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by jonshea 16y ago
The title of Mankiw’s post is “Do two rights make a wrong?”, not “do two wrongs make a right” as in the HN title. Mankiw argues that it is noble and “right” to voluntarily give someone a kidney. Likewise it’s noble and “right” to voluntaril
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by jonshea 16y ago
See also the Bradley X Tax, which is a value-added tax melded with an income tax. The income tax can be as progressive as you like, and the VAT is equivalent to a flat sales tax. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_tax http://www.princeton.ed
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by jonshea 17y ago
I love that there was a guy whose whole job was to show up at the hotel, pay for the room across the hall from the target, hand off the key, and then immediately leave the country.
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by jonshea 17y ago
See also The Economist podcast interview with Bill Browder. http://audiovideo.economist.com/?fr_story=839854a8c031305662...
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by jonshea 17y ago
http://github.com/jonshea/config-files/blob/master/.emacs
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by jonshea 17y ago
The bottle with the corkscrew on the inside is my favorite. My best guess is that the corkscrew handle, without the screw, was hung inside by threads. The cork-with-screw was then pressed into place, probably with some glue on the end of th
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by jonshea 17y ago
I do the same thing, but I use Safari which can only restore tabs from the single most previous session. At some point my browser will crash, and then will crash again before I’ve restored the previous session. And then my reading black log
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by jonshea 17y ago
I played risk online at warfish.net for a while until I felt like I had maxed out the strategy to within the noise level. It isn’t obvious to me that there is a first mover advantage. In our games the initial territories were randomly dist
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by jonshea 17y ago
You could be right. Maybe Lyons get together every Thursday at a bar and rib each other over who had the harsher blog post while they sip on Deus Brut Des Flandres. Maybe they have pet names for each other’s kids, and give them noogies at g
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by jonshea 17y ago
Gruber’s reply was unbecoming and mean-spirited. Gruber routinely awards people the title “Jackass of the Week” for having opinions he disagrees with or for making erroneous predictions. When he himself whiffed hard on his Google Voice post
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by jonshea 17y ago
$125,000 in annual revenue is way low. The Daring Fireball feed sponsorship costs $2,500 for _one week_. That’s $130,000 a year right there. http://daringfireball.net/feeds/sponsors/ The Deck pulls in $180,000 a month with 45 affiliated
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by jonshea 17y ago
Common Lisp, {,S,O?CA}ML, and even C# also make the list.
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by jonshea 17y ago
You and I must use different definitions for “side effects or stuff hidden from view” if you think those are things you avoid by programming in C.
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by jonshea 17y ago
I’m pretty sure he’d point to Haskell as the best example.
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by jonshea 17y ago
Michael taught both the SICP and the Software Design and Implementation classes at an ivy league school for several years. I’m fairly certain that he knows what he’s talking about. I’ll admit that the post was a little ranty. It was quickly
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C: A Technological Landmine(blog.expandrive.com)
30 points by jonshea 17y ago|57 comments
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by jonshea 17y ago
It seems risky even if an attacker only had access to the final password hash, and not to the hash for every intermediate substring. In this ca the hacker could dictionary attack the hash while bypassing server side limits on failed passwor
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by jonshea 17y ago
Maybe you don’t hate spam as much as I do, but I’ll root for the state attorney general.
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by jonshea 17y ago
While I see where you’re coming from as an application programming, people who do primarily scientific programming ∑ is much more intuitive than 'sum'. When I was doing scientific programming I would have killed for unicode source support
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by jonshea 17y ago
When it comes to sports I always say that I’d rather have exciting sports than fair sports, and I’d rather have fair sports than clean sports. I’m a fan of pro-cycling, so doping news is in my life a lot. My favorite comments on intelligenc
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by jonshea 17y ago
This article is extremely thin. The only source in the whole thing is an anonymous “former U.S. diplomat in East Asia”. Why couldn’t he go on the record in his claim that North Korea doesn’t counterfeit, or in his claim that North Korea mak
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by jonshea 17y ago
I probably write and delete (or abandon) two posts for every one that I actually public. Blogs I post on are thick with unpublished drafts. Usually I abandon posts because I’m not pleased with the writing. I also abandon posts because I fee
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by jonshea 17y ago
I hate these “Sid Meier’s Rules” articles, because I love Covert Action. It was like Carmen Sandiego, but with awesome action games and puzzles instead of geography trivia. I’ll admit that I had a little trouble staying focused on the big
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by jonshea 17y ago
Earnshaw’s theorem applies to electrostatic fields (ie, from non-moving charges) as well as magnetic fields. I think electrostatics are a bit easier to visualize than magnetostatics. There’s also a good analogous physical situation. Imagine
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by jonshea 18y ago
Don’t trust. Just verify.
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FTP Considered Harmful: The Challenges of an FTP Filesystem(blog.expandrive.com)
4 points by jonshea 18y ago|1 comments
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by jonshea 18y ago
Q: What’s an anagram of “Banach-Tarski”? A: Banach-Tarski Banach-Tarski