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by herdrick 17y ago
The trailing preposition is different because it was always good Old English and only recently proscribed. And what did we ever ban something our ancestors were so loyal to for?
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by herdrick 17y ago
Wow, huge congratulations guys! Can't wait to hear about your traffic numbers from this.
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by herdrick 17y ago
Codexon, on this site people use a civil tone. Please read this: http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Also I'd rather not debate economics, sorry.
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by herdrick 17y ago
Contrarian overviews like this are what the Economist does best.
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by herdrick 17y ago
By leaving out the definition of that long function name you mask the increased cognitive load of your change. If you include the definition of your new function it doesn't look like an improvement anymore.
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by herdrick 17y ago
So who is buying all these banks' assets? (Assets = money owed to these banks, like loans, credit card balances, etc.) Wells Fargo's news release didn't say.
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by herdrick 17y ago
This is BusinessWeek? I'm impressed.
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by herdrick 17y ago
He appears to ignore such evidence, assuming it exists. I don't know much about the case; I'm interested in the OP's model of thinking about cases.
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by herdrick 17y ago
The redness of men in Egyptian art is based on the fact that men's skin is redder, due to more hemoglobin closer to the surface.
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by herdrick 17y ago
You're right, if the crime was clearly committed by multiple assailants you need to find another killer. But the OP throws out the evidence that indicates multiple assailants. False written statements are often signed in police stations.
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by herdrick 17y ago
Exactly. Codexon, saving just causes another, ostensibly wiser, form of spending. If you save your money in a bank, then they will lend it out where it will be spent, usually on capital goods (whatever that means anymore, or ever meant).
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by herdrick 17y ago
Hmmm. So using this model, what would the OP say if there were Knox DNA under the victim's fingernails? If her roommate weren't a murder victim (more precisely, that we don't have any reason to think that there's been a murder, since that
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by herdrick 17y ago
Glad to hear it. The OP would say that his framework is the only rational one.
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by herdrick 17y ago
The point of the post on lesswrong.com is that since it's agreed that Guede murdered the victim, you have completely explained away the murder. So now you must start over, from scratch, as if the victim were still alive, and ask how likely
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by herdrick 17y ago
I wrote this comment mostly in response to you guys: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=993873
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by herdrick 17y ago
China's one-child policy is arguably the most controversial mandate introduced by the ruling Communist Party to date. What? More controversial than the Cultural Revolution or the Great Leap Forward?
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by herdrick 17y ago
Can you use your existing bash configuration files with zsh? It looks like zsh isn't picking up my .profile file on my OS X box, or that it doesn't care about what it found there. The bigger question is, what is the switching cost?
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by herdrick 17y ago
* any future increase in demand for labor will only be supplied by increasing wages * Heavens, not that! Look, less available labor means higher wages. That's good.
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by herdrick 17y ago
Please note that this is from 2004 and the configuration stuff is way out of date. You should probably just start at 7:30.
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by herdrick 17y ago
Really? Henry Luce was raised by protestant missionaries.
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by herdrick 17y ago
Should have used sparklines. Also, all that variation over only 18 months doesn't inspire confidence.
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by herdrick 17y ago
* Few years ago you couldn't just download a random lisp library and expect it to work * Yeah, that was my painful experience as a noob. Now dependency libraries get downloaded behind the scenes. You mean ASDF takes care of dependencies f
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by herdrick 17y ago
I like the choice. I love to see people using lisps but some of the path to that choice makes me cringe. Like this: I probably could have written a ‘bare-bones’ implementation of the site’s back-end in Rails in a week instead of two week
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by herdrick 17y ago
Really? What has improved in Common Lisp in the past two years? Thanks for this comment.
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by herdrick 17y ago
Q: The most powerful and communicative shape in art and design is the: A: triangle. It's the triangle, huh? Just... the triangle. Really? Much of this quiz has the attitude of the overconfident journeyman. I'd rather list
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The ancient manmade soil that covers at least 6000 km²(en.wikipedia.org)
6 points by herdrick 17y ago|0 comments
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by herdrick 17y ago
It's interesting to read along and see what was cut for the version on the website.
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by herdrick 17y ago
Silly. Gold is amazing stuff. It doesn't decay nor oxidize (under most conditions on earth). From Wikipedia: "Gold is the most malleable and ductile of all metals; a single gram can be beaten into a sheet of 1 square meter, or an ounce i
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by herdrick 17y ago
This should be so great but the implementation is hit and miss. Don't waste your time on #2 and #3, they are showing data that doesn't matter, nor. #6 and #12 should be great but are done in absolute terms instead of per capita, so... los
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A great physicist, and how he worked(muller.lbl.gov)
65 points by herdrick 17y ago|7 comments

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