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by ewjordan 17y ago
Apparently nudity is not even required anymore for images to be considered child porn, so you're not even safe if you aggressively remove all images that most people would consider inappropriate. From what I can tell, there really is no un
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I don't see any evidence that the gender of the teacher matters at all - based on the details the article provides, the study seems equally consistent with the hypothesis that girls learn math worse than boys in the face of bad teachers, fo
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You bring up a very important point. Some people do associate zero moral cost with piracy. They simply don't believe that music (games, software, etc.) should be paid for, and they're never going to, but they think it has value and want it
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Why do consumers have the right to their choice of form, channel and price? They don't have any particular "right" to these choices. But that doesn't mean the choices disappear. And it also doesn't mean that real value is not created by
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When the marginal cost of production falls to zero, classical economics ceases to function and extra-market restrictions are needed to force the continued existence of the market. You don't even need marginal costs to be zero - external u
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Nobody's saying piracy is right . Just that it's a natural, predictable occurrence that will be part of any digital economy, and that any realistic theory of markets needs to account for it. Most Econ 101 treatments assume full complianc
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Somehow I think Bill Gates will do just fine, SEO or no. When you're a behemoth, people visit your blog whether or not they can find it on Google, and in time he'll naturally migrate to the top of any relevant search. He's a voice that pe
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From http://ycombinator.com/faq.html : Can a single person apply for funding? Yes, but the odds of being accepted are much lower. A startup is too much work for one person. Do we have to be US citizens? No, as long as you can get here for
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Not really - it's only easier to catch people that try to hide things that the IRS already knows. Nobody that was actually trying to cheat would ever do this if the IRS was up-front about what it knew going in. What might happen more is th
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Ah, nice - that does the trick. :) No, I have no particular taste for CSV, though some people like it because you can open the files in Excel without any conversion. Personally I usually use data in code instead, and JSON is better there.
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Here's another piece of advice that covers a lot more than matrix inversion: don't solve math problems yourself in code if you can in any way avoid it. Use a library instead, and use the most specific methods that are available: if there ar
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Good stuff, I like it a lot! I'd love to see an export to CSV feature - graphs are nice, but having the actual historical numbers available would be awesome.
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1 hour of work and 7 hours of play? Nah. Then you can easily compete by just working a bit more and soon only those that work more are competitive. Your assumption is that we will need to compete to meet our needs, and I don't think that'
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This brings up a good point, though: there's a reason people that have struggled with the lack of built in functionality in languages like C tend to be better programmers, even if they make a switch to languages with more featureful standar
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First, the nitpick: Processing isn't quite a subset of Java, it actually both supports full Java syntax (if a tab is named .java, it's processed as a plain old Java file) and adds a few syntax preprocessings of its own apart from wrapping
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Uhh...does OpenOffice not have COUNTIF? COUNTIF is pretty bread and butter when you're using Excel... [/me decides not to be lazy, Googles] Yup, it's there: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/How_T... Get to know your
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I've seen plenty of programmers underestimating the problem of AGI as well! ...though for every one that underestimates it, there are plenty that overestimate it. Solving this problem doesn't necessarily mean that we do anything at all cl
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To my knowledge, what you're talking about is still on the table if it can be worked out in a reasonably sane manner, but it's tricky. Not that this is an excuse not to do it, but it's not straightforward even to spec out, let alone agree o
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The video clip is available at http://gawker.com/5419271/google-ceo-secrets-are-for-filthy-...
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Right, but that's more a statement about Java's quirky treatment of primitives than anything else - those are certainly passed by value, but nobody has ever argued anything else. The only confusion/argument is over whether Object types are
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Buying the competition in order to shut them down seems, well, evil. Everyone else seems to have concluded that they purchased EtherPad to get their people, not (specifically, at least) to shut them down. Do you disagree with that?
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If that's $10K profit after paying your employees and yourself reasonable salaries, then you're off to a sustainable start, and should stick it out. You're probably still growing, and if your marginal costs are not too high, any further gr
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If you don't understand that it's pass by value of references for non-primitives then ... Right: pass by value, of references . That's the complete answer, and it's really misleading to say anything else. I don't think any Java programme
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But on a larger scale, it helps Ferran Adrià make money, even thought the restaurant loses cash, he ends up making money by being highly respected, in part for elBulli. I totally agree that the restaurant's existence probably helps Adri
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The prime example of inefficiencies helping business is elBulli? Really? Somehow I doubt that all, or even most, of elBulli's inefficiencies are helping it "succeed" - according to Wikipedia, it has operated at a loss for the last decade
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As for Cox and Comcast, well, it sucks for them that Yahoo & Verizon decided to fight when they didn't. At least they were honest about selling your data... To me the article reads as if these wiretaps are court ordered, which means t
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Automated trading by itself is of course feasible for almost anyone determined enough. ...as well as a healthy bankroll to start with. If you can't maintain at least $25,000 in your trading account, you can't day-trade anything but curre
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I think the parent post was saying that the "revisionists" like to pick out weak points in one particular small result, and try to unfairly imply that all of the larger results in the field must be wrong, as well, without touching on any of
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Companies are not charities. Giving out benefits to people not producing value is very bad for them. These are people that have already produced significant value for a company, so the notion that this is "charity" is really pushing it. G
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Here's my question, to anyone that knows: is the data set in question the only data set that the (alleged, I suppose) warming trend is observable in? Or is this merely a nitpick at one particular set of data, while other independent ones ex

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