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by likpok 17y ago
The Fed has made politically difficult decisions in the past. During the 80's, they kept interest rates high, despite the massive unemployment.
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by likpok 17y ago
At some point you have to accept that there is finite bandwidth. Shannon says that if you have an arbitrarily noisy channel, you can get data through it slowly. The problem is that people don't want slowly, they want it now .
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by likpok 17y ago
Right. You can train a person to put 2x4's together to frame a house fairly easily (it's not hard). Teaching someone to collate nonstandard bits into a structurally sound building would be much harder. The base problem therefore is that whi
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by likpok 17y ago
AT&T has more of a scalability problem than most businesses. Usually you don't have the laws of physics coming in to interfere quite as strictly.
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by likpok 17y ago
Have chess engines gotten to the point where they can win without cheating (e.g. being reprogrammed between rounds)?
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by likpok 17y ago
Although most of the verb-forms follow relatively simple patterns. Except, of course, for the irregular ones, which are totally off. Then you get into the various constructions of verbs + other or nouns + other, and it gets even more comp
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by likpok 17y ago
We don't know that this is still the case. Text messaging is very popular, and what was once a little-used patch of bandwidth might not be so spare these days. This is not to say that the charges are warranted (except that people pay them)
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by likpok 17y ago
http://www.psy.fsu.edu/~baumeistertice/goodaboutmen.htm Interesting article talking about gender differences.
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by likpok 17y ago
This might explain why some of the climate models have been so off. Since climate is generally accepted to be somewhat chaotic (sensitive to initial conditions, at least for a while), an unheard of source of energy might be enough to change
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by likpok 17y ago
It's not solved. How do you download a file? How do you let it download this file, but not that one? Firefox isn't built to understand that concept, so it takes more than just denying it write privledges to solve.
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by likpok 17y ago
Yi is more of a Vim/Emacs hybrid. It's supposed to take the good from both, and hopefully come out with something nice. From the little I used it, the frontends are supposed to be transparent replacements for Vim/Emacs. It is, however, a wo
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by likpok 17y ago
In many ways Vista surpassed Linux. Linux has very rough process/file levels (user, group, root). Vista allows you to have your processes (or root's processes, IIRC) not be able to write to your files. Which is a big win when a user level p
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by likpok 17y ago
I don't use office software much. However, Word is much, much nicer than OpenOffice. Even for basic editing. If people are doing almost anything more complicated than the basic text document, they can use the well-researched UI. Whether tha
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by likpok 17y ago
This was clearly true of windows pre-vista. Post-vista windows, it may not be so much. The vista security model is a very different beast (assuming the same quality of user).
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by likpok 17y ago
If it works the way I think it does, look up the (basic) physics around gravity. You probably wouldn't even need to break out of the mass * g * height = energy equation.
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by likpok 17y ago
Which is of course the big problem with school vouchers. Much of the initial usage would be to subsidize religious education (since almost all private schools are religious here).
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by likpok 17y ago
I've noticed that of friends with GPS-phones, the tower tracking is always horrendous. Generally it is enough to get you into the right part of the city, but not enough to do any real navigation with.
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by likpok 17y ago
I think the issue with $coffee-shop is not that someone will interrupt you directly (e.g. talk to you), but that a commotion in the background will interrupt you
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by likpok 17y ago
People want it. I believe the first of the netbooks were Linux. Then Microsoft got around to offering Windows on them, and they promptly took over the market.
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by likpok 17y ago
I've used OWA, and it isn't that bad. It's not nearly as nice as Outlook, but as a web client it is not that bad.
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by likpok 17y ago
I don't think that Microsoft likes IE6 any more than you do. They're just obligated to support it by their customers.
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by likpok 17y ago
This makes sense with how I feel when I go to classes. Whenever I sit in the back, I always struggle much more to pay attention, even when the lecturer is good.
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by likpok 17y ago
There doesn't seem to be much of a use for URL shorteners outside of twitter. Facebook statuses are much longer, and might just deal with embedded urls anyway.
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by likpok 17y ago
I believe this was also to combat a 'scam' where store owners (the example I heard was Persian carpets) would mark things up, and then have a going out of business sale that would mark them down to above the original price.
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by likpok 17y ago
If they did that, they'd have to look at self-styled 'expers' who write books on topics like weight loss etc, with no formal qualification. And there are a lot of those.
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by likpok 17y ago
It costs time to come up with a project, for training, a coach, etc. In general, internships are a good idea (they give both sides a trial run), but some companies may not want to spend the resources on them.
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by likpok 17y ago
Or you could make an argument about the debatable efficacy of secondhand smoke. (I have heard people claiming that secondhand smoke is not as bad as people make it out to be. I do not have sources for this, nor am I particularly arguing it.
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by likpok 17y ago
One possible explanation: Companies which are under pressure to diversify their boards select people who are less competant/experienced.
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by likpok 17y ago
Some people can't choose, and some people don't care . A great example that was given to me was cars. Does your car have a stock radio? Why? Why not upgrade it? Most people don't want to bother with updating a browser, or changing a stereo
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by likpok 17y ago
It is more interesting to see them use human things. We can use them, so we know what they are doing. It's also a lot harder. We already have machines which make food and are optimized for it. It's just not cool in the same way.

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