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by peter303 9y ago
Correction: online dating srted in the 1980s with usenet and dialup bboards.
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by peter303 9y ago
Hope it fares better than Virgin Galactic which is at least eight years behind schedule (first commercial flights proposed for 2010).
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by peter303 9y ago
Spreading has been enough of a problem in academic publishing that some institution just ask for your five most significant publicationd in thepast five years on your CV. Quality, not quantity.
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by peter303 9y ago
Senator McCain called Congress’s bluff about technicalities replacing substance in reforming health care. High School Debate isnt the the only institution with this problem.
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by peter303 9y ago
You guys must have great dating lives
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by peter303 9y ago
Five digit slashdot here and star post name, but I have most switched to Hacker news. HN updates immediately, raises highest voted topics to top. I notice both cover the same articles. The slashdot ads are a lttle annoying.
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by peter303 9y ago
This is part of the philosophical problem of identity. Is there a non-physical part of the mind? If you duplicate a body by cloning, matter relicator, or exact uploading into a computer, do you have multiple persons or souls? (Star Trek exp
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by peter303 9y ago
Kip Thorne was sort of hippie physicist in the 1970s. But CalTech recognized his brillance in hiring him. Generality Relativity was sort of a graveyard from 1920s to 1960s because there were too few doable experiments and specialized soluti
969.
by peter303 9y ago
In the distant past there have been bloopers- results that have stood the test of time. And there are results that become more significant and durable after decades have passed.
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by peter303 9y ago
In my town (Denver) ADA lawsuits is practically a competitive sport. Nuisances dont last long because the fine can be more than the remediation cost. And ACLU is a major participant.
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by peter303 9y ago
Its like saying our universe is a simulation embedded in another universe. The simulation only need to be to the resolution of Plancks quantum of action. We couldnt distinguish any detail finer than that. The other universe could have a muc
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by peter303 9y ago
Agreed. If you used medical services in any significant way before 2010, your SS and birthdate was all over the place in insurance and medical records.
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by peter303 9y ago
Each agency has their own credit score. In addition they will compute a Fair Isaac score on demand because FICO charges a royalty to compute the FICO. The royalty is the reason they dont giveva FICO with the free annual report.
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by peter303 9y ago
In recent downturns people without college degrees got burned. HR could ask for more credentials, even if they were less relevant than experience. Its just its been so long since the last IT downturn, the newbies feel invincible.
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by peter303 9y ago
After a few years of reading many people recognize words in their entirety, not as individual letters. They note the length, parts with upward extenders such as bdhk, descenders like gjp and rounded parts etc. This is akin to reading ideogr
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by peter303 9y ago
Not true. It said 'not impacted' when entered fake account and 'impacted' when I typed mine.
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by peter303 9y ago
Its a tautology (circular reasoning)- that which survives has figured out how to survive. In other words, fitness is that which survives.
978.
by peter303 9y ago
During the Manhattan Project some were motivated by solving a technological frontier and didnt really think about the consequences.
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by peter303 9y ago
Go to any Millennial or iGen feeding space and you'll see a bunch of zombies lost in their screens and rarely interacting with each other. Very sad.
980.
by peter303 9y ago
At the annual Denver Startup Week I notice about a third to half of the startup industry is incestuous, that provides facilities for developers to work better. These are mainly code academies and coworking spaces. I feel if the tech industr
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by peter303 9y ago
From its earliest year UNIX/Linux had utilities including lex and yacc that automate much of these fuctions. I tended to use awk to create powerful new command scripts.
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by peter303 9y ago
Polticians rented crowds back in the days of Athens and Rome
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by peter303 9y ago
Ikea
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by peter303 9y ago
Plus some companies (which will remain unnamed) are unable to use cash parked overseas for US purposes. But they can borrow against it at low interest rates for capital.
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by peter303 9y ago
I have been around enough to remember a similar A.I. hype in the 1980s involving Japan, expert systems, and logic (Prolog) supercomputers. This time it is China, deep learning, and deep learning accelerator hardware. The 1980s was a commerc
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by peter303 9y ago
Zuckerbergs hundred million to Camden NJ was squandered. Too much money too soon. Plus a corrupt organization. Plus no one really knows how to make minority schools better. Its not from lack of trying.
987.
by peter303 9y ago
You have to spend at least 5% of your assets a year. Unless you are a church or college, then there is no amount. Some people want the 5% to apply to colleges too.
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by peter303 9y ago
Famous for a library in every town- over 2500 of them. Many still operating.
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by peter303 9y ago
Only about three have an intrinsic economic basis as a currency. And much of that is for illegal goods and ransoms.
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by peter303 9y ago
ESPN viewership is dropping. As the largest asset of Disney it drags their stock down. Most other Disney assets are printing money, but not enough to compensate ESPN. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assets_owned

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