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by newt0311 18y ago
"the media is blowing all this out of proportion." When is it not doing that?
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by newt0311 18y ago
actually no. If the US outright repudiates debt in war, the value of the dollar would take a plunge and solders, even the patriotic ones, like to get paid for risking their lives. Furthermore, weapons and supplies are extremely expensive. W
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by newt0311 18y ago
The guy does realize that houses are not the only kind of assets that the US has. After they are accounted for, the US is anything but bankrupt.
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by newt0311 18y ago
Umm... LaTeX >>> WYSIWYG document editors.
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by newt0311 18y ago
Even more interesting, there are now some compiler optimization algorithms which can theoretically do some of this stuff automatically. Look up incrementalization on citeseerx etc...
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by newt0311 18y ago
Another point on the health care bit. At present, medicare and medicaid spend a combined > $600 billion and rising at 6% annually. In their market (medical insurance) they are the largest players. Absolutely. As a result, other insura
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DJIA lost 18% in their worst week ever.(online.wsj.com)
5 points by newt0311 18y ago|5 comments
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by newt0311 18y ago
Seconded. Thats what I use for my house. In fact, I just disable security on my wifi network and use a QoS setup to discriminate between traffic.
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by newt0311 18y ago
"Although banks perform an essential economic function — bringing together investors and savers — they are not the only institutions that can do this. Pension funds, university endowments, venture capitalists and corporations all bring mone
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by newt0311 18y ago
business models? what are you talking about?
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by newt0311 18y ago
Aren't these guys paid as a percentage of profits and funds managed? In that case, presumably, there will be fewer startups when there is less funding implying fewer gains which implies a lower salary for him.
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by newt0311 18y ago
I am not sure about the other but #3 is completely superseded by gcc's optimization algorithms. Besides, is this kind of low level stuff really something a developer should be wasting their time with?
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by newt0311 18y ago
Ummm... since no one seems to have mentioned this, Use Postgres. Integrated FTS (with the new 8.2 i think versions). Complete transaction support, full ACID support, more obvious behavior and drastically better scaling.
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Satellite survelance: Big brother is almost here.(online.wsj.com)
5 points by newt0311 18y ago|0 comments
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by newt0311 18y ago
Assuming that ignoring another is a morally bankrupt action. I would argue that that is far too extreme.
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Govt. Report: Data mining doesn't work. Elementary Bayesian statistics.(news.cnet.com)
4 points by newt0311 18y ago|0 comments
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by newt0311 18y ago
No kidding. Preventing forgery would be a nightmare.
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by newt0311 18y ago
What about MITM attacks? Seriously, if you want security, use SSL.
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by newt0311 18y ago
In theory. What about in practice?
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by newt0311 18y ago
Way to generalize. The points mentioned in this article do not apply to the top tier colleges at all. Consider Harvard, or MIT, or Caltech. These colleges have no problem with cost. The suggestions mentioned in the article will needlessly w
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by newt0311 18y ago
RAC shares the disks (connected through some other technique) but the remaining system is completely shared nothing and to my knowledge, the disks can be spread out over as many servers as needed.
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by newt0311 18y ago
"Google has THE ENTIRE INTERNET IN MEMORY AT ONCE" Do they? really? or is that a gross oversimplification which clouds the facts to the point of meaninglessness as I suspect it is. I am not qualified to say whether that is actually possible
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by newt0311 18y ago
Because accounting standards make financial reports readable by standardizing them for the audience (investors). Furthermore, accounting standards make it harder to cook the books, just never impossible.
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by newt0311 18y ago
Yeah... Until people more to Oracle shared nothing RAC and then... problem solved. Databases can scale. Just that the ones which do currently cost on the order of several million USD/yr. When that changes, the stigma associated with them wi
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by newt0311 18y ago
The SEC already had the authority to suspend mark-to-market accounting. This bill just re-affirms it. Furthermore, mark-to-market is an accounting technique.It may result in fraud but there is no "transfer of wealth" about it. Furthermore
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by newt0311 18y ago
"so, assuming the declared fact "x = y", whenever you see "x" you could substitute "y" (and vice versa), and it would make no difference whatsoever?" In mathematics, yes. That is the entire point of the '=' statement.
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by newt0311 18y ago
"x = x + 1" The reason this does not work in mathematics is because the programming use `=' and mathematical use of `=' are completely different. In programing, `=' implies set which really has no meaning in mathematics as mathematics is on
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by newt0311 18y ago
Good article. This article demonstrates why at some point in a CS course, people need to write their own compiler. So that the points made in the article are largely obvious.
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by newt0311 18y ago
So... "inefficient" markets won't fuck up? Wrong.
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by newt0311 18y ago
very cool. An interesting method for flattening trees.

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