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by mdda 14y ago
The UK is not exactly alone in driving on the left : Nations like Japan, India and Indonesia keep it company (among the 76 [0])... One explanation that always made sense to me is that when driving a manual/stick-shift car, taking your domin
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by mdda 14y ago
Because everyone needs to live somewhere, if they don't own a house, they are hurt if house prices (and 'therefore' rents) rise. To avoid being affected by something external (like house price fluctuations), it makes sense to own a property
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by mdda 14y ago
Quick answers : Technical analysis can give you a false sense of 'knowledge' - when you may only be picking up patterns in randomness. But it's very seductive in its certitude. Gold : If the 'store of value' argument is obvious to you, it'
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by mdda 14y ago
Since we're talking about human evolution, time-scales of 20-30 years are only 1 generation changes. Machine evolution may have a much shorter generational cycle - but for the moment, it doesn't seem too much to ask to be a little patient.
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by mdda 14y ago
Way more information than is actually remembered : What must you remember of the song to be able sing it in the shower after one hearing? Maybe add the air guitar and other instrumentals after a few more hearings... Quick : Think of that in
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by mdda 14y ago
George Mikes (1912-1987) - Hungarian writer : "An Englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly queue of one".
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by mdda 14y ago
Seems to me that your evidence is entirely consistent with the OP. Does your dog understand shape, though?
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by mdda 14y ago
If I was wrong in suggesting Astroturfing, then I apologize. And thanks for un-downvoting me. Looking at what developers are choosing (when given a free choice) also makes me think that Microsoft is losing ground. They used to be able to
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by mdda 14y ago
Sorry, but a lot of these points look like Microsoft-playbook FUD. I'm guessing that you're trying to get more hits via SEO on a hacker-friendly website. However, most of the people here are Linux by default on their servers, and whatever
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by mdda 14y ago
Power Excel users use the keys (rather than the mouse). The new Office button bar forces you to loose all spacial understanding of where obscure menu items lie - fortunately, Microsoft retained key-compatibility with previous versions (eve
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by mdda 14y ago
Are you talking square meters or square feet? : 200 square meters would be a large apartment in NYC.
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by mdda 14y ago
Tiny thing : On the Pricing page "upto" should really be "up to". It's not a special-case contraction (like "into").
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by mdda 14y ago
Or it may be that when they hear us debating with each other about their ability to have 'rights', they think it's as comical as we would listening to dogs debate among themselves.
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by mdda 14y ago
Not to be too adversarial, but what problem was incredibly painful to you? Couldn't choose a movie? Couldn't choose a suitable couples movie? Medical diagnostics, OTOH, could avoid a painpoint involving death - so that's an easier pitch.
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by mdda 14y ago
If you're gambling with other people's money, it's in your interest to keep complaining about how hard you're working, and how stressed out you are : It's a positive signal to the people funding you. If it's all your own money you're gambli
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by mdda 14y ago
This is the more familiar view (when the tide isn't out) : http://qsview.com/89vp2zksffdz80tzoqz1ap
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by mdda 14y ago
All of these "How it's Made" videos show immense industrial processes, but they usually include a number of jobs in-between stages that I definitely wouldn't want, eg: 4m00s. (the job isn't disgusting - but for the fact that the guy must d
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by mdda 14y ago
The Raspberry Pi could be the foundation of a new generation of programmers : But I don't see the size of the 'nerdy clique' being any bigger now than when I started out (soldering a 6502 machine). If programming were painting, it's probabl
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by mdda 14y ago
Agreed. Look at the situations reversed : Earthquake on the west coast... How tasteless it would be for the New Yorkers to insist that YC keeps to its original deadline.
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by mdda 14y ago
After walking up Madison this morning, there's no power below 39th Street AFAICT.
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by mdda 14y ago
Are you in Singapore at the moment? Would you mind answering a few questions about the 'scene' there? My email is in my 'about'.
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by mdda 14y ago
But I believe that most Bloomberg terminal subscribers would argue that capitalist-style money accumulation (free markets, etc) is a good thing for an overall population, and that corruption-style money accumulation (which is the implicatio
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by mdda 14y ago
Understood - and I was just making the observation that the expressions produced during the process were junky in a way that's characteristic of the way they are evolving : Mixing together two honed expressions would produce much more extre
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by mdda 14y ago
Sorry to tag on to your comment with a separate thread - but what do you make of the "Freedom Board" [1]? (Cortex-M0+ MCU with 128KB flash, 16KB SRAM, up to 48MHz operation, $13 in stock) [1] http://www.element14.com/community/community/kn
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by mdda 14y ago
The optimizations are great to apply to an end result, but the Genetic Programming process probably won't benefit from the expressions being optimized 'along the way' because some of the 'junk' subexpressions allow for more robustness in th
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by mdda 14y ago
> The act of selling implies you think it's worth less than what someone else is willing to pay which is dishonest. Any trade involves both parties giving up what they have for what the other person has. Both parties believe they gain
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by mdda 14y ago
Corollory : One could produce a whole range of image0%d.png from vertical slices through the video, and stitch them together into a movie. Essentially rotating the movie abouts its y axis (in the x-t plane). If we assume 50fps, then every
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by mdda 14y ago
Douglas Adams reference (though I don't see the Bowl of Petunias...) : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsK6aRuSBIc
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by mdda 14y ago
Although it's tempting to say that CL should make an investment in these 3rd party sites - the most direct solution is for CL to say "We'll license the content for 30% of your equity". Cash element of zero : CL has already invested in maki
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by mdda 14y ago
The /concept/ of God runs through a lot of European institutions too (for instance, the UK Queen is the head of the Church of England - no separation of church and state). However, in the US, the line gets blurred when people start to talk

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