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by sethg 18y ago
What are the engineering advantages of this kind of wing?
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by sethg 18y ago
The investors added value by providing D'Anconia with capital . Once D'Anconia accepts their money, his duty is to manage it in good faith. Whatever character flaws the investors have (e.g., excessive faith in D'Anconia's management skil
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by sethg 18y ago
If I tear your wallet out of your pocket and set it on fire, I can't escape prosecution for theft by saying "there was this guy coming down the street who was going to mug us anyway, so you haven't really lost anything".
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by sethg 18y ago
Are you saying that it's OK to violate a contract if the other party to the contract is a "looter"? Why not just avoid making contracts with "looters" in the first place? (D'Anconia, after all, could have simply cashed out all of his hold
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by sethg 18y ago
Worse, he didn't just piss away his own wealth. By running D'Anconia Copper into the ground, he violated his fiduciary responsibility to the company's investors.
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by sethg 18y ago
When you take complexity out of one part of a natural language, it ends up sneaking back in to another part. English verbs by themselves are easy to conjugate, but English also uses a large number of modal verbs (I did write, he is hack
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by sethg 18y ago
I've recently started using the Pomodoro Technique (which was linked to on HN a few months back), and I've found tracking the time I spend very helpful for my self -discipline--preventing myself from getting into that fugue state where I'm
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by sethg 18y ago
I take my four-year-old to preschool in the morning, which means I have to wake him up so he can get dressed and have breakfast in time to catch the bus. Which means I have to get up before he does. On weekends, the boy stays in bed unti
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by sethg 18y ago
This is not his argument. Separate revenue streams for audio books is not just a quaint custom in the publishing world, but a consequence of copyright law, which treats text and audio rights as properties that may be licensed separately. H
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by sethg 18y ago
I think Blount is overestimating the capacities of text-to-speech technology. Sure, there may be speech synthesizers that can cough and say "umm" and do other human-cadence-like things, but I suspect that inferring all those details of in
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by sethg 18y ago
If you don't use UPDATE or DELETE, then you're treating SQL as a static-single-assignment language. This is pretty much what I do at work; we have massive quantities of geographic and linguistic data that we have to translate to [REDACTED],
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by sethg 18y ago
That's not marketing, that's fraud. In a number of states, it's illegal to have a "going out of business sale" unless you are actually going out of business.
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by sethg 18y ago
C+M+Y=K in theory , but in practice the pigments are not calibrated precisely enough to be a perfect black when they combine.
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by sethg 18y ago
Very few people borrow money with the expectation of not being able to pay it back.
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by sethg 18y ago
God's in the cosmic rays, the replication errors, and everything else . Monotheism means there's nobody else to blame. If I read in the news about Joe Shmoe winning the lottery, I might say that God "guided" the lottery balls in a way tha
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by sethg 18y ago
Dubai has debtors' prisons ! Wow.
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by sethg 18y ago
Journal readers have more disposable income than typical newspaper readers, and the WSJ is a valuable brand, so its subscribers are willing to pay extra (where "extra" means "more than zero") for the quality. There are other niche markets
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by sethg 18y ago
How are you defining "true value"? The inflated prices that various assets had at the height of the bubble were "true values" in the sense that their owners could sell them (or, more importantly, put them up as collateral for loans) for tho
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by sethg 18y ago
I'm sure there are Indian or Chinese bankers who would be happy to take over the reins at these companies for $400K or even $250K. Viva globalization!
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by sethg 18y ago
It's hard to tell, because I've seen a lot of "lifestyle" articles in the Times that seem pitched to appeal to people with seven-figure incomes. E.g., there was a cover story in the NYT Magazine a few months back about surrogate motherhood,
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by sethg 18y ago
You beat me to it. The Camel Book's examples of "false laziness", "false impatience", and "false hubris" are quoted here: http://blog.nix.is/perl-book-mini-reviews
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by sethg 18y ago
I don't think this is necessarily the case, because second-tier schools may have more money to spend on merit-based scholarships . When I was an undergrad (1986-1991), MIT and the Ivies had an agreement that they would only offer scholar
953.
by sethg 18y ago
How hard would it be to implement a Clojure++ that is not dependent on the JVM and the Java class libraries, but emulates a JVM when necessary to run legacy code?
954.
by sethg 18y ago
The Keynesian prescription, AIUI, actually has two sides: the government should run a deficit (when necessary) during a recession and run a surplus during a recovery . It's a damn shame that the Bush Administration didn't follow the second
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by sethg 18y ago
Everyone agrees that excessive pumping of money into the system will cause inflation. The problem is figuring how how much is, in fact, excessive. And in a recession, you can't just say "let's err on the side of conservatism and not pum
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by sethg 18y ago
As I understand it, VCs routinely refuse to sign NDAs, because (as mentioned elsewhere) it's very common for two teams to independently come up with the same idea, and the VCs don't want to be in a situation where they have to convince a
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by sethg 18y ago
Perhaps, in exchange for the $25K, you will learn how to convince our future robot overlords to upload your brain into one of the good mainframes.
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by sethg 18y ago
If I walk by a roulette wheel and I see someone put $10,000 on black, I deduce that the person who laid down that money is an idiot. I realize that one can make sophisticated arguments about "risk preference" and the idea that the market s
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by sethg 18y ago
Props to the Republicans for doing this; I'm a confirmed liberal Democrat but I don't mind seeing both parties pandering for the geek vote. :-)
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by sethg 18y ago
These kinds of arguments make me tensor.

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