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811.
by ramchip 16y ago
You'll have to refrain these thoughts. It's a catholic campus ;)
812.
by ramchip 16y ago
> which is why the West prospers and other cultures do not I think you're forgetting Korea, Japan, Taiwan and several middle East countries. Even China isn't doing too bad, recently. And isn't western-style democracy much closer to econ
813.
by ramchip 16y ago
Who are those hardcore technorati and where do they bash Youtube?
814.
by ramchip 16y ago
Well, I'm in Quebec, so a BEng at a very good university like McGill costs less than $4k a year, all fees and insurance included. Granted, the US appears to be more expensive.
815.
by ramchip 16y ago
> The responsible thing to do there is to just say no. Or just go to a college that doesn't charge $200k in fees?
816.
by ramchip 16y ago
> there is some literature out there indicating increased income is associated with increased suicide risk. As far as I can see, the study you cited does not support this. The quote mentions "In contrast to findings in the general popul
817.
by ramchip 16y ago
In war time, the economy appears to stall, since the growth is concentrated in war-related products which do not influence indicators like the consumer price index. After the war ends, the industry goes back to normal and the CPI `catches u
818.
by ramchip 16y ago
The author is not an economist. Just like people writing about science in the newspapers are rarely actual scientists, people writing about economy in the news are rarely economists.
819.
by ramchip 16y ago
Sure, a key-value store would work. My point is that the OP's system is not such a store. He just stores 10 PBs of raw data with no indexing and no duplication, so there is no way to retrieve data and comparison with hard disks is meaningle
820.
by ramchip 16y ago
I think they usually hang out around other, Japanese-related boards. /b/ has little respect for anime or anything in general, and it's almost impossible to organize anything in the huge, fast-moving mess it has become.
821.
by ramchip 16y ago
> To probe for information in a DNA database, you construct the reverse-complement of the desired bit of information To build the reverse-complement of the information, don't you need to have the information in the first place? I know i
822.
by ramchip 16y ago
I see many debatable points: - Blood is far from being that dense, but I'll assume you mean to calculate a theoretical limit. - If you use the whole of a cell's DNA to encode information, the cell will die. It can't be used to freely encode
823.
by ramchip 16y ago
Does your computer have a floppy drive?
824.
by ramchip 16y ago
I don't think 'not knowing exactly what you're doing' implies 'being an amateur'.
825.
by ramchip 16y ago
> In contrast, the only thing I can think that would take out both a cell phone and a clock radio would be an EMP, or an explosion in the same room. Perhaps more likely: the phone is close to discharged and a blackout happens. Both devi
826.
by ramchip 16y ago
I think it's a bit language-specific. For example, many websites that offer Japanese <-> English lookup use the free EDICT: http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/j_edict.html You could also check out the list of free dictionaries inc
827.
by ramchip 16y ago
I wouldn't generalize so fast. I live in a student dorm in Quebec where everyone is under 30, and everybody I know cooks themselves. At least basic stuff like toasts or pasta. It's not really practical to eat out every meal in the first pla
828.
by ramchip 16y ago
The Hyperspec's thoroughness is amazing. I wish more software went this far.
829.
by ramchip 16y ago
I'm not sure if that was mikeknoops's point, but the study does not support that "[uncertainty] creates insecurity and a desire to settle the uncertainty in ones own favor". They merely say that the participants thought more about the men,
830.
by ramchip 16y ago
He must have thrown his graphics card very hard to reach 2000 FPS.
831.
by ramchip 16y ago
Amusingly enough, they offer a "Reputation Defense Program": http://www.turkette.com/reputation-defense/
832.
by ramchip 16y ago
> According to the ILO, “Americans work 137 more hours per year than Japanese workers [...]" I find this very hard to believe. Could it be that unpaid overtime work was not always declared?
833.
by ramchip 16y ago
Seconding this. I know many people who speak only English and are doing just fine here. Almost everybody who works at a store is bilingual. It's still worth it to learn French though, if only to get the francophones' respect. I often hear Q
834.
by ramchip 16y ago
de jeur => du jour? de jure?
835.
by ramchip 16y ago
I've barely used Chrome before, but shouldn't you use mouse gestures to close tabs in Opera? It's by far the easiest way, along with ctrl+w. No need to aim and click on a specific button.
836.
by ramchip 16y ago
What makes you so certain of their motives?
837.
by ramchip 16y ago
There's a similar system already in place in Japan, it's quite impressive. You can link a credit card to your phone and actually use it like a ticket at train gates, or buy stuff and pay the bills at convenience stores by scanning the phone
838.
by ramchip 16y ago
In the US, maybe, but your statement is rather insulting for engineers in Quebec. Here, software engineers must follow an engineering program at university, spend at least 2 years working under an Ordre des Ingénieurs member's supervision,
839.
by ramchip 16y ago
The linked article only talks about DRM however, as far as I can see. It says "data protected by encryption" is the target of the new law.
840.
by ramchip 16y ago
What are the other instances? Besides Go, I don't recall many languages that fit the bill. There's D, but it's not very new and certainly not a fad language.

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