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SSD Update: Vertex Gets Faster, New Indilinx Drives, Intel/MacBook(anandtech.com)
3 points by mblakele 17y ago|1 comments
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by mblakele 17y ago
http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10250420
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by mblakele 17y ago
Wouldn't we get the same effect, more cheaply, by dropping tariffs on imported sugar?
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by mblakele 17y ago
This thread is long-dead, but I wanted to add that -M is already in iostat 9.0, as -m. Yesterday's release of 9.0.3 adds -z (if pressed, I'll admit to supplying a patch): http://pagesperso-orange.fr/sebastien.godard/changelog.html
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by mblakele 17y ago
Oh, is English supposed to be sane? I hadn't noticed. You're right, of course: I was using "unbounded" in a loose fashion. There are a finite number of phonemes used in English, and I suppose there must be some upper limit to the number of
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by mblakele 17y ago
What about "ash"? I'd expect that to be in both networks: in "black" as a synonym for "coal" or "cinder", and in "white" as a form of "ashen", "pale", etc. More widely, why must there be K non-overlapping networks that cover the entire lang
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by mblakele 17y ago
It's part of being human, I think. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reenactment and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_historical_reenactment_...
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by mblakele 17y ago
I think it's an exaggeration to say that "In most countries in the western world, except for the United States, and recently Canada, medical care is available for free." That is only true for non-zero values of "free". http://wikileaks.org
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by mblakele 17y ago
There's some data in http://wikileaks.org/leak/crs/RL34175.pdf (Congressional Research Service RL34175): "Figure 15. Practicing Physicians per 1,000 Population, 2004". But I don't think this metric alone can explain cost differences. For
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by mblakele 17y ago
I suspect those lamentations are largely due to a combination of selective memory and the spirit of the times. Getting back to journalism as an example, there wasn't much investigative reporting in American journalism before the Watergate s
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by mblakele 17y ago
Why submit this? I stumbled on Pete's site yesterday, because he managed to hack the California's voter guide. He didn't break into their web site: instead, he was the only one who bothered to submit an argument against 1F. Apparently the w
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Pete Rates the Propositions [ California election ](peterates.com)
2 points by mblakele 17y ago|1 comments
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by mblakele 17y ago
Better add the cost of a replacement policy to that total.
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by mblakele 17y ago
The summary is pretty good, but the actual article is available and isn't much longer: http://www.archaeology.org/0905/etc/insider.html
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by mblakele 18y ago
Oh, I agree - but I was answering a question: "Why does the government..." Is this scientific policy? Is this good policy? Those are different questions.
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by mblakele 18y ago
http://www.economist.com/finance/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1... and http://www.economist.com/opinion/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1... discuss some of these questions: "Governments subsidise home ownership because they think it encourages
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by mblakele 18y ago
Agreed and edited - the author's original headline was a little over the top.
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Ubuntu brings advanced Screen features(arstechnica.com)
102 points by mblakele 18y ago|36 comments
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by mblakele 18y ago
This is off-topic, but the US does spend billions on health care. Take a look at http://wikileaks.org/leak/crs/RL34175.pdf (Congressional Research Service RL34175). In 2004 the US spent 15.3% of GDP on health care, more than any other d
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by mblakele 18y ago
The title is unfortunate: it doesn't reflect the tone of the article; the UK government isn't plotting against the dollar's reserve status; and the phrase "dollar as global reserve currency" implies a monopoly that does not exist ( http://e
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The Downturn: Accelerating the Digital Publishing Transition(marklogic.blogspot.com)
1 points by mblakele 18y ago|0 comments
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by mblakele 18y ago
Indeed they do: https://www.peeringdb.com/private/participant_view.php?id=43... I had no idea so much information was publicly available.
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by mblakele 18y ago
That's good. Here's what I'm using: hardstatus alwayslastline hardstatus string "%n: %H (%h) %t" For bindings, I find '10 '11 etc to be efficient enough. But I also make heavy use of :number to reorder my windows so that I know whi
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by mblakele 18y ago
If you accept browser usage as a proxy for desktop deployments, you can find statistics pretty easily. http://www.w3counter.com/globalstats.php and http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_os.asp both show similar spreads between Linu
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by mblakele 18y ago
I use "screen" a lot, but I wish it had a better name. It helps if you search for "gnu-screen", but not much. Here's a tip that has saved me once or twice. If you start a long-running process, but forgot to use screen or nohup, bash lets yo
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by mblakele 18y ago
The circles look very noisy at first, but it's an interesting approach. I found the full article more interesting: http://mkweb.bcgsc.ca/circos/?Visualizing_Tabular_Data
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by mblakele 18y ago
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1380343 Author home pages: http://opim.wharton.upenn.edu/~lhitt/ http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~ptambe/Site/Prasanna_Tambe.html
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by mblakele 18y ago
Good introduction. This is one of the tools that I first used on Solaris, and Solaris iostat is still a little bit better than linux iostat. I'd especially like to have the '-z' and '-M' options in linux.... Maybe it's time I looked at the
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by mblakele 18y ago
When using this sort of trick, I also find it useful to throw in GNU screen, nohup, or the bash 'disown' command.
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by mblakele 18y ago
Why was the site using a 32-bit environment to begin with? Opterons have been cheap for years now, and all new Xeons are capable of 64-bit operation.

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