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by newt0311 18y ago
Which just goes to show why the AFT is an idiotic idea to begin with.
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by newt0311 18y ago
Borderline? You give these guys way too much credit.
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by newt0311 18y ago
DB Cursors?
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by newt0311 18y ago
Umm... temperatures dropped with no lead time? Most feedback systems (especially on a global scale) do not work nearly that quickly due to negative feedback. The idea that man caused the little ice age is ludicrous.
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by newt0311 18y ago
Python.
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by newt0311 18y ago
CiteseerX is also a good source of papers though not as good as an ACM subscription.
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by newt0311 18y ago
Determining the distribution is the sole purpose of an economic system. Don't trivialize it.
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by newt0311 18y ago
The point is not that the carbon tax/cap-and-trade/you favorite policy will work but that they will impose an unacceptably high cost in the process. Your comment does not respond to that concern. All that revenue for federal tax/subsidy pol
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by newt0311 18y ago
They wish. The UAW has a complete monopoly over their labor resources. In the case of a bankruptcy, the courts would have trashed those idiotic work contracts and brought in something more in line with their competitors. Bankruptcy would h
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by newt0311 18y ago
Having only a single auto-increment column with sharding is likely a bad idea to begin with. In most DBs, (not MySQL I think), the engine uses a specialized setup to hand out the next value in line globally so that while the auto-increment
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by newt0311 18y ago
Out of curiosity, have they turned a profit yet? Last I heard, they were still getting more funding from selling shares.
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by newt0311 18y ago
And what happens to all that extra cash collected in the name of climate change? Oh the federal govt. centrally plans on how to waste it on congressional pork.
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by newt0311 18y ago
Possibly, and understand that when is a very important question. Notice how if you place money in a bank, it gains interest. Similarly, the private capital system is very effective at deciding where and when to allocate resources. Alloc
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by newt0311 18y ago
Broken window fallacy. Redistributing capital to renewable energy sources means that more money is needed for the same amount of energy (at least right now) which means that money which could have been used for other purposes like food, wat
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by newt0311 18y ago
They are the largest. Weird because according to wikipedia, they had the best record up to 2007.
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by newt0311 18y ago
Not when that course costs several trillion in lost economic output.
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by newt0311 18y ago
Did you consider the possibility that maybe people in general (and in this case, women) are capable of making their own decisions and maybe most women genuinely are not interested in pursuing a career in mathematics for reasons other than
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by newt0311 18y ago
Hmm... This guy clearly hasn't seen any functional languages (he thinks that patterns are his invention). Not that interesting.
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by newt0311 18y ago
Nice article. Anybody want to try this with the new CPython multiprocess module?
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by newt0311 18y ago
Teaching kids almost anything (worth teaching) is a good idea. By the time kids grow over 10, large portions of their learning abilities are gone. For example, consider languages. Kids growing up with multiple languages learn them with ease
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by newt0311 18y ago
Wow. An editorial on the NY that makes significant economic sense and goes against the liberal ideology. This is a first. On the op-ed itself. I don't understand why anybody considers profit evil if said profit is not gotten through fraud
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Forbes on possible alternate uses for bailout.(forbes.com)
1 points by newt0311 18y ago|0 comments
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by newt0311 18y ago
Unfortunately, Detroit happens to be in the company of Washington as well as most labor unions and several influential interest groups. It's a disaster in progress.
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by newt0311 18y ago
Another great book by the same: The Emperor's New Mind. Covers everything from Turing machines to the Mandelbrot set to Quantum Mechanics. An amazing read.
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by newt0311 18y ago
Every linux box in existence supports PS, very well. So does every PDF reader. That covers over 80% of all computers. Extending this support could be done through a plugin. Compare this to the fact that IE does not support SVG and PS is a
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by newt0311 18y ago
A more pressing problem with SVG is that it is like every other W3C standard: bloated, unwieldy, and obfuscated. Not to mention that SVG does not have all the capabilities of PS. PS is a complete turing complete language specialized for dra
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by newt0311 18y ago
The Auto industry is sustainable if you include the Japanese automakers who still happen to do a vast majority of their manufacturing here in the US.
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by newt0311 18y ago
Counter argument: http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2008/12/madoff_as_metap....
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by newt0311 18y ago
Maybe maybe not but who here is willing to make any bet on what technology we will have in 2500 years? I certainly am not. And thats just one example of something that could (and is likely to) change drastically.
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Detroit gets its Bailout(online.wsj.com)
2 points by newt0311 18y ago|4 comments

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