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by gbhn 12y ago
You may be thinking that stock prices always make sense. :-)
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by gbhn 12y ago
> a world war is now too expensive That's what they said about WWI. Direct quote. My observation is that most populations are pretty readily swayed to support a war. And the invisible hand is no match for martial law in organizing r
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by gbhn 12y ago
On exactly that topic, see another (great) post by the same author: http://blog.hut8labs.com/no-deadlines-for-you.html
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by gbhn 12y ago
> that teacher does not exist The proposed model makes no assumptions about the "average" teacher -- it proposes a simple metric applied to student performance. Under this metric, some teachers would get a positive score becaus
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by gbhn 12y ago
Hardcore History is fantastic. My History Can Beat Up Your Politics -- another good choice.
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by gbhn 12y ago
I still haven't shaken the image of Palantir as the outfit gunning for Wikileaks and building illegal surveillance equipment.
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by gbhn 12y ago
I'm not clear on why these services can't be organized by something low-tech and essentially free, like Craigslist. I can totally see the value in establishing a marketplace like this, but don't service providers get final sa
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by gbhn 12y ago
I wonder if the big story is about a different predator species so apex that wolves are basically a hobby for it, and how changes in the behavior and priorities of that species can have dramatic impacts on the park.
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by gbhn 12y ago
You might enjoy the book "Why the West Rules -- For Now" ( http://www.amazon.com/Why-West-Rules-Now-Patterns/dp/0312611... ) One of the main premises is that the impact of societies on other societies (&qu
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by gbhn 12y ago
I think there's a perfectly reasonable position that calling it something entirely new could be seen as disrespecting the history of the idea. Of course, in this case, the obstacles seem mostly about the name and not about the concept,
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by gbhn 12y ago
Agreed. There's no 'invasion' when you're being invited in on a humanitarian mission. People need help.
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by gbhn 12y ago
It's time for Congress to do their bit and suspend assumed patent validity for this broad class of patents. Its clear the review process was yielding vast quantities of invalid patents. Making the courts invalidate them one-by-one is c
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by gbhn 12y ago
The adulation is a bit rich. Wasn't 3.5 inches claimed to be "the perfect size" by this same individual? Part of being Steve Jobs is knowing when you have a breakthrough and knowing when you've got an incremental improve
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by gbhn 12y ago
Yes. Much like last week's news was. :-)
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by gbhn 12y ago
Agree with the GP -- I own this vacuum and it works great. If you're more in the market for a chrome-and-platinum vacuum and don't care as much about the performance, you're probably headed the right direction with what you h
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by gbhn 12y ago
One things all these stories really emphasize is how much of a hurdle it is for a first-generation college student to get into a top school. It isn't just other bright high schoolers you're in competition with, it is a whole syste
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by gbhn 12y ago
The S2 library is here: https://code.google.com/p/s2-geometry-library/ It's based on the hilbert curve.
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by gbhn 12y ago
I took that as part of the argument: a "traditional city" doesn't have to eschew all cars and large roads. Putting some in to access more traditional areas is important. (I think the author suggested 20% of streets be like th
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by gbhn 12y ago
Yes. As the article states, theoreticians have already suggested 60 potential dark matter explanations. Teasing those apart requires careful experimental and theoretical work, and that's what the Nobel committee is (supposed to be) loo
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by gbhn 12y ago
Well, one clue is that despite spending 10x longer on customer interactions, the waiters are somehow still able to immediately take orders -- no change there.
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by gbhn 12y ago
Wouldn't that refinement basically be identifying the tails as quite a bit fatter than you'd thought before? But in that case, the tails are probably substantially fatter for everyone, and so the numbers 538 is quoting may not be
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by gbhn 12y ago
I don't understand defenses of programming languages which seem to assume that syntax isn't a central issue. Syntax is the central issue of a programming language -- they all have very similar capabilities, in the end (thanks Al
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by gbhn 12y ago
I have a tangentially related question: has there been any thought given to raising patent validity standards around teachability? A big constitutional point of a patent is to teach someone "skilled in the art" how to replicated t
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by gbhn 12y ago
Thanks. I agree this is a very valuable case, as so many horrible software patents boil down to "this common thing everyone knows, but inna fone!" Software people have understood this for a long time as a completely unacceptable m
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by gbhn 12y ago
Well, sure, just like the FBI has a choice to use the statute to go after either terrorists or whistleblowers. Justice always relies on human discretion, for better or for worse, but it reflects on us all which cases we call which.
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by gbhn 12y ago
Absolutely. There's always the tendency when doing work like this to not notice when you've made the breakthrough. The inspiration 2048 (without animations) is unplayable, to be honest. There's simply no chance it could have
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by gbhn 12y ago
There are a couple of messages later on that are important as well. 1. AIDS was a really important retrograde factor in this general story, and developing the commitment to research and deploy strategies for dealing with it was a major vict
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by gbhn 13y ago
Mechanically, the adversarial justice system means that yes, the justice system is liable to a failure mode where it will accept illegal acts for reasons that are more procedural than philosophical. (And vice versa, of course.)
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by gbhn 13y ago
I'm curious if 30 minutes is the lower bound on meaningful project time if the constraint of writing code is lifted. I've been thinking about what kinds of projects could be decomposed into 20 minute work units, allowing some work
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by gbhn 13y ago
Hindsight is always good, but this neglects that there was a strong point of view before the invasion of Iraq that it was a mistake. It simply wasn't a popular one in the US. But if you look internationally, there were a lot of peopl

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