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by ronaldx 13y ago
Strictly speaking, you would only lose 1x your money on Bitcoin ;) Otherwise, I agree with what you said. I would prefer to invest in something where their assets will be used to make the world a better place. Not only do I (hopefully) gain
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by ronaldx 13y ago
The fact that you're interested in minute-to-minute changes probably illustrates that this quantity of Bitcoin is too risky an asset for you to hold. Good luck.
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by ronaldx 13y ago
> It is more ethical for McDonalds to make a higher profit, and pay lower wages This is a perverse use of the word 'ethical'. It attempts to remove corporations from any responsibility towards their employees. If it is, as you
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Fast-food employees are pretty much the canonical beneficiaries of a minimum wage law. Fast-food outlets can afford to spend more on salary (in that, they will still be profitable and it doesn't affect their viability as a business) bu
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by ronaldx 13y ago
This strategy is not in itself necessarily irrational - and maybe the opposite. Being able to implement mixed strategies is actually a game theoretic requirement for rationality. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategy_%
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by ronaldx 13y ago
I would love to know what you are working on!
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Visually identifying power laws from a log-log plot is a pervasive anti-pattern; this is a good treatment of why we should be sceptical and what we should do instead. Thanks to OP.
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Why should companies expect disclosure at all? The fact that the bug has been disclosed rather than exploited is, itself, a huge favour to Twitter.
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by ronaldx 13y ago
It's easy to "go through the trouble" of picking the matching third-party sources and rejecting non-matching third-party sources. If you are an association trying to present one viewpoint (as this is), that's pretty much
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Choosing the singlesexschools.org domain would be poor judgement on your part; as would publishing a biased report without reference to how you ensured its veracity. If your original research was complete and unbiased, you ought to be proud
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Unreliable witnesses can be right, indeed, but being correct doesn't make evidence a reliable source - you can be right for the wrong reasons. Having a stated belief upfront puts your work in obvious danger of confirmation bias[0]. It
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by ronaldx 13y ago
> because π is not representable is their system (typically base-2 or base-10 floating-point). Casio scientific calculators do have an internal representation of π (it's treated differently from the closest possible typed value) and
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Right: calculator apps still don't compare to Casio hardware. It's surprising: when smartphones came out I said calculators would be first against the wall.
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Yes, I agree there are potential sensible uses for this, but I hope that the given demonstration won't be taken as a sensible use. I think we are in violent agreement ;)
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Firstly, I like it. It's an elegant solution that gives excellent results and works as it says. Secondly, I don't like it. In the general case, this is not something that should be left to the client to calculate - whenever you a
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by ronaldx 13y ago
I didn't actually exclude that as a possibility: the existence of non-profits is indeed part of a capitalist system. But, I don't think a huge depth or breadth of science gets done that way. A democratic government should seek to
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Wow, I couldn't disagree with this premise more. I believe the exact opposite. Capitalist science already happens - that's how capitalism works. If something has the potential to be directly turned into profit, people create busin
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by ronaldx 13y ago
To me, bringing a Google employee on board signals that bad software patents are important to the USPTO (as they are to Google). I don't think we're going to see any changes as a result of this: it's more likely that bad pate
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by ronaldx 13y ago
There should really be a 50% premium for the working hours, plus a unicorn premium on top of that. People willing to work a 60+ hour week are relatively rare. If you genuinely need that over the long-term, you have to pay for this rarity: i
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Bricklayer B now takes 2 weeks as well.
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by ronaldx 13y ago
>Do you think that if you worked nights and weekends (say another 20 hours a week) your total productivity would be diminished vs. your normal week because those extra hours aren't productive? Yes, but it depends on what type of wor
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Agree with you - companies ought to recognise increases in market rate/inflation, plus an increase for experience/responsibility. Employees need to recognise that receiving only one of these is a snub. > Therefore, if the mar
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by ronaldx 13y ago
> provided your function is left-continuous Yes, but we are talking about indexing discrete arrays. All of your examples are continuous, and are not analogous.
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Making this argument agrees with my general point: that high-level programming languages ought to count as humans do.
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by ronaldx 13y ago
I don't find Dijkstra's argument unassailable: let's claim instead that half-open intervals are ugly (they are asymmetrical, and not typically used in mathematics) and closed intervals are preferable. Given that, his argument
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by ronaldx 13y ago
I take your point here - but no developments in numeracy include counting objects from zero.
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by ronaldx 13y ago
JavaScript (as it is used in practice) often results in worse "user experience": just as the author writes.
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by ronaldx 13y ago
In my opinion, one-indexing is better: * Ordinal and cardinal numbers both start from 1 in all major human languages * Humans didn't use the number zero until relatively recently in mathematical history - this illustrates that it'
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by ronaldx 13y ago
> This is an impossible system to break when grant distributors completely require that you have recently published in a luxury journal Agreed. This creates all sorts of false incentives which are self-reinforcing. It's good that a
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by ronaldx 13y ago
The link you quoted directly states that the quality of grain protein is relatively very poor and limited by lysine content ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protein_Digestibility_Corrected... ) I don't dispute that

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