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by marshray 11y ago
> what is the problem with a central bank having an interest rate of, say, -0.25% Because it's taking money from everyone and handing it to those in proportion to their ability qualify for negative rate loan, i.e., commercial banks.
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by marshray 11y ago
Yes, Borland "Turbo" C was another massively popular choice. But you can't simultaneously argue that C wasn't used for PC platform development in the 1980's and that Borland C was dominant.
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by marshray 11y ago
I was there too. C was a common language for developing from-scratch DOS applications in the 1980's. Sometimes portability was a consideration, often not. Mark Williams and Microsoft C were two popular compilers.
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by marshray 11y ago
Time to start working on the smaller, faster thing that gives its users more control on the other side of the pendulum.
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by marshray 11y ago
* Scientists knew bacteria could sense the direction of light. * Scientists had been looking at bacteria under a microscope for 340 years. * Just the other day, someone noticed how bacteria focus light. If you ever think there's nothin
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by marshray 11y ago
I hope they remember to put signs up at the swimming spots where they dump the lamprey attractant.
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by marshray 11y ago
That was just precious.
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by marshray 11y ago
Treating infested water with lamprey pheremones - sounds like the beginning of a horror movie.
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by marshray 11y ago
Is it ever a good idea to mix shipping products with social activism? What are some examples where this has ever gone well?
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by marshray 11y ago
But single dog bites are rarely fatal. So you offer the dog your left arm and then cudgel him to death with your right.
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by marshray 11y ago
How is the interpretation of a British archaeologist in 1916 relevant to modern archaeology?
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by marshray 11y ago
It allows people who are familiar with 3D printing to learn how to use the CNC machines without a big investment in single-purpose machining software.
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by marshray 11y ago
Fusion 360 is becoming a small revolution among my makerspace.
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by marshray 11y ago
So Cmd-C Copy can retroactively remove the file instead of copying it? I think you're proving his case rather well.
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by marshray 11y ago
That's the book that uncritically repeats Jobs' (completely bogus) claim that Apple invented the switching power supply. http://www.righto.com/2012/02/apple-didnt-revolutionize-powe...
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by marshray 11y ago
I've owned and worn out dozens of different pairs of headphones and my Bose QC25 noise cancelling phones are hands-down one of my favorite consumer products ever. But I agree with you about the audiophiles. I would never buy Bose speak
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by marshray 11y ago
http://www.radiomuseum.org/forum/radios_confiscated_in_us_du...
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by marshray 11y ago
They forced everyone to turn in their shortwave radios too.
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by marshray 11y ago
It means something important to him, whether he conveys the idea perfectly or not to us in this post.
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by marshray 11y ago
Not every elderly is a parent.
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by marshray 11y ago
I've known people who've spent most of their entire careers in declining market companies. It's not necessarily a terrible place to work for everyone and at the end of the day it's a paycheck all the same.
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by marshray 11y ago
It's Kerckhoffs's 2nd principle: "[The system] should not require secrecy, and it should not be a problem if it falls into enemy hands" Which gives rise to the idea of "security though obscurity" is bad. A syst
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by marshray 11y ago
I can relate. I deleted my Twitter apps when I wanted to take a break a few months back. But with social, it's even harder. I literally had my mother calling me to complain "I miss following you and hearing about what you're
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by marshray 11y ago
By all accounts, Jobs came back and reinvented Apple authoritarian-style. I don't think it's proven that Apple can reinvent itself from within. Which is not to say that they'll never have another hit product.
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by marshray 11y ago
You're making the mistake of thinking other people evaluate products the same way you do. How many people do you really think tested the copy and paste functionality on the original iPhone before making their purchasing decision? I thi
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by marshray 11y ago
Most protocols do allow the attacker to choose how many times the defender must win at some game of probability. If the defender is somehow put in a situation to generate 2^80 primes, then he's in trouble.
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by marshray 11y ago
American professional sports are commercial entertainment. Cycling can't seem to decide whether it's a clean contest of human performance or a contest of artificial performance enhancement.
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by marshray 11y ago
There's something that seems more egregious about it. But I really don't know or care enough about sports to defend this position.
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by marshray 11y ago
Also: "Glass" "What is the worst solid dry surface to try to drive over?"
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by marshray 11y ago
Just put them properly angled and positioned in the highway medians instead. This is not hard people.

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