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by injb 7y ago
Well I agree that governments can do some beneficial things. But there's a few problems with what you're saying here (and I hope I'm not taking you too literally): firstly, all the rules you list can be handled with alternati
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by injb 7y ago
Can you give an example of a monopoly that has been brought about and maintained by capitalism - i.e. not maintained by organized crime or the power of the government, but by the principles of free market capitalism alone?
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by injb 7y ago
Which is?
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by injb 7y ago
Wow, interesting discussion! Those guys are definitely looking for a standard of proof way beyond anything I can provide. I think the person who wrote >>alas, his name was never directly mentioned by J.R.R.Tolkien, then it must be con
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by injb 7y ago
Well, I'll try, but I don't know if I can explain it very well. In The Last of the Mohicans, Nathaniel (Indian name: Hawkeye) is a British-American scout and frontiersman who has largely forsaken white civilization, and lives&#x2F
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by injb 7y ago
I'm surprised he doesn't mention Native Americans as a source of inspiration for the elves. If you've read The Last of the Mohicans, this is very obvious (including parallels between Aragorn and Nathaniel/Hawkeye).
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by injb 7y ago
Exactly. The article is part of the farce as I see it, in that they still continue to take Twitter seriously: >>...that a teenager using next to no resources was able to quickly create a fake candidate in his free time and get it veri
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by injb 7y ago
What a loss. There's a fantastic and epic interview with him on youtube here[1]. He tells stories of famous people he knew, meeting Wittgenstein, arguing with Teller, going on a road trip across the country with Feynman etc. Solid gold
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by injb 7y ago
I wish I could get my organization to explore this a little more. We tend to use a single priority value. But it doesn't feel like prioritization to me. If you have 100 issues that all have the same priority level, that means you don
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by injb 7y ago
This, exactly. He's providing a definition of the term "useful writing" so that he can use that phrase throughout the essay and know that the reader knows exactly what he means.
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by injb 7y ago
I'm glad you posted this, because I use walks this way too. And because it reminds me of William Rowan Hamilton and the quaterions!
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by injb 7y ago
Are you in the current presentation of either 124 or 125 by any chance? I'm in both, planning to do the BSc too.
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by injb 7y ago
Search for "Open University MST124" or similar on www.ebay.co.uk or www.amazon.co.uk. There seem to be plenty of copies of 124 available on both at the time of writing.
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by injb 7y ago
I won't repeat the good suggestions already made, but I'll add this: find a set of the Open University MST124 text books. The OU publishes their own maths books, which are specially written for self-study (since that's your o
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by injb 7y ago
Get a lawyer and don't post another word about it online.
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by injb 7y ago
That's the best way if you don't know that you're wrong, sure. If you do know, why not just ask what the right answer is?
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by injb 7y ago
"Robert Morris's solution is wrong for most of us about casual conversation because it's valuable to be wrong sometimes". I don't think this is quite right. Of course I don't know RM, but given PG's charac
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by injb 7y ago
" if you never speak it because you're afraid to say something wrong, you'll never learn" If you're afraid to say your idea because you know (or suspect) that it's wrong, then you have already learned the harde
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by injb 7y ago
quote: "...with the preposition, "But". Yet, his writing..." The word "but" is a conjunction, like "yet". Oh, the ironing!
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by injb 7y ago
I wonder if it's better to treat percentage as a unit or variable. So a-percent x b-percent = c(percent-squared), or c divided by 100 twice.
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by injb 7y ago
I don't know why this was downvoted, but you're right. Geniuses of that level are rare and extremely lucky. It's like lamenting that you'll never be financially independent because you didn't win the Megamillions lo
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by injb 7y ago
Also, Apple hasn't paid Android developers anything, despite the title.
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by injb 7y ago
This is good question. Personally I have a hard time imagining what it's like to have a deep understanding of something non-trivial without having arrived at that understanding through language. Let me ask you this though: how do you k
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by injb 7y ago
East and West by C. Northcote Parkinson. In fact, anything by Parkinson. It's an alternative view on what causes empires to rise and fall. The Snow Geese by William Fiennes....just for the sheer perfection of the prose.
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by injb 7y ago
It's worth reading, but his arguments against using hyperlinks are vague and frankly weak. He says there's not much to be gained because you can't make "significant" changes without breaking client code; that may be
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by injb 7y ago
When I used to use Java, the thing that I found remarkable was how much stuff you had to write in other languages. You had Spring, Ant, Hibernate, Ibatis, text-based "properties" files etc. It seemed that Java programmers were wil
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by injb 7y ago
Maybe it's my Irish roots, but I find it funny that this is being billed as a "french-fry shortage" and not a potato shortage.
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by injb 7y ago
Getting money from a state govt without some kind of grant program sounds hard (I work for a company that does a lot of state govt software contracts). Have you ruled out private funding for your project? I can tell you that's where mo
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by injb 7y ago
Here's an alternative suggestion: try to find a set of the 4 books of the OU's MST124 Essential Mathematics 1 [1]. You'll probably pay more for them than a typical teach-yourself-math type book, but it's well worth it. T
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by injb 7y ago
He's now safely in police custody and the US has already revealed its plans to extradite him, so there's no longer any need for the charges in Sweden. That's what's meant by this, imo.

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