rumcajz

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by rumcajz 9y ago
"With the physical sciences you expect the outcome of your experiment to be something repeatable." Is it? Look at statistical mechanics. Repeatable, kind of, but on statistical basis.
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by rumcajz 9y ago
I like the way you think. I've wrote a little satire along those lines once: http://250bpm.com/blog:88
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What I've heard from my grandfather (referring to a close-by region in 1930's) was that the local pub owner ordered 12 bottles of beer each year, on Christmas. It was bought by wealthier villagers as a kind of Christmas treat. The
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by rumcajz 9y ago
Looking at the map, the region is around 20x50 km.
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There was some immigration but it was insufficient to revert the trend. Maybe because the immigrants were mostly poor catholics and thus not very desirable partners.
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I recall I've read somewhere that the problem of finding a partner exists in China as well.
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Suicide by Culture(250bpm.com)
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by rumcajz 9y ago
I really think economists should get mandatory training in evolutionary biology to get a feeling of how even the smallest glitches in the system, loopholes so small as not to be visible even under detailed scrutiny are unavoidably exploited
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Low Hanging Fruit of Programming Language Design(250bpm.com)
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Hard Things in Computer Science: Naming Things(250bpm.com)
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by rumcajz 9y ago
While people often sneer at ICC for prosecuting African war criminals and leaving big fish from the developed world alone, with US and Russia withdrawing their signatures, ICC should be considered to be a deratization service for the countr
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Burundi becomes first nation to leave international criminal court(theguardian.com)
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Or make possibility of remote work mandatory, where applicable, so that people don't have to move to the big cities.
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> One of the regions' main complaints is that they send much more in taxes to Rome than they get back in public spending, and want to roughly halve their contribution. This seems to be the common denominator a lot of the independenc
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On Modern Propaganda(250bpm.com)
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I haven't known this kind of competition even existed. But it strikes me as weird. Why does it even exist? Training kids to win a debate? What is that good for? If we want them to exercise debate as a democratic institution shouldn&#x
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Why so? AFAIK the campaigns to move nuclear weapons away from the hair trigger mode were unsuccessful so far.
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> So, how do you solve problems in C that users of other languages would do with classes? One very common pattern in C is just to do the same thing unofficially. I started programming before OOP was widespread and I remember when I first
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by rumcajz 9y ago
It always surpises me how little people fear nuclear weapons. Given that it takes to launch only one of them to trigger the cascade and that there are some 15,000 of them around the world the scenario seems pretty believable. What's wo
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Kaizen of Programming(250bpm.com)
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To further that case, drought resistant corn would be more useful than cold resistant one, I guess.
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You draw a card from a deck. It's red. You want to convince everyone that it's red without disclosing which card you have drawn. So you take all the black cards from the remaining deck and show them to the public.
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Here you go: Have you ever heard of capital flight from Russia? Oligarchs sell oil then then purchase houses in London or Manhattan. The country is gradually hollowed out. China, OTOH, is trying to keep the money at home.
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Gift vs. Reputation in OSS(250bpm.com)
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Dispatch Blue Helmets?
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The Threat by Ross Anderson(youtube.com)
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Umberto Eco defines a novel as a "machine to create interpretations".
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I don't know much about hipsters today but back in 1990's we used to be somehow similar in several respects. The term wasn't used back then and one would probably say we were "bohemians". So, can it possibly be that
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by rumcajz 9y ago
That makes me think about "luddite fallacy". The common understanding is that we can survive increasing productivity because people will always want more stuff. However, the implicit assumption there is that once we get beyond sat
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by rumcajz 9y ago
What about focusing on social mobility instead of equality?

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