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by dedward 16y ago
Wikipedia article says it all for sure - wasn't sure if I'd get bashed for linking it or not. I know I'm going off-topic - but it's a sensitive point with me, because most people who rail out against fractional reserve banking don't actua
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by dedward 16y ago
Fractional reserve bankers don't lend out more than they have on deposit - they can't lend what they don't have.... and they have to keep some in reserve. If the people borrowing the money then re-deposit that money in the same institution,
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by dedward 16y ago
Why should they burst? Certainly a little rubber balloon will - but the difference between a good helium balloon and vacuum isn't much - a thin foil layer would contain it without bursting.
784.
by dedward 16y ago
He wasn't making a comment that the names don't matter - he was trying to rationalize why he gained an interest and appreciation for the deep-knowledge of science - not just how to look up reference material. Names obviously matter - langua
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by dedward 16y ago
The www is going to get really interesting again really fast..... combine this with the asteroids bookmarklet from yesterday... good fun.
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by dedward 16y ago
A bullet going at relativistic velocity hitting a piece of paper might not punch such a nice hole - it would bust up molecules and atoms, and some subatomic particles, there would be tons of secondary radiation from that, and the rest of th
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by dedward 16y ago
1) Perhaps yes. 2) Mathemtical contstans are purely abstact - pi only exists in a perfectly euclidian plane. It's an abstraction that works for us in a scertain scale because it matches close enough. In real life, there aren't circles..
788.
by dedward 16y ago
Let's be clear - the GPL doesn't require that users contribute modifications back to your project or communicate with you in any way. It only requires people who distribute publicly the work or derived works do so under the same license te
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by dedward 16y ago
It's a matter of financial opinion I think - putting a percentage of your income, whatever that's a little or a lot, into your long-term savings should be a mandatory thing for most people - like food and shelter. It's money you never touc
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by dedward 16y ago
There are things that guy could do with his money that would give him tax breaks - like using that excess wealth to create jobs, donate to charities, etc. If his burn rate is $500k a year then he's not financially any different from anyone
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by dedward 16y ago
Practically guaranteed someone will, in no time flat, figure out how to unlock these, and that knowledge will be spread far and wide. There will be a run on the stores for the cheap versions of the chips for this reason, mostly for the hom
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by dedward 16y ago
Yup - which is why the unlock will just end up floating around out there for free, and the concept will just fall by the wayside as not market-worthy. Everyone and their dog will buy cheap chips and crank up the volume.
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by dedward 16y ago
IIRC, intel chips have had software modifiable microcode (or some portion thereof) that could render them useless for a good 10 years or more.
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by dedward 16y ago
"artificially increasing prices" - if the market, which has heavy competition, will bear the price increase, then there is nothing artificial about it - prices are not a fixed amount - intel is free to sell every single chip at a different
795.
by dedward 16y ago
Just because it has a restriction built in doesn't necessarily mean it comes with an EULA, or that finding a way to enable or otherwise modify the hardware to your whim is illegal in any way (although I'm sure Intel would take a run at the
796.
by dedward 16y ago
Am I the only one who's happy about that? They were a nuisance to website operators....
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by dedward 16y ago
Sure, we're all human - but I noticed through my career that those who abused their privilegs didn't tend to last long, and those who had a strong ethic as to what was appropriate and not appropriate (ie: myself) tended to be trusted with q
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by dedward 16y ago
It's also quite likely completely illegal - warning or not. It's a personal device - the company has no rights to it.
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by dedward 16y ago
If you are in the US, it's likely illegal for your boss to try to regulate microwave ovens based on causing wifi interference - that's solely the job of the FCC. The regulations that allow the use of 2.4Ghz ISM band require you to accept th
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by dedward 16y ago
I'd be curious how long it would take you to port the python stack to run that code -vs- how loing it would take for someone to implement FORTH on a brand-new platform with a new instruction set (and remember, if you want to use a C compile
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by dedward 16y ago
You can do it right now, as long as you aren't after video and gaming.
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by dedward 16y ago
Yup - you could - this is a fantastic move by Amazon - this is the one thing that's been missing from my experimentation world - Linode is fantastic for the servers I run permanently there - I have no plans to remove them, but the commitmen
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by dedward 16y ago
Unless you're on the business end of things and most of your new customers come from search engines - in which case optimizing your site, which offers the products people are actually searching for, to the top of the list (and aren't cheati
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by dedward 16y ago
Even for fast typists - speed and response time affects your perception of the site subconsciously. The faster and more realtime it seems the more you are going to like it, even if you aren't sure why, or don't even think about it. You ma
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by dedward 16y ago
You're assuming they were solving a different problem. Have you switched to a new search engine? If not, it's more likely (statistically) that you will stay with google longer because of this new feature - it's now faster and easier to min
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by dedward 16y ago
The results would likely have to be significantly different. Google and others have studied the response time -vs- user stickiness issue extensively, and it's good stuff to read - users don't even know what they want. Example (paraphrased)
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by dedward 16y ago
$25 was a couple days worth of lunch money in the 70s?
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by dedward 16y ago
I'd grant that, while not always $10, the price of a gram (usually the smallest unit sold, other than guys selling individual joints here and there) - the reason you don't see a lot of price fluctuation is becuase this is a bottom-end pric
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by dedward 16y ago
I think he's referring to buying by the gram, not looking at bulk costs.
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by dedward 16y ago
Moving some vectors around to make it look more similar - would I like to hit a nice solid wall at 60MPH or a parked car head-on at 120MPH. The head-on collision has twice as much energy to dissipate, and introduces all kinds of projectiles

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