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by newsycaccount 18y ago
They are the Roland Piquepaille of... something.
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by newsycaccount 18y ago
I don't see how it could do anything but complicate it.
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by newsycaccount 18y ago
Yep, I have an Aeron at work and an $80 (from Sam's Club) "Office Star Matrex Meshback" or something goofy name like that at home. I use both regularly and have no preference between the two. I would think a startup that needs the meager
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by newsycaccount 18y ago
Javascript?
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by newsycaccount 18y ago
Careful or we'll never have another Einstein.
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by newsycaccount 18y ago
Please link to a single "conservative" investment with an 8% yield.
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by newsycaccount 18y ago
Demonstrate how it is different from a raffle.
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by newsycaccount 18y ago
>That's "evil" somehow? The farmer is farms land stolen from Native Americans. If we go by the odds it isn't some farmer taking out a small loan at Wells Fargo, most wheat is grown by big agribusiness. The yield on the wheat is so high
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by newsycaccount 18y ago
He didn't ask to learn programming, he asked to learn CS. He isn't getting a PhD in discrete math, he is reading a discrete math book, which is a bare minimum for learning CS.
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by newsycaccount 18y ago
Am I reading Slashdot?
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by newsycaccount 18y ago
more on "!": Run the given cmd/pipeline, and put it's output at the current cursor location: :r ! <cmd> Filter the whole buffer through the given cmd/pipeline: :%! <cmd> Filter a visual selection through
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by newsycaccount 18y ago
When a company engages in systemic risk, it discounts that risk by the amount of the system the company doesn't occupy (e.g. if Goldman does something that will create a 10% chance of a $100 billion dollar loss, spread evenly across the fin
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by newsycaccount 18y ago
Not true in the United States; we've had an alternate minimum income for quite a while.
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by newsycaccount 18y ago
>the company used a proprietary programming language and involved lots of domain specific knowledge FogBugz developer?
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by newsycaccount 18y ago
Writing Lisp without an even more IDE-like feature, macro-expansion, would be almost as painful.
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by newsycaccount 18y ago
Funny, most programers who make heavy use of macros heavily rely on IDE-like features such as macro-expansion.
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by newsycaccount 18y ago
regular strings now use more than 8 bits per char.
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by newsycaccount 18y ago
>An unappreciated miracle of our world is how rare shortages are among truly free-market goods. Name some (specifically, name some in the United States).
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by newsycaccount 18y ago
Because having higher I.Q.'s via Iodine couldn't possibly allow them to get more doctors per capita and reduce pain and suffering that way. Let me guess, you didn't get much Iodine as a kid.
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by newsycaccount 18y ago
>No, it did apply to companies too: larger commercial operations tended to be more successful than small ones. How are you defining success? How well the company did per-capita (per employee)?
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by newsycaccount 18y ago
>I think success at MIT would be that a student found the coursework challenging, opportunities plentiful, and made lots of smart friends, and not a potential salary or prestige. And I think those same factors are also important for mos
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by newsycaccount 18y ago
not if the anchor doesn't hit the floor because the rope isn't long enough.
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by newsycaccount 18y ago
At what local vapor-pressure?
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by newsycaccount 18y ago
A stopped clock is right twice a day.
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by newsycaccount 18y ago
Then shouldn't the government just invest in fundamental battery tech, not car-implementation that will never go anywhere without improvements in that tech?
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by newsycaccount 18y ago
Who are you, Walter Lippman?
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by newsycaccount 18y ago
>Note: There’s a reasonable argument for warning on JavaScript includes as man-in-the-middle attacks can do nasty things, but that’s not true for CSS (on anything but IE) or images Changing an image on a button from "reply to this quip
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by newsycaccount 18y ago
It doesn't =) If you have enough heat to make it click forward, you also get random bounces on the prawl which themselves make it go in reverse as much as forward. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brownian_ratchet
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by newsycaccount 18y ago
Do you also get concerned that practically every atom in your body now will be replaced by others by next year?
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by newsycaccount 18y ago
How about a tiny, molecular sized ratchet, that would absorb vibrations due to heat and turn one way, but refuse to turn the other way due to it's ratchet teeth. These could then be hooked up to a generator for free power.

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