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by hughdbrown 12y ago
I find it kind of weird to construe Justine Tunney's opinions as somehow related to Ayn Rand. I have no idea what she is really supporting, but there is no confusing her with an Objectivist. Whatever you might think of Ayn Rand, at lea
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by hughdbrown 12y ago
This does not give me a lot of optimism: "Last year, Apopo received international funding of $4.5m (£2.7m) from various donors and cleared 618 acres of mined land in Mozambique." There are 640 acres in a square mile, so this is li
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by hughdbrown 13y ago
Always mount a scratch monkey. http://edp.org/monkey.htm
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by hughdbrown 13y ago
> If a company is currently worth $10m, options for 0.1% are worth $10k. This isn't really accurate. The company is not giving you 0.1% of the company. It is giving you the option to buy the gain on 0.1% of the company above that va
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by hughdbrown 13y ago
Well, thanks, but I am not smug about this. I don't care if Windows lives or dies. I've moved on. We are no longer dating. And here's how it happened: http://www.iwebthereforeiam.com/iwebthereforeiam/2009
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by hughdbrown 13y ago
"Google offers free OSes to computer and phone makers as a way of driving the use of its search engine and countless other web services, and now, Microsoft is at least experimenting with the idea of doing much the same thing. According
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by hughdbrown 13y ago
I find it incredible that the justification for action should be "a complete prohibition was appropriate because Thailand, China, and South Korea have already enacted severe restrictions or bans of their own." The American governm
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by hughdbrown 13y ago
I found myself unable to resist clicking on this tantalizing link.
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by hughdbrown 13y ago
Too many negatives. I think you mean, "Anyone who thinks excelling in that environment isn't a highly significant achievement is sadly mistaken." Even then, I'd go for something clearer like, "Excelling in that envi
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by hughdbrown 13y ago
FWIW, he is not on a Green Card. He has an O-1 visa for extraordinary ability in the sciences, arts, education, business, or athletics, or a demonstrated record of extraordinary achievement in the motion picture or television industry and
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by hughdbrown 13y ago
Another bad title.The article says: "The poorest half of the world’s population—that’s 3.5 billion people—control as much wealth as the richest 85 individuals." and: "The world’s richest 1 percent control nearly 50 percent of
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by hughdbrown 13y ago
I read merit points as what you want and attendance points as what it costs to get those merit points. So if you needed 300 merit points to complete your project, then you could take 92 Columbia attendance units or 4 University of Chicago a
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by hughdbrown 13y ago
So suppose this is true: A former federal agent in the northeastern United States who received such tips from SOD described the process. "You'd be told only, ‘Be at a certain truck stop at a certain time and look for a certain ve
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by hughdbrown 13y ago
Feature request /chainsaw/:name/:from returns 'F*ck me gently with a chainsaw, :name. Do I look like Mother Teresa?' - :from
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by hughdbrown 13y ago
Hey, Canada has been invaded by the US on at least three occasions -- Revolutionary War, War of 1812, and the Fenian Raids. I don't know of another country with a 3-0 record against the US. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/
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by hughdbrown 13y ago
I thought the problem was that the NSA does reign? USA! USA! USA!
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by hughdbrown 13y ago
This is crazy talk. No countries are waiting until they see a prima facie case of harassment and then saying, "We've seen the facts and we're giving asylum!" Every country that could conceivably do that has weighed the
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by hughdbrown 13y ago
And the article continues, as if anticipating this isolated quotation: It would be easy, comments Oakes, “to string such quotations together and show up Lincoln as a run-of-the-mill white supremacist.” But in private, Lincoln was much less
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by hughdbrown 13y ago
The "Test Code Before You Commit" rule suggests that the writer does not distinguish between committing code and pushing code, between private changes and public changes. When you commit changes locally, you can always rebase to y
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by hughdbrown 13y ago
If I didn't have the value, I would not use that approach. I'd use the sum of the historical returns multiplied by their respective proportions and take the standard deviation of those daily returns. That would be my volatility for the port
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by hughdbrown 13y ago
I'd say the long words offer the better opportunities. Look at the puzzle that has the encrypted word, PIKODENHFENJIKM. How many English words, when used to make look up table based on this key, generate the word when encoded with this key?
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by hughdbrown 14y ago
Classic Stackoverflow moment: howdoi -a parse HTML with regex