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by pjmorris 5y ago
I appreciate the pithy quote and its references even if I'm sad to see Mr. Young's catalog go.
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It could be called 'C--' unless that's been taken.
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Seems like you'd still have two customers (The burger is still in 'workin man''s budget), at 2/3 the food cost.
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by pjmorris 5y ago
Principles of Applied Statistics by D. R. Cox and Christl A. Donnelly From Cosma Shalizi's review [0]: > D. R. Cox published his first major book, Planning of Experiments, in 1958; he has been making major contributions to the theor
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by pjmorris 5y ago
Perfect. It sounds like something Matt Levine would either mock or write.
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I had a similar experience with slide rule books I checked out from the public library in the 1970s. Looking on Amazon now, I see 'An Easy Introduction to the Slide Rule' by none other than Issac Asimov. It's entirely possibl
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> From it I ascertained that the first two questions one should ask are when encountering something in life are, "is this actually important?" and "is this a problem I can actually solve or make a meaningful difference in
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I've read that Henry Ford raised wages to lower turnover. Quoted text is from a Forbes article, I haven't dug for the original source. > At the time, workers could count on about $2.25 per day, for which they worked nine-hour s
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by pjmorris 5y ago
One of my old bosses would say 'They need it more than you or I do' when settling up the change after paying for lunch.
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Forty years ago, when I was a 19 year old dishwasher and I went out with my wait staff friends, they made a point of tipping 20% instead of the then-customary 10% because they knew what their servers went through and wanted to show meaningf
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by pjmorris 5y ago
I just want to say 'Thank You' for the reminder. Great song I haven't thought about in a long time and perfect response here.
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My mom used to work at a library and so it was one of my key 8th grade hangouts. A few months after my dad passed (complications after open-heart surgery) I was there with my friend, James Daly, and he brought me a book of poetry opened to
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by pjmorris 5y ago
I don't know if I was the last kid in the US to buy a slide rule, but playing with it is how I came by my first understanding of exponents and logarithms in 8th grade.
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If someone pwns your IOT device that's your problem. If someone pwns the SWIFT network, that's the financial system's problem. borrowed from... "If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100
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by pjmorris 5y ago
> Here's what will 100% not work -- Activism or Trying to 'Policy' out of your way of Climate Change problems. Two questions: 1. Are you familiar with the concept of the tragedy of the commons? [0] 2. How comfortable are y
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by pjmorris 5y ago
> It would be interesting if HN had some bucket like /offtopic, for things that are flamebaity and removed from the main view, but I fear it would attract the aforementioned people who only ever troll there, and dang probably having
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by pjmorris 5y ago
Sometimes the HN comments are the real article.
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First, I want to support any mention of any Gerald Weinberg book. Every one is gold. IMO, Intro to GST is great for developing a scientific mindset, something broader than computer science itself. I would suggest a grain of salt to go with
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by pjmorris 5y ago
I second the recommendation for "Foundations of Computer Science." (and for the other books as well, but wanted to highlight it.) For a second or third book, consider 'Algorithm Design Manual', Skiena. I find it more app
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by pjmorris 5y ago
You (we) may be experiencing future shock: "too much change in too short a period of time", from 'Future Shock', Alvin Toffler, 1970. FTWA [0]: > Alvin Toffler argued that society is undergoing an enormous structural
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by pjmorris 5y ago
We have a 12-cup Bialetti as our daily driver. Our 6-cup Bialetti is now the travel pot, currently sitting on the inlaw's stove. It goes with us nearly everywhere. I don't take it backpacking, but I have pulled off making coffee w
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I'd think it's less about test prep than it is about a stable home and family environment, how well/poorly local schools are funded, access to public libraries and the leisure time required of both parent and child to able to
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by pjmorris 5y ago
Everything old is new again. In the 50's and 60's, computers were so expensive that most organizations leased computer time.
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> low, predictable inflation rates It seems to me that tripling the monetary base and investing two parts of it in MBS is going to have an inflationary effect on house prices. Am I being obtuse here?
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If the Treasury lends out ~700B for ~MBS and is repaid ~700B for MBS, and the Fed buys $1-2T (low end of the repayment you mention) in MBS, who is really doing the bailout?
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by pjmorris 5y ago
On the chart shown at your link, Fed-owned assets go from ~.8T to 2.5T (blue line, assuming the MBS (red line) are part of that.) and then grow as QE takes effect and the Fed buys all manner of things. That .8T was all US Treasuries, no lon
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Came here to recommend the same. From the book's website: "This book has been taken out of print by W. H. Freeman. You are welcome to use it if you like. We believed in 1992 it was the way to introduce theory in Computer Science,
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"Best alternative to a negotiated agreement" (BATNA) is from 'Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In', Fisher, et al. The idea is that you want to be aware of what your options before entering a negotiat
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I moved from mind maps (I used and liked FreeMind) to indented outlines in plain text files when I realized I wasn't really losing anything to map the nodes to headings and the edges to sub-headings. I can capture the same relationship
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> There is no reason to believe your phone that tracks everything about you will not be used by people in government without accountability as leverage against you personally. I have one small revision: There is no reason to believe your

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