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by rz2k 13y ago
Iran quashed its spring revolt, but Mubarak didn't. I think parallel to purported policy goals and idealologies, any ruler or single administration lives to see the next day from a combination of institutions and patronage stacks. Thos
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by rz2k 13y ago
Think of the power supplies as battery chargers. The 13" MBA has a 54Wh battery, and Apple claims it get 12 hours of "wireless web" use. The 13" MBP has a 72Wh battery and claims 9 hours of "wireless web" or &q
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by rz2k 13y ago
This is a little like arguing that someone else's meaning of life is incorrect. There are different philosophies, and those that argue being able to recognize you have enough is important have been accused of being selfish. I remember
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by rz2k 13y ago
I think the argument is that you are less likely to use the same password on every site and service, or easily guessed passwords, if you are allowed to use a password manager. In other words, in practice there is an actual tradeoff between
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by rz2k 13y ago
>It would be perfectly possible for co-conspirator plane to fly transponder-less up to the target plane, take over the transponder code, and fly decoy on the official route, while the MH370 goes elsewhere. Since we know nothing, a lot re
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by rz2k 13y ago
I think that's also an example of a movie that has changed over time. Probably the worst example being Cinema Paradiso . The original cut had nostalgia with a mixture of regret and acceptance of what is past. Then, the new cut conclud
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by rz2k 13y ago
Think along the lines Debian/Ubuntu/Mint and Fedora/Redhat/CentOS. However, I've never used OpenSUSE or its related distributions, and know nothing about it.
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by rz2k 13y ago
Everyone would have been safe if they were on the ground without all that extra potential energy. Maybe it is the engineers' fault that they were in the air in the first place. That said, I imagine being controllable while missing a wi
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by rz2k 13y ago
To elaborate, Cydia is an app store/package manager for jailbroken iOS devices. The US Copyright office and the Library of Congress have confirmed that jailbreaking your iPhone is not a violation of the DMCA, and it is very easy. Evasi
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by rz2k 13y ago
>can't get his way by being a brat, eh? As you know, everyone's opinion on child rearing is the one true way. We know that some parenting techniques encourage children to play helpless or enraged if it consistently achieves goa
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by rz2k 13y ago
I agree that the biggest liability to the economy at large of huge patent portfolios, little seen so far, is the ability of multiple incumbent corporations to collude and increase barriers to entry so they collectively are not threatened by
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by rz2k 13y ago
I think NegativeK meant fired by whatever organization supposedly planted him.
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by rz2k 13y ago
And you can use R and Octave in a worksheet, too, but my understanding is that the point of SAGE is much closer to a superset of the types of functionalities that you find in SymPy. That is, that it is meant for symbolic manipulation.
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by rz2k 13y ago
That is a utilitarian argument! It is an implicit agreement that some quantity of available assets will be subjected to a certain level of risk in order to insure that one man is not left behind. The implicit agreement is not made because i
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by rz2k 13y ago
>No sane person in the United States of whatever political party or creed would have said a rescue mission that had a reasonable chance of success was not worth the money and risk. I think most of us have the sentimental and emotional co
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by rz2k 13y ago
2, 3, 4.5, 6.75, 10.125 ... At that rate it would exceed 100% in four years. Chances are that there will be something like a tipping point well before that, and it obviously won't exceed 100%, but that increase from 2% to 3% is a 50%
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by rz2k 13y ago
I don't think that is what people are getting at. The precision and accuracy of an empiricist's observations can be off without violating ones faith in empiricism. However, the notion that something can happen, or that the past do
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by rz2k 13y ago
That's what I thought of, since two programming languages are even more alike. Did it not turn out to be a legal issue because there was ultimately little commercial interest behind the Go![1] language? Apple Computer had to pay Apple
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by rz2k 13y ago
However, sentiment is vital to understanding economic conditions and what the effect of current 'fundamentals' will be. To understand the dynamic in a primitive economic sense, imagine that you can either farm and produce an exces
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by rz2k 13y ago
What was explained? The understanding of the effects of vaccinating kid #1 isn't all about kid #1 being immune to the infection. Instead it is that kid #1 is x% less susceptible to contracting the infection if exposed. So you might won
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by rz2k 13y ago
Are you looking at Thunderbolt cables? Otherewise, it looks like it is about $3 for 3ft or $5 for 10ft whether it is an HDMI or DisplayPort cable.
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by rz2k 13y ago
I've seen interviews where Feynman talks about how everyone else was intimidated by Oppenheimer, while he was too excited about the physics and ideas to realize he should be intimidated. I also think the PBS documentary "The Trial
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by rz2k 13y ago
What do you think is actually going on here? Have these student gone on a hunger strike or stopped going to classes? Furthermore, are you saying that serious issues like sexual assault and academic dishonesty are not receiving attention a
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by rz2k 13y ago
I'm not just saying that not doing so is equivalent to leaving money on the table, I'm saying that the net costs to the economy would be greater than the revenue collected from content providers. In a certain sense the revenue col
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by rz2k 13y ago
"I've got this thing and it’s fucking golden, and I’m just not giving it up for fucking nothing." Occasionally statistics are released by companies on how much traffic leaves their site when it is 100ms slower, or the percent
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by rz2k 13y ago
I think if you spoke to people who grew up in an authoritarian regime you'd be surprised by how large a role the totalitarianism of ideas and complicity of the population plays in comparison to direct violence from internal security fo
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by rz2k 13y ago
The book Every Man Dies Alone [1] by Hans Fallada deals with a very similar subject. At the height of the Nazi Party's political power in Germany, an elderly couple left postcards to be found in public spaces with subversive messages
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by rz2k 13y ago
Let's say it was worded instead: "... these are some reasons that he was wrong, and his style of argumentation leads me to feel actual antipathy toward him." Maybe it is because "vile" doesn't sound like a very
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by rz2k 13y ago
I don't understand calling him a "vile idiot" is so terrible. Vile is a subjective assessment in the eye of the beholder. Bluecalm began with a few paragraphs making the case that Taleb has pretensions of being an expert wher
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by rz2k 13y ago
For reference see the Amazon reviews of the $10,000 Denon Cat-5 cable [1]. [1]amazon.com/Denon-AKDL1-Dedicated-Cable-Version/product-reviews/B000I1X6PM

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