowing, the result is better. But if the dollar is in the form of tax cuts
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by brg 15y ago
Statistical tools can allow for control. The best paper I've seen on this is the Romer and Romer study "The Macro-Economics of Tax Changes." Every dollar in food stamps comes from a dollar of taxation. Their study shows that the multiplie
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by brg 15y ago
Because software development is an act of invention. While experience and education often tell us that something is possible to accomplish, the route to the end is unknown. The metaphor Michael Wolfe provides is good. But software schedul
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Making It in America(theatlantic.com)
83 points by brg 15y ago|42 comments
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by brg 15y ago
I'm more surprised the Orkut continues than that Facebook has made headway in attracting users in Brasil. Why were users of Orkut not migrate to Google-Plus? Are there vast technical differences?
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With over 36 million visitors, Facebook finally overtakes Orkut in Brazil (thenextweb.com)
2 points by brg 15y ago|1 comments
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by brg 15y ago
I am very supportive of the wave of support against SOPA/PIPA from major web players. I am also proud of the wiki foundation for taking a large, and the first very public step. Seeing this, I wish we had such powerful players in the fight
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by brg 15y ago
Any such rejection should be based on evidence. That evidence should be in terms of both ratio of query volume and ad revenue.
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Announcing Facebook’s 2012 Hacker Cup(facebook.com)
8 points by brg 15y ago|0 comments
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Internet Blacklisting Bill Stalls in Committee(wired.com)
2 points by brg 15y ago|0 comments
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by brg 15y ago
The db midterm had a max score of 18, not 20. But I agree with the intentions of your post.
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by brg 15y ago
It seems that this was sent to students with 100% aggregate score up to this point (after dropping the bottom two quizes). One acquaintance had 1 wrong in aggregate and another had 0 wrong in aggregate but two imperfect quizes, and only th
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by brg 15y ago
The optional programming assignment is a standard quiz. There is really not much to it, and can be gamed without writing a line of code.
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by brg 15y ago
Agreed, this seems like a poor attempt to ridicule a valuable effort by Dubner and Levitt. The authors come across as petty. The write hundres of words pointing out omissions by way of completeness or completely making up controversy (bes
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The evolution of co-operation: Social networking tames cheats(economist.com)
2 points by brg 15y ago|0 comments
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3d Printing Difference Engine: Making it(economist.com)
1 points by brg 15y ago|0 comments
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Reducibility Among Combinatorial Problems - Karp(cs.umd.edu)
2 points by brg 15y ago|0 comments
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Peter Thiel on The End of the Future(nationalreview.com)
23 points by brg 15y ago|1 comments
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by brg 15y ago
While tangentially related, I am compelled to deliver a pointer to Alton Brown's special on the mysterious mineral which is salt, Eat-This-Rock. http://www.foodnetwork.com/good-eats/good-eats-eat-this-rock... Or for the brave: http://www
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by brg 15y ago
Does this testimony jive with the removal of Oracle after they filed the java suit?
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by brg 15y ago
I would wager you are pinpointed because you are using wireless, and the Google streetView car recorded the name of your access point. They need not have made streetview of your area online, but it is likely if you are in the US or Canada
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by brg 15y ago
The repositioning, capture, and extraction of minerals from asteroids should be the number one goal of space exploration in the near future. This may entail moon bases or larger orbiting space platforms; but there is little else that would
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by brg 15y ago
I would be less worried about proving them safe ex ante than maintaining the safety of those around them. Regular monitoring for leakage and exposure would be a great start. The reason gate agents are not allowed to wear monitors is polit
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by brg 15y ago
Entering the search market would require hundreds of employees and a significant upfront capital expenditure. Without going public, I don't think there is any question--they will not enter search. If they go public, then it depends on the
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by brg 15y ago
"Phasing out" sounds like the incorrect term. If places are part of status updates it sounds like "making integral in the product."

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