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by miked 17y ago
His blog post is a bit long, but do at least read the end of it, which is great. Silicon Valley is rife with stories of coulda, woulda, shoulda, nd this is one of the better ones.
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>> I don't think you can try to make light of this WORLD DAMAGING situation with other evils. I'm trying to think of how you got from my discussion of hundreds of thousands of innocents being butchered, these included some of my wif
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by miked 17y ago
My wife's father led resistance against the Japanese in the area southwest of Beijing. He was shot and left for dead in the burial area. I am with my wife today only because a doctor just happened to be walking by and spotted him breathing.
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by miked 17y ago
I no longer have the link, but a few years ago I read critiques of Chinese government economic statistics based on a comparison of electricity demand versus gov stats. Quite a discrepancy, as the electricity demand was much lower that the g
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by miked 17y ago
When I was an undergrad, one of the sharper students wrote a paper for a teacher who was famous for not reading the homework. In the middle of the paper he wrote a page or two extolling the virtues of the "come from" statement, and why it w
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by miked 17y ago
>> Do they give tests and/or classes in constitutional law and the limits circumscribing the behavior of superior officers in the military? I think not. As someone who's actually gone thru the training, I can assure you that the US
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by miked 17y ago
Anyone smell astroturf? The link is titled "The Data on Why It's Working", but according to the AP, the Obama administration is refusing to release the data. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090804/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_cash_f... David Axelrod is
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by miked 17y ago
>> I actually live in Berlin in an inner city area that is considered "radical" by many but compared to the US or even elsewhere in Europe it's the most peaceful place on earth. The leftist violence gets less in recent years, last y
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by miked 17y ago
Based on what data? Almost every country in the world is more socialist that the (former) U.S. None of those countries' university systems come close to that of the U.S. And what are the best universities in the U.S.? MIT, CalTech, Harvard,
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by miked 17y ago
>> 1. Recursion as the primary mean of expressing procedure calling. Does anyone know what that statement means? The author misses the real essence of Lisp, which is that: 1) a single data structure, the heterogeneous list, can be u
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by miked 17y ago
Schneier responds to that in the comments. It comes down to "key diffusion". Not a crypto guy, but I assume this is basically a matter of statistically distributing the key's properties as evenly and as quickly as possible. In other words,
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by miked 17y ago
Thanks. I expected something like that. Local people have a strong incentive to make sure a local pond works. The people who run a centralized government have an incentive -- mostly their own thirst for power over others -- to make sure the
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by miked 17y ago
The article's not being told something about the real failure here, whatever that may be. India has monsoons, and anyplace with dependable monsoons and enough land to build reservoirs should never run out of water. BTW, if you've never expe
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by miked 17y ago
The real puzzle is why we don't do what the Frenchdo. France gets 85% of its electricity from nukes and, IIRC, stores all of its waste under a single building. Not sure exactly what they are doing to reduce the spent material, but they are
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Destroying the World's Computers: When Is the Next 1859?(science.nasa.gov)
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>> There's really no way to separate the value of the item on the land from what is on the land. Sure there is. We know this because commercial real estate appraisers (whom I wrote software for for many years) do it all the time. Th
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>> Someone who went off and lived in the sticks where land was practically worthless could reduce their tax bill to next to nothing. It would be much smaller, of course, but the cost and accident risks of commuting and loss of high
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by miked 17y ago
GvR: "But it hasn't really gotten any less complex to create the simplest of simple UIs." ANY .Net GUI is much simpler than a similar GUI written for the old Microsoft Foundation Class Library.
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"The first step in dealing with a crisis is to recognize that it exists." The rest of Bob Herbert's article is just as insightful.
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>> So what do I think of sifting through the internet for personal information about candidates? It isn't performance-based. Two days ago I made one of the bigger decisions of my life: I decided to abandon any attempt to salvage a b
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Federal Trade Commission to start monitoring blogs(outsidethebeltway.com)
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Breakthrough in smart, high-density memory at Oak Ridge National Lab(blogs.knoxnews.com)
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VisiCalc didn't even make the list, though it got mentioned under Lotus 1-2-3. Oh, so very wrong. VisiCalc was the program that turned personal computers from a small hobbyist market into something the business world needed. With the possib
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>> I merely said that the content was predictable once you knew the author and venue and contained nothing new for me. "But research shows that each new job cost Spain 571,138 euros, with subsidies of more than one million euros req
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>> with the intent to ... cause substantial emotional distress... That's almost every satire ever written. We already have laws that prevent libel. What changes just because it's published on a website rather than a newspaper or in,
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U.S. Lawmaker Defends Imprisoning Hostile Bloggers(wired.com)
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Prison Awaiting Hostile Bloggers(wired.com)
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by miked 17y ago
Thanks for the catch. I've corrected it as per below. My source was (my memory of) a statement in a book that I read a while back. From a 2005 article: http://www.expatica.com/nl/news/local_news/why-are-they-all-... "In 2004 almost 50,000
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"We want some of them to go into engineering, and we want some of them to be going into computer design", said Obama." Am I the only person who finds this statement a little, um, concerning ? A person might easily spend 5 days a week for
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A Dutchman replies: http://www.newmajority.com/ShowScroll.aspx?ID=8a80f624-92a7-... The NYT article doesn't make any mention of the fact that emigration from the Netherlands in 2004 was the highest since 1954. This makes me wonder if thin

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