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841.
by rw 18y ago
It's presumptuous to say that voters effect any real change in government policy.
842.
by rw 18y ago
"Economists of all persuasions accept that a tax rate hike will reduce GDP [..]" No.
843.
by rw 18y ago
I would tell you to stop using Windows. But I won't. ...because you and I might be competing in the same space.
844.
by rw 18y ago
What do we want to measure in students? Skills, creativity, "intelligence"...? Standardized metrics are themselves dubious when we are dealing with highly chaotic systems (see: combinatorial explosion, etc) with drastically different proper
845.
by rw 18y ago
What are you using to serve your fonts?
846.
by rw 18y ago
Vim. It's Vi-iMproved. Once you know a vi clone, you will be able to hack fast, and on any unix machine. Very valuable. Recently, this was posted to HN (and I quote from it): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=151637 "Paul Graham still u
847.
by rw 18y ago
Kensington SlimType; thin like a laptop keyboard, clicky and fast (unlike new imac keyboards): http://us.kensington.com/html/5463.html
848.
by rw 19y ago
The amount of flattery pg receives on this site is sickening.
849.
by rw 19y ago
"After all, almost anything that you would like to say has probably been said better by someone else on the web already." Emergence != aggregation.
850.
by rw 19y ago
There are a few U.S. universities doing good work in continental philosophy. And there are actual real, rational people who want to study there!
851.
by rw 19y ago
Yes.
852.
by rw 19y ago
In order: Gandhi, Einstein, Alinsky.
853.
by rw 19y ago
Let's try something else. I claim that founders tell themselves (regardless of truth value) that they want to be: "Making the world a better place (and getting really damn rich)." The justification for this attitude is that one can supposed
854.
by rw 19y ago
Where are the neuroscientists?
855.
by rw 19y ago
The summary at the beginning of the article reads: "Michael Whitehead is selling the idea of collective software wisdom. The Goal: be quick and cost-effective. blah" Notice the final word :D
856.
by rw 19y ago
Novel learning algorithms.
857.
by rw 19y ago
Mediatemple -- the author of this piece says "no, bad!" I've heard very good things from others about MT. Is there a consensus here on the quality/price ratio of (mt)'s services?
858.
by rw 19y ago
There's a lot going on here. First thing is Moore's Law. If it continues to hold, we'll be able to have more processors working on the same task, but more importantly, we'll have more processors working on different tasks, concurrently. Thi
859.
by rw 19y ago
Linux: We solve the halting problem.
860.
by rw 19y ago
This subthread is an example of the ratio getting higher.
861.
by rw 19y ago
I learned Dvorak in high school, used it for about three months. Ultimately, I went back to qwerty because I, too, have an incredibly hard time switching between the two. I wasn't about to restrict myself to only using Dvorak-enabled comput
862.
by rw 19y ago
Market efficiency in the sack.
863.
by rw 19y ago
Don't ever say you're not that smart.
864.
by rw 19y ago
You misconstrued what the article was claiming... "capitalism sucks (... the gov should regulate even more)" is not the same as "market capitalism is inherently biased towards outcomes that enrich owners of capital at the expense of nonowne
865.
by rw 19y ago
What a disgustingly bourgeois article; check out this quote: "I have known more people whose lives have been ruined by getting a Ph.D. in physics than by drugs."
866.
by rw 19y ago
Is the story only 2 paragraphs long?
867.
by rw 19y ago
I've been using wmii for about 6 months and I love it. I'll look into DWM though.
868.
WMII: The Hacker's Window Manager(suckless.org)
1 points by rw 19y ago|2 comments
869.
New SciAm Article on Limits of Quantum Computing(scottaaronson.com)
13 points by rw 19y ago|2 comments
870.
by rw 19y ago
Times out.

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