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by newt0311 18y ago
From what I heard, Peloisi gave a startlingly bad speech before putting the bill up for a vote. Something along the lines of how this was all the fault of Bush and his policies and then she tried to tie this to the federal deficit. Not sure
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by newt0311 18y ago
" firebombing a new market entrant's facilities and executing their families." Theft of life and property. Not exactly free market either.
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by newt0311 18y ago
Amazing article. Instead of limiting it to genomics, I would apply this sentiment to nearly all parts of biology. The field needs to grow up and start using the powerful principles of building abstractions and leveraging advanced mathematic
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Fate of Wachovia: Citigroup buys its bank ops.(forbes.com)
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by newt0311 18y ago
pretty much.
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by newt0311 18y ago
oops. Sorry about that. Fixed. PS. Your email address is not posted either.
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by newt0311 18y ago
Actually this offers an interesting case study. Lets look at the results of this crisis. Three major financial institutions (Lehman, Bear Stearns, and Merryl Lynch) had their shareholders loose most of their assets and are no longer operati
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by newt0311 18y ago
No. 0/0 is completely undefined. For example, consider limit as x approaches 0 of (-x)/x. This approaches (-0)/0 = 0/0 but simplifying the limit given an answer of -1. So 0/0 is completely dependent on the characteristics of the convergence
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by newt0311 18y ago
Gentoo -- "Control freaks only." True and exactly why I use it.
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by newt0311 18y ago
The article makes it look like bankers get paid for nothing. That is simply not true. Wall Street allocates capital. Somebody has to decide how the capital available in the US gets distributed. For startups, its VCs, for mature companies, i
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Wachovia next in line for merger.(online.wsj.com)
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More interesting reading: http://www.withouthotair.com/ Basically shows that nuclear is the only viable alternative to coal and oil.
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WaMu Fails. First major comercial bank to go.(online.wsj.com)
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by newt0311 18y ago
No kidding. The Caps Lock key should never have existed on PC keyboards and the Tab key should be altered so that it is a "Cmd" key which switches fields in web-browsers, word completes as needed, indents code, and does everything it does
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by newt0311 18y ago
Firefox has a (to my knowledge -- undocumented) bookmark keyword feature which allows assigning keywords to bookmarks. These keywords can then be typed into the location bar and firefox with automatically load the bookmark. The keyword inpu
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Then again, you don't have to be very l33t to do what he did.
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Only in Japan...
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Wow. I am amazed. 17 miles of tunnels and super conducting magnets and only one section malfunctioned (yet).
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How does this compression format compare against H.264 (ignoring licensing and patent issues)?
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agreed.
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by newt0311 18y ago
insulting to say the least. Why is this on HN? I thought we were better than this.
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What makes you think that PC vendors need to pay $150 to get a copy of windows on a laptop?
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by newt0311 18y ago
And here I thought that they were talking about AVL trees.
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yes.
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by newt0311 18y ago
Um... What makes you think that Goldman is endangered? It stock price is only down 20% from 09/2007 which is bad but not even close to catastrophic (and significantly better than most other investment banks). Furthermore, it is one of the f
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by newt0311 18y ago
Yeah. Emacs is a massive pain to learn. In my case, I forced myself to stop using other tools so I would have to learn it. Come to think about it, thats pretty much how I learn everything. I learnt about linux after I forcefully removed win
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by newt0311 18y ago
Just out of curiosity: How many people on hn code in some dialect of lisp and not use emacs for it? Seems relevant considering the topic.
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In the spirit of this article, I have found a number of other things which are no longer needed in the school curriculum and serve only to stress incoming student. 1. Writing (already mentioned): Seriously, hard stuff and obsoleted by keybo
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by newt0311 18y ago
Hmm... I take all my notes in LaTeX as well. For me, I found that it was more a matter of having the correct macros than any inherent slowness in the LaTeX type setting system. My preamble grew to about 130 lines before I was really able to
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What I am wondering about is how much faster TCP could be with RS for recovery instead of the current resend-packet technique.

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