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by russell 16y ago
Sorry, missing reference. I probably overstated the cause and effect, but it does seem to me that it contributed to the morale problems of the American troops. >> The American commanders in the field reported that the Czarist reign
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by russell 16y ago
At the risk of being a pedantic jerk, the US did send troops to fight on the side of the Czar against the Bolsheviks. They were withdrawn when they found out how bad the Czarists were. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polar_Bear_Expedition
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by russell 16y ago
For the first time in a long time, I am working for a public company instead of a startup or near startup. You cant believe the amount of intrusive government crap. (This is not a political statement.) Timesheets reporting capital work v
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by russell 16y ago
Your point is well taken, but I have never seen a comment, here or elsewhere, where someone lauded the great PayPal service or the quick conflict resolution. It's always about being blindsided. Folks, if you have GOOD stories, those are w
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by russell 16y ago
www.reilee.com Disclaimer: The site is a couple of years old and doesnt have her latest stuff. She has found it almost impossible to have her work photographed, even by professional photographers, so she hasn't me put up the new paintin
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by russell 16y ago
Whores have more sex.
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by russell 16y ago
Some years ago I spent a few months in Brazil. My Portuguese was barely conversational, so I had to pay very close attention to vocabulary and usage to understand anything. I noticed that women had a distinctly different vocabulary from m
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by russell 16y ago
My GF is an artist who uses old masters' techniques to paint modern themes, like dead flowers and the washroom at an LA shipyard. So I know a bit about how they mixed paints, even to the point of grinding pigments myself. And color and co
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by russell 16y ago
Morro Bay, CA, is a small town that replaced a freeway offramp/frontage road 4-way stop intersection with a roundabout. Transit time through the intersection improved because you no-longer had to stop and wait for your turn. It seems like
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by russell 16y ago
Well, well, well. A man who sucks at the government tit complains about taxes that pay his bills. He's probably also getting stimulus money, but that's just an unfounded jibe.
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by russell 16y ago
Excellent post. This is an issue I've pondered a lot. Most of the jobs lost in the first few rounds of computerization and automation were replaced by service jobs. A lot were high end like medicine or education, but most were low end.
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by russell 16y ago
The NYC financial mindset has little to do with it. It's more useful to compare SV with Route 128. In the late 60's both seemed to be roughly equivalent: dominant technology schools, an educated population, and a strong hi-tech business
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by russell 16y ago
Carl Sagan: Contact. Ellie found an 11 dimensional image of a circle.
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Google, Verizon Web Deal Could Upend Net Neutrality (huffingtonpost.com)
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by russell 16y ago
Those women who have difficulty producing enough milk should know that (in the US at least) that there are mother's milk donation programs that can help out. Those women who can should donate.
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by russell 16y ago
Excellent paper. The real evolutionary feedback loop in play here is sexual selection, not natural selection. Women evolved men and men evolved women. Women select for status, because that provides for better children and better care for
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by russell 16y ago
GENTLEMEN: we are the ones with the weird brains. Testosterone, even in the womb, rewires us for dominance, hierarchy, focus (obsession), spacial acuity, etc., so we dominate in executives, generals, Nobel prize winners, and hackers. On th
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by russell 16y ago
"No. ... No." Benchmarks are worthless unless they accurately model your application and workload. Is C 42 times faster than Python for doing numerical calculations? No. If you are using NumPy, the difference is more like 10%. (I pulled
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by russell 16y ago
Good tips. Make the unsubscribe page an opportunity to fix the problem that is annoying your user, such as reducing frequency.
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by russell 16y ago
He proposes that the length of a patent be inversely proportional to the amount of innovation in a field (measured by rate of patenting). No software patents is better, but I could live with 1 or 2 year patents.
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by russell 16y ago
The real story: http://www.businessweek.com/investor/content/jul2010/pi20100... The blog adds nothing.
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by russell 16y ago
Adding to what others have said, look for an industry that either interests you or is somewhat a laggard. Get some domain experience and the ideas will flood you. There are obvious benefits to an area where the pace is slow and the practi
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by russell 16y ago
Well, no and the author agrees. The US is much larger than the Greek economy, much more innovative. and much more robust. The US controls its own currency while Greece code not. >> Meanwhile, the current trajectory would suggest a
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by russell 16y ago
I would say that little money isnt worth the loss of readership. Let's say the next scheme to save the empire is tee shirt sales. They have lost 90% of their customer base. Driving away customers isnt going to save newspapers.
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by russell 16y ago
I started using Vitamin D supplements after I read an article about a Dr. at Atascadero State Hospital. He noticed that some of his patients had low vitamin D. He started giving it to them all and got remarkable improvements. (Sorry I co
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by russell 16y ago
Dont pull that Patriot crap. Probably all the Fortune 1000, particularly the drug companies, are flowing revenue through tax havens to lower taxes. There was an article in the past couple of months about it, here I think. Most small compa
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by russell 16y ago
Even more than salary in the US is the cost of getting elected. The CA governors race is going into the 9 digits. It cost millions to elect a congressman, 10's of millions for a senator. The only one with that kind of money are unions, c
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by russell 16y ago
Agreed on the emotional. I have worked on several JSP sites that are 5 or 10 years old. In every case the JSP code is terrible. In all there was not a clear understanding of the MVC model. Sure there was some MVC handwaving, but for the
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by russell 16y ago
>> The large number of claims caused a computer program that tallies who should be getting benefit checks that week to run too long, Winter said. Another program that deposits the checks directly into recipients’ accounts started be
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by russell 16y ago
The Reserve Bank of New Zealand has decided that you folks dont need deposit insurance, because it doesnt prevent runs on banks and you would have to wait to get your money anyway, pretty much ignoring that deposit insurance is to protect s

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