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by frig 17y ago
There's probably a deep insight for AI to be had by whoever discovers why verbose, repetitive writing is easier and more "natural" than taut, clear prose (which is "unnatural" insofar as it is rare and hard to achieve). Not some folk-theory
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by frig 17y ago
Pedant: 6. Extract natural resources from the earth or space. with your 1, 2, and 3 could be seen as including all there is to say about energy; there are many perils trying to classify things.
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by frig 17y ago
An impossible thing to really nail down and something people can spend their entire lives chasing their tails over. Intuitively there should be a difference (I'll justify the intuition in a second) but really making it precise is very trick
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by frig 17y ago
It's not a great explanation b/c it doesn't go into what "measure" and "volume" mean. Tough to do without going through a full course but a slightly-less-handwavy explanation would go like this: There's a mathematical tool (called measure)
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by frig 17y ago
Your reader vitriolic isn't really grasping the particular distinction between "wealth" and "money" you're trying to make. You really would want a three-way split between wealth and money and value; it's often the case that wealth productio
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by frig 17y ago
I saw this: (Gelfand's prophecy:) Sporadic simple groups are not groups, they are objects from a still unknown infinite family, some number of which happened to be groups, just by chance. ...first here: http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/categor
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by frig 17y ago
In my experience: you typical undergrad will as an undergrad have pretty much nothing in the way of interaction with the professional schools, and your professional school students will later have not all that much interaction with the unde
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by frig 17y ago
What you're saying is not undoable; founding a modern-day Cooper Union but with a more entrepreneurial focus would be a more appropriate approach than trying to revamp NJIT. You're underestimating the impact of combination: those startups w
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by frig 17y ago
Yes and no -- there's a chicken-and-egg aspect. If a Harvard education was useless -- and Harvard alums to a one all room-temperature iq, slackjawed mouthbreathers -- it wouldn't matter how scarce the degrees are, as they'd be valueless. On
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by frig 17y ago
You're being cute. There's this: There is one problem with this theory and it is that the US only issues patents that are valid for the US. China issues patents for China, Japan for Japan, etc. Thus, the Chinese are not really beholden to
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by frig 17y ago
Question for you: I am a Chinese manufacturer of some product whose manufacture would in the USA require some patent licenses. If I would like to export my product for sale in the USA, is it the case that: - (1) patents, schmatents! It's no
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by frig 17y ago
That you didn't look @ even last year's laureates before mouthing off with a preformed opinion?
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by frig 17y ago
Thanks, I found it already but I can see you're one of the co-authors so I appreciate your effort. It's going to be some time before I can get to using it but like I said this pretty much is exactly what a currently-stalled project has been
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by frig 17y ago
Wow I've been looking for a library like HAMPI for a long time. Serendipity at its finest.
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by frig 17y ago
The stealthiness is debatable. Suppose that it is pretty easy to look at money printing and figure out how much devaluation results (eg: prices will wind up 10% later). Even if that's true deciding when to raise your prices (and how much to
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by frig 17y ago
Probably so; he was asking how money-printing defers costs and I explained it.
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by frig 17y ago
He's talking about "facing bricks" being $2 billion unless it's a poor choice of phrasing. These are non-load-bearing purely-decorative bricks. What does your intuition tell you is a good ballpark for the ratio of "load-bearing" bricks to "
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by frig 17y ago
Doesn't new money creation have the same effect as directly taking cash from the economy? After all, it does cheapen all available money. How, then, can he say that these costs are deferred? Time-delay effect. In theory if everyone knows
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by frig 17y ago
The article comes across spectacularly lazy which bodes ill for the veracity of its contents. Just look @ how our "researcher" (ahem) "researches" the only known-to-him example of raw data being given out: - supposedly "Peter Webster" has (
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by frig 17y ago
YUP, and it's not quite why I guessed but the situation is pretty similar: non-copyrightable content (legal opinions), successful use of copyright claims over the arrangement. Incidentally a good historical anecdote; in addition to many asp
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by frig 17y ago
If you print and redistribute money to the unemployed on a means-tested basis, you are directly punishing the people who have accumulated wealth (the purchasing power of their money is eroded) for the benefit of those who didn't (that's wh
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by frig 17y ago
Yeah basically accurate so far as I know (disclaimer: for awhile I worked @ a publisher of reference works; we had rules-of-thumb explanations for what we could get away with but I'm not an expert). The real story behind the story you might
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by frig 17y ago
CF my longer post. Basically in the USA at least (EU has "database directive") the situation is that "facts" aren't themselves copyrightable but the intuitions / guidelines non-experts (like me) have to go from are very much pre-internet an
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by frig 17y ago
Yes + no. NO: The kicker is that if you did that they'd sue you for breach of contract. YES: once you passed it off to third parties (in violation of contract) it's not clear how strong of a remedy AggData actually has. Some of the notions
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by frig 17y ago
Also, for teh peanut gallery: Look at paragraph 2: In fact consumers never really were paying for content, and publishers weren't really selling it either. If the content was what they were selling, why has the price of books or music or m
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by frig 17y ago
It was football day so I really didn't want to get into it. Now it's not so I'll respond to your point, which is well-taken. About the metric: I wasn't clear on the sense in which I think "price per page" is dubious. From the consumer sta
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by frig 17y ago
You're smart enough to understand the concept of a statistical relationship, and also smart enough to know that single anecdotes ("my uncle smoked all his life and didn't get lung cancer") don't really prove anything about a statistical rel
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by frig 17y ago
You are being pretty sloppy. If you go to an actual bookstore (or library) and look at newsstand prices for, eg, Canteen or Dwell or Parabola or Foreign Affairs or New Left Review or Ampersand or 34th Parallel (or god forbid Science + Natur
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by frig 17y ago
To step over the essay and get to your larger point, I think there's a conceptual error in assuming agreement and disagreement are sufficiently symmetric that it'd be reasonable to expect there to be a "solution" to the "problem" you're poi
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by frig 17y ago
You're right, but the point he's trying to make is transparently obvious if you refuse to substitute "team of dedicated activists" for "online discussion group" that it's only a point to be made if you somehow confused yourself into thinkin

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