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by frig 17y ago
This cute legal theory hasn't been tested at web scale to my knowledge (closing down shop due to threat of lawsuit != the theory is tested, just that the depth of someone's wallet has been tested and found wanting). What makes it curious in
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by frig 17y ago
Eh, I don't think the reason you don't see 18 y/o people doing significant work in materials science isn't directly the lack of alternate funding; it's that there's no alternate funding for 18 y/o to do materials science b/c without proper
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by frig 17y ago
You're right, I didn't want to broach enforceability issues but you're right. If true it'd only further contribute to the adverse selection effect: the ability to easily shuck the obligation will do more to draw out people you don't want to
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by frig 17y ago
This is a valid point, and a helpful one also. Keep in mind that I'm already ruling out people with substantial established track records of prior accomplishment, leaving you with: - people mid 30s or older without any kind of track record
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by frig 17y ago
You might think so, but there's not an existing legal framework for receiving equity investment as an individual. If it were that easy people would already be getting around gift tax and estate tax by investing $millions in their kids in ex
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by frig 17y ago
Lessin's comments are the only smart ones. At an abstract level there's some appeal to this notion. At a practical level not so much, though, and that's even before you get into the nitty-gritty mechanics (like tax law here lol). The advers
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by frig 17y ago
You may enjoy this article as it offers an interesting generalization of your thesis: http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Global_Economy/JK25Dj06.html
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by frig 17y ago
What you'll find if you get into more detailed discussion with public-utility internet before dropping the socialism bomb is that they're usually advocating a hybrid model: municipality builds out the pipes and then isps compete on actual
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by frig 17y ago
Post-WWII has trained dolphins, which're still used so far as I know. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_dolphin
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by frig 17y ago
It's google's success undermining the assumptions behind pagerank (!) leading it to perform less well. Before google got so effective people put more work into maintaining collections of links to other sites; hand-curated omnibus directorie
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by frig 17y ago
No hard data on actual rates but you may find this interesting: http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/2108 You might find upper bounds by talking to people who build space-hardened systems.
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by frig 17y ago
Thank you for making my case more succinctly. I'm intimately familiar with the specifics of medical education as a family member of mine is a high-up muckety-muck at one of the world's better academic hospitals (won't be more precise than t
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by frig 17y ago
Yes all of this I know; you claimed common lisp has superior documentation to php and I've consistently shown you ways in which even php's documentation is superior to that possessed by common lisp at this time (at least in any sense that m
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by frig 17y ago
(1) is easily solvable given enough political will; a federal program funding medical loans in exchange for N years of post-education service in particular hospital systems. There are successful models for this in use in the army (both at t
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by frig 17y ago
What in what I suggested suggests that the quality of physicians would be materially watered-down. It will be your word against mine but I assert that there are plenty of people fully capable of becoming competent physicians getting turned
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by frig 17y ago
If we're talking about mass-producing medicine you need more physicians at some point. Your larger points may hold but I think you're underestimating the need for more physicians in the future. There's firstly the obvious aging-population d
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by frig 17y ago
Do you notice you just re-linked the hyperspec on Franz instead of Lispwork's site? I thought you'd link to this, which is better: http://www.franz.com/support/documentation/8.1/doc/contents.... ...which I'd say is probably the best of th
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by frig 17y ago
I wasn't commenting pro-php; the php api design isn't going to win any awards other than popularity. You're not really responding to the point I was raising: poorly-designed or not, php's official site has easily-findable and easily-accessi
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by frig 17y ago
Easiest solution is to embark on a serious 10-year plan to double-and-then-triple the number of newly-created mds passing through the system. This can't be done immediately -- it'd take time for institutions to ramp up their teaching staff
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by frig 17y ago
PHP.net landing page for string documentation: http://www.php.net/manual/en/book.strings.php (also available in 7-8 other languages). Note all useful string concepts are one click away, and the documentation allows user commentary (much o
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by frig 17y ago
That's a funny site: Over the last few years, it has become increasingly obvious that American men — particularly those of the post-boomer generations — have fallen into a cultural gap. Our voice is barely a whisper in the traditional medi
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by frig 17y ago
Can't see why you're being downmodded as you're quite close to the nitty-gritty mechanics. Like most financial systems there's how people think it works and then you look at the actual mechanics and it's quite different; this often leads to
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by frig 17y ago
Economics as it is got going well before complexity theory was established. There's an interesting difference between assuming perfect information and perfect rationality -- idealizations of existing scenarios -- and essentially assuming P=
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by frig 17y ago
Pop quiz: what % of the first 10 amendments guarantee positive rights?
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by frig 17y ago
You're smarter than this site looks. Good luck. Allow anonymous poll response but keep separate results tables for anon / logged in / everyone. How are the follow-up steps created? If it's just some googly thing it won't be that compelling.
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by frig 17y ago
I don't think you can make your proposal work in a way that's a good use of your time (and other resources) as you've originally proposed. If I were you I'd tweak this around a bit. There might be an interesting niche for apartment-complex/
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by frig 17y ago
This is the argument of the ages, no? I would say moral codes are about trying to use your agency to do good, not bad; there's no obvious reason why "doing good" would always and everywhere equate with "easy to cope with". You claim you're
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by frig 17y ago
Involvement in the world isn't voluntary; actions have consequences, some people prefer some consequences to other consequences. In your case you value maintaining an unsullied self-image over assisting 5 people in mortal peril, and would p
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by frig 17y ago
But why are thoughts jumbled, mostly? Is there anything to be learned from the structure of the jumbling? No answers, just getting it out there.
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by frig 17y ago
I wasn't clear or you're blurring information content and density and thereby missing my point (!). Consider: - VERBOSE: “One of the best things you can do for yourself to improve your writing is to learn how to cut out words that are not

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