glymor

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by glymor 18y ago
Actually none of those companies regulated themselves. The federal government took on the role. Regulation has caused part of this crises via procyclical mark to market and capital requirements. Regulation also stipulated what kind of asset
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by glymor 18y ago
Presumably part of the conversion process to the kindle's format is re-flowing the text. Certainly from what you're saying its happening somewhere in the process as otherwise the formatting would be perfect. Native support for pdf displays
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by glymor 18y ago
Every reader but the Kindle supports PDF and most do it better than the Foxit while actually existing. Look at the video here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdPLe8TU57U he puts it into landscape mode (the only semi-readable mode on small
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by glymor 18y ago
Technical pdfs on normal sized readers is pointless (I have one, I've tried it). First you need a much larger screen. An A4 page at 5 inches is unreadable whereas a quarter size (landscape) is too little text between redraws. Even if you ge
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by glymor 18y ago
where are our e-ink displays for writing code They take too long to refresh.
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by glymor 18y ago
Sorry that's obvious in retrospect. My problem with your argument is that words are "easy to spell and pronounce" because they are common and people have experienced them before. When I said people are unable to recognise names they haven't
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by glymor 18y ago
I'm probably wrong about that (I'm not really up to date on the Kindle). NH wont let me edit the comment but consider this a retraction. I'm more interested on whether Amazon having a monopoly on the hardware/distribution could allow them t
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by glymor 18y ago
He's badly off for more than that reason: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Duke
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by glymor 18y ago
Just look at Barack Hussein Obama Actually for much of his early life he went by Barry. Also Barack and Hussein are very common Arabic names.
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by glymor 18y ago
Actually this is mostly about the authors continuing quest to find the perfect man bag for his Kindle. I use the Sony Reader which is a lot slimmer with better build quality than the Kindle. I heard good things about the iLiad which would b
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by glymor 18y ago
That's very funny but as someone with an unusual name it's less funny. More seriously your should use a middle name to provide uniqueness. People are basically unable to recognise words they haven't heard before. Complexity in the part of t
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by glymor 18y ago
Would it not have just been more useful to have looked up the source yourself? http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/323/5913/486 If you're wondering why science writers don't normally link to the paper, often they have pre-embar
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by glymor 18y ago
Thomas Barnett draws a new map for peace http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/thomas_barnett_draws_a_ne... In this bracingly honest talk, international security strategist Thomas Barnett outlines a post-Cold War solution for the foundering
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by glymor 18y ago
Yeah, I got all the way to this point before I thought to check out the date: "Python is not so large that it cannot be handled in house ... if it does get this large it is no longer an extension language. ... it's small" As long as you k
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by glymor 18y ago
What if someone posted something from 1994 and didn't say so in the title?
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by glymor 18y ago
A compiled computer program is certainly a rigorous description of something, God knows what, certainly not the programmer. This is just funny: "I think computer science has a tremendous amount to offer the fields of logic and mathematics.
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by glymor 18y ago
Probably because it's explained on the video page: http://vimeo.com/2723800 If you are still having trouble try: USE: cusec2008 start-presentation
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by glymor 18y ago
The first part was a funny story about a little fish that tried real real hard then failed and died without hope. The second part is a boring series of reaches that doesn't go anywhere (literally). I was aware coming in that Yegge's style i
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by glymor 18y ago
This is crap. 5 paragraphs of how mathematics has higher standards of rigour. Completed by a muddled argument supported only by a quote and apocryphal reports. Also, "snow" falling over text makes it hard to read, as would be obvious.
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by glymor 18y ago
All ebook readers have mp3 players including the kindle.
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by glymor 18y ago
Cisco is a business not a child, I don't think they are going to take their toys and go home.
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Ars on FSF Suit Against Cisco(arstechnica.com)
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by glymor 18y ago
The FSF works very hard to avoid having to sue. As the press release says they've been trying to get Cisco/Linksys to comply since 2003. And it's not suicide for the FSF, Cisco will back down.
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by glymor 18y ago
I agree with Lombory's philosophy of pragmatism over ideology but I think his excessive focus on things heat deaths and polar bears in this talk amounts to a straw-man argument. The big danger of Global warming is that it shifts liveable ar
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by glymor 18y ago
Lamarck ideas are nearly always advanced as a form of genetics denialism. Lysenkoism being the prime example. Also how would any research done now rehabilitate Lamarck? He had no evidence for his hypothesis and his theory was incredibly vag
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by glymor 18y ago
I don't know what all, or any, general intelligence algorithms would look like but they only one we have currently available, the human brain, appears to be intrinsically parallel.
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by glymor 18y ago
I'm pretty sure you got this from the Tomb Raider movie.
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by glymor 18y ago
From 2004, which is also the last time anyone used Xbox on it's own to refer to the Xbox 1 rather than 360.
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by glymor 18y ago
Death is not the worst consequence for a voluntary suicide bomber since it occurs in all outcomes.
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by glymor 18y ago
It's not because of some mysterious security reason. Latency between Asia and Europe is doubled by going through the US. You can't argue with the speed of light.

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