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by bwanab 12y ago
Agreed. Maybe some parts of the world aren't so well mapped as my part (Greater Boston area), but I'd think the SF Bay area would be one of the better ones. For kicks I just tried a number of map searches and every one came back w
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by bwanab 12y ago
Cool idea. But, I put in "Just when I thought I was out". The quote is from Godfather 3 which it didn't give, but showed me a result from the Sopranos (yes, it's there, too as a spoof of the original), but when I selecte
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by bwanab 12y ago
He doesn't make it sound like anything - it was a quote from the Boston Globe.
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by bwanab 12y ago
ZTE Open. The good: cheap, it tethers very nicely. The bad: almost everything else. I gave my android phone to my son when I decided to try FFOS as my only phone on the ZTE open. The hardware isn't good enough and it often lags. I can
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by bwanab 13y ago
Any idea why Hangouts won't work on Firefox?
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by bwanab 13y ago
Clojure, hands down.
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by bwanab 13y ago
I'm 60+. I've been coding my whole career and I'm still coding. Never hit a plateau in pay, but nonetheless, I've found the best way to ratchet up is to change jobs which has been sad, but true - I've left some pret
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by bwanab 13y ago
Every week, the Somerville Journal is full of angry letters from "old-time" Somervillians who can't afford to live there anymore - every one of them blames the mayor. But, when you've got a town that is right next to hyp
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by bwanab 13y ago
My son is a high school senior. He's been very diligent since ninth grade in his school work - far more diligent than I'd ever have imagined since I never really pushed him - I was a classic high school screwup who had god enough
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by bwanab 13y ago
That's only income tax. When you include all federal taxes, the top 10% by income gives a still considerable 54%, but much lower than the 70% that is generally claimed.
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by bwanab 13y ago
I agree with you, but with reservations. Despite significant evidence to the contrary, there are those who, far from extracting wealth, actually create it by their brains, hard work and luck. If we can acknowledge that, we can still argue t
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by bwanab 13y ago
I'm not even sure this is news. In 1990, on my first business trip to LA from NYC, my contact there - a transplanted New Yorker, warned me that jay walking wasn't tolerated in LA.
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by bwanab 13y ago
There's this side concept called competition. If you sell your bread for $6 because you think the market can afford it, but the vendor next door continues to sell for $3 you go broke. I didn't always see eye to eye with Milton Fr
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by bwanab 13y ago
I'm amazed you believe that's what Americans will be reading into this article - it's not what I read. FWIW, I grew up in Appalachia and it ain't nothing like the Russia the article discussed - plenty of food for the mos
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by bwanab 13y ago
Let's see how that works out. Wikipedia says there are 240 million cars in the US. That means we would need 240,000,000 acres of sunflowers to power all our cars. World Factbook says the US has 9,161,966 sq km of land of which 16.29% is ara
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by bwanab 14y ago
Target or not, that's what I am and I've been using Gimp for all my photo work for over 10 years.
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by bwanab 14y ago
I've used it a lot and it works very well. However, at present I'm using stock Ubuntu 12.04 with the studio (mostly music production based) applications loaded through standard apt-get means. In the past Ubuntu Studio packaged a kernel buil
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by bwanab 14y ago
"...but it is harder to do business in most states in the US than it is to do business in a lot of places around the world.” And yet, according to the conservative Heritage Foundation's ranking on ease of doing business the U.S. as a whole
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by bwanab 14y ago
Exactly, I suspect many U.S. states (e.g. Massachusetts, Minnesota) perform quite well against their international counterparts, but most news stories never make that point clear (or even at all).
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by bwanab 14y ago
Uh, yeah. My whole family runs linux on the desktop almost exclusively. I'm the only one who ever boots into Windows and it's only because that's the only way I can get into my company's system when working from home.
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by bwanab 14y ago
I remember it well. I drove up to Bluff Mountain tower (TN) with a couple of friends on a clear summer night. From up there it was a spectacular sight. It was much more beautiful than Hale-Bopp which I saw from Bear Mountain (NY). The only
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by bwanab 14y ago
When this issue comes up, I often hear the somewhat apologetic excuse that the countries at the top are there because of some combination of 1) rote memorization, 2) teaching to the test, 3) highly standardized systems which generally don't
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by bwanab 14y ago
3-2 Google. 3 technical searches all went to Google. 2 popular culture searches went to Bing. Interesting.
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by bwanab 14y ago
Your point is valid. This is why I (an American) generally prefer the social choices that have been made in Europe to those that have been made in the US.
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by bwanab 14y ago
I agree with you entirely that if you're trying to measure how well off the majority of Americans as opposed to, say, Swiss, you should look at median income statistics as a much better measure. However, well-off-ness isn't what GDP per cap
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by bwanab 14y ago
It would help your argument to get your facts right. The only OECD countries ahead of the US in GDP per capita are Luxembourg, Norway and Switzerland. Canada's is about 85% of the US (source http://stats.oecd.org/ ). It's true that many th
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by bwanab 14y ago
Reading the article about how they almost lost Discovery was chilling.
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by bwanab 14y ago
It strikes me that the theories are not mutually incompatible at all. They have very different purposes. Chomsky is trying to understand meaning and intelligence at a deep level. Norvig is trying to build models that help people right now (
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by bwanab 14y ago
Thanks for that. Hayes' actual arguments are much more subtle and thoughtful than Brooks gives them credit for.
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