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...just like professional tax return preparers once the tax code/law got too crazy. <grin>I love unintended consequences.</grin> What you mention is an important knock-on effect. There will be entrepreneurial j
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Mine (individual purchased, for a family of three) increased slightly, from about $850/month to $880/month, but the cost for office visits went down and the cost of prescription drugs went WAY down.
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This is an extremely important point; "job lock" has been acting as a brake on the US economy since at least 2007--8, maybe earlier, and the outlawing of "pre-existing condition" redlining practices by insurance companie
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When a high power (megawatts) laser hits a surface, even a mirrored surface, the effect is more like a hammer than a reflection. This was studied extensively during the SDI program. Chrome plating missiles is, in the long term, ineffective;
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Loan kiting is a type of bank fraud. It's "an intent to deceive" for the purpose of obtaining unauthorized use of bank funds.
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What could be mined, some day, from the Bitcoin blockchain? Looked at in the right way, it's a sparse rainbow table for SHA-256. I can't help wondering if this is someone's science project.
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The book is out of print and difficult to find, so I reproduce an extract here; I hope this is Fair Use: The ILLIAC IV was a gigantic machine built in the 1970s at the University of Illinois. It had sixty-four processors, each as big as an
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Wonderful! That site gives tests that can be performed from the keyboard to distinguish between Casio and non-Casio architectures, mentions the invisible 9th digit of precision, and notes that some calculators get it wrong. The old Sinclair
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Well, clearly the display is an addressable register, not merely an output through a latch.(I say that because I assume the design goals of an inexpensive calculator include kaizen -ing the bill of materials down to the absolute minimum. S
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On most pocket calculators, 11111111×= will yield 12345678. People are often surprised that that sequence is accepted. To me, it exposes something about the calculator's internal architecture. It's also a useful self-test if you t
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This is my favourite Connection Machine story: The Connection Machine began as Hillis's Ph.D. thesis at MIT. "There was a point when Danny was getting serious about the design," recalls Minsky. "And I said
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Some time ago I made a second SSID on my wireless router and gave it this standard name: https://openwireless.org/ Unfortunately, I've never noticed anyone using it. Anecdotally, however, take this as one data point th
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Fifty-year-old ads in the first issue of IEEE Spectrum (1964)(spectrum.ieee.org)
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I mean interviewing in the context of a programmer being asked to help interview people. I would get called to do this a few times a week at my last job. Manager comes in with a stack of twenty or so résumés and says, "pick a couple of
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When interviewing, I would love it if all the candidates' résumés could be preprocessed into this format. It would save so much time if I could simply PgUp/PgDn through them.
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Very interesting! I like the layout, though wondered why the buttons along the bottom of each panel didn't do anything. Edited to add: it's always worthwhile when people try things like this. The single-page paper résumé is a form
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New Year's Resolution: to get the leap year conditional right this time.
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Facebook is like a zombie. I deactivated mine, but a few days later one click on some other random web site that used FB authentication and the Facebook account had been reactivated. You have to drive the hickory stake all the way through
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The encoding of kinetic energy in the colour of the particle trails is innovative. Did you encounter the effect I call "lost" momentum that occurs around very close approaches when the time quantum is constant? It manifests by par
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I've updated https://github.com/jloughry/Unicode with more information, the beginnings of a project plan, and some research. I think I can get all the needed IEC, IEEE, and ISO standards through my school. The nex
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I started a project on GitHub to do it: https://github.com/jloughry/Unicode
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How to propose new characters for Unicode: http://www.unicode.org/pending/proposals.html I would be willing help work on this. We could keep the proposal documents on GitHub as a starting point for others who might nee
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Added pull requests to extend the address space from 33 bits to 36 bits to accommodate our revered ancestors, and a bit to indicate liveness. TODO: don't implement zombies or ghosts at this time (YAGNI principle).
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These need to be questions that are invariant over a lifetime: - Were you born in the northern hemisphere or southern? $2^{33}$ is sufficient for those alive now, but the human population is a dynamic function. Set a bit when the person die
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Interesting article, but I had to view source to be able to read it. People who browse with JavaScript turned off see a blank page on your site (at least on Firefox 25).
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There was a similar story a few years ago (2010). The "Robin Sage" profile was constructed as a honeypot across a number of social networks. Ultimately, the problem was the originators couldn't spoof the MIT alumni network:
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I hit F5 a couple of times, then resolved not to make the situation any worse in case it was a DDoS, so I went away for a while.
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Why not call it Rot8192 or Rot0x7777 ?
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The issue is six years old (2007) but the problem is still relevant in 2013: see the brand new paper by Wang, et al. 'Towards Optimization-Safe Systems: Analyzing the Impact of Undefined Behavior' to appear in SOSP'13 next we
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There was a similar story a few years ago (2010). The fake "Robin Sage" profile hooked a number of military contractors in the Beltway area: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9179507/Fake_i_femm

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