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by cturner 14y ago
I'm a big fan of Boldrin/Levine but suspect they're wrong about this. The reason medical investigation is so expensive is because there's so much red tape around it in the form of approvals, and the convoluted systems health coverage in the
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by cturner 14y ago
Two things. R&D is not a generic, fungible thing. R&D that occurs in a patent environment will have a different focus than R&D that occurs without. I'd expect funding spent on lawyers writing defencive patent proposals would be
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by cturner 14y ago
The OP and your post have the word 'stealing' in. It's an incorrect use of the word. It's not hard to find respectactable nimby cases. What if someone wanted to pub a pub at the end of your street? You are not a drinker, and you object to t
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by cturner 14y ago
Particularly for those who are new to remote communication, it can be as trivial as not groking that this kind of interaction is just as real as face to face conversations. Just because you don't see the reactions doesn't mean that they're
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by cturner 14y ago
I think the base of the problem you're describing is the small population base and (less so) tyranny of distance. If you're in the US and come up with a product there are lots of options for accessing new markets fast. If you're in Japan th
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by cturner 14y ago
Great description, thanks.
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by cturner 14y ago
(I didn't order the dongle for this, and don't know. Hopefully someone else does.)
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by cturner 14y ago
I've installed ubuntu on the x1 carbon this weekend after hacker news recommendations about thinkpads for linux. UK model with US-English keyboard, i5 processor. Seems to be flawless with ubuntu. All drivers worked out of the box. Wireless,
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by cturner 14y ago
(Follow-up post after re-read.) Actually, maybe these things have features that I wouldn't know of being only a curses person. I'd be interested to know more if you wrote up a blog post. Email cratuki at the google mail server.
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by cturner 14y ago
Putty is fine though. Something that would be useful but which I don't think exists at the moment is a multiplexor. Like GNU/screen, but properly sandboxed. When the user logs in they get a menu program running on "tab 0". This program woul
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by cturner 14y ago
> I don't know why this was downvoted The nomenklature have got it in for you. Here, have some upvotes.
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by cturner 14y ago
Thanks. I have had a similar experience: when I was a teenager I helped with stock-take at a warehouse - once a year, for several years. I saw ladies doing data entry to terminals that were hooked up to an application running from another c
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by cturner 14y ago
Web isn't a replacement. It doesn't and won't ever have consistent keyboard handling across platforms and browser upgrades. As a result, it has evolved to being mouse-centric, and is inadequate for high-volume users. There are many web syst
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by cturner 14y ago
If they're smart they'll try to create a profit model oriented around online services, and switch their revenue stream to be funded through this. Currently they're funded through the "TV charge" which is a nasty footnote to life in the UK.
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by cturner 14y ago
Exam room essays are a great way to measure knowledge, and difficult to cheat on. You have to know the domain thoroughly in order to be ready to write an essay response. Being able to write this demonstrates integrated understanding of the
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by cturner 14y ago
There were books published before copyright existed, and would be if copyright was removed. With only a handful of exceptions, successful writing isn't enough to make a good living under the current regime, where writers make money by havin
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by cturner 14y ago
I think it's a mistake to overload ctrl+b. That's taken by standard vi functionality. If I'd written this, I'd have been tempted to use ` as a leader. So `n would open a new window. `b would open that buffers view currently bound to ctrl+b.
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by cturner 14y ago
I think 443 will be a better example because (I think) it's harder for a middle party to profile https and see that it is indeed https and not something else.
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by cturner 14y ago
I wouldn't buy a macbook for linux regardless of display. Mainstream linux window managers expect two mouse buttons. If you want an ultrabook, there's a great new Thinkpad just released made out of carbon fibre. Lenovo hardware tends to wor
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by cturner 14y ago
The website says that by helping fund it you are committing to the first year of payments. "You will be committing to pre-paying a full year.." Yet from what I can tell that first year price hasn't yet been defined. Is that right? I wouldn'
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by cturner 14y ago
Broad-brush talk is a step backwards. Political talk and thinking is poisoned by the ideas of "left" and "right" even though those phrases haven't had a connection to reality since the French First Republic. It'll probably be fine. Politics
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by cturner 14y ago
Another concept users need to understand is the index. That causes confusion if you don't understand the idea that there's a cache in between what's checked in and what's on your disk.
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by cturner 14y ago
You might like to look at scheme shell.
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by cturner 14y ago
Interesting thread. When I learnt music theory (as an adult) the way I was taught is that there is a correct way to go about writing a tune to pass the exam, and that if you evaluate the tune through these criteria it will also sound good.
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by cturner 14y ago
You'll feel differently when you inherit responsibility for some god-awful mess of shell and perl that nobody properly understands that used to Just Work but doesn't after an innocent upgrade.
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by cturner 14y ago
I'm struggling to take what you've said at face value - that the high school situation you've described has destroyed fiction for you. Are you now unable to read without searching for strained deeper meanings for things? Does this also affe
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by cturner 14y ago
I don't think you want to be living a life where you have to issue ultimatums to get what you need. The world is a bigger place. Find better work and go and do it. You can remind them of the things you've been unhappy about by leaving. If e
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by cturner 14y ago
I don't think the analysis shows that it's break-even. They may be failing to make money on it because they're reinvesting on capacity.
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by cturner 14y ago
"By definition" is a poor justification. I almost referenced the exact link you've given here. It gives poor justification for primality of one - resting on authority and lacking justification. The closest it comes (not very) is, "If 1 were
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by cturner 14y ago
It's interesting that the curve on the left passes through zero rather than one. I've always been inclined to think 1 x = x, and think of one as fundamental. But the pattern shows that rather than 1 x being fundamental, rather there is the

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