danielweber

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by danielweber 14y ago
Solar is way denser than an RTG in terms of power per kilogram, at least out to Jupiter and probably to Saturn as well. This doesn't mean that RTGs don't have value. They are continuous and keep things warm, which may be very important depe
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by danielweber 14y ago
There is lore that Gandhi's nuke-trigger-happy code was fat-fingered from 1 to 12. And so he will always nuke if he can. It started as error, grew into joke, became accepted as tradition, and became expected in all the sequels.
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by danielweber 14y ago
That was fascinating. "Reading the sequences" also gives off this vibe that feels like ordering Scientology texts.
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by danielweber 14y ago
You could get a second hard drive. Pull the first one out, put the second one in, do whatever you want. When/if it's time to return, put the first drive back in. They'll wonder why you've barely used it but whatever. I did this when laptop
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by danielweber 14y ago
I don't know Civ4's AI routines, but it might be such that after a certain year passes, it decides that the only way to stop the human player is total war. Before that it can be less aggressive. I have a game of Civ1 somewhere where it take
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by danielweber 14y ago
It kind of sucks from the vendor side. But, yes, there's a lot of power to the consumer. Please be sure you legitimately feel that Newegg violated their return policy before exercising this power.
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by danielweber 14y ago
I'm not too opposed to standardized tests, but I completely agree that they don't teach. That's what the rest of school is for. Saying "tests don't teach" is almost a tautology. (Okay, when there is a reading comprehension section you will
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by danielweber 14y ago
"Just teaching to test" isn't always bad. For things like literacy, it's pretty good.
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by danielweber 14y ago
The United States manufactures more than ever before. (Well, the recession probably drooped output a little bit.) China manufactures more stuff than ever, too, so they are a larger share of the world market.
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by danielweber 14y ago
I don't worry too much about someone trying to know the name of my first pet (I'm pretty sure anyone who knows what my answer would be to this question is dead). I do worry that there are a bunch of other organizations that I have told th
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by danielweber 14y ago
Treaties can be, and have been, renegotiated.
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by danielweber 14y ago
When people complain about the security of C, it's usually the buffer overflows. But this switch/case/break statement behavior exists in lots of languages. I almost expect it. (It doesn't in Ruby and I usually have to stop and think about
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by danielweber 14y ago
From what I recall (and this could very well be apocryphal), the pauses were what was patented. Non-Hayes modems still reacted to +++ but didn't need the pause. So if you could trick their software into sending "+++ATH;ATDT911" you would m
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by danielweber 14y ago
I remember back in the 90's that every time Bill Gates sold 1 or 2 percent of Microsoft, people would freak out that Microsoft's collapse was imminent. Even though he did it every six months. Whatever you think of Facebook, it is extremely
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by danielweber 15y ago
The most fun I'm having is watching "0" fly off to infinity when you switch from page 1 to page 4 or 5. I guess negative infinity is pretty close to positive infinity in that toolkit.
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by danielweber 15y ago
<i>Ditch digging is worth less than programming in the market only because there are more ditch diggers than programmers.</i> Is that the only reason? Surely the labor supply matters, but so does the value of the work to oth
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by danielweber 15y ago
All compensation was taxed back then, not just direct compensation. And it was much harder to convert wages into capital gains because they defined compensation much more strictly than they do now. This just isn't right. It was a signific
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by danielweber 15y ago
> More precisely, that was the marginal rate on income over $1 million/year There has not been a bracket that high since 1941. http://www.hkmscpa.com/hist%20tax%20rates.htm#5 > (And given those taxes, CEOs had less incentive to in
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by danielweber 15y ago
The short answer is that "making jobs" is a complete mystery to most economists. Aside from the government directly hiring people to bury jars full of money, no one knows how to make it happen. It doesn't stop politicians of all stripes fro
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by danielweber 15y ago
Economists know a lot about how to create wealth. They know very little about creating jobs . Jobs are temporary inefficiencies and a lot of economic growth comes when you get rid of them. We've automated most of our farming, but we don
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by danielweber 15y ago
That's probably worse. A worker whose labor is worth $10 an hour is not going to benefit from a bunch of jobs that are priced at $40 an hour.
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by danielweber 15y ago
The highest marginal tax rate was over 90%, but very very few people paid it. The tax code was loaded up with deductions, only direct compensation was taxed, and you could still easily convert wages into capital gains, which even in that
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by danielweber 15y ago
Doing it in blocks seems wrong. Instead, you should have 10 people board the plane in order of their seating, back-to-front, but have those 10 spaced evenly over the plane, so they have at least one row between them. They're all spaced ou
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by danielweber 15y ago
It fired for two seconds. There really wasn't going to be much to it anyway, unless something went tragically wrong. Still nice to see them proceeding through all the hoops, though.