cop359

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by cop359 15y ago
You're sort of equating working long hours with quality of life and general health which I don't think is a fair comparison, and even if it is, you're overstating it First of all, I don't think quality of life necessarily translates to year
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by cop359 15y ago
The ethical problem in my mind is that by taking brain boosting meds you are taking a health risk. So for instance, say the people that take these meds end up living 5 years less on average due to side effects of the drugs but are for insta
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by cop359 15y ago
All the animated movies; some of which I think are absolutely great, would not have happened.
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by cop359 15y ago
>So the first hit is free, but you as a farmer is stuck buying seed for eternity. The heroin analogy is idiotic. Nothing is stopping the farmers from switching back to conventional crops if they don't find GMO's more profitable then wha
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by cop359 15y ago
I've got the same issue with all the Linux distros I've seen. There might be some way of fixing it... but I just end up almost never using a GUI.
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by cop359 15y ago
Better be in jail but alive (with free health care btw.) then dead. You could do the procedure overseas.
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by cop359 15y ago
I think bad statistics education is just a facade that hides what is really happening. Now I don't have proof, but I think the majority of these "errors" are done on purpose. It's far better to fudge your math, get amazing (and wrong) concl
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by cop359 15y ago
Older satellites might have crummy encryption like DES and might be hackable... (not a security guy, so talking out of my ass)
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by cop359 15y ago
It seems you're being overly sensitive. I don't really know what you mean by moral failing. To morally failyou have to start doing something that is immoral, like killing kitten or something Just out of curiosity (I don't really know what t
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by cop359 15y ago
The whole war = innovation thing never held much water for me. First of all, there is no way to know what would have happened if there was no war. Some of those things might have been invented anyway. Maybe other more important things would
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by cop359 15y ago
That's actually very weird. Wouldn't having an OS like Linux make it so you can't guarantee computation times and guarantee exactly when processes will start and end? I don't really know much about OS's but I'd write control systems in a pu
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by cop359 15y ago
I don't really know a lot about this stuff, but my understanding is that Perl was more or less replaced sed and awk.
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by cop359 15y ago
Follow up question. How does it compare with Scala?
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by cop359 15y ago
I prefer the MIT model of just having video lectures online. You can do things at your own pace. Whats the advantage of this sign-up and do assignment that get graded by a computer model?
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by cop359 15y ago
" 99% of the design problems you'll encounter have been encountered before and are probably cataloged. " Bonus: It's already been done! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_Patterns_(book) I heard that when they wrote the book they basical
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by cop359 15y ago
The repetition is obviously intentional (I'm surprised this wasn't evident to you). It's written more as a speech rather then a pamphlet. Have you listened to for instance Obama, or any other politician? Usually they have very little to say
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by cop359 15y ago
From what I've heard, the long term consequences of the "filgrastim" stuff is unknown. It's a pretty intense drugs (it's basically causing your marrow to be release into your blood stream)
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by cop359 15y ago
Thanks! =D Really appreciate it. Bit of a bummer. Oh well.
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by cop359 15y ago
I've been considering buying one myself. I had a quick question that I haven't been able to find the answer to: Can you boot from and SD card? I know it's not a high demand feature... but it's important for me.
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by cop359 15y ago
The Qwikster/Netflix thing is not at all simple As far as I understand streaming and renting are two unrelated businesses. On the surface, there is no good reason they should be tied to each other. It one of the very basics of organizing co
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by cop359 15y ago
(sry posting from a different account, but same person) I think your views of Chinese culture is being colored by a skin deep look at China's past hundred years. I think as a a whole Chinese history would disagree with you. During times of
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by cop359 15y ago
Nope, sorry. Just thinking out loud. Their UI is pretty radically new and it's reasonable to assume aspects of it are patented. I don't know of a competing product that works the same way.
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by cop359 15y ago
I doubt they've devised some fundamentally new algorithm. Like you said, it'll probably be some aspect of the UI. I think the Siri "way of doing things" is pretty radically new and I think Apple will be rewarded for that with some patent pr
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by cop359 15y ago
Yes, patent lengths are rather absurd in this day and age. It should be on the order of 3 years. While it's easy for Apple to catapult new software into the market place, it can take several years for a small entrepreneur to market his tech
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by cop359 15y ago
How about if the rocket blows up on launch? Wouldn't the launch pad area be covered it aerosolized plutonium?
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by cop359 15y ago
Unless Apple has it patented up the wazoo. Which they no doubt do. (As an aside; I think this is a completely fair use of patents. You're creative, you make a new patent, you get to exclusively use that technology for the next X years to bu
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by cop359 15y ago
While I don't agree with this agreement, I don't see any particular problem keeping the negotiations and drafts secret. I mean, the final deal is obviously made public (otherwise there would be no way of enforcing that countries abide by it
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by cop359 15y ago
I think it's implied after 8 years of experience.. Still seems a little sketch, but I think it would be on par in say the Bay Area (though the programmer would have no debt)
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by cop359 15y ago
A slightly more advance books which I love is: Matrix Analysis and Applied Linear Algebra by Carl Meyer. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0898714540 You can find a free PDF version online. I like it more then Strang because it's a lot mo
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by cop359 15y ago
If I initiate contact I always keep my first email extremely formal and polite. You never really know how the other person interprets emails (they could be a total snob for all you know) so it's better to play it safe. If they respond in a

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