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by gills 18y ago
It's because, like the sea, the computer is a wholly unforgiving bitch.
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by gills 18y ago
Dogma vs. Data! Do you want to hire someone that does things 'because that's what they always do', or because they collected data and acted appropriately? I'm not saying salt is a good indicator - there are a million other ways you could te
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb and Benoit Mandelbrot on the Credit Crisis (Video)(pbs.org)
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by gills 18y ago
It may be my sociological opiate, but I have more faith in our species to tolerate less tyranny than your post implies. I also think we will see a marked decrease in tolerance in the next few years as more people have 'nothing to lose' and
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by gills 18y ago
Table layouts are tougher on users with screen readers. Aside from that I can't disagree with your points.
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by gills 18y ago
The editorialized headline made me want to write a comment to the effect of "it's never the technologies we need to fear, but the abuses of the hands they are in"...good thing I read the article and found that was the gist of it.
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by gills 18y ago
What an asshat. These problems aren't a failure of any system or ideology, they are a failure of law enforcement.
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by gills 18y ago
Remember to consider the incentives of the 535 individuals who vote on funding the TSA year after year. It doesn't matter if it provides any security. It keeps us sheeple under the illusion of safety, we keep buying plane tickets and a who
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by gills 18y ago
Here's one the Seattle Times maintains for tracking earmarks: http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/favorfactory/favo...
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by gills 18y ago
We are definitely the people who will dig out of the hole. Well, at least the people who will design better shovels :) Even so, it's good to know what you might be facing.
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by gills 18y ago
What matters is the ratio between GDP and the cost to service the debt. There comes a point (above about 35%, I think) where government services will have to be cut to continue servicing the debt. edit: excuse me, 35% of gov budget. Just
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by gills 18y ago
Folks need to stop using this as an opportunity to push socialism. The only problems with the market are distortion by legislation and refusal by regulators to force the liars into the light.
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by gills 18y ago
I prefer my first amendment rights just as they are, thank you very much.
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by gills 18y ago
You are right, some will have to close down. In all fairness, they should have seen this coming and they should have had more cash on hand. Many businesses anticipated the downturn and started building cash reserves a year or two ago.
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by gills 18y ago
I have heard they have too much debt denominated in foreign currencies. Their recently-deregulated banking has been a major economic growth area for Iceland (read: levered to their eyeballs). The global instabilities pretty much pulled th
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by gills 18y ago
* He also brushed aside concerns by some analysts that Dubai's property market is becoming overheated and due for a potentially sharp correction. "In Dubai, demand outstrips supply," he said. "There might be a slowdown, but there definitely
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by gills 18y ago
Thanks. I thought so. I tried to keep the dialogue respectful to both the poster and the homeless, it is unfortunate that others have not. In my experience most people want to help in some way when confronted with homelessness, but they d
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by gills 18y ago
Use words folks, karma is a pretty low-information channel. What's wrong with being interested and supportive?
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by gills 18y ago
That sounds interesting, what benefit are you trying to achieve and are you willing to share details about how?
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by gills 18y ago
Wow, you really got me laughing there!
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by gills 18y ago
That's my 'when I get distracted from real work' side project :)
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by gills 18y ago
Pitckfork: $10 Torch: $15 Freedom: Priceless P.S. This is a joke...
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by gills 18y ago
The funniest outcome of research like this is the wannabes...who pick their position on religion not based on their own reflections and intellect, but in an attempt to be perceived as more intelligent by choosing atheism.
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by gills 18y ago
I modded it up. I'm a geek. We poke fun at ourselves to keep our egos in line. No, really, you can grab almost any answer you want from data if you tweak the algorithm. Throw in some misplaced incentives for the geeks and the traders and
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by gills 18y ago
Is Germany one of the nations threatening to stop buying Treasuries if we don't buy back the subprime meatballs?
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by gills 18y ago
Hold on to your hats, folks... Don't blink, you'll miss the $700B getting sucked into the deflation tornado.
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by gills 18y ago
The 'provisions' are too weak and weasel-wordy for their execution to ever be confirmed or denied.
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by gills 18y ago
Cool article! I took a class on compression about a year ago and taught myself Scheme by implementing the algorithms in it. Functional style really worked well with those algorithms.
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by gills 18y ago
I don't buy clothes online, so not much help, but good luck anyway.
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by gills 18y ago
The problem with the goal of "more home ownership" is that it was a tagline from the GSE's for "increase our deal flow", as they had somewhat of a golden goose with throughput being the only limit. It was and still is political suicide to

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