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by craigyk 13y ago
I might receive a lot of flak for this, but isn't HFCS sweeter than more natural sugars? As in, you can achieve the same amount of sweetness with fewer calories? Personally I think it gets a bad rap. The bigger problem is the lack o
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by craigyk 13y ago
Am I crazy, or weren't the railroads heavily subsidized by the government? I think this heavy flow of public capital into a small number of hands created some of the "robber barons". In the long run it was probably the righ
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by craigyk 13y ago
The legal industry is mostly "bullshit" work. To think otherwise you'd have to believe both: (1) the system is perfect at making good laws which have the precise consequences desired. (2) the average number of laws decreases
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>I'd argue that if you replaced school teachers with babysitters, the only catastrophe would be all those damaged egos. The keyword you used is "replaced", not "do away with". Actually I think an argument could
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Not as bullshit when you think of it as daycare that has allowed the two parent working family to be possible. So while the parents may be off doing "bullshit" reasonably well-paying work, the "real work" of raising the
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by craigyk 13y ago
No, I do think he's right. They might be honestly curious about the details of living on a boat, but in the end not really that interested in pursuing it for themselves. Many think of it as something they might really like to try out
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by craigyk 13y ago
MBAs are just trained to optimize around the the current maximum in the "energy" landscape. These maxima are all too often not the best in the landscape, or even worse, can vanish over time as the landscape changes. MBAs are like
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by craigyk 13y ago
Hmm, I wrote it so that the function closes over the player, so that shouldn't happen. The real issue is, as pointed out, that this will ask for all the names at once, rather than sequentially. Wether this is bad or not depends on ho
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by craigyk 13y ago
ok, sure, but it's still fixable without having to use await. you'd have to forego the for loop and make that flow control part of the callback cycle. was your point that it couldn't be done with callbacks? or couldn't
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by craigyk 13y ago
for player in players get_name_for = (player) -> ask "what's your name?", (response) -> if is_valid_name response player.name = response else get_name_for player get_name_for player
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by craigyk 13y ago
I suppose we're just wired to overestimate the value of individuals. I just hope he spends a lot of that money, whereby it might actually do the world some good (rather than 'investing' it) .
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The last thread holding them together is that Google is still primarily a services company and Apple a consumer electronics company. The extent of their divergence is a direct result of how far along they are at stepping on the other&#x27
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NASA is worth it just for the pics. Please give them more money.
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Still the mechanisms by which the male body might control the ratio of sperms with X vs. Y is astoundingly simpler than mechanisms by which an egg can somehow "sense" and reject sperm. On the other hand, a mechanism by which the
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by craigyk 13y ago
I think these "quirks" hit on legitimate inconsistencies and confusing interpretations. Most of his expectations seem pretty commonplace.
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I take this ruling as protection from infringement if a synthetic sequence happens to emerge naturally.
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While the second part is a bit disappointing. Does that mean if you manage to successfully isolate a natural version of a patented cDNA, then that patent becomes effectively invalid? In practice this might not be the hardest thing to do.
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I think the article is referring more to the fact that all the changes shown were done in ~7 months. He's marvelling less at the result, and more at the fact that a huge organization like Apple can seem to pivot so hard and quickly.
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by craigyk 13y ago
While we are pointing fingers... why are the Germans so set on laying the economic foundation for WWIII? We get it, you feel like you shouldn't have to rescue "lazy bums", but get over it already and suck it up. The US mass
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by craigyk 13y ago
Too bad impairment can't be accurately tested with a breathalyzer. That's what we are really worried about in all these scenarios after all.
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by craigyk 13y ago
Steal your source code? Examples please... maybe you mean steal designs? I won't argue that one.
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You have a funny definition of "none of these issues existed in the old style Windows system" when MS was known to not just one-up third-party apps with built-ins, but to do so without actually ever producing said software (vaporw
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by craigyk 13y ago
yeah, that is nice. It still doesn't make one clearly better. Currently the best iRadio alternative would be to use Google Play for purchased music and Pandora for radio... and that would still be more expensive than iTunes Match. i
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by craigyk 13y ago
Yeah. You'll get me too pull out my pitchfork if there is ever evidence this is being used for anything other than national security, I haven't seen that. IMO, the first shady use of this would most likely be the war on drugs, i
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by craigyk 13y ago
much worse? iTunes has 10X more functionality than the web-based Google Play interface. For $25/year you get to match 25,000 songs to 256kbps AAC and you get ad-free personal stations. Google play may give you individual tracks and
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"So you're saying there's a chance..." Haven't read it, but couldn't resist as it's an obvious conclusion.
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Absolutely agree.... in other words the community. To that I would add the ever growing dichotomy and fragmentation regarding improving performance between people solving this (CPython vs. PyPy vs. Continuum). I'd trade a python that was
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Sorry. Wrong. If we were to undertake a serious challenge, like get to Mars, or go 100% renewable power in 15 years, I'd take that over the linux kernel any day all day.
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It's not always 100%, but who else think homebrew is awesome? I miss it when I go to my linux machines.
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God yes. I wish the CPython people would just capitulate and throw themselves behind it.

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