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by catzaa 17y ago
I agree with the above poster. The US government must act in the best interest of their citizens and no one else. That means that they should give green cards and VISAs to people that will add value to the USA (scientists, college graduates
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by catzaa 17y ago
The author of the article already abused the notation before he said what is wrong with it. P(A) usually denotes the probability function and p(x) is a probability density function. The problem is that the distinction between evens and vari
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by catzaa 17y ago
> (ie: limited University seats, and other various competitive factors that we have between students in North America, starting a very early level), The USA has a much better university system than Finland (or any country in Europe). So
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by catzaa 17y ago
I personally think that Vista do well because it is bundled with PCs and laptops (no other reason). If Vista competed with XP I doubt that it would will. A lot of lay people have problems with Vista. Stupid things such as the box that comes
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by catzaa 17y ago
Can we keep these types of article of HN? Other sites (such as reddit) became pretty useless with people submitting these (and other) articles and turning the whole site into an unpleasant experience. Why not follow the same rules that we d
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by catzaa 17y ago
> will produce 160 million kWh Electricity an 180 million kWh heat - enough for 50000 families.We will see more of that... Your units is not correct. Is that power generation of 160 million kW (i.e. 160GW). If it is kWh, what is the tim
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by catzaa 17y ago
> Mining uranium is cleaner than coal? We had mines here in Germany and they were definitely environmentally very dangerous. Much more cleaner. All mining is dirty, but Coal mining is moreso. One thing that causes this is the large amou
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by catzaa 17y ago
> Sure nuclear power stations are cheaper in China then in Germany. All kinds of things are cheaper there. Still the first two reactors cost about 3.2 billion $. Try to build them for that money in Europe. Coal Prices are almost the sam
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by catzaa 17y ago
> a few years ago Germany built a coal power plant with two times 920MW for 2.4 billion Euro. The nuclear power stations built at Tianwan is then cheaper than that. > Well, prices of nuclear power plants are so huge that only a few
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by catzaa 17y ago
The question is how much an equivalent coal reactor will cost. If you have good references it would be interesting. Just by a blind Google I found this: http://www.jsonline.com/business/29482814.html > The 300-megawatt power plant, wh
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by catzaa 17y ago
I was under the impression that some Southern States in the USA grows quite qiuckly. Is this true or not?
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by catzaa 17y ago
This article paints Germany’s “Green Energy” in a way too rosy picture. The reality is much different. A good article about this is “Germany’s Green Energy Gap” in the August 2009 IEEE Spectrum (submitted here: http://news.ycombinator.com/
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Germany's Green-Energy Gap(spectrum.ieee.org)
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by catzaa 17y ago
Just 6 flights - but it is fairly high (each level is fairly high). At work it is 13 which is better exercise (the lifts are also shaky so the stairs at least feels safer).
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by catzaa 17y ago
My exercise regime involves taking the stairs to my apartment. I also keep all my snack food and cigarettes in my car.
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by catzaa 17y ago
The McKay textbook is more about Bayesian inference and a few neural network chapters. Hastie is more of a statistical approach with statistical rigor.
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by catzaa 17y ago
It is legal but it is not ethical. They gave the customer a false impression. Lets say customer A got an impression of the app from screenshots. You keep talking to him/her and 6 months later the app shows up and it is a piece of crap (not
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by catzaa 17y ago
Call me extremely cynical but I am kinda skeptical. Soros' buddies is elected into power. Now he is investing in for-profit anti-GW companies (acting as if he is doing it out of charity). I suspect that those companies will get quite a lot
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by catzaa 17y ago
RealMedia is worse than Internet Explorer. I downloaded RealPlayer SP. It turns out that it can't even play some old realplayer files. And a few months later it said that "This version of real player has expired". MPlayer plays Real video f
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by catzaa 17y ago
Am I the only one who thinks that scripting is a "Dirty Job"? I have not written nor seen any bash script that is neat, clean and fairly clear. It all seems like a very shady hack that someone think is smart.
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by catzaa 17y ago
That is true in some sense. Yet, on the other hand, the first versions of Linux were written without consulting the extensive literature (which was all about microkernels) [1]. As another example – a guy studying with me made his own circui
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by catzaa 17y ago
> This meme is a silly amateur-hour wheel re-invention and ignorance of history. Just a note on the tone of the discussion: Everyone is a silly amateur at one stage when learning something – there is nothing wrong with it. You have to d
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by catzaa 17y ago
> Studies get published if they survive peer review, and publications have citations. Citations, please? Not to offend you, but we have had this exact same discussion a few times. If you remember correctly the last time I gave you a bun
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by catzaa 17y ago
> I can drag and drop the dual monitors in the display configuration screen today. I was able to make this work with a few text file edits in 1998. That is the problem. Linux can do everything that Windows can but it takes a hell of a l
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by catzaa 17y ago
This whole article is a straw man. While differences between intelligence of races are debatable, the way the article goes about it is contentious and extremely one sided. A much more important argument is whether intelligence is immutable
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by catzaa 17y ago
> Have nanotech magic-growth fences been invented and I didn't notice? Precisely how do you plan to do this? Oh I know, hire cheap Mexican labor? Or maybe bring over some Chinese to build the fences like we used them to build our railro
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by catzaa 17y ago
Murder is still wrong in all of the above. In the first case it was basically the person’s choice to get killed. > Your honor, he stole babyfood from my store! > Yes, but did he steal it to sell it or because he's too poor to affor
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by catzaa 17y ago
I would not really call the argument of moral relativists as “refinement”. The same actions should always be wrong – no matter what the inferred motivations or rationalisations are. A good example is stealing from a rich person. A lot of pe
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by catzaa 17y ago
> The story unwittingly demonstrates a case where zero-tolerance policies could have created frighteningly different results. The problem in having too much tolerance is that the library would be stolen empty. Everyone thinks that if th
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by catzaa 17y ago
Although this is HN and we should not discuss politics, just a few points. Firstly, the Nazis may have been bad – but the treatment of post-WW1 Germany was bad and a causing factor of WW2. The Treaty of Versailles ensured in effect that the

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