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by dalke 10y ago
Health care also isn't like writing software. I know how to write software. I don't know how to select health care plans, and I when I had my own US company I was always afraid that I had made the wrong choice. > "Can you
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by dalke 10y ago
I started learning about housing, food, and clothing from my parents, when I was a toddler. They taught the basics, including how to cook, how to buy groceries, how to maintain a house, etc.. I had over a decade of practice under their watc
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by dalke 10y ago
When I had a small business in the US, my biggest concern was figuring out medical insurance and retirement. Since I had no clue one what to choose from the myriad of options. I wanted more government control - single payer health care and
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by dalke 10y ago
In a related but tangential story about the difficulty of getting a blue color, the 1992 Ig Nobel Prize in Chemistry went to "Ivette Bassa, constructor of colourful colloids, for her role in the crowning achievement of 20th century che
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by dalke 10y ago
I am in agreement with most of your response. I want to follow up on a couple of points. > "I'm not sure why you think this is relevant to the post" Well, it's not. It's a response to the comment concerning &quot
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by dalke 10y ago
Which takes me back to the question of what you mean by "disinterested academic". You implied it meant there was a monetary conflict of interest, but now you imply that it's something to do with tone?
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by dalke 10y ago
How do you tell if something is agile? If we drop the word "agile", what would we lose? For that matter, couldn't we just call it "software engineering"? The goal of engineering is to choose from different possibili
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by dalke 10y ago
In modern use, "agile" means little more than "not waterfall". As such, it's hard to tell if agile works because sprinkling even a little bit of agile dust on a project means it's "agile." Then again,
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by dalke 10y ago
Is your objection that the results were published in a book, where the authors can make some money from it? If so, do you not realize that many or even most academics publish a book, with the potential to earn royalties? Usually it's n
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by dalke 10y ago
Remember, headlines frequently are only somewhat tied to the body. The first line shows that "everything" is an exaggeration: > Some of the hottest trades of the past few years could stage a sharp reversal as global markets fac
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by dalke 10y ago
Then why single out Google? By that argument, I also have incentive to make everything better, because I want a better world. So, I imagine, do you. DuPont wanted a "Better Living Through Chemistry" - didn't they also have an
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by dalke 10y ago
Then that makes "incentive" a rather useless word, because everyone who wants to make the world a better place also has the incentive to make everything better. Why single out Google if it's also true of Microsoft, Apple, a
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by dalke 10y ago
That example does not validate your point because it supports multiple hypotheses, including my hypothesis that Google is only interested in improving things which generate sufficient profit. That's not your '" everything &qu
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by dalke 10y ago
I think Asimov might have disagreed. In 1989 he said: > I thought the most interesting scientific event of 1988 was the way everyone started speaking about the greenhouse effect just because there was a hot summer and a drought, when I h
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by dalke 10y ago
Why are you so abusive towards me when you agree with me? I'm not knocking them for stopping support for things they don't find sufficiently monetizeable. I disagreed with the statement "Google has a deceptively simple incent
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by dalke 10y ago
" everything ", except where it doesn't. Its Usenet archives suffered from bitrot. Its RSS reader is no more.
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by dalke 10y ago
Also, Rongorongo isn't yet in the Unicode standard. Can't fault a Unicode font for not supporting something which isn't there.
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by dalke 10y ago
I don't understand your comment. I have never met a "disinterested academic". To the contrary, most academics are quite interested and many are enthusiastic about their area of study. Many are also involved in outreach, to ge
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by dalke 10y ago
Here's an example from my field, which I think is informative because it gives a concrete idea of how this plays out in a public arena. tl;dr for this wall of text: 1) Authors A describes algorithm, 2) Author B publishes counter-exampl
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by dalke 10y ago
To confirm, http://www.fastfoodmenuprices.com/mcdonalds-prices/ lists $1, then add tax.
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by dalke 10y ago
That only works if there are many types. I work with molecules, expressed as molecular graphs. The algorithm development I do is mostly graph manipulation, with a small number of types. For example, given N molecules, find the largest subgr
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by dalke 10y ago
I disagree. In math there can be super-super-superscripts, as with tetration representations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetration . Does each get its own character, and when does it end? In science, consider an iso
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by dalke 10y ago
It's a reference to Justin_K's earlier statement "a Knot is standard for navigation world wide because the unit is standardized on earth's size". If that justifies knot then it also justifies kilometers, because it
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by dalke 10y ago
There's an odd thing about driveways. If there are no driveways then anyone can park in any spot. (To within limits of residence parking permits, etc.) But if there's a driveway, then no one can park in front of it, and only the o
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by dalke 10y ago
I guess for you it's way more sexy to call me a racist against white people.
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by dalke 10y ago
maerF0x0's comment includes allowing secondary suites, a practice which was once more common (think Fonzie living over the Cunningham's garage or Tim O'Hara and his 'Uncle' Martin in Lorelei Brown's garage apar
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by dalke 10y ago
Their methods are listed under the "about the data" tab, which links to http://mappingpoliceviolence.org/aboutthedata/ : > This information has been meticulously sourced from the three largest, most compre
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by dalke 10y ago
(FWIW, The Guardian, at https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2015/jun/... , lists 1146 people killed by police in 2015, of which 306 were black. Almost identical percentages, and it doesn&#
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by dalke 10y ago
Me. Racist. Against white people. I think you might need more practice at your local comedy club's open mic night. What I said was, there was a hypothesis, it made a testable prediction, and measurements support that hypothesis. This i
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by dalke 10y ago
The underlying article from BORDC says: > ... the library agreed to allow off-duty police to be on the scene. However, the library set two conditions. First, nobody could be forcibly removed for asking an unpopular question. Second, nobo

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