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by likpok 18y ago
One thing about most? university education, is that the good places have you doing. Homework is more than just busywork. It's to get you actively working in the system you're learning. Same with labs and projects. Some of the troubles with
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by likpok 18y ago
And why shouldn't they do a controlled FDA-approved study? Medicine is a /science/ which means we need to test things, rather than relying on "common-knowledge". If it is as effective as you say, a study should be fairly easy to set up.
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by likpok 18y ago
Probably true, but it shouldn't be that difficult to set up a unicode font as a fallback for all other fonts.
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by likpok 18y ago
The implied comparison is more correct than the headline. The iPhone is much like the CA and AK gold rush. Lots of people spend money and time to get there, but not everyone strikes it rich. The media focuses on those who get good claims, a
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by likpok 18y ago
You probably just need to track down the right font that has them.
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by likpok 18y ago
Under Linux you can enable the compose key, with setxkbmap -option "compose:rwin" This lets you prefix digraphs with rwin, and have them print unicode characters. This is (to some extent) configurable, although I am not sure on the location
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by likpok 18y ago
Another thing: It's easier to get a good job/find good people at a good uni, because that's where the good people are. It's a self-perpetuating cycle. In addition to that whole "education" thing they have going there.
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by likpok 18y ago
If you're willing to pay, you could try approaching they owners to see if they're willing to sell/license.
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by likpok 18y ago
One point: If wages are trending downwards, then wages for professors should also trend downwards. This might make tuition trend downwards as well. (all trends are in real dollars, costs may simply grow slower than inflation) Other solution
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by likpok 18y ago
Your comparison is an apt one. Both recipes and music are things we think of as infinite, but are not (Proof: you can encode all music/recipes/whatever as a finite series of 0's and 1's. Hence, there is a finite (and easily calculated) uppe
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by likpok 18y ago
Seriously, who doesn't have 10 friends to lose? Or you can add 10 random people if you don't feel like alienating your "real" friends.
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by likpok 18y ago
But printing money and expanding the money supply have different effects on the economy. Printing money necessarily causes inflation; expanding the money supply does not ( it depends on where AD and AS are relative to each other).
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by likpok 18y ago
The Fed doesn't print money. It does affect the size of the money supply, but it does this with interest rates, securities, and the reserve rate (or can do this). The reserve rate is generally not touched (it causes shocks in the money supp
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by likpok 18y ago
But you are still attacking the person, rather than his argument.
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by likpok 18y ago
Not that I necessarily disagree, but you could argue that in the time there have been corporations, there was also government support.
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by likpok 18y ago
Or, you could argue that the government should be limited to market failures. Roads, defense, control, vaccines... all have significant effects outside of the markets, and thus their price does not reflect the benefit to society.
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by likpok 18y ago
Probably not, given that they are just following the standard blueprint. Also given the risks (tumors and immune-response), this seems to be the kind of thing only used in extreme cases.
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by likpok 18y ago
One other thing: Moore's law is fundamentally limited. Remember that the limit of the exponential function as t-> infinity is infinity. This should be enough to show you that at some point, Moore's law will end. It is less important rig
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by likpok 18y ago
I seem to recall a benchmark that showed Erlang as much faster than Stackless (for an admittedly relatively arbitrary problem).
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by likpok 18y ago
Or as a unique abbreviation of the name.
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by likpok 18y ago
Replace that with "Unless you are reasonably smart (and I think he is) you don't get what you need with certain diets." The issue with vegetarianism is that humans are not meant to eat just vegetables. Therefore, great care must be taken to
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by likpok 18y ago
Yes, but the human body is complicated. I would not trust a non-professional for any sort of nontrivial diagnosis. Enough people don't understand the fundamentals of medicine (look at the success of airborne and homeopathy) that crowd-sourc
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by likpok 18y ago
IIRC 64-bit Linux does this. As 64-bit becomes more prevalent, this may become a non-issue (Windows 7 was supposedly going to be 64-bit only, and one of the next releases may make this true). 16-bit Windows only lasted 10 years. There is 30
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by likpok 18y ago
There was at least one study of speed-readers where they gave two groups (speed and control) a text. The speed-readers did fine. The control group was confused because every other line was from a different text (two base texts).
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by likpok 18y ago
Minix is also a microkernel, which is a whole different can of worms.
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by likpok 18y ago
Research has shown that abstinence doesn't really work so well. There was a study that showed that abstinence only sex-ed lead to no change in the median initial age for sex. In fact, abstinence education has led to a rise in anal sex among
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by likpok 18y ago
Also because it increases adoption of their product. Then, when those people go to work, they say "I know and need Photoshop/Illustrator/whatever". Businesses are easier to enforce piracy with, and will pay more.
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by likpok 18y ago
Note that fat is more energy dense than ethanol, but a little less than gasoline (which is 48 KJ/g, compared with fats 37 KJ/g).
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by likpok 18y ago
Exactly. Iff you understand tech, it it obvious what to do in those cases. If you don't it is much like magic. You don't have a sensible baseline of how things should behave. So you make assumptions, and are occasionally wrong.
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by likpok 18y ago
Laptops seem to be the weak point of a lot of things, and it makes sense: nonstandard hardware, heavy use (movement), batteries, suspend... In the end, it's all dependent on your hardware. Some laptops work well with linux, some do not. Som

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