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by dmfdmf 14y ago
> But the challenge isn't to compress random strings, the challenge is to compress a specific random string. I agree and I think that this challenge is vulnerable albeit very difficult but not impossible, at least not via the pigeonhole
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by dmfdmf 14y ago
Its probably too late to stop it now but Win8 looks like its going to have the same circumstances that doomed Vista; a prior operating system (WinXP) that was (finally) stable and reliable, no new "gotta have it" features or functions that
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by dmfdmf 14y ago
> We paired an awkward penguin meme... Is this the post-internet equivalent of when your favorite bands from highschool and college start selling their popular songs for car and financial service ads for the middle aged? Of course toda
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by dmfdmf 14y ago
Quickbooks is overkill, not very well designed software and their customer support is horrible. I would use their Quicken Home and Business package if you wanted something simple to use. Of course, if your business grows you would have to m
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by dmfdmf 14y ago
Ayn Rand argued that both money and time are a type of epistemological measurement, i.e., time is money! http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/teleological_measurement.h...
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by dmfdmf 14y ago
I've worked at this plant, I've been in that control room during a refuel outage. I was there back in the 90's to install some feedwater pump vibration monitoring equipment when I worked for GE as an engineer. Later went on to design feedw
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by dmfdmf 14y ago
Time to call Old Glory Insurance; http://www.hulu.com/watch/2340
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by dmfdmf 14y ago
Somehow they forgot; Ayn Rand; Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal.
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by dmfdmf 14y ago
Which in turn depends on your view of Man.
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by dmfdmf 14y ago
In Econ, the latter is called differential pricing and there is nothing evil about it at all. http://www.pricingforprofit.com/pricing-explained/differenti...
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by dmfdmf 14y ago
Modern philosophy is largely ignored by science and scientists because it has nothing to offer but endless questions and debates, unresolveable paradoxes and pointless inquiry into the modern day equivalent of how many angels can dance on t
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by dmfdmf 14y ago
I hope they are delaying Win 8 for at least a year.
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by dmfdmf 14y ago
Try other banks for the refi. Also, see this website http://danielamerman.com/ regarding the value of a 30yr fixed mortgage in today's environment. The govt is broke and when (not if) inflation hits you will pay back that debt for pennys
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by dmfdmf 14y ago
I have a client, nice old lady, a widow, in her 70's and while working on her computer she started talking about her life and times. She warned me about working too much and told me her tale of woe. She and her husband worked all their liv
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by dmfdmf 14y ago
True story. I was at UCB in the early 80'S and a friend of mine borrowed his father's Apple II and we had a lot of fun learning how to program it and play games, etc. My friend found a fun article in a hobby mag on building a heat (infrare
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by dmfdmf 14y ago
> the event's costs have expanded from an original estimate of $3.9 billion to $18 billion, according to Vanity Fair. This was the most shocking item in that report. That blows away my usual "double the estimates" rule-of-thumb for govt
737.
by dmfdmf 15y ago
Wow. Definitely worth watching.
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by dmfdmf 15y ago
Where do you get 50,000 TSA agents to do this sort of thing? That is the question that has to be asked by all Americans; http://www.caseyresearch.com/articles/ascendence-sociopaths-...
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by dmfdmf 15y ago
I agree. I didn't mean to imply its a conspiracy of any particular group. Its the logic of events, motives, ambitions and ideas of all the various factions fighting for power or some privilege, hand-out or even legitimate protection from th
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by dmfdmf 15y ago
Its fascinating and frightening watching the advancement of the legal powers and psychology necessary for a dictatorship in the USA. Its an open question whether Americans will see it in time to stop it before said powers are used to suspen
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by dmfdmf 15y ago
I don't see a lot of excitement for Win8. The resistance to move to Win8 probably won't be as bad as Vista but I see some similarities here. I think the market is still digesting the Win7 rollout and once again people are asking if they re
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by dmfdmf 15y ago
I hope they fired the marketing experts who made the decision to have flying cars and zooming coke cans in my face and disrupting the home page. What a joke. Yahoo was my home page for years and when they started that non-sense I switched t
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by dmfdmf 15y ago
I think its boilerplate but legally if you sign you are agreeing to it. I went through something similar once here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=281193 Ask them to clarify their contract, get a specific exclusion in writing if they
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by dmfdmf 15y ago
> "This statement can't be proved" This statement (and Godel's mathematical equivalent) does not assert anything to be proved, it is contentless, which is why logical, axiomatic systems choke on it, essentially due to recursion or self-
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by dmfdmf 15y ago
http://dalrock.wordpress.com/2010/12/04/charles-lindbergh-an...
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by dmfdmf 15y ago
The Space Shuttle; coolest white elephant on the planet. Video was amazing.
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by dmfdmf 15y ago
This new site doesn't just happen to be located near a couple of internet backbones?
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by dmfdmf 15y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_E._Sarno There is a lot to say on this but I don't have the time. Two things are important; to say that RSI is psychosomatic does not mean its not real or "just in your head". And I reject Dr. Sarno's "re
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by dmfdmf 15y ago
http://www-biba.inrialpes.fr/Jaynes/cc02m.pdf Jaynes argues here (pg 221) that examples were Venn diagrams apply are special cases. According to Jaynes, Bayes theorem is more general than that.
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by dmfdmf 15y ago
Who are these brave souls that agreed to be strapped on a gurney with their head in a tight, cramped, noisy MRI machine while high on a hallucinogenic? No thanks.

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