jjoonathan

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1. 4111.▲
   by jjoonathan 11y ago

   I don't buy it. Boom & bust cycles are driven by the fundamental difficulty of quantifying value. Since there is no true value, people base their opinions on those of others (+delay), leading to "inertia," leading to os
2. 4112.▲
   by jjoonathan 11y ago

   > Israel's interests in the middle east are generally about not having their citizens murdered in the street. That's what they say, but when I read stories about them demolishing Palestinian neighborhoods, billing them for it,
3. 4113.▲
   by jjoonathan 11y ago

   > US interests in the middle east almost always directly oppose the ones of Israel I regularly see stories about the US giving large sums of money and arms to Israel. How should I reconcile this with your claim?
4. 4114.▲
   by jjoonathan 11y ago

   I was objecting to the jury's opinion, not the fact that the judge respected it.
5. 4115.▲
   by jjoonathan 11y ago

   > The judge called [Goldman Sachs' actions] “professionally negligent” > the jury concluded that the banking team satisfactorily performed its role for Dragon Systems in all respects > I [the judge] conclude otherwise Yuck.
6. 4116.▲
   by jjoonathan 11y ago

   Markets don't know how to judge the value of science. Its main product is a non-excludable good -- you can't know if a train of experimentation or thought will ultimately be important until long after you have shared the results,
7. 4117.▲
   by jjoonathan 11y ago

   You understand how the economy as an aggregated whole behaves. What you're ignoring -- intentionally or not -- is the other face of economics, the hairy & ugly one, distribution. The way that any given person experiences the econom
8. 4118.▲
   by jjoonathan 11y ago

   > splintercell > if labor prices fall drastically ... more production will happen. Prosperity will ensue. > somehow the third point doesn't because most people are part of the labor force therefore emotions kick in. The simple
9. 4119.▲
   by jjoonathan 11y ago

   First we had mSATA and M.2 types A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, and M with profiles S1, S2, S3, D1, D2, D3, D4, and D5. Now we have USB Type-C which may-or-may-not support a handful of other standards, speeds, and wattages. What happen
10. 4120.▲
    by jjoonathan 11y ago

    Yeah, I remember when it used to be a joke that C++'s type system would become turing complete before it got reflection. I don't know if it's more funny or less funny now that it's actually happened. In any case, that&#x
11. 4121.▲
    by jjoonathan 11y ago

    Before I read the article I thought it was going to be a rant about the absurdly verbose type signatures and/or errors that can result. Here's the longest one I've seen in the wild -- 8.9kb for the name alone. If you're
12. 4122.▲
    by jjoonathan 11y ago

    Isn't "In Defense of Food" the one that tries to alter the definition of "food" until it no longer encompasses many of the unhealthy things we eat? (EDIT: yes, yes it is.) I originally dismissed it without a second
13. 4123.▲
    by jjoonathan 11y ago

    In the age of $0.35 16MHz ARM cores (I'm sure you can get them much cheaper, that's just what I found on digikey) a bit of process complexity might not be so prohibitive. What a time to be alive!
14. 4124.▲
    by jjoonathan 11y ago

    16x180 ... = 288 I think he overestimates the capabilities of himself. He also misidentified the tricky part of the problem as multiplication and addition. Holding intermediate place values is far more likely to cause issu
15. 4125.▲
    by jjoonathan 11y ago

    > For example, a newly installed browser on a machine that has never had a browser cannot read your mind to figure out your home page. It can run and do its job, but without a URL, and a default home page, it can just display an empty wi
16. 4126.▲
    by jjoonathan 11y ago

    Huh, I didn't think about it until now but I'll anecdotally confirm your EE vs SWE observation. Then again, maybe I'm just far enough from the center of the EE scene that I don't get hit by as much dogma. Hard to tell.
17. 4127.▲
    by jjoonathan 11y ago

    > If you know C, you will love Arduino. Isn't it the opposite? If you aren't comfortable with C, Arduino has a simple enough API and good enough tutorials+documentation that you can still make it work. If you are comfortable
18. 4128.▲
    by jjoonathan 11y ago

    Then what's with the "enough nukes to destroy the world x times over" numbers I remember hearing? Have we really disarmed that much? Or were the numbers exaggerated?
19. 4129.▲
    by jjoonathan 11y ago

    I thought the only reason why China supported NK was because they don't want to clean up after a fallen regime and deal with the stream of refugees. Giving NK a H-bomb would not help with that goal, it'd increase instability if an
20. 4130.▲
    by jjoonathan 11y ago

    Not to be rude, I have no way of judging your skill level, but are you sure you understand the implications of 20-100khz bandwidth and a tuning range of 1-10mhz? Here is the table at top with the zeta included. I'd _strongly_ recommend
21. 4131.▲
    by jjoonathan 11y ago

    Along those lines, is anyone here familiar enough with FCC spectrum auctions to have an opinion about what they do well/poorly? It seems like a somewhat analogous situation in which we went down the other path.
22. 4132.▲
    by jjoonathan 11y ago

    I don't doubt that your observed correlation is true, but I think you have cause and effect reversed. When I understand material, it's easy to copy it down in its entirety because I can internalize and reproduce the meaning. In th
23. 4133.▲
    by jjoonathan 11y ago

    Exactly! Plausible deniability is a very low hurdle to jump over. If it's your only hurdle, you're in big trouble.
24. 4134.▲
    by jjoonathan 11y ago

    > But we might have chosen differently Please elaborate on what you mean by "chosen."
25. 4135.▲
    by jjoonathan 11y ago

    The threat of possible disruption from an uncertain direction 10 years down the line is of a very different nature than the threat posed by direct, immediate competition. Why do you think it's "lazy" to find one type of compe
26. 4136.▲
    by jjoonathan 11y ago

    That's what I thought at first, but $400M and 12 years should have been enough to put together a pretty solid uTAS seeing as microfluidic integration wasn't exactly bleeding edge back then either. But they seem to have drunk their
27. 4137.▲
    by jjoonathan 11y ago

    Because college is how the growing pool of labor competes for the shrinking pool of meal tickets.
28. 4138.▲
    by jjoonathan 11y ago

    Looks like a QFP not a BGA so you could get away with a home-etched board.
29. 4139.▲
    by jjoonathan 11y ago

    Much of that is due to demographics (retiring boomers, people staying in school longer) which is what the other figures try to take into account. Details: https://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R44055.pdf See page
30. 4140.▲
    by jjoonathan 11y ago

    Here's a description of what they say they are doing: http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002696672 It seems reasonable. Of course, there's a cynical interpretation: they are integrating a small but positively b