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by newt0311 18y ago
Boring. Can't we find something more interesting. How about subverting the requirements for voting for state legislatures so that the voting requirements for the house representatives are automatically changed and then senators were origina
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Valid point as that is, I don't think thats what Godel was talking about. I am trying to work through tthe constitution. I think the source of dictatorial authority will be either Article 1 section 2 clause 1 and Article 2 section 1 clause
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by newt0311 18y ago
I would argue that it does. More abstract concepts often (and especially in this case) elucidate a concept with wider application. General relativity gives us insight into a possible model of our universe. Godel's incompleteness theorem giv
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Thus the use of "at least"
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by newt0311 18y ago
Interesting question: who was smarter, Einstien or Godel. Admittedly, Einstein is much better known but consider their insights: Einstein had the insight that acceleration and gravity were manifestations of the same phenomenae and could b
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by newt0311 18y ago
Another great music players for terminal hackers: mocp Also, I resent the non-inclusion of emacs at least in the notepad, mIRC, and TeXnic center replacement sections.
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by newt0311 18y ago
I wonder how many language designers explicitly thought about the goal of turing completeness or just had it happen as they added high level constructs like functions et al. Certainly turing completeness does not guarantee a nice language (
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by newt0311 18y ago
Sorry, you are right. It's my bad grammer getting to me again.
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by newt0311 18y ago
Actually, general malloc performance is horrible and that refcounting implimentation will be the absolute worst. In an accurate GC, the objects can be moved around in memory for more efficient allocation. Add support for generations and it
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by newt0311 18y ago
The iPhone has access to some modern VMs which have GC.
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Now, with real-time GC systems comming to light and mature GC implementations in VMs like hotspot and conservative GC (boehm GC) for languages like C, I think the correct question is why not to use GC.
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by newt0311 18y ago
I personally prefer docbook SGML. Its much more forgiving when it comes to end tags which can be inferred. Also, sometimes the case insensitivity is nice.
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by newt0311 18y ago
Damn right.
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Complexity is always easier to design and with CS, it is easy to get away with as computers make it easy to hide from the end user.
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by newt0311 18y ago
Government rationing. Difference in population. Differnce in perfornamce: If you want a hip-replacement, in the US, you can scheule the surgery on the same day, in the UK, you need to wait at least a week. The Chances of surviving cancer in
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by newt0311 18y ago
From: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=395951 "Yes it [Common Lisp] does [look bloated]. It has at least 4 different ways to loop, 4 different types of arguments to functions, 5 or 6 different lets (functions, macros, let* , normal let
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by newt0311 18y ago
Ummm... you do realize the public spending on international projects is miniscule, ~5% at most. If you want to attack spending, go after SS, medicare, and medicade. These programs just by themselves eat up ~50% of the US federal budget and
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by newt0311 18y ago
Another big change: FDR stopped villifying and prosecuting business. If one studies investor surveys, the change in attitude and the corresponding measures of investor confidence are clear. That probably did at least as much if not more to
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by newt0311 18y ago
Read up on WALs and incremental backups. I know postgres has support for these and MySQL should too.
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Infinity is one of those ideas which is a heavily researched and interesting idea in mathematics which has very little applicability elsewhere. Check out an intro analasys book for more details on countable and uncountable sets. The cantor
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No kidding. Here at caltech, several ofthe students don't even go to the lectures.
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second.
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by newt0311 18y ago
"Seems" being the key word there. Its the same reason that sooo many people get screwed in the stockmarket. They look in the past and in retrospect, the great upheavals seem to obvious that they think that they can predict them and before t
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by newt0311 18y ago
I would advise reading lshort instead. A bit longer and slightly outdated (read the documentation from AMS for math modes) but very comprehensive and easy to understand.
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Details of new Stimulus package.(online.wsj.com)
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Right. Sorry.
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Python tends to deemphasize types due to its reliance on ducktyping and type-inferencing. If you look in the documentation, they don't really care about the input types either. Would it be nicer to have more typing? IMHO, it really depends
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by newt0311 18y ago
Typical mathematician knee-jerk reaction (including, often for me). Just because money management is not perfect does not mean that it does not have a high positive return. In fact, the largest money managers, the banks, are absolutely crit
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by newt0311 18y ago
For the most part, yes. Interesting speech on the same: http://wwwcdf.pd.infn.it/~loreti/science.html
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Unfortunately, LaTeX is the only typesetting system I know which is accessible to non-professional typesetters and its not very widely used. I wish MS Word and OOo were as good. At least then people wouldn't be against paragraph justificati

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