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by redler 8y ago
As “code”, one problem is that the contract is only “compiled” and “run” if and when things go very badly indeed — on a compiler that is extremely expensive, loosely specified, and non-deterministic.
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by redler 8y ago
So 911 keeps "The Purge" at bay? I've never heard this argument.
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by redler 8y ago
I also read it as a qualified positive. (1) Sound and unsound studies can be done in any field. (2) In this examination of the field of psychology, half the observed studies were found to be sound. (3) The implication that half the work in
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by redler 8y ago
Try "Stop Stealing Sheep" [1] or "The Elements of Typographic Style" [2] [1] https://www.amazon.com/dp/0201703394 [2] https://www.amazon.com/dp/0881792128
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by redler 8y ago
I’m guessing the word “internal” has a lot to do with it.
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by redler 8y ago
Amazing. It's like they performed the Epley Maneuver on a satellite. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epley_maneuver
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by redler 8y ago
Anesthesiology is a particularly pathological case, so to speak. You don't choose your anesthesiologist; it's the medical equivalent of a (very important and highly-paid) back-office function. So you've chosen an in-network h
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by redler 8y ago
Even an inert supplement is dangerous if its marketing and labeling leads uninformed people to believe it's a substitute for an actual working pharmaceutical.
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by redler 8y ago
Perhaps this means someday required search terms can work +this +way +again.
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by redler 8y ago
How about a security feature designed by old computer game aficionados? Every fifteen minutes there's an enforced break. Hold music begins playing. After a moment the music fades and a synthesized voice says "Turn to page...23...o
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by redler 8y ago
They don’t want to become the “commoditized complement” to a higher order ecosystem monetized by Kubernetes, et al.
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by redler 8y ago
It appears that “full employment” means the lowermost slice of employed workers are sloshing around at the bottom of the barrel with a few giant monopsonist-type employers paying economically efficient wages — with enough “price discovery”
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by redler 8y ago
And one of the candidates is the Kansas Secretary of State, overseer of the process.
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by redler 8y ago
You actually can save comments. Click the time stamp in the comment header to present the comment in isolation, then click “favorite”.
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by redler 8y ago
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.” — Mark Twain And as you point out, living in a big city can be akin to traveling.
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by redler 8y ago
If pressed to actually provide reasoning, I'd expect something like "This service was drastically underpriced and would not have been viable long-term. The merger has afforded us greater market vision and economies of scale, and c
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by redler 8y ago
So, a sort of Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis for business?
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by redler 8y ago
He stabbed you in the front. If nothing else, you now accurately understand the nature of your relationship.
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by redler 8y ago
There’s no real overarching strategy. It’s a mixed bag of fringe denizens exploiting an opportunity, at long last, to roll their hobbyhorses into the game under the aegis of performative cruelty.
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by redler 8y ago
Wear and tear aside, ethanol also has lower energy density than gasoline. The consumer is paying at least the same cost per unit for mixed fuel and getting worse mileage.
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by redler 8y ago
“Our developers need deadlines. If I don’t give them a deadline, the work will never get done.” — Many, Many Managers
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by redler 8y ago
Watch the film “Melancholia” for a dark take on the effect of a rogue planet.
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by redler 8y ago
The pizza looks great. Do you have a high temperature oven?
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by redler 8y ago
Government-funded health care suffers from all the same economic problems that privately financed health care suffers from Except the biggest one: the need to maximize the extraction and distribution of profit to shareholders, while fundi
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by redler 8y ago
They essentially declared "issue bankruptcy", in the Lessig/Turkle sense.
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by redler 9y ago
“The enemy of art is the absence of limitations” (attributed to Orson Welles)
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by redler 9y ago
As someone else mentioned on this thread, there's little distinction in search engine results between something that happened yesterday and something that happened 20 years ago. We now have the phenomenon of information no longer &quot
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by redler 9y ago
If you are the only car doing something then there is a good chance you are doing something wrong. I’m surprised self-driving systems don’t do this (do they?). One or more vehicles in front of you that have successfully navigated an area
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by redler 9y ago
Well, any companies that just squeaked out a 3% margin won’t be too fond of it.
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by redler 9y ago
It could also be that dark matter is distributed proportionately with observed regular matter.

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