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by hsitz 12y ago
"If you slow down the cars to compensate, doesn't that somewhat defeat the purpose of having cars in the first place?" Hmm, well, requiring cars to give way means that they're less likely to kill someone. Which is kind
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by hsitz 12y ago
As mentioned by several in these comments, Org-mode is a powerful and flexible knowledgebase tool. So I wasn't surprised to find that it includes an extension that does Anki-style note drills, while allowing these notes to coexist in
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by hsitz 12y ago
And a browser interface for recording and linking web pages in your Org files can be found here (although there are other ways to do it): http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/org-annotation-helper.ht... Also, becau
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by hsitz 12y ago
Yes, web layer right now just happens to be the one people notice slowing things down. Go back to early 90's and you will find lots of complaints about how moving to Windows and GUI was backwards step from character-mode DOS because of
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by hsitz 12y ago
Cost twice as much, worth ten times as much, in my opinion. I've had many times when a dog got away and gps tracking would have been very useful. Keeping track of exactly where my dog is within 150ft radius, not so much. The "le
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by hsitz 12y ago
I have been happy with Faxaway. I think my $10 payments each last me almost a year, given how much I use the service ($1/month plus $0.11 per minute sending in U.S., receive faxes for free). The interface is email: put fax phone numb
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by hsitz 12y ago
They do work fine together, but unless you remap the Org-mode control key combinations then none of your Org-mode specific stuff will feel very vim-like. I think one good little project would be to remap all the Org functions to vim-like k
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by hsitz 12y ago
I don't know whether Hemingway liked using 'utilize' or not. But I expect he used different rules in writing dialogue than in writing narrative. Word usage in dialogue can be used to give us cues about the character speakin
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by hsitz 12y ago
Yeah, Mr. Mustache himself may carry it to extremes that most people wouldn't want. But it seems he himself and his family are actually happier than they were when they were spending more. Plus they're retired (or semi-retired)
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by hsitz 12y ago
It's not most HNers idea of "never having to work again rich", but there's a great blog by a tech guy (and his techie-wife) who retired in his mid-30's, after having worked a decade or so in a regular salaried tech
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by hsitz 12y ago
This seems unnecessarily harsh. That this generative art and painting are both visual arts in (mostly) two dimensions seems a pretty strong similarity. Why would you compare it to genres of art less similar? Also, some paintings strongly
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by hsitz 12y ago
"In short, a trade school approach is exactly what we need, as it most accurately reflects the realities of the new job market." Not sure who that "we" you're referring to is. Certainly the trade-school mentality h
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by hsitz 12y ago
Yes, yes, yes. I think good universities (i.e, most of their faculty and administration) still believe strongly in the "rounded education" goal. As you say, historically universities sought to provide a liberal education, regard
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by hsitz 12y ago
"From what I've read, there is currently very little overlap between the regions of Time Warner Cable and those of Comcast [1]. If this is correct, how could the merger allow either firm to raise the price?" I read an article
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by hsitz 12y ago
"Unless you do something stupid like personal guarantees on loans or do not incorporate." Entities lending money are not stupid. You can't just start a new business, incorporate, and then go out and have your corporation get
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by hsitz 12y ago
I took notice of that passage also. But the main reason the 99.5 to 99.95 percentages is meaningful is that they were measures of a daily risk. So it quickly compounds into a meaningful percentages; the 99.95% rate meant an 83% chance pat
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by hsitz 13y ago
I assume you mean Delphi. Other than being now a little bit old school (not surprising for language with roots in Pascal), Delphi was and is an excellent language. Delphi was composed of a language (an ObjectPascal) along with the IDE, ap
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by hsitz 13y ago
"Since when do we judge compensation based on value added to society, and if that's what we do, why don't we apply that approach beyond finance?" We apply it in finance for a couple reasons. Securities exchanges are hig
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by hsitz 13y ago
I'm with you on the skepticism thing. When we read, at least when we read anything important, we aren't simply ingesting bits of information. We're usually reading something that was carefully crafted to have a logical flow
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by hsitz 13y ago
The Orgmode extension to Emacs has quite an elegant, flexible, and powerful way of doing what you want. Can be hard to wrap your mind around at the beginning but has good payoff once you're up to speed. Here's a video showing ho
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by hsitz 13y ago
" The flavor can't be counterfeited at all, so it doesn't really matter what's on the label . . . . You might have 5 different olive oils in your cupboard depending on what you're using them for, but you didn't
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by hsitz 13y ago
" so I go to Hulu Plus; surely they will have the whole season, that's why you pay the sub, right? 2 latest episodes available! WTF. . . . These incumbents are not competing with Netflix et al, they are actively burning the subscr
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by hsitz 13y ago
"Computers are really fast at sequential scans, less so at random-access stuff." This is true if you're simple talking about raw IO throughput, but in terms of algorithmic searching the truth is almost exactly the opposite.
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by hsitz 13y ago
Even assuming that people started having four children "for the human race to survive" (a wacky thought in itself) what would prevent a family from having a compound of two or three tiny homes? At some point you would need so man
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by hsitz 13y ago
Actually, no, it's not just a tricked out mobile home. Apart from size, it's constructed like most regular homes, but even higher quality. Most tiny houses are built using stick framing, same as regular houses, with 6" exter
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by hsitz 13y ago
+1. Security is a big issue too, and much minimized when you're serving static pages. It's not just "for a blog, fine", it's more like, "for a blog, optimal".
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by hsitz 13y ago
BZZZT. Preventive care in general is cheapest and study after study shows that it is. That doesn't mean that certain kinds of preventive care might not work. Of course if they don't work then they're not cost effective.
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by hsitz 13y ago
Sounds like you're extending intent of quote to be about "pre-existing conditions". Obamacare requires that health insurance policies cover pre-existing conditions, which is another difference from other types of insurance.
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by hsitz 13y ago
"Preventive care should not be something you look to insurance to pay for. Do you expect to be insured against your weekly grocery shopping bill? Your utilities? Your rent?" In fact, Obamacare mandates that much preventive care be
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by hsitz 13y ago
I went to site you link and see it purports to use the Berkeley calculator to calculate the "cliff" amounts. When I put numbers into Berkeley calculator ( http://laborcenter.berkeley.edu/healthpolicy/calculato

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