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by gills 18y ago
This is a brilliant and cheap political win for Obama. Consider the economic black hole our government (including the past administration) is leading us down; he can leave alone (or even reduce) the number of dollars spent on research and
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by gills 18y ago
Your rant appears to be based, at least in part, on the assumption that massive social structures are in some way necessary and beneficial to the lives their constituents.
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by gills 18y ago
I know you're not just trolling, because you contribute many insightful comments on HN, but I just don't see why you are so focused on headcount as the measure of business growth. The low marginal cost of additional customers in a subscript
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by gills 18y ago
The comment you responded to was actually quite accurate in it's description of what's been happening in the United States for quite some time. Each industry has taken it's turn at the chopping block and been hollowed out to a shell of it'
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by gills 18y ago
I think the blog makes an interesting point, though the author seems to frame justice differently than I might; as "the thing that benefits <my group>", whereas I think Rawls ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Rawls ) would frame j
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by gills 18y ago
I use ajax POSTs for autosaves, creating and deleting 'child' objects (when the UI for the sub-object should be added to/removed from the page without a reload). Basically any mutation where I don't want a reload.
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by gills 18y ago
I see where you are coming from now, and I appreciate that you took the time to explain so thoroughly. I guess I was not aware that it was discretionary to the jailers; with that in mind I can see how it could be used as a weapon, a tormen
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by gills 18y ago
I chose the word 'should' intentionally; the existence of solitary confinement as punishment is evidence of the failure of a small fraction of the population to be deterred from certain crimes by the prospect of complete separation from soc
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by gills 18y ago
That's probably something an individual should consider before choosing to commit a crime worthy of being forcefully exiled from general society.
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by gills 18y ago
If what you say is true, and Goldman hedged their hedge by purchasing CDS on AIG and/or outright shorting them, it should be trivial for a prosecutor to show that they entered a contract with AIG knowing fully that it could never be satisfi
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by gills 18y ago
Taste the Rainbow
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by gills 18y ago
The point he's making is salient enough if you've worked with sensor networks, specifically if you're trying to track physical objects and predict what it will do next. You run up against a sort of computational corollary to Nyquist-Shanno
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by gills 18y ago
At least some of it does. They were just running their pledge drive here in Seattle, I think last week (sometimes I lose track of when I hear things on the radio, maybe someone with a lower relevance filter will help me out on this one). A
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by gills 18y ago
Ugh...great article about the reality of workplace communications, but I think it needs to be underlined. From what I've seen, remote is a function of the whole team -- not just 'does this guy depend on the Pond' but 'does the rest of the t
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by gills 18y ago
You are correct, sorry. That's tier capital, right?
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by gills 18y ago
It looks like they replace the crankshaft with electromotive components, attaching the piston rod directly to either a linear actuator or a rotating generator. At first I was pretty skeptical if the usefulness of such a device. The cranksh
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by gills 18y ago
As you watch democracy die to thunderous applause, remember to subtract the $10 billion of government funding and the $13 billion looted from the taxpayers through AIG face-value swap repayments.
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by gills 18y ago
My wife is an engineer at a large corporation, I'm covered as a spouse. ...but that won't cut it if/when I get to the point of needing to hire other people.
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by gills 18y ago
hehe...all part of the joke, my friend :)
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by gills 18y ago
class student extends DidntPayAttention implements IForgot, Entitled, CantSpell, Unaccountable { public void learnCS(InputStream education) { int pagesInTextbook = education.available(); while (0 < page
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by gills 18y ago
Here's a random attack vector. Step 1. Pay lobbyist to add the following clause to the rules: "Treasury will provide 20:1 non-recourse loans to participating investors" -- to attract the 'hot money' and foreign capital, of course. Just co
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by gills 18y ago
The point I was making was one of irony concerning select individuals and the uneven application of so-called open-mindedness. Paramount to open-minded behavior is to be comfortable enough with the understanding that others see the world d
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by gills 18y ago
My former tech lead was like this, and it seemed like impossibilities just did not exist for him. It was very inspiring. One of the reasons I left that job for this silly wild goose chase of starting a business was to force myself to learn
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by gills 18y ago
The video is interesting. Unfortunately, I have yet to meet a claimed atheist in person who has not presented me with the ironic spectacle of beating me over the head about how wrong I am because I have beliefs which they do not share.
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by gills 18y ago
Well said. I would guess (and it's only a guess) that people with the drive to become billionaires would find a way regardless of formal education, and that there is no recipe you can follow to reach an outlier level of wealth.
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by gills 18y ago
Do you have a blog or something? It sounds like you have some good stories and lessons to share.
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by gills 18y ago
And here I thought they were all just incredibly stupid. But this is worse, they've ejected rational thought entirely from the policy-making process. We. Are. Doomed.
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by gills 18y ago
...in a growing economy.
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by gills 18y ago
"Dead Cat Bounce"...you took the words right out of my mouth :)
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by gills 18y ago
OH PLEASE. I guess Hacker News is the new Tinfoil. Decentralized systems are much more stable in the long run than top-heavy centrally-planned ones. Only the looter welfare state crowd is lying to themselves about that.

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