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by crusso 11y ago
Tennis always seems to have more than its fair share of real gentlemen There's something about the isolation and the spotlight that burns off the rough edges of tennis players. Most team sports tend to let bad behaviors and elements
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by crusso 11y ago
On a particular brand of device just isn't the standard.
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by crusso 11y ago
a) "need" in the Communist/Marxist sense is definitely not the same as "want". I know that need and want exist on a continuum, but most software development is pretty firmly in the "want" neighborhood. W
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by crusso 11y ago
The good thing about watching TV is that you can exercise at the same time. A few years ago, I realized that my time in front of the TV at night could easily be spent while also lifting weights and riding a stationary bike. My health bene
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by crusso 11y ago
I would amend that to say, "From each according to his ability, to each if someone with the ability cares to provide it for free." If production of free software was directed by need, there would be a lot more free toolkits for th
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by crusso 11y ago
Yeah, but so are experience, connections, and ideas - and they're all of varying values depending upon one's lack of (and ability to utilize) each.
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by crusso 11y ago
Researchers have shown that machines are inching closer to self-learning, and perhaps even copping a little attitude. Not at all the reaction I had. There could be some serious AI horsepower underlying the Google experiment, but it wasn&
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by crusso 11y ago
As a result, the strategies I obtained through my work on this project leave a bit to be desired since they have achieved a Sharpe ratio of at best about 1.2 on the backtesting data Keep in mind that market heavyweights have been using ma
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by crusso 11y ago
Circa 2006: Whose social networking web site are you going to use, the one where nobody goes to it like Facebook, or the dominant one, Myspace? Things change quickly when only network effects are stopping competition in a fluid market where
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by crusso 11y ago
There are projects like Linux Kernel, Mercurial, and Rails that have managed to be very extensible and have had good leadership in knowing what to put into core and what to cut from core as time goes on.
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by crusso 11y ago
1. Maybe Uber doesn't look like a technological advancement compared to Google, but Uber is an enormous technological advancement over the status quo in the industry. 2. Uber is breaking the very foundations of the monopolization of th
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by crusso 11y ago
I'm not sure humanity deserves to be the species that settles the Milky Way What does that even mean? Especially in the context of how much we've changed to get us this far and how much we would have to change to colonize a gal
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by crusso 11y ago
That's cherry picking. I'm talking about cultural basics like learning the country's history, learning the laws and the Constitution, free market capitalism, etc. Just having an immigration system that is followed legally wo
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by crusso 11y ago
I agree with you, but unfortunately, the real problem with immigration is that it's a war between traditional views that value the indigenous culture vs multicultural forces that consider the host culture to be irrelevant. Poor souls l
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by crusso 11y ago
assuming the culture of the host country is respected That's a huge and unfounded assumption, though.
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by crusso 11y ago
I would give the edge to this being a PR ploy, but then again, I'm sure that Apple had different financial models on the table when they were building this product. They might have been going with the "shared risk" model of f
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by crusso 11y ago
That's kind of like saying that McDonalds provides a healthy meal because they have salads on the menu. The truth is that most people still eat the burgers and fries. Although higher level languages provide some features for organizat
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by crusso 11y ago
Inspired by this thread and your post, I decided yesterday to try at least a 24 hour fast. After a breakfast shake yesterday, I played tennis and went about my normal activities. I eat a fairly ketogenic diet, so the hunger wasn't to
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by crusso 11y ago
None of the people I've seen so far on Naked and Afraid seemed "energized" after not eating for days.
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by crusso 11y ago
There were decades long trends in psychology that attempted to "undo the damage of male-dominated thinking and behaviors". It went too far and so now we're seeing lots of these combination "duh!"/"aha!&qu
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by crusso 11y ago
Does LastPass keep the encrypted copy of the password file for non-premium accounts? For accounts that don't sync and just use it from a single browser?
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by crusso 11y ago
I wonder if there's a patent on a treadmill shower desk.
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by crusso 11y ago
Yeah, but: > None of the participants had used a treadmill desk before, so they received a few minutes of instruction and practice A few minutes? Jeez, I'd expect that getting acclimated to a completely different way to work would
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by crusso 11y ago
That study is about using options on the network today, not really about creating a standard for the options that would handle the address space issue with the knowledge that support would roll out over time. Any solution will involve some
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by crusso 11y ago
One google search and I saw two of them, including in Wikipedia.
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by crusso 11y ago
Phew... I thought this was another case of that conflict like that "what color is this dress?" bruhaha a couple of months ago.
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by crusso 11y ago
You can have a one atom molecule, depending upon which definition you look at.
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by crusso 11y ago
It needs a camera on the front so you can have a PIP view and avoid having to take the goggles off to see something in the outside world.
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by crusso 11y ago
Nah, his argument goes beyond just the meta data itself. It's about meta data and whether or not we can use it. A world of exhaustive, reliable metadata would be a utopia. It's also a pipe-dream, founded on self-delusion, nerd h
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by crusso 11y ago
You say that as though exercising like a competitive athlete is necessary for good health or weight maintenance. It isn't. It's much simpler to understand the insulin cycle and work with it rather than against it.

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