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FF 9.3: Graphical Route Advisor, Perf-Based Step Climb, Flight Notifications &c(blog.foreflight.com)
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by gbacon 9y ago
So is Google a necessity, as you assert in your first paragraph, or isn’t it, as you demonstrate in the last?
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Money is not neutral. That is, increases in the supply of money and credit do not produce uniform increases in all prices. Otherwise counterfeiting would be a mere nuisance. More money entering an economy will certainly allow buyers to bid
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A cynic might think failure is success for them.
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Granted. My comment was in the context of aerospace and defense.
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Great point, but for some reason union-protected professional educators who hold degrees from accredited institutions and who control state education monopolies are hostile to this worldview and deride it as “demeaning.”
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by gbacon 9y ago
The opposite. To a company with lots of money to spend (deep pockets) the author offered the client a large license fee for middleware that was important (to the client). This is a bit of a mind game. Confirmation bias[0] and the sunk-cost
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by gbacon 9y ago
The key is a marketable college degree. In fields such as aerospace and defense where the credential is the key to open the door, get the credential as cheaply as possible. Do a couple of years at a community college and then finish at a
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Regulators, the Federal Reserve, politicians, and commissioners ought to pay a price too when they inflict damage. How is it just for them to be immune to the negative consequences of their actions? Why don’t they even rate a mention in thi
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by gbacon 9y ago
Reminds me of the concept of the habit loop in The Power of Habit [0] by Charles Duhigg. [0]: http://charlesduhigg.com/the-power-of-habit/
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Sounds exclusive, almost like a fraternity.
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A college degree is a legally and socially acceptable form of an intelligence test.
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Philanthropic fund raisers. Supporting university life and other on-campus events. Risk reduction at parties. Being dependable and loyal. Learning to navigate and manage a small business by managing chapter affairs. Learning to separate th
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Fraternities also prepare you for the ugly parts of the real world, though. Nice stereotype.
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(9) The Regression Theorem of Mises
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See also S4E13 (“Never Again”)[0] of The X-Files . There is also a common theory that the Salem witch trials were at least in part motivated by ergot, but there is at least a circumstantial case[1] against it. [0]: https://en.
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by gbacon 9y ago
… and the irresistible temptation to run the printing presses. Those are all severe misses.
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… or adopt more realistic constraints for what it means to be a decent city.
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A checklist is a mere piece of paper without the discipline to use it every time.
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You’d be surprised on both counts. Union factory workers face significant pressure — as in slashed tires — from their peers not to drive foreign vehicles. Auto makers give sizable discounts to their employees.
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Does HN markdown understand — or ‘? EDIT: Nope.
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Another giveaway of a TeX-savvy writer out of water is when you see --- for em-dash, i.e. , ‘—’.
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You’re right that there’s not much to monoids. Though much hay has been made about monads, they barely rate having a name either, and you’d be surprised if they didn’t work the way they do. That being said, they are useful abstractions an
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*tenet https://www.google.com/search?q=define%3Atenet
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When companies fall short in the marketplace, they seek to outmaneuver their competitors in courtrooms and legislative lobbies.
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I can respect the author taking the trouble to avoid undefined behavior. Technically correct is the best kind of correct.
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Unlike the physical or natural sciences, economics is a social science. Dropping a stone from a certain height and taking a quantitative measurement of how long it takes to hit the ground has predictive value or universal applicability for
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Work through The Make-A-Lisp Process[0], which finishes at “Step A: Metadata, Self-hosting and Interop.”[1] From there, you’ll be more than ready to generate machine code. [0]: https://github.com/kanaka/mal/blob&#x
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See the design narrative at “Step 5: Tail call optimization”[0] in The Make-A-Lisp Process[1]. [0]: https://github.com/kanaka/mal/blob/master/process/guide.md#s... [1]: https://github.com
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In struct MalVal[0], the values f0 through f20, where each holds a pointer-to-functions of the corresponding arity, live in a big (multifacted?) union. Using arg_cnt, the switch assigns func to the appropriate value in mv->val using the

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