dhume

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by dhume 16y ago
* Numbers ( the excel version for mac) lacks of formulas, microsoft office for mac sucks big time, i had 2003 and 2008 and both of them suck!* I thought Numbers was Apple's thing? Did MS stop doing Office on Mac?
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by dhume 16y ago
Businesses seek confidence on what their costs are going to be, and the fact that such confidence has always been impossible doesn't really affect that. This raises the question of what changed when Obama took office that caused the compl
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by dhume 16y ago
A public option is not a total government solution.
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by dhume 16y ago
"Inflation" is growth in the money supply. Or at least, that's how Austrians would like to redefine it.
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by dhume 16y ago
Re: the edit I think the issue was that your original post could be interpreted to mean that GPA is determined primarily by the amount of adversity in one's personal life and very little by academic ability. This is contrary to what I've ob
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by dhume 16y ago
On the other hand, I found it easy enough to get that in high school and then on my own at the local book shop.
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by dhume 16y ago
The post mentioned in the OP ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1608129 ) mentions some cases where knowledge about how compilers work would be useful and offers a warning about what may happen to those without this understanding: "In fa
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by dhume 16y ago
On the other hand, weekends aren't work days anymore (not for me, at least).
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by dhume 16y ago
But if you only have a finite amount of hardware available (which is probably the case), each node's data set grows exponentially with input size. If your node population increases exponentially with input size, you're still running into th
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by dhume 16y ago
Aye, Hacker seems to miss that the years they want you to have behind you are years spent working in that field, not simply years alive.
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by dhume 16y ago
there is no limit of time-slots on Hulu This also means you can't manipulate the results by dumping shows in awkward time slots (interpreted another way, you avoid having to match each show to a time slot when its potential audience is li
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by dhume 16y ago
I'm not GP, but if I were, I think I'd have meant that she did, in fact, spend time doing "crap work," albeit not the crappiest work out there.
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by dhume 16y ago
You're still selecting for those with favorable startup employment experiences, so the problem still stands: excluding them does not give an accurate picture of the typical result if bad experience is what's typical.
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by dhume 16y ago
One complication is whether it is a shrink-wrap license bought in a store (therefore with reasonable opportunity to read the terms) or a shrink-wrap license bought by title/SKU# and delivered by mail. The former would appear to be more enf
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by dhume 16y ago
My initial impression on the first question was that he didn't really have an answer. If it was a completely new issue, I might consider being slow and deliberate in his response a point in his favor (I often prefer no statement over a poor
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by dhume 16y ago
a wage laborer can choose an employer, but he cannot choose not to have one This here is the underlying problem. The free, competitive market does not have barriers to exit.
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by dhume 16y ago
The relevant question is: 'Will removing the sweatshop be better for the employee?' Yes, this is the question we are losing track of.
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by dhume 16y ago
sweatshop labor permitted my parents' generation to pull themselves out of poverty, get educated, and get white collar jobs I think what irritates people is that you say this as though non-sweatshop labor cannot offer this sort of improve
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by dhume 16y ago
Let's make sure we send a response. Also, leave a note for our ((great-)^$BIGNUM)grandchildren so they know the part of the conversation they've missed when it's their turn to talk.
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by dhume 16y ago
Also, speculators add value to the market because they push prices toward the true values. Like what the people flipping houses did to housing prices?
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by dhume 17y ago
Almost always, a full tank is a bad bet unless if you know from experience that it's the cheapest station in the area. A few years ago, I started playing the time-domain analogue of this game (which you sort of allude to later). When gas
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by dhume 17y ago
Assuming that each download is a spoiled sale is utterly wrong. It also brings up interesting questions like, "What other purchases would they have forgone?"
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by dhume 17y ago
I think some of it comes from confounding a moral system (i.e. a system for evaluating the morality of an action) with a system which acts in a morally correct manner.
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by dhume 17y ago
and saying the gravity is wrong, the arrow keys are broken, the lines don't disappear if you manage to get them all lined up I think those people simply forgot what the game is called. It's not a bug -- it's a feature!
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by dhume 17y ago
You can cherry-pick intervals where stamp prices outstripped inflation, and I can cherry-pick intervals where stamp prices stayed well below inflation. A 12.8% increase (not sure how you came up with 15%) over a period where inflation was o
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by dhume 17y ago
Their attempts to reconcile their love of the gold standard with their kvetching about price fixing are hilarious.
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by dhume 17y ago
Huh? Most people seem to find breakups rather painful.
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by dhume 17y ago
I am not placing a value in that statement, I am just saying in something short of an essay how we got here. I recognize that what you posted was not necessarily your idea on the subject, hence "its proponents," rather than "you."
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by dhume 17y ago
"Traditional" marriage definition is a reproductive (baring health issues) couple IOW, it's not simply about reproduction. I'll reconsider taking that claim seriously when its proponents suggest that sterility should be a diqualification
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by dhume 17y ago
You stood an equal chance of ruining her life, of course. I would say you'd have had a greater chance of ruining her life than of ruining your own -- while the father may remain unidentified, the mother generally cannot >_>

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