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How Do Good Ideas Spread?(newyorker.com)
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Forget about trying to contain Germany – we should copy it(telegraph.co.uk)
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by gruseom 13y ago
Good counter-propaganda after all is often not telling lies, just telling the dark truth the other side is trying to hide. That's very well put.
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by gruseom 13y ago
Of course there's no question of intentionally ignoring anything. My question is about the economics. Presumably, the economic significance of population decline has to do with its effect on GDP, growth, and the like. It's not obv
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by gruseom 13y ago
You're complaining about a causality claim that he never makes.
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by gruseom 13y ago
A blog post will inevitably oversimplify a demographic chart involving millions of people. It's still an interesting chart. The sudden drop in one year, as the article points out, was likely because of the economic crisis. As for wheth
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by gruseom 13y ago
That's not fair at all. The author's points are: 1) there has been a major population decline in the Baltics; 2) the decline is staggering even by comparison to Russia, which is widely thought to have a problem with population; 3)
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by gruseom 13y ago
I find this post suggestive. The title—"from the trenches"—makes the important point that this is a reflection from experience on what seems to work best where. That's more valuable and harder to come up with than it sounds
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The Baltic Demographic Disaster(forbes.com)
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by gruseom 13y ago
A few years ago, I had to help our EEs write some testing software in LabVIEW. I was blow away by how elegantly it solves concurrency and fault tolerance to bad input data. Could you describe this in more detail? I think it would be inter
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The Golden Bough(newyorker.com)
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The Frankfurt School at War(foreignaffairs.com)
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A Tale of Two Rust-Belt Cities(krugman.blogs.nytimes.com)
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by gruseom 13y ago
This Hoare 1978? http://www.cs.ucf.edu/courses/cop4020/sum2009/CSP-hoare.pdf On my list to read too.
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by gruseom 13y ago
I've now read those pages. I knew about E for its capability model but not at all for its concurrency model, which is indeed very interesting (more interesting, to me) and close to home. There's a presentation mentioned there that
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by gruseom 13y ago
Thanks for the link! I shall read it. I wrote a reply that is perhaps a bit too long to put here, so I put it at http://pastebin.com/4nN04Hj3 instead. The short answers are: (1) this event loop is different from the browser
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by gruseom 13y ago
I'm comparing instead against an approach where you break down all relevant events into JSON, and then push those into a global fully-functional "event handler" function that translates events (along the "world state&qu
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by gruseom 13y ago
Last night I listened to This American Life 's follow-up on their patent troll piece from two years ago. If you haven't heard the follow-up yet, it's stunning and I highly recommend it. It's so good, in fact, that even
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Fundamental Concepts in Programming Languages (1967) [pdf](itu.dk)
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How Spain fell in love with books again as locals flood back to libraries(independent.co.uk)
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The hunt for illegal egg collectors(newyorker.com)
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At Sears, Eddie Lampert's Warring Divisions Model Adds to the Troubles(businessweek.com)
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How do birds navigate?(economist.com)
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by gruseom 13y ago
Probably more like "you're laying it on too thick".
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by gruseom 13y ago
Is that a Chrome extension or Greasemonkey script you've written to do analytics on top of HN? It looks cool.
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by gruseom 13y ago
and for the "philosophical" parts of nazism, even decades ago, e.g Nietchze, Wagner, Heidegger, Carl Schmitt, and tons of lesser intellectuals Whoa, that's way unfair, particularly to Nietzsche, who deplored anti-semitism a
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by gruseom 13y ago
Good lord.
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by gruseom 13y ago
"she" is a grammatical diminutive which implies inferiority No it isn't. No it doesn't! Where'd you get that from?
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by gruseom 13y ago
Speaking of pretentious-douchebag-grammar-nerds, allow me to explain the evolution of the “I’m going to refer to a singular noun with a plural pronoun” linguistic phenomenon. It’s a product of increased gender equality. People used to gene
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by gruseom 13y ago
One way for them to stick is if "collect it all" surveillance is judged to violate the Fourth Amendment regardless of whom the agencies are currently targeting.

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