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by enko 15y ago
To be even more of an utter pedant, quadratic growth is exponential growth, where the exponent is 2.
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by enko 15y ago
"Gentlemen don't read each other's mail"
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by enko 15y ago
> what Australia does now: a government who has treated the number of students in university as some kind of target I am beginning to see the first real results of these policies amongst that group of my friends who did not do technic
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by enko 15y ago
As one of these non college educated $100k+ autodidacts I feel no particular attraction to the title, in fact it is faintly annoying. Yes, I do vaguely dislike people who value academic success over any other. However, as a (also self-direc
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by enko 15y ago
You should run this idea past your female friends. Assuming you still have any...
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by enko 15y ago
Whenever I read something like this I am uncomfortably reminded of how pathetically inadequate my tiny little human brain is for comprehending the vast infinity of the natural world, both on and off our planet. Just yesterday I was reading
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by enko 15y ago
> that translates into a monetary value of more than $133 million, estimates RescueTime. That number is as meaningless as the RIAA's claims of gargantuan losses from piracy. It rests upon the completely unfounded assumption that time sp
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by enko 15y ago
> here's an even bigger problem to worry about: the government believes statisticians I think this is an oversimplification, and a dangerous one. These statistics are biased, one-sided and misleading. That is indeed a property of some o
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by enko 15y ago
Thanks for your input, but what were you saying about "anecdotal evidence does not a large dataset make" ; )
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by enko 15y ago
That is surprising to me. I bet you couldn't park a boat 7.1 miles out to sea and sell heroin by the tonne!
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by enko 15y ago
I guess everyone is using a lot of crap then, and they're all completely wrong and you're right. This is possible, of course, but instead of snarky dismissals you could perhaps say why you think what you do. I respect you, but also happen t
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by enko 15y ago
>> Rails 3.1 Release Candidate THIS WEEK Oh man, that made my day. 3.0 was cool and all but mainly infrastructure changes. 3.1 has all the cool new features. Can't wait!
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by enko 15y ago
Well, this comment just comes across as sour grapes to me. You could be criticising any memory managed programming language. Old timers have been complaining about the kids not knowing about assembly, registers, punch cards, valves, etc sin
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by enko 15y ago
I'm not trying to say you support coal. However, you are trying to saddle the nuclear option with future problems which have not actually happened yet. How is that fair? FWIW I do not see what is so hard about long term storage of nuclear w
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by enko 15y ago
He didn't do either, of course, because those "statistics" would be pure speculation. Let's stick to the current facts please. When someone dies from exposure to one of these "holding ponds" then we can update the model.
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by enko 15y ago
Sure. Just pay me the several billion dollars earmarked to design, construct and manage secure long term storage facilities and I'll deal with it.
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by enko 15y ago
Could be against the sides of the tube..
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by enko 15y ago
Well, let's see what the data says. I confess I want the universe to surprise and confound. I want the theories to be wrong, I want reality to be stranger than fiction. That would be awesome! Or I am wrong, in which case I'll happily pay ou
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by enko 15y ago
Fuck it, you're on. $100. I want to believe ...
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by enko 15y ago
So .. you don't read much sci-fi, do you?
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by enko 15y ago
That is a good solution. You should patent it! METHOD FOR DYNAMICALLY REGULATING BALLAST MASS ON ANTI-GRAVITY FLOATATION TRANSPORT DEVICE
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by enko 15y ago
> I kind of hope that's not how they go about achieving this Don't worry. The design is impractical anyway - regulating the "anti-mass" would be extremely difficult. Just when you got it balanced, the kid would drink a glass of water an
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by enko 15y ago
Yes? For all practical purposes? I have never known anyone who has had a car stolen. I know several who have had their bike(s) stolen, often repeatedly. Looking at the statistics[1], I see that in my country (Australia) there is a less than
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by enko 15y ago
Sigh. The arms race with bike locks can never really be won. If we really want to end bike theft, we need a legal approach. A serial number engraved into frames and all major bike parts. An easy to use web site to check provenance of parts
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by enko 15y ago
I'm the same way. I actually have an external monitor on my desk; it sits unused. I used to use it but over time I became so used to a single screen, and context switching within it, that I don't bother plugging it in any more. Ditto my ext
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by enko 15y ago
The example shown on the web page is nonsensical. Max 260k, min 2k? Obviously 2k ($0.95/hr) is bogus. One wonders if it is bringing down averages. Or if not can someone please introduce me to these programmers working for < $1/hr? My st
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by enko 15y ago
Sorry dude I don't know what you are talking about. The post talks about buying your own gear; the parent to my reply seems to misunderstand what depreciation is and goes on about some non existent recurring cost. Are you talking about rent
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by enko 15y ago
> You really need to understand the depreciation costs Huh? He's already paid for the gear. Depreciation isn't further payment due, it's an asset write-off which is actually welcome since it slowly turns the initial capital outlay into
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by enko 15y ago
> Nowadays anyone can trade with anyone, and there's really no need to have political control You're forgetting just one small thing - oil. It's still vitally necessary to the US (and everyone else). And if OPEC is left all-powerful the
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by enko 15y ago
Cool topic but this page has so many annoying ads and feels so much like a spammy rip-off of a more reputable site that I wanted to click "flag". And this: >These airplanes designs as well as the text and illustrations of them here are

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