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by jdreaver 13y ago
I was in the same boat as your daughter, and the only reason I was able to skip grades is because my elementary school was awful (so I looked smarter), and my mother is excellent at dealing with bureaucracy. I know very bright people who wo
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by jdreaver 13y ago
I really want this to be a reality. When a kid learns how to find out information themselves and be a self-guided learner, I can easily see an average school day taking only a few hours, not 7 or 8. That leaves more time for extra curricula
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by jdreaver 13y ago
That quote was never in the post. biehl is just referencing this: http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/piracy-its-a-crime
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by jdreaver 13y ago
I've become extremely jaded against intellectual property recently. Far too often, IP law is used to for long, drawn out legal battles that do nothing to help society, while costing the tax payers a ton of money. Property is a way to d
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by jdreaver 13y ago
Agreed. Another reason to disregard partisan politics, because the two sides are really one on the most important issues of our time.
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by jdreaver 13y ago
I know it is right vs left, and I don't care. Being a pawn in the right vs left debate is a waste of time. I care about the actual effects of this suit. > Like it or not, everything literally is partisan politics. No issue in the US
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by jdreaver 13y ago
Take a look at the comments section if you want to see political tribalism at its best. > I thought Bush orchestrated the Patriot Act... who knew..? > Regardless of your opinion of the surveillance, you gotta see this as a cynical pol
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by jdreaver 13y ago
Can you give me an example of a truly free market from history? By that, I mean absolutely no government involvement and regulation? I want to know what you mean by free market.
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by jdreaver 13y ago
I remember when I first learned about Tikz. I sat down and read most of the manual in one sitting (this is NOT a great way to learn anything, in my opinion), and I used Tikz everywhere. I would make a powerpoint using LaTeX/beamer simp
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by jdreaver 13y ago
What? That's the whole point of the article.
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So then let's fix the legal system, not ban a perfectly reasonable enterprise.
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by jdreaver 13y ago
So since your wife didn't join a coding academy, lets ban all of them.
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by jdreaver 13y ago
On page 4: > The Programming Language, 4th Edition > Bjarne Stroustrup I guess they love C++ if it's the programming language!
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> ...I know no modern country that currently adheres to gold standard and no plans for its return have emerged across a large number of economical cycles. This leads us to believe that the decision to abandon it was backed by real econo
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by jdreaver 13y ago
I started the book and enjoyed the first few chapters. My recommendation is to learn Haskell before you read this book.
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Lisp!
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by jdreaver 13y ago
The chairman asked the panel about the real identity of Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonym used by the creator or creators of Bitcoin. When one of the panelists was going to respond, the chair cut him off and said "you don't think it
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by jdreaver 13y ago
Excellent point. I was implicitly assuming that your costs were unchanged, but of course there are more ways to make a profit than more revenue.
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I wouldn't call that an example of maximizing profit. I would call it a great example of poor management, and a lack of forward thinking. Now, those terrible managers might have thought that they were maximizing profits, but like you s
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> Larry Page worshiped Steve Jobs, who gave him a bunch of bad advice centered around maximizing profit. What is so bad about maximizing profit? If you make a profit, it means people are willingly giving you money for the service you pro
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by jdreaver 13y ago
This seems like it could be a great series, but maybe the author should wait a little next time until there is more content to post. I am currently reading Engineering a Compiler, and I eventually want to build my own small, interpreted lan
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by jdreaver 13y ago
That sounds awesome! I always bemoaned the ridiculous prices of textbooks and the price of school itself when I was in college, so I applaud the efforts of MOOCs and the universities behind them. I never really connected the dots to extend
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by jdreaver 13y ago
That's what I thought, but the Wikipedia article states: "GNU Hurd (usually referred to as the Hurd) is a computer operating system using the GNU Mach kernel designed as a replacement for Unix..." So it looks like GNU Mach is
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by jdreaver 13y ago
Their OS is called GNU Hurd. [1] Apparently, they are still making progress, but it must be hard to catch up with Linux. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Hurd
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by jdreaver 13y ago
You are correct. Additionally, you could split large transactions into multiple destination addresses or obfuscate them with intermediary addresses. It takes longer to verify transactions, but it's harder to tie addresses to a single e
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by jdreaver 13y ago
It seems like Kenya has very little to lose in adopting Bitcoin. I welcome adding new users, even if they just act to stabilize the currency against speculators.
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by jdreaver 13y ago
Indeed, Bitcoin offers just pseudo-anonymity. However, if you are very disciplined, you can severely limit or even totally remove the possibility of someone linking you to your Bitcoins. No one even needs to know a transaction happened in K
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by jdreaver 13y ago
Humans (banks, PayPal, other third parties) are not required to verify transactions. It means you and only you have access to your bitcoins, and you don't need a trusted third party in order to use your money. You don't need a tru
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by jdreaver 13y ago
> So there are many people who would in theory be happy to do an unpaid internship but are unable to do so practically. Indeed. However, there are yet others who would benefit and can do so practically. The fact that they exist and po
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by jdreaver 13y ago
Why is circumventing minimum wage laws a bad thing? If you don't have the skills to be paid $9/hr (or whatever it is nowadays), then unpaid internships are awesome, because they help you get there. How about this idea: let people offer unpa

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