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by sethg 17y ago
When I saw the title, I recalled the sounds that the old Apple floppy drives would make: when you booted them up you could hear the chunka-chunka-chunka as the stepper motor pushed the head all the way to the outer track, and then a little
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by sethg 17y ago
Steve Jobs will never be destitute and alone in a hotel. At worst, he’ll be broke and alone in a hotel for about five minutes, and then he’ll write an incredibly brilliant business plan on the back of a napkin and get the night watchman
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by sethg 17y ago
I think one could make two strong arguments that Google leaving China makes good business sense, and is not just a warm-fuzzies thing. First of all, whoever broke into Google’s servers and collected confidential data from them made Google
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by sethg 17y ago
Regarding containers that ship themselves, aside from the piracy issue, and making sure that the full container plus accessories was still buoyant, I suspect there are economies of scale that make it more fuel-efficient to gather thousands
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by sethg 17y ago
IIRC the US takes in more shipping containers than it sends out, so we have empty containers accumulating here.
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The Google news: China enters its Bush-Cheney era(jamesfallows.theatlantic.com)
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by sethg 17y ago
Google is going to have zero impact on China — zero — by abandoning that market What influence over China do they have now?
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by sethg 17y ago
Interesting. I would have expected the government to respond with something completely bland along the lines of “Google is a private company that makes its own decisions about international operations... Our law-enforcement authorities, in
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by sethg 17y ago
You’re right. Mark-Jason Dominus’s 1998 essay “Why it’s stupid to ‘use a variable as a variable name’” seems to be apropos here: http://perl.plover.com/varvarname.html
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by sethg 17y ago
Awww. Do the poor wittle cellphone manufacturers have their poor wittle feelings hurt? Here, have a blankie. Really, I’m having trouble seeing what the complaint is behind all the bombast. The author doesn’t claim that Google is selling
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by sethg 17y ago
How else can she afford all those clothes?
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by sethg 17y ago
If the deficit is spent on infrastructure improvements that support greater prosperity in the private sector, then in the long run the country’s tax base expands and that debt can be paid off. (On the one hand, in theory, if the people buyi
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by sethg 17y ago
There’s a common stereotype that to be “crazy” is to be dangerous, but as stories like this indicate, the mentally ill are more likely to be victims of abuse than perpetrators.
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by sethg 17y ago
Cf. the binomial cube ( http://homepage.mac.com/montessoriworld/mwei/sensory/sbinoml... ), which has been part of Montessori preschool classrooms since, umm, probably since Maria Montessori herself was teaching them a hundred years ago. I
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by sethg 17y ago
Maryland police has no legal juridistiction to subpoena things from Blizzard (situated elsewhere). The subpoena is more to be seen as a kind request for information. If the Maryland police had wanted to make more of an effort, couldn’t th
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by sethg 17y ago
It certainly is when you’re washing for more than one other person (e.g., children or guests).
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by sethg 17y ago
One could argue that online dating is a natural monopoly. It’s a waste of effort for a person to subscribe to five different dating services and enter the same demographic and contact information into multiple databases, just as it would b
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by sethg 17y ago
If the server can handle keys that are signed by either system FOO or system BAR, and the keys themselves don’t provide any clue about how they were signed, the server can just try to verify the signature using FOO and, if that system doesn
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US economic statistics graph generator(research.stlouisfed.org)
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by sethg 17y ago
the best terrorist strategy (as long as they have enough volunteers) Do they have enough volunteers? The Shoe Bomber and the Undie Bomber, compared with the team that pulled off 9/11, are a couple of amateurish mooks. If these are the
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by sethg 17y ago
But until somebody in the industry breaks from the pack and says "I'm going to offer this cheaply, damn the profits", all that cost savings accrues in profits to the OEMs. ...or the manufacturers concentrate on bringing the features of $1
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by sethg 17y ago
There’s a wonderful line in a Matt Groenig comic strip that goes something like this: “The jocks, bullies, and tattletales that tormented you all through your school years grow up to be the people who turn you down for jobs, explain why you
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by sethg 17y ago
According to an editorial in The Lancet ¹, there are 200 million women worldwide who want contraception but don’t have access to it. Simply providing family-planning services is five times cheaper than other carbon-emission-mitigation t
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by sethg 17y ago
Does your history include the Clinton Administration, which ran a surplus?
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by sethg 17y ago
If I understand US law correctly, a non-profit corporation is allowed to own a for-profit corporation (just like it can own any other asset), but that doesn’t exempt the for-profit corporation from taxes; it just means that all the after-ta
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by sethg 17y ago
Jonathan Chait, The New Republic :¹ “According to the Congressional Budget Office, the Senate bill would reduce the deficit by more than one hundred billion dollars over the next decade. Some critics have asserted that the savings are an i
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by sethg 17y ago
Under the Senate bill, insurers on the individual market are allowed to charge older consumers up to four times as much as the young. (Right now, of course, there’s no limit on how much of a surcharge you get on your insurance for age.)
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by sethg 17y ago
I think it would be very difficult to pull this off on a state-by-state basis, because an effective insurance system depends on economies of scale. We have an individual insurance mandate in Massachusetts, but we also have all these teachi
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by sethg 17y ago
Not every pill is The Pill, not every man is The Man, and not every reconciliation between the houses of Congress is Reconciliation, so to speak. Hence your confusion. A bill passed under the reconciliation rules cannot be filibustered, b
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by sethg 17y ago
I hope that the arm-twisting it took to get up to 60 votes in the Senate will put more people’s attention on how broken the filibuster is as an institution. The Democrats passed up a golden opportunity, back when the Republicans were pushi

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