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by rudiger 15y ago
They care because the coins were never issued. They were stolen. Even when a 1933 Double Eagle coin was legally auctioned, an additional $20 was needed to “monetize” the face value of the coin so it would become legal currency.
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by rudiger 15y ago
Is there any qualitative difference (eg. a unique design beyond the "1933" year) between the 1933 Double Eagle coin and the coins from previous years? Obviously, an interesting story makes these worth so much more.
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by rudiger 15y ago
Serious question: What can you use a screwdriver for (besides turning a screw)?
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by rudiger 15y ago
If writing words by hand is too slow for your mind, you're not thinking hard enough. The speed of touch-typing approaches the speed of cognition, but deep analytical and creative thought is much slower than even the slowest forms of committ
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by rudiger 15y ago
Finance. Drawbacks have been well-documented.
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by rudiger 15y ago
Just want to say thanks. I bought the $2.99 iPhone app, and the ease of managing my team has definitely made me a few hundred dollars from bets with our pool over the season.
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by rudiger 15y ago
You've articulated this much better than my (admittedly ham-fisted) response.
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by rudiger 15y ago
I have to play Devil's advocate here. An interesting spelling corrector does not place someone in the annals of computer science history as "one of the most influential computer scientists of the post-Turing era."
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by rudiger 15y ago
Mac Pros might be discontinued, but they definitely won't be replaced by daisy-chained Mac Minis that are barely user-customizable. Owners of a big-box PC want maximum power with good value and to be able to add or replace memory, disks,
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by rudiger 15y ago
Apple makes the biggest margins, moves the most units, and has the most app sales of anyone on their platform. It will be tough to compete on any of those fronts.
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by rudiger 15y ago
Consider it a necessary but not sufficient condition for happiness.
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by rudiger 15y ago
How much capital do you wish to raise?
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by rudiger 15y ago
Countries can argue that nuclear weapons are bad and call for disarmament, but it's not contradictory to stockpile them when there's the credible threat of other countries fighting with these weapons.
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by rudiger 15y ago
Good luck! Berlin's a great city, and I'm looking forward to reading your future updates and I hope you're successful with your plans. Just watch out with the "No More Sugar" experiment; oxidation of glucose is thought to provide almost all
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by rudiger 15y ago
Even better: "I'm single and I'm willing to pursue meaningless one-night stands and shallow two-week flings until my startup is established and running." This has the benefit of keeping you physically satisfied while being 100% emotionally
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by rudiger 15y ago
This was way before Google+ took off. Likely, the Color team would have been an integral part of their social strategy. With that in mind, a $200M offer isn't unreasonable.
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by rudiger 15y ago
Well, an acquisition would have to be for a premium of Yahoo's publicly-traded market capitalization, so it's tough to say how much they "lost" by scuttling the deal.
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by rudiger 15y ago
If you truly need C-like performance in Java , use C++.
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by rudiger 15y ago
I think Thawte was a much more ambitious startup to come out of South Africa. Thawte was founded in 1995 by Mark Shuttleworth in South Africa and was originally run from Shuttleworth's parents' garage. It became the second largest public ce
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by rudiger 15y ago
Where are the slides?
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by rudiger 15y ago
It actually applies to more than just exponential growth. Fibonacci and factorial growth rates also follow Benford's Law.
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by rudiger 15y ago
Linearly growing sequences don't follow Benford's law, but lower first digits (1, 2, 3) are still more probable than higher first digits (7, 8, 9) "most of the time", as you describe it. You can test it here: http://www.mpi-inf.mpg.de/~fie
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by rudiger 15y ago
Arithmetic growth refers to the situation where a value increases by a constant number per period. Benford's Law applies in this case?
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by rudiger 15y ago
Search is integrated? Where is it?
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by rudiger 15y ago
There can only be one latest version, so it's not too different.
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by rudiger 15y ago
Benford's Law really only applies to numbers where the growth rate is a function of the current value (ie. exponential growth). It's not some magic property that can be applied to any dataset.
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by rudiger 15y ago
JavaScript (the programming language) is dead. Long live JavaScript (the compilation target)!
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by rudiger 15y ago
That no one has commented on this since it was posted over 3 hours ago is a testament to the richness of Learn You Some Erlang . It really is an excellent resource for Erlang programming.
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by rudiger 15y ago
The original article about Bitcoin that appeared on the Economist blog contained a wealth of technical information and a balanced debate on its merits and problems. This article reads like a poorly summarized version of it. This is unfortun
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by rudiger 15y ago
I don't get this. How would slower progress make anyone feel better?

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