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by lawpoop 10y ago
> He's playing on the Russian fear, which is what the Democratic party is really pushing right now (by the way, isn't this something the Republican party used to do - what's happening here?!). During the USSR times, the pr
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by lawpoop 10y ago
I agree. I call what I believe the critical factor in being a good teacher, "sympathetic imagination"-- the ability to imagine what the other person perceives.
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by lawpoop 10y ago
That's what Carl Sagan said about his ability to communicate science information to his audiences. He had difficulty with the material, struggled through it, and found that be was more conscious of each step of the process, and could b
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by lawpoop 10y ago
The Artie period was the best.
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by lawpoop 10y ago
I personally am a fan of the RNA world hypothesis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RNA_world RNA can act as both a store of information, and as an enzyme catalyzing reactions. In this theory, certain sequences of RNA wou
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by lawpoop 10y ago
I understand that abstract idea in the big picture, but I am interested in the specific history of how that played out at Kodak.
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Ask HN: Insider history of the demise of Kodak?
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by lawpoop 10y ago
This is what is different about real estate from all other investments -- you have you put your money towards it, whether it's an investment or not. You might not realize any gains on a mortgaged property, but it could be a better hold
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by lawpoop 10y ago
What if the few people mucking about the peat bog ran into it, said "Oh gross that's a dead guy", and went the other way, for thousands of years?
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by lawpoop 10y ago
Oh it has radically. The amount of work done, and the ages of those working, has change significantly since we moved from a pre-industrial agraian society to an informational one. Why, these days, it's not uncommon for someone not to b
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by lawpoop 10y ago
Not better for your or me, just that it's better or comparable to the most of the world who lives in poverty and squalor. As far as measuring happiness, one method would be levels of stress hormones in the blood.
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by lawpoop 10y ago
The 26 life-expectancy is an average, not when people actually die. It's brought down by high infant mortality.
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by lawpoop 10y ago
I'm rethinking my interpretation on this.
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by lawpoop 10y ago
That's sort of my point, if I understand you correctly. There are two responses to "Hey, the site is slow!" One is "Well, that's because PHP/Python/Java is slow, we should start coding in C/etc".
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by lawpoop 10y ago
> no such thing as slow language, only slow implementations My interpretation of that (and perhaps I'm reading too much into it) was that for modern-day 'retail' tasks (taking an HTTP request, querying a database, dispatch
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by lawpoop 10y ago
What happens is that hospitals and other health care organizations negotiate a rate per procedure, not per patient. They look at how much it "should" cost, based on materials and doctor's time. You can't go to an insuran
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by lawpoop 10y ago
Well, if he meant "it doesn't have S-expressions", he should have said that. That's not an unreasonable expectation for a guy who is otherwise a pedant in almost all other areas of his life.
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by lawpoop 10y ago
I agree with you about the logistics; it might be a better idea for an online voting system (which carries its own set of concerns). However, assuming one cannot change their vote, I disagree that there is more opportunity for tampering. Ea
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by lawpoop 10y ago
I go back and forth on changing your vote. Arguments for would be learning something new, or breaking information during the period of the vote. For instance, if a news story broke about a politician, or something hidden in the wording of a
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by lawpoop 10y ago
I don't know, it seems that people of all political stripes believe that the politicians in other parties are grossly misinformed. I could point to countless examples to politicians in my party and others.
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by lawpoop 10y ago
I do; my suspicion is that it's people who didn't vote, trying to figure out what will happen in the near future.
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by lawpoop 10y ago
My personal inclination is those googling it didn't vote at all, and are now trying to figure out exactly what will happen in the next few years.
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by lawpoop 10y ago
Isn't that a problem with all forms of government? That the people in charge can be influenced by false truths?
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by lawpoop 10y ago
I think one solution is to hold the vote open for an extended period of time-- weeks, say. Keep an updated tally going at all time. That way, it's not just a high-stakes, one day event. Everyone will have a chance to vote, and nobody c
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by lawpoop 10y ago
Trees only hold carbon until they fall and rot. It's not a permanent solution.
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by lawpoop 10y ago
> If they are flammable, even explosive, nobody has any protocol that could make storage of such volumes safe. Dumb question for a non-engineer: couldn't they feed them back through the power plant again?
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by lawpoop 10y ago
I don't think OP is saying it's not an accomplishment, just not that it was a viral accomplishment.
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by lawpoop 10y ago
Yes, it was doctors and lawyers. Get out of school, declare banktupcy on $100+k of debt (abnormal at the time except for those degrees) and then in 7 years, start over with all the money you saved as a Junior doctor/lawyer.
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by lawpoop 10y ago
Sounds like there might be a potential for a dev and production codebase?
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by lawpoop 10y ago
This is the problem I had learning math in school, and why I believe I'm doing okay as a self-taught programmer. I always thought I was doing okay until I got my graded test back. Did I mix up greater-than, less-than again at work? Wel

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