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by dasht 16y ago
Some do a lot more than just commissioned research. It's a very social business and one that, well beyond simple commissioned reports, is used by customers to maintain asymmetric advantages in information awareness and social access. (So
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"One need merely think that the evidence on the god question is in about the same state as the evidence on the werewolf question" Most theologies that I'm aware of might balk at the way McCarthy expresses that but, after clarifications all
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NASA is very big with many largely separate parts. "All of them" is a reasonable approximation.
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Buy the services of a real financial advisor and assume that, after sale, that's it: you will have to personally disengage from the company (e.g. forget your big ideas you want to work on). Nobody is conceivably making anyone an 8 figure
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by dasht 16y ago
Analysis reporting (making educated guesses and telling stories) has valuable functions. It "shakes trees" in the sense that sources sometimes come forward to confirm or deny an analysis. It promotes skepticism by providing alternative to
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Raw data on old punch-cards aids medical research(newscenter.lbl.gov)
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Slow news day :-) But, here: Think about technological humans coming upon and conquering, say, rain forests. We see resources like land, some top soil, lots of sunlight. So, sometmes we denude the land, chase away all native life, and
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by dasht 16y ago
I don't think you have anything to apologize for. I think your concerns are valid. I was just filling in some detail about what conventional wisdom says Brown is doing with moves like this.
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This is Jerry setting a tone familiar to people who look at history. Last time he was governor, he ordered the sale of the Governer's mansion (to this day, governors must provide their own housing). He did not use the state's limo servic
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by dasht 16y ago
The answers given there cite denial of service attacks as the big threat. When I wrote the regexp matcher that comes buried inside of GNU Arch, I was careful to ensure that client programs could limit both amount of memory and the amount of
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by dasht 16y ago
One implication of this story is that simple "click spam" can kill off some Google products, censor a small business, etc. The product Google is offering is inherently vulnerable to low-cost, high-price attack.
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You have to understand that it is mostly one guy and one extended family that self-funded Bay Citizen. Those hefty salaries just signal that their approach is to give some of the core group they've hired some breathing room to experiment
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Journalism and politics are sort of aspects of the same thing. Neither is too far from money. People should understand Bay Citizen in that mode of thinking. [aside: I have a really clever start-up idea for a journalistic venture in Berkel
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by dasht 16y ago
Because a lot of web site design services sold to restaurants are sold by hucksters. p.s.: not all hucksters know that that's what they are. Heck, you or I might be one, without meaning to be so. Of course, plenty enough do mean to be so
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by dasht 16y ago
People should please take away from this paper the central claim that they are offering up a fun, easy, and startlingly practical way to implement a parsing library in your favorite language / environment. It is but a few hundred lines in
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by dasht 16y ago
In my experience, business use of the word "passion" is nearly always code for something better said in other ways (if one is to be plain spoken). Some examples: 1) Entrepreneur Joe might have a good idea for a business but "Joe lacks pass
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by dasht 16y ago
Did you ever notice how some jobs are considered less desirable than others or at least in some ways unpleasant because "you have to be on your feet all day"? I suggest (not as medical advice, just common sense): Avoid holding yourself in a
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by dasht 16y ago
Thanks to HN for posting parts I and II. These are very good, very interesting articles with no shortage of science geek and business geek interest (and, of course, considerable political / social relevance).
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by dasht 16y ago
The linked article talks of "forcing" carriers into this. The "trueposition.com" web site makes it clear that they ship their hardware ("TruePosition Location Measurement Units") ostensibly for 9-1-1-from-mobile purposes. For that reason (a
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by dasht 16y ago
Thank you. Yes, it's a regionalism with the connotation indicated. Sharp lines were drawn. For example, the founder of the first (then unlawful under state law) dispensary -- and a kind of "father of the moment" was quite against Prop 19
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by dasht 16y ago
Re the commerce clause covers [intra-state marijuana production, distribution, and use] . Sure. As I recall the court's main reasoning was that as a fungible commodity, there is no such thing as purely "intra-state pot". That's sensible
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So... This was a legalization measure that, before anyone else much cared, split the pro-pot base . Many commercial (grey and black market) growers were agin' it (fearing a market crash). Many medical pot providers were agin' it (fearin
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by dasht 16y ago
The Supremacy Clause does not mean that "Prop 19 is unconstitutional" it means that Prop 19 would not protect people from prosecution under federal law. For example, if I have a warehouse full of pot and the feds bust me, I can't point to
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by dasht 16y ago
It comes down to how widespread this kind of thing becomes (and the worse the economy, the more likely to be widespread). This is a bit like 1968 and around then: global, largely youth-based actions. Police can respond to isolated incide
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by dasht 16y ago
Here is an idea: Instead of deleting "down vote", instead, add "yay!" and "boo!" links. A user can see the "yay!" and "boo!" scores of any recent post or comment. "Yay!" and "boo!" scores do not effect karma or otherwise effect HN privil
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This appears to be roughly how prohibition against alcohol ended in the US: first with essentially universal defiance; then with a popular wink-wink-nod-nod "medical alcohol" exemption of sketchy legality; then with faultering enforcement
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No, it is not "normal" at least in the sense of "common". The patient describes a sudden, asymmetrically presented symptom at an unusual age and exhibits a kind of vague anxiety about it. The patient spontaneously mentions depression and s
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by dasht 16y ago
It is probably nothing but please go ask a doctor. If you google hard enough you'll find lots of reasons to think "it's nothing" and some good paranoia-inducing reasons to think.. ask a doc.
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You are right. The article is a muddle. I think they meant: the quadratic lower bound is the highest yet proved -- not that it is "better" than Knuth's unproved conjecture.
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That article appears to be partly wrong and partly misleading. The game is described in a way that makes no sense and so the significance of the new proof is not made clear. I think this is more accurate: In topswops we start with a shuffl

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