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Health care. He points out that prohibition destroyed the seventh largest industry in the country at the time it was passed, and did nothing but breed criminality and disrespect for law. He then implies that the coming massive government in
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If anything, we should be more skeptical than most. Lorenz pretty much founded modern chaos theory when he learned how ridiculously hard it was to simulate (and therefor predict) weather. The whole butterfly flapping in China thing isn't a
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In CouchDB, Map/Reduce is the primary way that you access the database. The first time you access a "view", it will do a Map/Reduce on the entire database. On subsequent access, it will redo the Map on new records. To make this work, the ac
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sudo apt-get install rkhunter chkrootkit logcheck monit rkhunter and chkrootkit will both look for insecure configuration, permissions, and known root kits. rkhunter will also maintain a database of the signatures of your system binaries. I
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Practice some with historical data, get a job with a firm that does this, and eventually strike out on your own. If you prove yourself, people will hand you millions to manage. Starting with your own money seems like a bit of a fools game.
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I really, really like the basis of this idea. But the more I ponder what you're trying to solve, the more I think you should provide scores weighted within the discussion. Perhaps, the quintile a comment is in. Use a bar that adds segments
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This change might improve voting, but it decreases the value of that voting. I'll stipulate that the voting might be more "fair", if that is a goal. I'm not sure it should be. It might make the "game" of getting high karma more fair, but I'
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Best guess on the street is that it's actually a collective of about 40 people.
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My partner and I built a product, and we're currently selling to higher ed. He's been selling to higher ed for seven or eight years now, and I've been peripherally involved in selling to higher ed for four or five. I'd love a chance to chat
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"Generally, we find MongoDB to be a very good fit for building web infrastructure." I strongly agree. I just went through a painful transition of our product from CouchDB onto MongoDB. It was a week or two of pain, but I had things isolated
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My father read the article in 1985, and promptly wrote a program that used the fancy-pants dedicated hardware of the computer vision systems he worked on at the time. I remember going into the office with him when he had to work on a weeken
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Your contention is interesting. Let us compare cancer survival rates. http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/561737 Breast cancer survival rates in the US are 90.1%, versus 79.0% in Europe. The prostate cancer survival rate in the US is 99.3
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You seem to feel some sort of moral obligation to price things as cost-plus. "This good cost me $90, 10% profit is reasonable, you can have it for $100." You're upset by pricing based on value. "This good cost me $90, but it's going to sav
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Don't sweat it. Knuth now writes checks for brownie points, drawn on a fictional bank. http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/news08.html
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Salesfolk tend to be the most rational economic actors you can find. If a salesperson can make a reasonable living by just picking up the phone and signing somebody up, they're never going to do anything else. Why should they? If you don't
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Some of your ennui might arise from being too close to the project. You've been working on it for months, you've been close to it, you've made compromises, and now you can't separate yourself enough past choices to be able to objectively ev