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by colomon 10y ago
Broken window fallacy is talking about the total (net) economy. It's perfectly possible for one person to come out ahead while the economy as a whole goes nowhere or even down. For instance, if you are the only window repair person in
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by colomon 10y ago
Citation needed? I don't recall ever hearing that before, and the wikipedia entry for ragtime doesn't mention guitar in the context of the history of the genre at all. It does talk about Ben Harney [1], who allegedly invented th
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by colomon 10y ago
I'd forgotten, but back in the day I gave several people the Science Fiction Bookclub omnibus edition of the first five Amber books. Seems like you could always find them in used bookstores...
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by colomon 10y ago
Ann Arbor (pop 114,000) has well over ten libraries -- at least four public, and I can think of seven university libraries I have been to.
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by colomon 10y ago
The Kindle edition is 99 cents.
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by colomon 10y ago
Really looking forward to seeing this when it reaches Bay City, Michigan in two weeks. (And, leaving an ad in a very unlikely place, my band is part of the International Maritime Music portion of the Bay City Tall Ship Celebration.)
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by colomon 10y ago
Chart which nicely shows this at http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2016/06/the...
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by colomon 10y ago
Yes, Ringworld.
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by colomon 10y ago
That said, in the real world there are plenty of people who don't want to use it, for whatever reason. I've got customers who insist that they'd rather use a not-yet-written reverse-engineered Parasolid X_T exporter than a w
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by colomon 11y ago
He recorded them again at ~49.
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by colomon 11y ago
However, the water you speak of there is, to a first approximation, one liter of water for one liter of Coke. That particular water contributes less than 1% of the water the article is talking about.
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by colomon 11y ago
I've always thought there's also a tongue-in-cheek "Real Americans only use ASCII!!" connotation lurking in there as well.
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by colomon 11y ago
Click on the text box (not on the buttons) and it will bring up the update software and let you know what it wants to update.
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by colomon 11y ago
And because I couldn't resist, here's a one-liner (for calculations, anyway) version: my %count := (1..*).grep(*.is-prime).map(* % 10).rotor(2 => -1).map(~*)[^100000].Bag; I think it's a bit slower than my previou
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by colomon 11y ago
Perl 6 version: my $primes := (1..*).grep(*.is-prime); my %count; for ^100000 -> $i { %count{($primes[$i] % 10) ~ '-' ~ ($primes[$i+1] % 10)}++; } for %count.keys.sort -> $key { say &
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by colomon 11y ago
Surely the provincial government of Ontario doesn't have the power to unilaterally print Canadian money?
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by colomon 11y ago
First group as well.
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by colomon 11y ago
It's just next to Newfoundland -- 25 kilometers to there, versus 500ish to get to Quebec.
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by colomon 11y ago
He talks about the Carnegie Award for Heroism, which is for civilians: http://www.carnegiehero.org/
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by colomon 11y ago
This article (and most of the comments thus far) seems to completely ignore the fact that work might not be the only thing in your life. As an example, seven years ago I asked my wife to leave a part-time job she loved. I was the family&#x
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by colomon 11y ago
You might want to read the date on the article...
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by colomon 11y ago
My son has some of the Lego ones framed on his wall.
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by colomon 11y ago
Please ask again in two weeks. ;)
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by colomon 11y ago
Let me address your last paragraph and expand a bit on what username223 said. elsif is historical from Perl 5; I think it may be related to the fact that C-style ifs require curly brackets in Perl. my is Perl 5, is different than local, an
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by colomon 11y ago
Speaking as a Michigan grad, his description of the the UM / OSU rivalry sounds completely foreign to me. It's true I do know a few "how stupid OSU is" jokes, but I've never perceived them as anything but standard
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by colomon 11y ago
Who created a HN account just to to smack talk Hofstadter? That seems likely.
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by colomon 11y ago
I'm 100% with you. I don't know what's going on exactly, but five years ago it was an example I'd point to of a beautiful, instinctively easy-to-use interface, and today it seems like it never does what I want on the fi
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by colomon 11y ago
Would the 2006 Gushue Olympic team be an exception to that? I'm sure Gushue knew Howard before Howard joined up, but they were from different generations and different provinces. (Not that, to the best of my knowledge, a sponsor had
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by colomon 11y ago
Huh? I lettered in three sports, plus played in multiple musical groups and was on the quiz bowl team, and still found plenty of time to learn to program in assembly language and Forth. (Though it is true I did very little partying.)
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by colomon 11y ago
Though to be fair, for the last year or so, every time I've needed to hack on a p5 script for $work, my first step has been to convert it to p6. It usually is pretty quick for 50-100 line scripts, and generally it's a lot easier

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