pjmorris

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by pjmorris 8y ago
Seconded, the three volume set is a very worthwhile read.
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by pjmorris 8y ago
Even without guns, it's much easier to break a robot than it is to operate one. I think the economics of the physical economy favor the physical masses over the paper wealthy.
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by pjmorris 8y ago
Seems to me like PM's would think in the most positive terms about the same issue, e.g. what is the maximum amount of ad space that we can use before users lose interest? No one would directly attempt to be evil, it'd just turn ou
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by pjmorris 8y ago
I've talked with two people who had worked in Rickover's organization, both of whom respected him greatly, They each had a story to tell. One had an interview with Rickover as part of his hiring process. Rickover asked him to defi
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by pjmorris 8y ago
Who spends more? DARPA on weaponized insects, or The Gates Foundation on eradicating malaria by controlling mosquitos?
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by pjmorris 8y ago
Two thoughts on housing: 1) One component of housing is how much money banks are willing to loan for the house. So 'easy money' environments will boost prices, apart from the quality and size of the house, the desirability of its
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by pjmorris 8y ago
Hahaha. It's one thing to make something from the French Laundry Cookbook. It's another thing to do it all day(night) every day. That's a chef.
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by pjmorris 8y ago
I've been part of two Toastmaster's clubs. I've found the Toastmasters program for learning how to speak publicly to be thorough, thoughtful, and easy to get started with. I've found the people in both clubs (different e
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by pjmorris 8y ago
Cooking. I am not a chef, but I have spent the time and effort to be able and willing to tackle nearly any recipe in the cuisines I'm familiar with. More importantly, I've made my wife, family, friends, strangers, and myself, happ
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by pjmorris 8y ago
It's not just the quote, the whole appendix ought to be taught to every engineer (and manager, and investor), and deserves to be hanging on the wall in many places.
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by pjmorris 8y ago
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman [0] [0] https://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/missions/51-l/docs/
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by pjmorris 8y ago
> Adding the other batch of books that I have elsewhere, it seems that I possess altogether nearly 900 books, at a cost of £165 15s. In 1946, one pound was ~$4 [0], making 165.15 roughly $660. Using a US dollar inflation calculator [1],
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by pjmorris 8y ago
Seems like plenty of organizations optimize for 'cheaper', and this is one means of doing so.
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by pjmorris 8y ago
That was a terrific read, thank you. Interesting to see that Megler is now Dr. Megler at AWS.
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by pjmorris 8y ago
One of the things that struck me in reading 'A History of the American People' by Paul Johnson was how often conflicts - resource, political, religious - were 'resolved' by one of the groups move into a lonely, uninhabit
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by pjmorris 8y ago
I once worked in a place that held a 'Bring Your Dog To Work' day. The intriguing thing to me was that the dogs very much had the personalities of their owners, whether calm or anxious.
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by pjmorris 8y ago
> Well, if you hand-count a voting machine, and it gives you a different result from the machine, then you know something went wrong. And you'll probably have to ask someone who's not in the room about what went wrong. With hum
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by pjmorris 8y ago
> With sincerity, there is vulnerability, and while many consider that to be weakness, I count it a strength. I, too, count vulnerability a strength. There's an essay I keep meaning to write about it, but the short of it is that eac
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by pjmorris 8y ago
If they'd taken the same risks that Fannie and Freddie took, they'd have had similar results, and the market may well have gone on functioning as it had before. "Similarly, the total credit losses incurred by the GSEs are abo
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by pjmorris 8y ago
This talking point has been debunked for years. It's a special favorite of Barry Ritholtz at 'The Big Picture' blog. He observes, empirically, that most sub-prime lending during the crisis was done by banks that weren't
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by pjmorris 8y ago
If you're seeking to broaden your perspective, you might find "Bagehot's Dictum in Practice: Formulating and Implementing Policies to Combat the Financial Crisis", written by a director at the Fed, to be worth your time.
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by pjmorris 8y ago
You should weigh any advice on its merits.
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by pjmorris 8y ago
If we're going to be capitalistic, apply Bagehot's dictum (from 1873) "in times of financial crisis central banks should lend freely to solvent depository institutions, yet only against sound collateral and at interest rates
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by pjmorris 8y ago
They also have mortgages, medical bills, and friends with mortgages and medical bills.
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by pjmorris 8y ago
Could you provide some citations for your claims (e.g. 'poorer people voted for Clinton')? If you do, I'll go look up my old sources. It's been awhile, but I came away with the impression that economic hardship was one o
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by pjmorris 8y ago
I'd suggest "The Pragmatic Programmer" by Hunt and Thomas. It's a compendium of advice on being an effective programmer compiled from experience. Also, take look at "The Practice of Programming" by Kernighan a
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by pjmorris 8y ago
Actually, shareholder value has only become an important emphasis in the past few decades. > On August 12, 1981, Jack Welch made a speech at The Pierre in New York City called ‘Growing fast in a slow-growth economy’. This is often acknow
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by pjmorris 8y ago
Offhand... 1. 'The Making of the Atomic Bomb', R. Rhodes 2. 'Apollo: Race to the Moon', C. Murray, C. Cox 3. 'The Prize', D. Yergin 4. 'Are Your Lights On?', D. Gause, G. Weinberg 5. 'Becoming A
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by pjmorris 8y ago
Seems to me that the data collected in the miles driven is an essential component in addition to the sensor package and other hardware. Creating a hardware package is the easy thing, collecting the data doesn't seem like it'd be e
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by pjmorris 8y ago
I'd argue that a forced living situation, a forced job, and a below-minimum wage are very different from an optional job with a minimum wage and no constraints on living situation, and that the two systems work differently.

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