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by jpmattia 13y ago
As an aside, you joke but: > launching the 5th dog teeth cleaning service in the same tiny geographic area. A quick search will show you the top hit is geographically dispersed: http://petdentalservices.com/ So as yo
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> Tax returns - or the lack thereof. And how is it determined (beyond a reasonable doubt, with a vigorous defense) whether or not you committed the crime of tax evasion?
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> You can't use the proceeds of crime to fund your defense. And how is it determined (beyond a reasonable doubt, with a vigorous defense) that you committed a crime to yield those proceeds?
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> I'm not really sure why "peer-review" is so lofty a concept anyway. I agree. Will someone tell pg to turn off the upvotes?
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Link? (That wouldn't be tfat? who was a grad student at the time iirc.)
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> There is also an argument to be made that EMACS was not an improvement over TECO. Full disclosure: I've been using emacs since 1981. ISTR TECO under TOPS was a PITA. eg. From Sec 4-1 Some characters, like <CTRL/U>,
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by jpmattia 13y ago
> Is the source of a quote really relevant though? It is a big requirement when using proof-by-authority.
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by jpmattia 13y ago
A cultural item missing from the MIT side of the history: The Lisp machines at the MIT AI Lab were named. First, the names were all dead rock stars (I was there in the 80s, so Hendrix, Joplin ...). Eventually there were enough machines t
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by jpmattia 13y ago
> An end must be put to the inhuman practice of draining the productive to subsidize the unproductive. A good step in this direction would be omitting Forbes troll pieces on HN.
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> CalculatedRisk changed his opinion as the facts changed (he is data-driven, and one of the best blogs out there). I should have emphasized this point myself. Also, the CR comment board used to be of HN quality, but for economics and
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by jpmattia 13y ago
> but I wonder how several of these points (particularly the points about oversupply, baby boomers, etc.) apply to places like SF or Manhattan. First, it's a bit of a cliché from realtors in every area of the US to say: "It&
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by jpmattia 13y ago
It's worth noting that patrick was among the few active bloggers that noticed the housing bubble early. Ben at the thehousingbubbleblog, calculatedrisk were two others. Folks that were paying attention and shorted the banks made some
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by jpmattia 13y ago
> Your math teacher never taught you these because they're just labels attached to quantities expressible in terms of sine and cosine. ... which is why I plan to ignore tangent from now on.
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by jpmattia 13y ago
Sorry for not being more clear. > it rather is the semplification of a language (e.g. Latin, or Italian) in order to make it easier to understand and speak by non natives. This is exactly what happened to English; English used to have
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by jpmattia 13y ago
> Mediterranean Lingua Franca was a pidgin: “a simplified language that develops as a means of communication between two or more groups that do not have a language in common”. English, instead, is a full-blown language. Since modern En
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by jpmattia 13y ago
The headline is quite misleading to folks with software backgrounds: "Clocked at 427 GHz" implies that the paper's authors measured something with a signal at 427 GHz. In truth, the authors measured up to 30 GHz and extrapo
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by jpmattia 13y ago
The wife and I moved cross-country two years ago, and were living out of suitcases for a couple of weeks while the moving truck caught up to us. Somewhere around day 10 we realized: If the moving truck was vaporized by a meteor, and they
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It's roughly as small of a perturbation to the radiation field as, say, a tinfoil hat.
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> [Mass. DOR FAQ] It doesn’t matter where you host the information. If the business you’re working for has offices in Massachusetts, you have to collect tax. Sounds like the solution is pretty obvious. And I doubt anyone will miss Bo
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by jpmattia 13y ago
> not being a chip engineer, i wonder while 3D chip layer stacking isn't in the wide use. Short version: The process to make a 2D layer of transistors requires something like 20-30 masking steps, and many of those steps require sig
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by jpmattia 13y ago
> Inter-agency task forces have become common in American law enforcement since 9/11. Still, you call for a Cambridge detective, the Secret Service also shows up, and that doesn't cause major head scratching? I wish the summ