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by jpdoctor 14y ago
The local library doesn't have my collection of tech books (semiconductor physics, circuit design, math math and more math, physics, physics, and more physics...)
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> It's not about what you can prove, but what you can extort using trumped up charges to force a plea. Yes, you elucidated my point quite well. It doesn't matter whether or not manslaughter applies: She would have to either defend he
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> Books are more like a fluid than individual objects. It's not especially inconvenient to own several thousand books, Only thing I disagree with in this essay (I have many many bookcases that have gone back and forth across the US mu
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Thanks for that. God I hope firewalld has more intuitive config than iptables.
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> "MIT rejected offer for no jail time for Swartz." It would be interesting to know who made that call. And why. - from an alum with multiple degrees. I find it particularly bizarre knowing some history of disciplinary measures ther
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Wow. I also note: The first paragraph stands alone as an interesting tidbit from him.
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Anyone want to create highlights for those of us with a short attention span?
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> What a bastardized thought process I think it's great: So now when Carmen is charged with manslaughter, she can be offered a plea-bargain of six months. I wonder how Mr Carmen would feel about it being put in that light.
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> has me seriously thinking this guy needs to see the other side of a defense table. Along with a prosecutor that decides to mitigate a suicide risk by locking him up. Just to be safe.
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Reddit co-founder's charges dropped after suicide(cbc.ca)
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> Whitey Bulger is just one case handled by the Boston office. Why is it so hard to understand that "the other side" has multiple facets? It was a puff piece. It's also worth taking a look at the Bulger case: They froze his assets (
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> MIT President Emeritus Charles M. Vest currently serving as a Trustee of JSTOR parent Ithaka I've met him a few times in the past: From what little interaction I've had, I find it hard to believe his attitude was "Teach that meddl
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> Quite aptly, this link is behind a pay wall. Not really: Open up a private browser (ctrl-shift N on chrome, eg) then paste the link.
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FTA: By targeting corruption and white-collar crime, the US attorney is restoring our faith in the system. WTF? On what planet is Whitey Bulger either corruption and white-collar crime? He was finally found in Santa Monica with $600K an
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
This was one of the links from the discussion: http://riskcalc.sts.org/STSWebRiskCalc273/de.aspx The tl;dr = Society of Thoracic Surgeons reduced a dataset and built a website. For people dealing with some pretty heavy heart issues, it'
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The location was Yale-New Haven. To be clear: It wasn't me running queries, I was hearing about this second hand.
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> But where is the value to the patient? Does it help to have Patient A’s cholesterol information in the same database table when treating Patient B? No. This is incorrect. Phil might have experience from the DB side, but apparently
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> This reminds me a lot of the scheme that conference organizers set up. They might charge $5,000 for you to attend because that way you know you'll be with other high caliber people. Spoiler alert: Those things are complete scams. T
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> It's not nice charging $100 to send you a message and ignoring it. And god knows that a business guy like Zuck would never do anything that's not nice.
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Thanks for the pointer; That is a completely valid instance of being a shill. :) We'll take a look when appropriate. Naturally, it will only make sense if we can either forbid CC's, or explicitly charge higher for the CC payments. (Basi
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> About two years I broke out the BLS data for US employment % vs level of education into a series of graphs. I've posted it elsewhere, but CR also had that graph in his blog: http://cr4re.com/charts/chart-images/EducationUnemployme
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
Note that the article draws on a graph from the blog Calculated Risk. I have followed CR for years, and after reading the pando article, I'm am convinced the pando author is completely out to lunch. Just as one example: The author is cher
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> due to the fact that 48FPS made it very apparent there was lots of makeup being used How does better temporal resolution (higher frame rate) enable better spacial resolution (see makeup detail)? In no or low motion, there can be no
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
Perhaps it's an apt metaphor: All you need to know about health care in 2013 is that there's no response.
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
1% + 0.15/transaction. I have no desire to hand $30K to anyone on $1M for counting money electronically. Currently, we just employ someone to take care of the checks and it is only a fraction of her time. Around $10K it becomes an interest
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> I've never missed a payment and never carried a balance Hilariously, in banker lingo you are referred to as a "deadbeat", without any apparent sense of irony.
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> If you can’t process credit cards right now – you don’t have a product and you barely have a business. Wow. Should I return a few million dollars to my customers?
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Sounds like all kinds of fun (and late nights) can be had. Thanks to all the answers in this subthread for the current info.
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Really? My memory must be fuzzy, ISTR it was a coding exercise, at least in the 80s. The memory is the first thing to go, etc etc. EDIT: It was indeed robots from the beginning (1987). http://perspective.mit.edu/about/history.shtml
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
From a curious alum, and excuse the inside baseball: Long ago, there used to be a 6.270 contest. I noticed this is a 6.370 contest. Anyone know the history if they're related?

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