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by req2 17y ago
In Illinois, you need a license to charge money to suggest where throw pillows should be placed; interior design is a licensed profession. A system of licensing is the most efficient way of verifying licenses. Licensing helps, but it can be
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by req2 17y ago
Have you seen algebra? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banach_algebra
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by req2 17y ago
Look at that sentence. It says he tried to do good, not that he tried to look good. This is in direct contradiction to your claim. It's pretty stunning to me that you would think any motives are beyond reproach. Your reverence for men who d
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by req2 17y ago
Shame on you, edw519. Where does he infer that Mr. Grass had such intent? Your inference that Hanson would prefer to denigrate rather than elucidate is speculative and insulting. Better you should forsake your sacred horse of generous peopl
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by req2 17y ago
First, you shouldn't expect such an unnecessarily verbose explanation of 'pissing money away' when anyone willing to follow the argument productively would happily understand that he didn't mean polio vaccinations aren't helpful. ( http://w
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by req2 17y ago
I don't think he's saying that hospitals and academics are worthless, but that their current marginal worth is well below their cost. The charity didn't create hospitals in needed areas, it simply expanded an existing hospital. An extra bui
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by req2 17y ago
That's not at all how correlation is measured. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correlation
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by req2 17y ago
I thought this would be more interesting, but it's just a rehash of the basic "execution is key" message; the "game ideas" aren't even game ideas so much as generic genre themes. They could just as easily work as pitches for books, movies,
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by req2 17y ago
Though I don't know of an effortless way to disable debug prints, you can easily redirect to a file. import sys print >>sys.stderr, "STDERR is fun." There's not too much that suggests using this instead of logging.
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The Hits Get Bigger - the magic of the Long Tail(edery.org)
2 points by req2 17y ago|0 comments
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Letter from Utopia(nickbostrom.com)
1 points by req2 17y ago|0 comments
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by req2 17y ago
It's not kosher to complain about a downvote, but this is a logically sound and complete demonstration of why the evidence posted above doesn't actually support the purported claim. It indicates, yes, but it is in no way, shape, or fashion
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by req2 17y ago
China executes at most a rounding error of the US prison population. 2005's high of 10,000 is less than half a percent of the current US prison population, and they would need to have been performing at that high for seventy years to hit th
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by req2 17y ago
Suppose every violent crime has a sentence of one year, and every drug crime a sentence of five years. You'll retain drug inmates and lose violent inmates, quickly yielding a situation in which there are more drug inmates than violent inmat
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by req2 17y ago
Assertion: "Most people are in prison for pot-smoking and non-violent offenses". "Most - non-violent offenses". Quotation: the majority of them nonviolent offenders majority - nonviolent offenders I don't know how else to spell it out.
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by req2 17y ago
Spend some time with a language that not only supports them but actually encourages their use, and you will see for yourself. This isn't an example and does nothing to convince me that it's actually useful. Your suggested application just
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by req2 17y ago
Why call Perl from Python? Why not just do everything in Perl? This is an awful lot of invective from one paragraph that, personally, implies an itinerant bad programmer migrating from 'cool language' to 'new cool language' and carting alon
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by req2 17y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_worm http://online.sfsu.edu/~rone/GEessays/killervirus.html
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by req2 17y ago
If you said that about a topic you're familiar with, it sounds silly: it seems that the vast vast majority of possible computer programs would have goals directly harmful to human goals (even modest ones). The vast majority of possible medi
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by req2 17y ago
Ah, I see the disconnect I made- I started talking about the 'doing fine' comment on the yearly salary, rather than the initial topic of pricing.
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by req2 17y ago
I'm not sure if this is intended, but the overlap in your <h2> tags hurts my eyes.
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by req2 17y ago
I agree, but I simply meant that the numbers for "doing fine" differ between salary and freelance, just as the numbers for "doing fine" differ between Topeka and New York.
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by req2 17y ago
A freelancer's wage is different from a salaryman's wage - health insurance dollars and the "self-employment tax" are two sizable bites to take into consideration.
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by req2 17y ago
But if IBM doesn't "hurt America", it will "hurt the world".
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by req2 17y ago
If I say I made a cake 'from scratch' (idiom: 'from nothing'), do you quibble that flour and eggs were indeed used, and that they are clearly not 'nothing'?
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by req2 17y ago
You're still missing what the experiments showed- money expands the time taken to do a finite task. Indeed, the base argument is that without a million dollar prize, much less effort would have been expended... yielding the same degree of s
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by req2 17y ago
Desired theoretical answer: 1/2. Your answer: bet on heads "EXACTLY THE RIGHT ANSWER": Less than a one in a billion chance of heads.
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by req2 17y ago
A true counterexample would show that the monetary prize gave a faster or better result than no prize. Without a control, you haven't shown anything.
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by req2 17y ago
Work, dedication, persistence, and pain have no inherent value.
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by req2 17y ago
You're conflating the niceness of calling someone a ninny and the niceness of kidnapping someone's nanny. edit: I'm not sure what the issue is- it's clear there is a difference between material niceness and immaterial niceness, and Zed, to

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