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by logjam 18y ago
Oh my. Two minutes of web search: http://www.accuracy.org/article.php?articleId=51 http://www.cato-unbound.org/2008/11/12/matthew-yglesias/poli... http://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2006/05/cato-hypocrisy.html http://www.socsec.org/public
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by logjam 18y ago
I'm not real clear on why a 1997 article from a routinely discredited right-wing think-tank on this issue is Hacker News....but since we seem to be playing "cite old biased articles", here's the sordid history of how unregulated landlord gr
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by logjam 18y ago
Rapid calculating has about as much to do with real mathematics as double-entry accounting has to the Tao, so I'm at a bit of a loss as to what this fuss is really all about.
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by logjam 18y ago
My heart goes out to you and your family. It's often extremely difficult for people to go through radiation and chemotherapy. He sounds like he's in the middle of that. I would encourage you to keep talking with him and his doctors. Tell th
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by logjam 18y ago
Executive summary: lottery winner writes self-congratulatory article with over-promising title for non-technical rag on lottery winner's funding an anatomical and genetic database of the nervous system -- the data least likely to yield a "t
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by logjam 18y ago
Interesting....my Erdos number is 4 too, but I'm in a different field. There are long math tentacles into the world. Thanks to Gowers et al for this fabulous book!
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by logjam 18y ago
I appreciate that...my search was the old fashioned way: reading the text, and looking in the index! I must be just going blind as well as dumb.
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by logjam 18y ago
This book is a rarity: a comprehensive survey, with rigor, yet gentle and welcoming to the amateur. The writing is wonderful . One oddity: I keep looking for a mention of Paul Erdos in the book, and haven't found one.
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by logjam 18y ago
Admirable goals...none of which require we be rich...and many with which riches will interfere.
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by logjam 18y ago
Unions locked in benefits in industries that were being, and continue to be, mismanaged by completely clueless and yet highly paid executives. Good for the unions. Hint: "dehumanizing" was not the word you were looking for, there. Curious t
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by logjam 18y ago
Perhaps the good folks who follow the cult of Rand could discuss for us the costs, as they see them, of unregulated greed.
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by logjam 18y ago
I dismiss your "arguments" even more swiftly (you're not making any, you are merely making tired, unsupported assertions). The answers to your "questions" can all be found here, which 30 seconds of googling would have found for you: http:/
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by logjam 18y ago
Here's some free advice: never mistake rudeness for intolerance of utter nonsense. But, ok, I read your post again: You: "The primary goal of TeX is 'to allow anybody to produce high-quality books using a reasonable amount of effort'. IT IS
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by logjam 18y ago
WTF are you talking about? From wikipedia: "In several technical fields, in particular computer science, mathematics and physics, TeX has become a de facto standard. Many thousands of books have been published using TeX, including books pub
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by logjam 18y ago
> This is why Palin and her family freaks out a lot of liberal women SOO badly. She's a stark reminder of their infertility. Uh, no. I'm not a woman, but the women I know who are freaked out by Palin (and ALL the women I know are in fac
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by logjam 18y ago
[citation needed] I think given the experiences of 2000, 2004, and some of the horror stories already emerging, "non-citizens" voting isn't on the radar compared with vote-suppression, and technology that appears custom-designed for fraud.
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by logjam 18y ago
I agree. This was really finance's big bubble, inflated by nothing but hype. There was no production in that field, nothing more than an elaborate, unethical shell game / pyramid scheme. The MBA folks had their brief moment (cheating) in th
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by logjam 18y ago
Agreed. I have had three Honda and Toyota vehicles. My last one had 350,000 miles on it - all handled well, were gas misers, always looked good, never gave me any problems, and were easy to maintain myself. GM/Ford make, frankly, excrement.
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by logjam 18y ago
I did consulting work for FedEx. Instead of asking America to bail him out like we've bailed out banks, Fred might want to look at his company. I've never actually encountered a more inbred group of incompetents. They, like Microsoft, happe
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by logjam 18y ago
You've got to be kidding. Please explain how these "models" informed the ethics of what remains basically a shell game. What you mean to say is the "models" provided cover...rationalization for wild speculation and accounting tricks with
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by logjam 18y ago
Uh, no. "Clinton did it" ain't gonna cut it (right wingers are even trying desperately to blame CARTER...whose presidency ended almost thirty years ago) for "the mess". This is merely political spin that nobody is seriously buying. The game
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by logjam 18y ago
Posted as an example of a refreshing, rational, surprisingly lucid way to look at making a particular decision using messy data. Norvig's analysis, whether you agree with it or not, is a good example of using a particular tool occasionally
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by logjam 18y ago
My. No offense, but for someone with such strong feelings and a little name-calling and all about political posts, you certainly seem to make a lot of political posts yourself. Tell you what. You make your FAQ, and I'll make a FAQ about how
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Peter Norvig's Election 2008 FAQ(norvig.com)
80 points by logjam 18y ago|48 comments
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by logjam 18y ago
I don't. And everyone I know is demanding something a little more intellectually rigorous and just than still more trickle down excrement.
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by logjam 18y ago
Oh, it's a just a whole hell of a lot more complicated than that. The really big threats came from big banks anxious to keep their subprime accounting tricks going as long as possible, and to keep up their oh so profitable derivatives game.
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by logjam 18y ago
Google is taking a stand against bias. Bravo for them. They blew it on China - they may be getting this one right. "Impartiality" on whether to treat people with justice or not doesn't scan.
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by logjam 18y ago
[citation needed]
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by logjam 18y ago
"So even for people whose own circumstances have not much changed, the cost of the credit is going to rise. For an individual or business that falls behind on payments or needs an increase in short-term credit because of the slowing economy
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by logjam 18y ago
Other than the chortling about people losing jobs, I agree with this guy. Finance and portfolio folk really create little. They are gamblers in the basic sense: their highest goal is gaining as much as possible in return for as little as po

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