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by judk 12y ago
You.. Don't think mothers are programmers? Do you live in Alaska?
332.
by judk 12y ago
It is same in every medium of art, but video games are what the Interneterati talk about the most, since they are computer lovers.
333.
by judk 12y ago
In almost every household, at least one parent works 40 hours/week. Is that person not parenting? Are you aware how many hours are in a week? That children go to school?
334.
by judk 12y ago
If you had free will, why would you worry about if you have it?
335.
by judk 12y ago
People poorly imitating Thompson is what do avoid. It's called "gonzo" and most writers are bad at it, but it fills pages.
336.
by judk 12y ago
Of course APL is cleaner. But it requires a special keyboard. J tried to work around that, and flopped. The language need the aliases to be learnable.
337.
by judk 12y ago
Peter Thiel is a businessman, not a historian of technology.
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by judk 12y ago
Higher taxes on the wealthy will reduce wasteful spending.
339.
by judk 12y ago
What success has come from MSR? MSR always seemed like a charity operation.
340.
by judk 12y ago
Preferential tax treatment for in-firm transactions, regulatory capture, and economies of scale, and subsidies from small profitable corners.
341.
by judk 12y ago
That doesn't make sense. People would either get new jobs or coast till layoff. No one preemptively quits to do nothing because they fear a layoff.
342.
by judk 12y ago
FYI, as reported on Last Week Tonight, Time had merged its editorial and advertising groups, and is going forward as a content marketing company, not a news reporting company.
343.
by judk 12y ago
$15/mo is still too high for dabblers. It should have a free or cheaper tier (with low quota, or $0.20/hr, bill as-you-use like AWS) for people who want want to fiddle.
344.
by judk 12y ago
Example? I worked quite hard to get my grandma to install Chrome.
345.
by judk 12y ago
The GN wasn't planned obsolescence so much as "Google doesn't actually own the hardware, so they can't update drivers"
346.
by judk 12y ago
Cordata / Google Now / Siri People just gesture at the terminal, and the software interprets it.
347.
by judk 12y ago
Paint pigments are not pure single-wavelength colors.
348.
by judk 12y ago
Sigh, another fancy site that doesn't work on mobile, but could be presented with simple divs/tables or even ASCII art.
349.
by judk 12y ago
SS benefits are paid from current taxes. There is no Social Security Lock Box, its was a metaphor.
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by judk 12y ago
It's _QED_ (Quantum Electrodynamics), which is both a book (compiled lecture notes) and a video series. It's on YouTube. It was a non-science-major informal lecture series. Very little math.
351.
by judk 12y ago
OP (and also Richard Feybnan) believes that QM provides a more intuitive explanation for the elusive "why" waves (interference) exist. Commenters here don't like that.
352.
by judk 12y ago
As stated in the article, the point is to give an intuition for how energy appears to "move" from troughs to peaks: by going everywhere. This coincides with the Pilot Wave model, where particles travel along paths modeled by the p
353.
by judk 12y ago
http://www.xrite.com/online-color-test-challenge Doesn't work on mobile :-(
354.
by judk 12y ago
Super Shuttle is legal, pay per passenger. As are buses.
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by judk 12y ago
http://www.wildaid.org/news/yao-ming-says-no-ivory-and-rhino...
356.
by judk 12y ago
The ivory consumers are members of the dictatorship and their friends.
357.
by judk 12y ago
Its not "As hire As". It's "Bs hire Cs, so As must be careful to not hire Bs" Anyway it's a trite face not supported by research.
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by judk 12y ago
Did you just call Amazon a startup on the brink of extinction? Amazon is a giant old company like Google
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by judk 12y ago
Your crew is probably not paying taxes, and maybe pays less per person than homejoy.
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by judk 12y ago
Which is contradicted by their home page, which says "Get your place cleaned" and "we will come back and re-clean it"

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