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by magoghm 17y ago
Walter Mebane uses Benford's Law on the second digit as a more reliable system to detect electoral fraud: http://www.umich.edu/~wmebane/pm06.pdf Furthermore, it is interesting to note that he pointed out in 2006 that the results of the Me
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by magoghm 17y ago
The Federal Reserve could have added extra slack very easily just by increasing the reserve requirements. But that goes against what seems to be the Fed's standard inflationary policies.
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by magoghm 17y ago
"Anarchy means the complete absence of law or government. It may be harmonious or chaotic." I was glad to read that. I'm so tired of people who believe that anarchy implies chaos.
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by magoghm 17y ago
It's easy to see that most nutriton specialists aren't very scientific: they refer to meat as "proteins" and measure everything in "calories" (which are really kilocalories) instead of joules.
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by magoghm 17y ago
September 11, 2001 http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=september+11%2C+2001 Death of Mohammed Atta (terrorist)
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by magoghm 17y ago
I don't know about coding & smoking weed, but coding on an LSD trip is very hard. With a huge effort you can barely manage to do it. I tried it as an experiment, but I'll never do it again. It takes out the fun from both coding & LS
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by magoghm 17y ago
I smoke cigarrettes & drink coke :)
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by magoghm 17y ago
I live in Mexico City, so I have no problem in getting Mexican Coke.
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by magoghm 17y ago
And glucose. I smoke & drink Coke (Mexican Coke, the US coke is useless). Emacs: of course!
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by magoghm 18y ago
In Mexico you can buy antibiotics over the counter without any prescription. I suspect the victims just tried to cure themselves without seeing a physician.
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by magoghm 18y ago
Haven't they noticed that people spend all of their formative years in schools were they are taught to never question authority? After so many years of "behavioral training" it seems quite normal to me that people's brains shut down when li
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by magoghm 18y ago
My son is reading Asimov's Foundation trilogy, so I decided to reread it (I read it 30 years ago), and I keep noticing similarities to the current economic crisis and all the predictions people try to make.
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by magoghm 18y ago
I use a MacBook Pro with 2 GB, and I'm very happy with it. Would it be nice to have 4 GB? Yes. Would I work faster with 4 GB? No (I would work much faster if I just spent less time reading Hacker News, Reddit, Digg, Wikipedia, etc.)
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by magoghm 18y ago
I was doing searches on Google and everything was OK. Then I did a search for "Bill of Rights" and I got all those nasty malware warnings. It really freaked me out until I realized Google was doing that with any search :)
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by magoghm 18y ago
Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years http://norvig.com/21-days.html by Peter Norvig
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by magoghm 18y ago
Maybe they just will receive the money anyway. They just won't call it a "bonus".
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by magoghm 18y ago
The UltraSparc T2 has 8 cores and each core can run 8 concurrent threads, so you have 64 concurrent threads running "simultaneously" on a single chip: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UltraSPARC_T2 One of the techniques they use to solve the
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by magoghm 18y ago
Subtext looks wonderful. Thanks for the link!
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by magoghm 18y ago
The same way you do it with computers: avoid central control. Central control is fragile, non scaleable (and promotes corruption when human beings are involved).