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by jumper 18y ago
I find it interesting I'm slowly developing a love of getting karma. It seems to come from if I'm getting it, someone is reading my comments, and there may be interesting replies to read....
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by jumper 18y ago
I think the basic motivation for carrying a concealed weapon in situations like these is what if the guy never plans to stop killing? What if he just carries on hunting people for so long as his ammo lasts? That gives you a possibility of m
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by jumper 18y ago
I suspect that most people who go for whatever field is apparently "hot" wind up not doing very well. I would imagine those who get into fields because they're just following what they know\have interest in have much better chances. They ha
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by jumper 18y ago
Strictly speaking, not true. If the lectures were all standardized at, say, 50 minutes each, then a professor that could be sped up more would take less time to get through each lecture than one who could not be sped up much at all. It's ki
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by jumper 18y ago
Ah, what with the talk of the mock up I assumed you at least put up something as a visual basis. Sounds... refreshing, actually, even if it puts you on the spot, it frees you to show your stuff personally, as opposed to through prepared mat
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by jumper 18y ago
"Anticipate obvious questions and have intelligent answers ready." Does that include putting the answers in the presentation? I suppose their might be some that wouldn't really fit there even if they were predictable though. Otherwise, I'm
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by jumper 18y ago
"...we spent the next 8 years playing Starcraft" Heh. Reminds me of my friends and I falling into it. Somehow, I can't help but think Starcraft could be a useful if crude litmus test to divide people into social groups. I wonder if there ar
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by jumper 18y ago
Yeah, I think blue breaks down the fastest color wise. I suppose it might be because the emitted light would have higher energy than red or green.
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by jumper 18y ago
I wonder if OLEDs break down more or less independent of usage anyways like how a lithium ion battery can wear out faster from use, but is still wearing out even if you don't use it.
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by jumper 18y ago
Maybe not.... inflation alone could make that psychologically important 100$ mark impossible to reach if they don't get to it soon.
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by jumper 18y ago
"DH1. Ad Hominem." "What does he know, he's just a mathematician!" If you disagree with his thoughts on the matter, feel free to share your low opinion of him, but do try to back it up with real reasoning.
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by jumper 18y ago
Quality of the article aside...."But they probably do a better job of saving it for when they're talking with other doctors, rather than posting it on the internet where everyone can see it." Huh. Thing is, they didn't put it up where "ever
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by jumper 18y ago
The "salt test" is a popular and older than I am story\method, but why the name drop of Henry Ford? So far as I can tell, the evidence tying it to him is non-existent, just like all the other people\groups you hear it tied to. Regardless, w
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by jumper 18y ago
If they're never told their performance is inadequate, how will they ever know to improve? This reminds of the old political correctness slide into oblivion...
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by jumper 18y ago
I suppose you could restrict programs to only running out of certain folders to centralize it, but I think the only way this kind of thing could ever really get better is a sink or swim approach. As in, if your computer is setup insanely po
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by jumper 18y ago
I think part of what he is saying is right. You can only work "profitably" if you have "resources" available to you. Take farming. Guess what, no matter how good at it you are, no matter how hard a worker, no matter how much you deserve to
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by jumper 18y ago
Whenever I hear arguments like these one side always sounds like this: "Oh yesyesyes everything is fine! No need to question anything! Oh no! You're questioning things! THAT'S CREATED A HUGE PROBLEM! Everything was perfect before you reveal
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by jumper 18y ago
I don't know... on the one hand it has gotten nasty, but on the other... some of the problems Windows has are kind of ridiculous, and it's almost a feature to say, "We don't do all that stupid crap!", even if, ideally, it never would have b
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by jumper 18y ago
And heck, most of us can't even agree on what those mean exactly....
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by jumper 18y ago
Kudos on spreading the word, but it's still ridiculous....
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by jumper 18y ago
"...before they die." Or... just before they go dormant for the winter.... your metaphor is kinda confused there. Especially considering 5% sounds more like natural loss of leaves at any given time anyways, more so than a period of stress.
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by jumper 18y ago
Uh.... How does what he say prove what he will do? If he were being dishonest here, maybe he would be... I dunno, dishonest? I personally have no idea what Buffett's really thinking, but maybe you left some points out of your argument there
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by jumper 18y ago
Because colleges actually involve the students in their education.... if only to a small extent.
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by jumper 18y ago
Well, see, except that's the problem! A lot of time they don't have to prove themselves for a long time, certainly not in school, almost never in certain bureaucratic blobs, and when the consequences come for them... often they come for us
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by jumper 18y ago
Well, that simplification is not quite acceptable to me. The general definition of "living" involves more conditions. Wikipedia has a pretty good list of the 7 usual criteria. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life I don't think crystals quali
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by jumper 18y ago
I've always heard things like "I think you'll find that you're lonely." Hm. Well, yeah, I (male) do find that! But it doesn't seem to matter where I am or what "group" I'm in, I'm lonely as hell. I connect on a meaningful level with a very
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by jumper 18y ago
I dunno... I already wrote TC off as a waste of my time along with things like valleywag quite some time ago, so I could easily be ignorantly biased, but for me I'd describe them as mainly being "good" at link-baity bullshit titles + wild t
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by jumper 18y ago
" http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/progress/notes.html#tract... " Seems like the link is wrong... it only works when you replaced that '-' with a '.'. Odd that it already has 4 points but no comments regardless of that....
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by jumper 18y ago
"Gloriously uncertain" describes how I feel about economics in general, never mind the crazy finance economics around this whole mess, but what I do know is that the specific provisions against oversight in the first bill screamed rank corr
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by jumper 18y ago
Well, terribly sorry if I called it wrong. In any case I think it came out a bit meaner than I had intended. I dunno...it can be tricky deciding what's safe to assume and what has to be fully worded and explained out....

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