cchooper

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by cchooper 18y ago
There's a difference. A chord is always composed of multiple notes. There's no single note that can sound like a chord. But a colour like yellow can be generated by a single wavelength or a combination of wavelengths that average out to y
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by cchooper 18y ago
As other people have said, Unix was the name of an operating system, not a kernel, and the name has always referred to more than just a kernel and a shell.
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by cchooper 18y ago
How?
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by cchooper 18y ago
To look at the question the other way around: is there any reason he should have started with the kernel?
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by cchooper 18y ago
He's describing High Concept. http://www.writersstore.com/article.php?articles_id=609
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by cchooper 18y ago
Isn't calling them "lurid rumors" enough?
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by cchooper 18y ago
> Wouldn’t having functions be first class citizens be locking them in the same cage with data structures as well? An important difference between first-class functions and objects is that first-class functions are still functions. Cl
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by cchooper 18y ago
Actaully, pg has been asked this before and his answer was 'Yes.' So we're only doomed x 2.
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by cchooper 18y ago
The 'natural' in natural selection refers to the distinction with artificial selection, rather than 'supernatural selection', and reminds us that what nature does to a species is no different from what breeders are successfully doing. So I
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by cchooper 18y ago
The way your accountants record your assets makes no difference to the money supply. That is a completely separate issue.
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by cchooper 18y ago
Your quote doesn't back up your point at all, nor can I see any 'confusion' there. He is saying that geeks overrate their expertise in economics. It couldn't be clearer.
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by cchooper 18y ago
Whether they hold onto it or not is irrelevant. If a company issues a bond, but doesn't spend the money it has been loaned, the bond still exists. If the bank issues you with a current account, but doesn't spend the money you loaned it, the
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by cchooper 18y ago
I don't know why everyone thinks he said that people shouldn't discuss economics. What he said was that geeks overrate their competence and therefore their discussions tend to be stupid.
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by cchooper 18y ago
If you deposit $100 at a bank then you will receive a $100 bank account. That account is the additional money. It remains money whether or not the bank lends out your original $100. So the money is created in the act of depositing, not th
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by cchooper 18y ago
A current account is a bit like a short-term bond. It is a valuable commodity that is created by banks and can be traded in the market. The difference is that bank trading systems allow current account balances to be used directly as paymen
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by cchooper 18y ago
> When I borrow $10k at the bank, money is created This is a perfect example of the kind of misunderstanding the OP was talking about. Money is created by depositing money at a bank, not by the bank lending it. Banks only lend base mo
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by cchooper 18y ago
How about regular expressions as an essential part of a modern, general purpose language (rather than a separate mini-language)?
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by cchooper 18y ago
It makes a difference though. If people interpret all condom use as being a sin, then there is a chance they will not use them in non-marital sex, so the policy (or possibly just the lack of clarity in the policy) may still lead to increase
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by cchooper 18y ago
Do you have a cite for that? I couldn't find anything reliable clarifying the issue.
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by cchooper 18y ago
It depends on whether the prohibition on condoms does indeed increase the spread of HIV in non-monogamous sex. If it does, then the combined monogamy+no comdoms policy causes more HIV infections than a simple monogamy policy. Therefore the
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by cchooper 18y ago
If the Church simply advocated monogamy, then the analogy would hold. But it advocates monogamy and prohibits condom use. It even prohibits condom use between two married people, even if one of them has HIV. The closest equivalent in your
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by cchooper 18y ago
Thanks.
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by cchooper 18y ago
Could you answer a question for me? When I went to Ghana, I noticed it had far more volunteers (especially from the US) than any other country I've ever been to. Do you know why this is?
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by cchooper 18y ago
You have proved my point: that misinvestment alone is not the explanation. You also have to look for secondary effects from the financial collapse.
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by cchooper 18y ago
Inflation is defined as a persistent rise in general prices. It used to mean an increase in the money supply, but that usage is archaic in most economic circles. The money would be withdrawn in the way that central banks usually withdraw mo
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by cchooper 18y ago
Not all IT professionals are programmers. Not all coders do it for fun.
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by cchooper 18y ago
Changes in the money supply do not appear to be correlated with short term inflation at all, so it's not certain that short term expansion will produce any effect.
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by cchooper 18y ago
Yes, in the industries where the bad investments where made (finance). But that alone cannot explain the withdrawing of investment from other industries.
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by cchooper 18y ago
He's proposing an expansion of the money supply, not inflation. It will only lead to inflation if the money is not withdrawn quickly enough as the economy recovers.
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by cchooper 18y ago
IT does not require particularly long hours most of the time, and it certainly doesn't require years of study (many IT professionals have never studied it at all). At the same time, many jobs with long hours and years of study have more tha

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