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by russell 14y ago
And I remember reading that the drop in crime was correlated with the disuse or ban of leaded gasoline when the cohort was in infancy or young childhood.
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by russell 14y ago
The Pearson executives should be publicly whipped for producing such a system. My girlfriend took a graphics design course at the local JC and the whole system was managed by Pearson. She has a disability so she likes to view her textbook
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by russell 14y ago
"On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog" is an adage which began as the caption of a cartoon by Peter Steiner published by The New Yorker on July 5, 1993. (From Wikipedia.) At least they ought to give credit.
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by russell 14y ago
>>> Christensen broke down the costs of adopting robotics for a typical SME: Basic robot system: 20 to 30 percent of cost Auxiliary hardware (cabling, wires, etc): 20 to 30 percent Software: 40 to 60 percent of cos
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by russell 14y ago
Or botnet, or terrorist organization goes about flagging the 1 million most popular sites?
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by russell 14y ago
RE: loss of the transbay tube. The Bay Bridge carries roughly the same number of commuters as the transbay tube. In the 1989 earthquake part of the bridge collapsed and it took several weeks to repair. The Bay Area did not screech to a h
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by russell 14y ago
I recall reading about a similar prejudice in the promotion of men. In the case of men it's height not prettiness. EDIT: simonsarris beat me by 3 minutes wit better data, so I'll throw in another data point. In the past 25 presidential el
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by russell 14y ago
The western democracies are in a position to be in a post scarcity world if we choose to be. There is no reason that everyone cannot have the basics of food, shelter, health, and security. We also do not need perpetual 20% unemployment.
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by russell 14y ago
I would expect a Carrington sized event to fry all the satellites in orbit. The damage from no GPS for several years would probably be in the hundreds of billions. There is a good chance that anything attached to an antenna or power lines
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by russell 14y ago
In California, if you want a change in the weather, you drive to it. I grew up in Maine where there were two seasons, winter and August. Oldtimers claimed there was a third, mud season. I dont miss it at all.
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by russell 14y ago
You did and I read your whole post.
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by russell 14y ago
Newspapers have done this for a long time, but at least they usually put a prominent headline "Advertizing" at the top of the ad.
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by russell 14y ago
I tell them I dont have any greatest weakness. I say, I've been in this business long enough to develop strategies to deal with it. Other times I say sales. That's why I'm in programming. Either answer usually gets them off that topic.
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by russell 14y ago
I dont belong to twitter or facebook or subscribe to many feeds. I filter my email. I dont answer my phone if the caller id is blocked or calls from 800 numbers or out of area numbers that I dont recognize. Presto, a manageable informati
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by russell 14y ago
One of the purported benefits of driverless cars is that they can drive together in packs. This article would seem to contradict the benefits of that claim. OTOH they would be less prone to the erratic behavior that can create standing wa
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by russell 14y ago
The two statements are consistent. In order to do the analysis they need to keep track of the full paths that the individual drivers make. Given the paths, particularly over a period of time, it is easy to identify individuals, even if yo
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by russell 14y ago
She's building a web site to showcase both her web development skills and her photography. I'm not sure whether she is going to look for a job or go for freelancing, but I think her inclination is to go for the latter. Her photography is
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by russell 14y ago
She's a mathematician and used to teach at Ohio State. A decade ago she switched to being an oil painter and a photographer. She's now teaching herself web development, because she thinks we could use a second income in this turbulent eco
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by russell 14y ago
I let my girlfriend do it. The last time I bought a car, I decided what I wanted and shopped around the local dealers and got a good offer at $18,000. I told my girlfriend about the deal, and she said, "Way too expensive." She gets on the
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by russell 14y ago
I second 100 years of Solitude. It was our family book; everyone read it. One day my son was in his English class in high school and the teacher asked, "Has anyone heard of Gabriel Garcia Marquez?" My son answered, "He won the Nobel Prize.
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by russell 14y ago
You dont need a whole lot of technology beyond a good glucose meter, unless you are a data freak. I just keep a log on pieces of standard printer paper folded to a convenient size. I note the time, reading, insulin dosage, and anything unu
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by russell 14y ago
When I started back in the day before there were any computer science majors, I was surprised by the large number of musicians in the profession. There was something about music and programming that clicked together. If you remember the L
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by russell 14y ago
The thesis that innovation has stopped because the major foundations of today's technology were laid in the 70's is utter nonsense. Most breakthrough innovations take 15 to 20 years to go from the initial discovery to widespread adoption.
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by russell 14y ago
A definite read wherein it shows that a Time article has at least one error in every sentence. Amusing. And I learned that the Higgs Boson does not account for all the mass in the universe, just some of it. And a new word, "Higgsteria."
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by russell 14y ago
It sure has. I was born during WWII and grew up in the 50's and 60's in rural Maine. We did not have indoor plumbing or central heating. Our TV was black and white. Our phone was 8 party non-dial and I think transcontinental phone calls
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by russell 14y ago
Taleb of Black Swans fame says that predictions of future technology dont pan out, flying cars for example. He says that the predictable new technology is a replacement of older less capable or less adapted technology. I suppose your coul
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by russell 14y ago
I've seen metrics done on the basis of symbol counts, not characters or lines. In theory this normalize differences in coding styles, such as verbose identifiers, or positioning of braces, or liberal use of whitespace. I agree with you abo
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by russell 14y ago
I am finding myself buying more and more remaindered hardbacks because they are cheaper than the kindle version.
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by russell 14y ago
9x10^28 carats. That's a pretty big ring.
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by russell 14y ago
Having listened to 5 decades of rocket launches, I would say that nominal means that it is working within mission parameters. There may be glitches, but it is going to work, i.e. the payload is going into orbit. The engine failure wasnt p

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