nerfhammer

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by nerfhammer 16y ago
sweet, I'm really curious as to what features you selected for your model
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by nerfhammer 16y ago
I would love to just see pseudocode for how it works in a little more detail
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by nerfhammer 16y ago
It's deliberately misleading. "between 1929 and 1932" is a misleading way of saying "in 1932". Almost all of the deficit increase and public works spending occurred in 1932 (due to a single bill: the Emergency Relief and Construction Act) n
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by nerfhammer 16y ago
Hoover began deficit spending only near the end of his presidency. Prior to that he drastically raised taxes and tried to balance the budget.
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by nerfhammer 16y ago
Hoover signed into law drastic tax increases, e.g. Revenue Act of 1932. He did attempt some spending programs near the end of his presidency which was also at a point where the depression was already around the point of its most extreme GDP
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by nerfhammer 16y ago
I agree, I've never had a problem getting charges like this removed if you just call and ask.
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by nerfhammer 16y ago
A for effort.
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by nerfhammer 16y ago
insightful comment of the day
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by nerfhammer 16y ago
It's completely possible that: - it only affects some units - some people are exhibiting superstitious behavior ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B._F._Skinner#Superstition_in_t... ) - some combination of the two
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by nerfhammer 16y ago
What happens if you just insulate the phone from your hand with any other non-conductive material?
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by nerfhammer 16y ago
This calculation also ignores ad revenue (vs. purchase revenue)
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by nerfhammer 16y ago
Yea that figure looks suspect and a source for it isn't cited.
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by nerfhammer 16y ago
My experience with linode: * Customer for ~4 years * At one point my server catastrophically failed * No backups. Or, now it's an add-on for an extra fee. See point above. * They don't offer support for much... officially. But they make the
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by nerfhammer 16y ago
All the more reason to TrueCrypt/FileVault your drives
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by nerfhammer 16y ago
"One of the most cunning tools of the patriarchy is the assignment of woo as a feminine virtue." Kind of sad that he has to use a pseudoscientific theory of mind to make his point.
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by nerfhammer 16y ago
Google should write a FAQ on what happens when their prediction API becomes self-aware
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by nerfhammer 16y ago
I want to see someone make a flash version of this
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by nerfhammer 17y ago
re: extracting wikipedia data someone's already done this for you. see: dbpedia.org
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by nerfhammer 17y ago
I would take the article a lot more seriously if it wasn't based entirely on a study by the Cato Institute.