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by mjn 13y ago
One angle is selling plugins to popular creative software. Not quite "the old way", since they are standardized components and sold somewhat more like apps are, but it's a way of selling software components. Photoshop plugins
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by mjn 13y ago
I can't say for sure, but I think CPH as airport code comes from the common abbreviation for the city, rather than the other way around. KBH (København) is also used in Danish fairly commonly, and isn't any airport's code. It
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by mjn 13y ago
Either you have to be a legitimate academic institution, or you aren't, but are grandfathered in because you acquired the domain before 2001. This case is #2.
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by mjn 13y ago
> liberating and making easily discoverable the world's academic papers Annoyingly, you have to register an account and log in to download any papers. The uploader doesn't have any control over this. It's still free, but d
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by mjn 13y ago
> Szasz's "Rat Park" study I don't believe the study has anything to do with Thomas Szasz, although he may have used it as a supporting example in some of his writings. The study was conducted by Bruce Alexander and h
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by mjn 13y ago
Earlier discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6391701
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by mjn 13y ago
I think you might be misreading. "State" here means a U.S. state, like Alabama or Ohio, and "state power" means the power of these states relative to the power of the federal government. Perhaps "states' rights
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by mjn 13y ago
It's not clear to me that conservatives want strong state power in general. A small number of hardline libertarians do, but mainstream conservatives have much more mixed views. The mainstream view wants stronger state control of some
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by mjn 13y ago
One problem is that they had a number of interlocking visions for a civil society, many of which have also not been realized. So then it's less clear what they would do in response. For example, Jefferson's set of ideals was rough
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by mjn 13y ago
Not necessarily 5%, no. The p-value is controlling the false-positive rate, i.e. it constrains the likelihood that a seemingly-significant result was really just by chance. Therefore, if we were now given the real ground truth, it's li
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In praise of exploratory statistics(dynamicecology.wordpress.com)
2 points by mjn 13y ago|0 comments
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by mjn 13y ago
Yeah, southern Europe in general is not easy to properly start a business in even for locals. I have some relatives who run a small business in Greece, and they have lots of stories about that. One of several problems in the country. Denmar
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by mjn 13y ago
I feel it used to be the same in the US at some point in time. Getting rich was seen as a reward since you provided a good solution to consumers and therefore you could gain from the overall value you provided to society. I don't thi
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by mjn 13y ago
English version of the official site: https://kutsuplus.fi/tour
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by mjn 13y ago
I definitely wouldn't say low-quality code, or even messy code, but I agree "not software engineers" is a reasonably fair description. Two kinds of hackerly code that I think are common: The big, messy, system that you get to
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by mjn 13y ago
That's been a popular view among progressive education reformers as well. It's the basis of Montessori schools, for example. I went to one up through Kindergarten and liked it, finding regular 1st grade utterly dull in comparison.
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by mjn 13y ago
Yes, I would think it should be reciprocal. It's common in Denmark for employment contracts to specify 6 weeks notice on both sides . I would be fine signing such a contract in the U.S. too, if a company wanted to ensure a more stable
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by mjn 13y ago
It's pretty common in Europe to write a bachelor's thesis as the capstone of an undergraduate degree. They're not always considered formally published, though (may vary by country).
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by mjn 13y ago
Discussion of part 1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6271493
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Cleverness of Compilers 2(alexey.radul.name)
10 points by mjn 13y ago|3 comments
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by mjn 13y ago
There's some kind of upgrade in the works: http://www.caltrain.com/projectsplans/CaltrainModernization/...
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by mjn 13y ago
Two corrections: Scotland has near-zero tuition fees, and the Nordic countries + Switzerland have (some) English-language bachelor's programs.
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by mjn 13y ago
They do, but it's hilariously slow. It's so slow that it's often actually faster to wait for the next morning's Caltrain. SamTrans runs all-night bus service from SF to Palo Alto, route 397. Once per hour, and the ride t
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by mjn 13y ago
That's true, although it's less unheard-of to have 24/7 public transit going ~20 miles out radially, providing about ~40 mile end-to-end coverage. Chicago runs two of its lines 24/7 (Red and Blue), which provide service
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by mjn 13y ago
The amount of space impacts the politics as well, though. Seattle's new construction is largely converting ex-industrial zones to residential, not redeveloping existing residential zones, which is much easier to do politically. SF has
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by mjn 13y ago
They do have a good CS program, but all their bachelor's programs are in Danish, as far as I can tell. For example, the CS bachelor's says Danish in the right sidebar: http://bachelor.au.dk/en/computer-science
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by mjn 13y ago
Denmark has several EU opt-outs in its accession treaty. Equal treatment of non-resident non-nationals for the purposes of property ownership is one of them, mostly because they were worried about Germans buying up all the summer homes (joi
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by mjn 13y ago
Copenhagen has traditionally (a bit less recently) fought this kind of effect by restricting absentee investment ownership through several mechanisms. For one, a large percentage of property in the city has ownership that requires residency
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by mjn 13y ago
Reminds me of this experiment: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Bell#Washington_Post_ex...
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by mjn 13y ago
It looks like it has the regular Springer policy still, i.e. some OA stuff but mostly not: http://www.springer.com/computer/ai/journal/10994

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