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by jackfoxy 14y ago
>I am claiming that today's level of gridlock was neither intended by the founders ... nor healthy for our country... That's fair. But first a step back. I think the real weak link in the HN culture is to be at its best, we must thought
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by jackfoxy 14y ago
>This is revisionist nonsense. There are certain things that supermajorities are required for but the regular business of the Senate was never intended... Actually I believe pretty strongly in original intent as spelled-out in the Con
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by jackfoxy 14y ago
Article 1 Section 5 Each House may determine the Rules of its Proceedings... There are no footnotes in the constitution.
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by jackfoxy 14y ago
Check your timeline. The French Revolution was not even conceived of until after the American Revolution came to a conclusion.
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Quantum Money from Hidden Subspaces(arxiv.org)
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by jackfoxy 14y ago
It's been a long time since I read it, but the top reply on Reddit reminds me of Human Action http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Action (the wiki synopsis doesn't remind me at all of the book I read) by Ludwig von Mises http://en.wikip
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by jackfoxy 14y ago
Normally I advocate adherence to posting the original article title on HN, but if that had been the case I doubt this article would have ever got enough attention to be upvoted. Singularity is near is over the top.
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When Accuracy is the Wrong Evaluation Measure(jackfoxy.com)
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$1.1 million Gates grants: Galvanic bracelets that measure student engagement(washingtonpost.com)
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by jackfoxy 14y ago
I traveled overseas for 3 straight years long ago, and with the exception of when I had my own locked apartment, I kept my passport physically on my body at all times. The comment above about developed countries is provocative. I know ver
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by jackfoxy 14y ago
San Francisco Senior Web Designer Do you have a passion for design? Do have the desire to create something unique that will allow people to interact and share worldwide? Do you have the ability to take massive library of online content and
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by jackfoxy 14y ago
Can you site these studies, please. And do any of these studies take into account the offsetting massive loss of wetlands world-wide (which now no longer release methane into the atmosphere) over the last couple centuries from destruction o
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by jackfoxy 14y ago
That was actually the first thing that came into my mind upon your reference to Phaedrus , but I gave you the benefit of the doubt that you were referring to something deeper. Socrates crime in his time was defying the state's moral code
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by jackfoxy 14y ago
So reading Phaedrus is supposed to automatically turn you into a complete Platonist? I and many others give broad credence to Platonism in the realm of mathematics, but the students question is in the realm of ethics, and Dr. Skrbina (as
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by jackfoxy 14y ago
Thanks! I believe I read a reference to this book once on HN, then could not find it. Unless there is another book that focuses on the misuses of the incompleteness theorem, this is the one I'm looking for.
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by jackfoxy 14y ago
Thanks a bunch! It even let's me get the critical numbers for Sugarloaf Mountain: Lat.: 40.9114° N Long.: 122.4462° W Annular Solar Eclipse Duration of Annularity: 4m44.4s Magnitude: 0.967 Event Date
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by jackfoxy 14y ago
I just realized the track of the eclipse would be so much more effective if it were an overlay of Google or Bing maps. Anyone have such a thing handy?
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by jackfoxy 14y ago
I will be at Lake Shasta, current plan to be at the top of Sugarloaf Mountain at the head of Doney Creek. I already have the shade 14 welders glass, but I'm still hacking together the pinhole telescope for projecting an image.
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Facebook Co-Founder Saverin Gives Up U.S. Citizenship Before IPO(bloomberg.com)
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by jackfoxy 14y ago
First, congratulations to Josh (who I do not know). Second, Josh: you took a Hell of a gamble (speaking as someone with practical experience on the hiring side). From now on you will have to find some subtle way to include the entire histor
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by jackfoxy 14y ago
It's worth calling-out the original article http://www.theamericanconservative.com/blog/chinese-melamine... (Oh my gosh! A nasty right-wing publication.) You need a right-wing and a left-wing to fly. Or, to go from the abstract to the con
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by jackfoxy 14y ago
Reminds me of the VS11 beta icons, although not quite as bad that. (The promised VS11 RC icons are somewhat of an improvement. There must have been a big outcry. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudio/archive/2012/05/08/visu... ) I agree the
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by jackfoxy 14y ago
I'm one-third of the way working through Manning and Schuetze www.amazon.com/Foundations-Statistical-Natural-Language-Processing/dp/0262133601, so when I saw Latent Dirichlet Allocation as the top ranked paper I headed straight to the ind
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by jackfoxy 15y ago
Bugger is not common, but also not uncommon American slang. It has rather lost it's original meaning. I have heard little old American ladies use it, probably having heard it in a movie, with the intention of a meaning derived from to bug
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by jackfoxy 15y ago
A .NET languages binding, please.
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by jackfoxy 15y ago
Ah, Russia! Land of free speech, transparency, and the rule of law.
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by jackfoxy 15y ago
From what I have seen PowerShell is woefully underused and unmastered by many, many folks working in the MS stack. Probably because it is so much easier to use the GUI for everything. The MSDN site has always sucked, and it's almost always
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by jackfoxy 15y ago
What exactly is the power of Unix vs. say 64-bit Win2008 R2? The file system? I'll buy that, and that matters if you have a shitload of files. Anything else?
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by jackfoxy 15y ago
I shouldn't have stated it in a way that sounds like I advocate authors/publishers setting prices. They should be free to pursue whatever business model they choose, just not colluding on fixing price.
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by jackfoxy 15y ago
...the responsibility for pricing decisions should rest with authors and publishers. If they price fairly and competitively, customers will reward them. If they price too high, customers will migrate to lower-cost books. I agree authors a

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