jholman

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by jholman 13y ago
I can't say what you "should" do, but here are some thoughts. Your name is really really hard for English-only speakers. Sorry. I have a friend named Nhan. I put a lot of work into learning to say his name correctly. Most
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by jholman 13y ago
My Japanese training is very limited (I know the hiragana alphabet, but I'm sure my pronunciation is terrible), so I won't pretend any confidence there. Of course, we both agree that English "l", English "r",
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by jholman 13y ago
I can't speak to the articulation of ら &c, but I don't agree with aspects of your description of English articulation. When pronouncing an 'l' (alveolar lateral), my tongue stays on alveolar ridge of my mouth (the ro
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by jholman 13y ago
This appears to have turned into a pissing match, and I was unable to contact you (your website's message page is crashing). Email me if you actually care about replies. Either way, have a good evening.
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by jholman 13y ago
You're mistaken on both counts, even though your top-level point is essentially correct. On the first count, you're mistaken because there's no reason to assume that the distribution is symmetric. This doesn't damage yo
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by jholman 13y ago
I had a funny thought reading the letter (the actual letter at Forbes, not the vacuous qz.com summary). The letter is type-written, with nice tables and footnotes. That probably means that it was either hand-written by Buffet or by a secre
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by jholman 13y ago
Plus, the entire article is blogspam. It should be flagged as such (edit: and resubmitted, since the letter itself is interesting). Actual letter (plus some other blowhard commentary) at: http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2013
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by jholman 13y ago
> it doesn't seem to require tight tolerances for operation Well, it's true that the top and sides of the tube don't get too close to the capsule, so those parts seem relatively low-tolerance, as you say. But the load-be
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by jholman 13y ago
The plan uses an air bearing partly because an air bearing is exceptionally stiff. It's not like a hovercraft, with all that ability to squoosh up and down. So the unsprung weight might be the weight of the entire vehicle. edit: thou
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by jholman 13y ago
When physical objects are fabricated, it means they're created. "Fabricated" never means "of fraudulent provenance", like your iPhone example. When statements-which-purport-to-be-facts are fabricated, it means they
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by jholman 13y ago
You mean "L-1". These are visas for people who've already been working for a US company, to transfer to the US. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L-1_visa TN work permissions (usually not really a "visa
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by jholman 13y ago
The title is a trifle misleading. The ruling is not that all GIS mapping data is public; it applies to a specific chunk of GIS mapping data. The ruling says that when the California government maintains GIS data, it falls under "publi
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by jholman 13y ago
My understanding is that it's single-wheel-in-front trikes that are dangerous when cornering at speed. This vehicle has the single wheel in the back.
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by jholman 13y ago
I doubt it. Why would it? I think you may have misread the article. Do you expect every purchase of running shoes to fund charity, just because AidsWalks exist (to use the example from the article)? Also, "alleged charity"? Ho
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by jholman 13y ago
Heh. What do you think "classic" means when it's part of the title of a product? It means that it's a derivative of something else, and wants to capture some reflected glory. Don't go thinking that "Mary She
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by jholman 13y ago
Wait, what's your workflow here, that you find searching GM more fluent than searching all-of-Google? (I'm genuinely curious, hoping to improve my workflow). Here's my approach: I type the address I want into Firefox's
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by jholman 13y ago
So, the thing is, I can't reply to the comment you wish you had written. You said "the rich", I think it's pretty clear that the top quintile (collectively earning more than the rest of the country put together) are ric
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by jholman 13y ago
I've seen a video with a guy ranting about that, but I'm not looking for it again, because I think he's spinning PR and doing dodgy math. Thought experiment time. Look at http://www.cbo.gov/publication/42
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by jholman 13y ago
Nitpick: That $55k includes benefits, actually. That's $35k base, a little OT, a few weeks of vacation, M/D/V benefits, and pension contributions. I'd call that "$35k plus full benefits" if I was summarizing.
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by jholman 13y ago
Of course, the majority of these feature are shared by most or all of the very "biggest competitor" cloud providers they are comparing themselves with, and in many cases more effectively than this tiny company possibly can. So th
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by jholman 13y ago
Yes and no. In some circumstances I agree with you, in other circumstances I think you have it backward. I shall enumerate some cases (note that US citizens always count as "inside the US" in this case breakdown): * inside the US
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by jholman 13y ago
Google has a legal team whose full-time job is pushing back on these requests. At some point, they have to either obey the law, or go to prison themselves. Get off your high horse. It feels like some people won't be satisfied unless
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by jholman 13y ago
I would love to see evidence that non-citizens on US soil, as a class, are protected by the Fourth Amendment. It only took ten seconds on google to note that the NSA apparently doesn't agree with you. http://www.nsa.gov&#x2F
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by jholman 13y ago
The Roadster's never going to become magically forward-compatible. Just like it's physically incompatible with superchargers, I'm sure it's physically incompatible with having its battery swapped. Conversely, the X has
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by jholman 13y ago
While I have lots of training as a rescuer (which motivated my previous comment), I actually have zero working experience. Life-saving training is interesting and cheap (I believe it's subsidized by non-profits)! I recommend it! The
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by jholman 13y ago
Yeah, though it's not even about forcing them to be aware of it. Like you quoted from the article, "cannot voluntarily control their arm movements" . So the question is, what's the Override Software doing with their
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by jholman 13y ago
Respectfully, I think you're wrong on both counts. The first is an attempt at drawing a correlation. "When you observe fact-pattern X, you can expect that property Y obtains." It might be derisive, but it's not AdHom.
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by jholman 13y ago
I utterly agree in substance, see my cousin-comment. Do you think think it's unreasonable to call "payload per cost" a relevant "efficiency"?
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by jholman 13y ago
I had assumed, in my ignorance, that the Merlin engines were not an important advancement. I don't think that specific impulse is necessarily the important sense of "efficiency" (though I do assume that it correlates with th
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by jholman 13y ago
It's a good article, thanks for reminding me to re-read it. I note that in it, Stephenson makes a prediction, as if it were a known fact, that I think we now have significant reason to doubt. He says "Rockets are as close to perf

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