bryondowd

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by bryondowd 12y ago
If they give it away for free, that benefits a relatively few people who can make use of it. If they sell it, they can put that revenue back into their program in place of (or in addition to) more taxpayer money. This lets them do more with
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by bryondowd 12y ago
The marginalization comes from the fact that you can't participate in society if you are a drug user/abuser. Even if you are healthy enough to be a productive, upstanding member in every other way, the system is designed to tear y
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by bryondowd 12y ago
I'm no expert, but I assumed that HIV meds damage the kidneys, making treatment a balancing act of too aggressive treatment killing the kidneys vs not addressive enough allowing the virus to do its damage. Being able to grow a replacem
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by bryondowd 12y ago
I can't speak for others, but for myself, flow is definitely necessary. At least when learning something new or approaching a new problem. In the case of tying your shoes, once you've learned how, you might only spend a moment doi
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by bryondowd 12y ago
I'd be curious to see some numbers backing one or the other, but I suspect proportional would be better. Fixed width narrows to a number of characters. So it depends how many possible values have x characters. Proportional narrows to a
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by bryondowd 12y ago
If the randomly selected inflation calculator I used is correct, the median family income today is about $6,785 in 1964 dollars. Quite sad. EDIT: Correction. They must be using mean instead of median for their 'average' family inc
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by bryondowd 12y ago
Squaring alone would work if you looked at the odds of both people being nice. If 90% of the population is nice, squaring it would give you 81% of pairings being nice, which matches the above example. Just have to take the glass half full p
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by bryondowd 12y ago
Yes, but the author actually only tried once. Every other example he gives, he claims he hit refresh to get a new one instead of attempting it. Also, I have to wonder if he was simply mistaken about that first attempt. Are we sure it didn&
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by bryondowd 12y ago
Yes, I certainly read too much into it. Just pointing out a flaw in the analogy. Verizon demanding that Netflix pay extra for users to access its content would be more like the Christie demanding the city of New York to pay for more lanes t
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by bryondowd 12y ago
Most definitely. But Verizon hasn't quite gone so far as blaming it's own customers for using Netflix, just blaming Netflix for attracting so much traffic.
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by bryondowd 12y ago
Maybe I'm nitpicking, but in their bridge analogy, wouldn't the drivers be more analogous to the users than to Netflix? If anything, Netflix would be the city full of employment opportunities that drivers are commuting to and from