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by luser001 14y ago
Here's another free anecdote for you. You seem pretty smart, but you need to think hard about your model of the world. Cancel that Economist subscription (I subscribe, btw) if you need to. :) Anyway, at an NGO that tries to build skills a
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Read the following classic books (I'm sure there are others) to get a better perspective on why "working hard" itself may be a luxury. They helped me understand better. Good luck! Everybody Loves a Good Drought: P. Sainath. There's a haunti
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Just to be pedantic: I don't think it's literally free, it's subsidized. "Companies could buy directly from the farmers": this has nothing to do with FDI in retail. Indian companies are free to do so already. The reason it isn't happening h
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I think you mischaracterize how CS journals work. What is described there is usually the characteristics of and results from a particular implementation.
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From reading Grisham (?) novels, I think each side only get a certain number of jury challenges. Maybe they ran out of challenges.
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Production of food (esp. the processed, high-meat, transportation-heavy sort in the US) has a significant carbon footprint. Global warming yada yada yada. YMMV. And historically, humans haven't lived with trivially easy access to food. What
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Hmm, I just pasted the 11kclub URL into my browser. The front page has no info on what this is about, but you still go ahead and ask for some personal info. I looked at the favilous front page. It looks pretty decent. Good luck.
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If you've thought it through, great. Whatever works for you. Good luck. But I just thought I'd address the subtext of your comment for the benefit of others who might be reading this too. > With 2+ kids, it becomes cheaper to hire a ful
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Decent question. And I'm happy to respond. We drop him off at 8 am and pick him up at 5 pm (that's 9 hours). He goes to bed between 8 and 9 and wakes up at around 6:30 am (that's about 10 hours). Both parents drop and pick him up. So we spe
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> I don't pursue professional aspirations and then ask myself, "How can I squeeze my kids into this?" Brilliant nugget! Thanks.
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You guys should consider sending her to a quality daycare. We've been sending our son to one since he was 3 mo. old. He loves it; we love it. We think that's the best thing we've done for him so far. Socializing with other children is
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Wrt the conventional wisdom that "Slums steal massive amounts of power without paying a rupee". Frontline magazine did a study which showed that a huge amount of power theft was occuring at industrial consumers. http://www.flonnet.com/fl19
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AFAIK, it's not just the utopian "green brigade" as you think. The amount of compensation that the govt. gives when forcibly acquiring land for nuclear projects is pathetically low. Many of them may fighting because they think that is the o
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HN doesn't show comment scores to anybody except the author of the comment. So I'm breaking my rule and writing a "me too" thank you note in addition to upvoting pm90's thank you comment. Good comments!
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Please explain. I love the USPS. It's cheap and fast. IMHO. YMMV. People literally ship gold through the US Mail: it's that secure.
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This is essential watching to understand China better. IMHO. YMMV. I changed a lot of my opinions after watching this talk. http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/martin_jacques_understandin...
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"destroyed"? My experience is the opposite. In the last decade, I've continuously had to increase my respect for China-made goods every year.
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I use the Asus 330GE "personal hotspot" device to convert my wifi to wired ethernet.
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Quick, possibly beginner question: do you hold all the data in RAM, or is some of it on disk?
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Every keyboard I've tried works cleanly. Maybe you have weird keyboards that suck too much power: the RPi USB ports can't supply a lot of juice. Maybe you got a defective unit. Hopefully you can get it going or get a replacement. Good luck!
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With Debian Squeeze, 'startx' brings up the GUI without issues on mine. Still, I do not plan on running a GUI on my RPi. It's got too little memory for that (imho). I plan to use it for home automation projects.
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Can you load your own OS on the Nexus 7? This thing can run Linux as well as Ubuntu. http://www.hardkernel.com/renewal_2011/products/prdt_info.ph...
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Hmm, I'm no expert. But AFAIK open memory mapped files are counted towards a process's virtual memory (as displayed by utils like 'top' and 'ps). Dunno if FF uses memory mapped files extensively. There's a utility called 'pmap' that you can
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In case you didn't know they invented the "Backblaze Pod" to reduce storage costs. I don't think their costs are unreasonably low. 1 TB of double-redundant bare HDD space costs about $250 for five years (they have an interesting blog post w
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Serious question: why not use Backblaze to backup your important things? Dropbox is primarily a sharing and synchronization tool: using it for backup is very expensive. IMHO. YMMV. Edit: They now match Spideroak's pricing. If anybody from
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davidjohnson below posted this excellent link which talks about the shenanigans^Wcheating that happened during arbitration. http://www.sportsscientists.com/2011/12/science-of-sport-awa... And see the top comment for a good explanation (im
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I still don't understand how your actions are influenced by developments in data mining. Am I missing something? It seems like you're just protecting yourself from your card information getting recorded and replayed (old hack in the book).
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Just to be clear, telling the broker their bid instead of just sending it sealed is exactly the corruption that's being discussed in the article. AFAIK, it wasn't legal for the bidders to tell the auctioneer what their bid was.
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And the problem was that they became UN sealed auctions due to corruption. After reading the article, are you saying that the auctioneer conducted a proper sealed auction? AFAIK, it is the norm worldwide in private as well as public sector
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Can you explain further? What do you mean by "closed" and "open" auction? AFAIK, they outsourced the auction process to a third-party company specializing in conducting auctions. That company and the bidders colluded to defraud municipaliti

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