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by crux_ 17y ago
Re: (1): Unemployment typically pays less than half what your former job paid; taking a job that pays even less than that is rather more than "just a pay cut." Re: (2): I don't feel a need to second-guess this woman's decision. The only rea
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by crux_ 17y ago
First: The purpose of unemployment insurance is to provide some income while you remain unemployed. That's why it's called "unemployment insurance" and not "get a job, any job, insurance." Second: It's a form of insurance. When you have a j
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by crux_ 17y ago
First: Acting in your own fiscal self-interest shouldn't be considered rational? By making this choice, the woman has both more income and more free time to continue a job search. Second: Using a system for its intended purpose (income whil
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by crux_ 17y ago
> Shame on her. Why? Seems rational to me.
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by crux_ 17y ago
I'm not going to say you're wrong, because I'm not really in a position to argue that. However, we're talking about Volkswagen vs BMW here, not horse and buggy vs car.
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by crux_ 17y ago
> "You're just not used to it" is extremely dangerous reasoning. I wasn't quite trying to say exactly that, at least not in a blanket manner. But, let's take scrolling as an example: I haven't noticed that the android scrolling is jerky
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by crux_ 17y ago
Specific response: > I have to load a submenu to stop loading a web page? The icon up by the location bar doesn't turn into an "X" for you while a page is loading? (When the page is fully loaded, it's the bookmark icon; when the locati
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by crux_ 17y ago
I moved from a crappy old phone to the Droid, and am quite happy with it. No matter what you end up with, I'd say that the differences by upgrading far outweigh which particular 'cutting edge' phone you end up going with. I didn't think muc
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by crux_ 17y ago
Relevant: "A Functional Description of T E X's Formula Layout (1997)": http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.39.6... They rewrote the formula layout into purely (?) functional SML, and made it fairly easy to understand a
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by crux_ 17y ago
Besides passwordmaker there's also the PwdHash firefox extension; I've been using that one for a while.
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by crux_ 17y ago
What I'm aiming at would mean "given this lump of (malformed) HTML, what DOM would a browser give me?" Maybe Hpricot, BeautifulSoup, et al are already there, but I don't know. :)
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by crux_ 17y ago
Since folks here seem to be in the know, if I were after "parsing as close to the browser as possible", ideally in Java/Scala or Ruby or Python (sorry PHP!) -- any recommendations? I've done scraping (e.g. w/ BeautifulSoup) but haven't look
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by crux_ 17y ago
I don't think it has a very good success rate. I'm guessing that for a truly reliable TCP solution you would need to throw everything at the wall and hope something sticks: uPNP, NAT-PMP, and maybe this STUNT/ICE-TCP thing.
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by crux_ 17y ago
True indeed (and that's why I used both words), although for a general-purpose protocol intended for wide deployment, you probably want both properties.
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by crux_ 17y ago
N.b. --- those solutions only work for UDP traffic, not TCP; if you want to use them and have a reliable stream protocol you'll end up reinventing TCP atop UDP.
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by crux_ 17y ago
I think the RHTTP bit is someone confusing WebSockets with Opera's builtin webserver thing. (No mention of reverse HTTP in http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-hixie-thewebsocketprotocol-... ) Edit: Disregard that I need coffee. (Aka, I'm the
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by crux_ 17y ago
> Rather than arguing against my simple, well supported conspiracy argument, you instead implied that I argued for some vast and implausible conspiracy. Why not just go for broke and act as if I claimed Phil Jones was behind 9/11? If yo
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by crux_ 17y ago
> "The fact that GCMs can fit the temperature increase is totally meaningless. Why? Because the allowed parameter space is so large climatologists could fit anything from a small temperature decrease (as was claimed in the 70's, before
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by crux_ 17y ago
>But the links I sent you come from much better sources, in my opinion, than either the WSJ or NYTimes. ... For the link you repeated... blogs about politically charged topics are 'better source' than the NYT or WSJ? ;) I'd say they're
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by crux_ 17y ago
> You are making a logical fallacy, namely the excluded middle. I never made the assertions you are mocking. You alleged a conspiracy. If there's just one person ranting, there is no conspiracy; and a conspiracy of small number of peopl
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by crux_ 17y ago
> Thus the layman reading only the NYTimes keeps hearing that "recent measurements have been worse than predicted", despite that there are dozens of other data points going the other way. And a layperson reading the WSJ hears the exact
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by crux_ 17y ago
(We've hit the reply depth limit...) > I can only comment on Carlos Castro, the link of yours at archivefreedom.org. Near as I can tell, he claims to have come up with a unified field theory. As far as I know, the arxiv filters out proo
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by crux_ 17y ago
> I've never heard of influential people in quantum mechanics trying to get a journal shut down because it published something critical of many worlds. You're making a poor choice by using 'many worlds', which is as much/more about phil
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by crux_ 17y ago
> The problem is that the grant funded climate scientists all get more funding if they raise more alarm about global warming. This is often asserted, but is it true? Most alarmism that I have seen is coming from the media or activist or
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by crux_ 17y ago
I took a broader view of "the other side" from the grandparent comment. If you're going to assert that within climate research itself there are very few dissenters; well, yes. That's what having a broad scientific consensus means, after all
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by crux_ 17y ago
And NCAR doesn't just do global warming research, either. There really is no such thing that I can see as "anti-climate-change" research so it would be rather difficult to find a direct comparison. > You can't compare the 'income' of tw
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by crux_ 17y ago
> Also, the billions that governments are spending on climate change policy and research easily dwarfs money on the other side. That's a bit of FUD spread by the alarmists that doesn't pass the smell test. Well, this looks to resemble a
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by crux_ 17y ago
A grab-bag of replies before I get back to work. (Yes, on a Sunday; sigh.) - The notion that science can be "proved" is a mistaken one. - I don't think there's much question by anyone that there has been measurable warming this century; so
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One thing I don't get is how people always seem to follow the pattern "I'm unbiased. #{strong_opinion_here}." Unbiased... really, hop? For the record: I think that open source + code cleanup + code review is a great idea, and not just for c
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by crux_ 17y ago
Recommendations for you: (1) Unless there are licensing issues, you'll probably find a bunch of useful js code you can use from OpenLayers. (2) If you can live with a separate server process, it would be handy to just stand up GeoServer (or

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