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by psykotic 16y ago
Supposing I were a topskat-paying immigrant, newly arrived in Denmark, you better believe I'd expect the usual level of healthcare and childcare services. Unemployment benefits and the like are a different matter. The expectation is that yo
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The problem with immigration reform is that the effects are very long term whereas politics operates on the 4-year electoral cycle. When it comes down to Denmark's basic problems with non-assimilating immigrants, you won't be able to see cl
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> This is indeed a very common scenario. Danish people move to Sweden for a period of time, just to be able to get a residence permit for their foreign spouse. My wife is well educated, but due to her Russian nationality, getting her to
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The right-wing parties like Dansk Folkeparti have recently begun talking about a reform in which new immigrants wouldn't be eligible for social welfare for the first one or two years. I am strongly against such legislation because it makes
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> It cracks me up when I hear Germans talking about American arrogance. Oh, most Americans are definitely arrogant on their country's behalf. You're not off the hook. :)
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I am Danish but "left" the country 7-8 years ago. The last few months I've been back to prepare for my move to the US, which will be my second time living and working there. It's remarkable how absurd the Danish world-view appears to me now
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> I'd be interested in any recommendations you have for books about chaos/non-linear systems Strogatz's Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos might be a good place to start. It's not mathematically sophisticated at all, e.g. there are few proofs
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On a related note: Use BetterTouchTool to re-bind four-finger upward swipe to tile/untile open windows in the frontmost application, and re-bind four-finger side swipe to activate the next/previous open window in the frontmost application.
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My bad for misinterpreting.
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Bob Parsons flew all the way to Zimbabwe and trekked into the wilderness to save the village's crops and do his small part in keeping down the country's elephant population? What a stand-up guy! Here's a more likely narrative: Bob Parsons w
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Here's the thing. Most of calculus's power comes from its use as a mechanical calculational system. Hence the name. Archimedes's proof of the surface area and volume of a sphere is far more insightful and explanatory than the standard calcu
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There are many different ways of thinking about mathematical concepts like derivatives. The more you know, the more deeply you know them, the better. Here's a random example: Marsden and Weinstein define derivatives in their out-of-print te
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Or you can select the window with alt-tab, press alt-space to open the window menu, press 'm' to select 'move' and then use the arrow keys. I use this all the time when windows go completely off screen and you can't grab them with the mouse
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Try to do a word count for 'it turns out' in Wolfram's A New Kind of Science. Anyone who's read that doorstop knows the prose is dreadful, and that phrase is especially conspicuous.
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Forensic Debugging and Crash Analysis(assemblyrequired.crashworks.org)
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If you want to go beyond the basics, I found this book invaluable: http://www.maths.abdn.ac.uk/~bensondj/html/maths-music.html
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ConTeXt Mk II has had solid MathML support for a long time. It's also there albeit still undergoing construction in Mk IV, which is the newer LuaTeX-based rewrite.
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Well and truly said. But my frustration is that the public debate has not moved far beyond the stage of settling on a common vocabulary. No party will cede to the other's framing of the issues because that would admit defeat. Thus we have a
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I was employing the colloquial sense of 'rhetoric' in that final sentence. Had I instead used 'sophistry', someone would no doubt have rebutted my choice of words by justly remarking that the Sophists and that Protagoras guy were jolly good
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In a given context, rights can be more or less fundamental. Imagine a hypothetical post-scarcity society. Protection of private property in our sense ceases to have meaning there and cannot be considered a right. How can anyone of sound mi
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My argument doesn't hinge on the negation of natural rights theory. It's based on a simple observation of the way large-scale societies have always worked in practice: they have never treated protection of private property even in its pures
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Whenever a discussion on this subject devolves into bickering over the meaning of words, I feel an urge to smack the participants. It's completely irrelevant what you call it unless you are one of those curious people who considers private
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> I literally have not had a resume since I read this Every job I've had has been through personal connections and recommendations. That doesn't mean a resume isn't useful. You will likely be interviewed by at least some people who don'
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It's not semantically different from sort [] = []; sort (x:xs) = sort (filter (< x) xs) ++ filter (== x) xs ++ sort (filter (> x) xs) in Haskell (modulo laziness). The parallel structure in the J code should be plainly evident even
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Absolutely. The problem is that the most powerful points of view are so effective they're easy to confuse with reality. That's the upside and downside of reductionism in a sentence. :)
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Don't IQ-raising points of view usually have this dark side? For example, the methods of analytic geometry and calculus let you solve problems mechanically that would be difficult or even impossible by other means. That's great if you're ju
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When the Itanium first launched, we got some machines from Intel so we could port our software. After excitedly unpacking one machine, we plugged it into the office power outlet and flipped the switch. Suddenly all the lights on our floor w
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That's a great point. I'm really excited about the future of the Mac with developments like these. Hopefully the API hooks are simple enough that it's a no-brainer choice for developers to make.
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How many of the coolest-sounding features like Auto-Save, Versions and Resume will require special support per application? Resume is the only one that seems doable without that; they can piggyback on the existing OS support for suspend-to-
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The same could be said and has been said for C++ as an evolution of pre-ANSI C. A radical blank-slate language like Fortress is by its nature different from a conservative but still significant extension like Fortran 2008. Both efforts seek

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