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by sethg 15y ago
I followed the link given elsethread the original homedsgn.com article, which says that this house was built on the outskirts of Warsaw. Perhaps the owners are concerned that in the future, a large number of working-class Poles will have s
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I once had a job where I literally had no assignments to work on for weeks at a time, despite my nagging my manager about wanting something to do. I was all but paid to slack off . My hypothesis of how this came about is (a) they hired me
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by sethg 15y ago
Budget deficits shouldn’t be any more of an automatic trigger for re-election than the unemployment rate, the inflation rate, the number of body bags coming back from a foreign war, or any other undesirable thing.
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Likewise, the first companies that made telephone directories available in the Web didn’t try to OCR the phone books; it was cheaper to hire people in China to transcribe the listings.
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by sethg 15y ago
Yes, really. American cell-phone plans generally give you a fixed number of calling minutes (plus various other bonuses, such as free calling on nights and weekends), and once you go over the quota, you pay for receiving calls. I just chec
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by sethg 15y ago
Game theory helps you decide, given a game with certain rules and a scoring metric, how to maximize your score. Political philosophy helps you choose the rules of the game .
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I have an instinctive emotional desire to keep what I possess. You have an instinctive emotional desire to feel compassion for someone who is suffering. Because of your emotions, you want to raise taxes on my property to support the poor.
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Neurology and related sciences can help illuminate what our interests are, but cannot resolve the moral problem of what to do when those interests come into conflict . Science can tell me what kind of diet a child needs to grow into healt
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Scheme is over thirty years old; over those years, a lot of research and experimentation has been devoted to making Scheme more efficient. When Scheme first came out, its use of lexical scope was controversial, because everyone knew that
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by sethg 15y ago
How much of this is a characteristic of law, in general, and how much of this is a characteristic of the English common-law tradition? In a civil-law system where laws and regulations are more minutely detailed, and judges have less discret
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Mass. considering investor-sponsored social service programs(boston.com)
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by sethg 15y ago
But even before the gold standard was officially abandoned, devaluation was a regular feature of gold- and silver-based currencies. I once saw an exhibit in the Israel Museum showing a sequence of ancient coins, all stamped from the same di
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by sethg 15y ago
The problem is not Greece’s alone: it’s not like Greece invaded Germany and forced German banks to loan them money. Furthermore, if Greece had stayed on the drachma and let it weaken against the euro, then Greek exports to the eurozone woul
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by sethg 15y ago
Also, when one part of the country is doing poorly, it benefits from Federal taxes paid by people in wealthier parts—e.g., no matter how much Michigan’s state budget is in the toilet, Michigan’s senior citizens will still get their Social S
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by sethg 15y ago
I’ve recently started going to Python meetups. At the last one I attended, the technical presentation was given by the CTO of a local startup, and he made sure to let all of us know that he was hiring. At the one before that, another star
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by sethg 15y ago
My company has 130,000 employees, so I suspect every one of the above is represented somewhere, but the code that I hack on runs on PostgreSQL.
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by sethg 15y ago
If the warrant includes your living room (because the police have probable cause to believe that there is physical evidence in your living room that would link your neighbor to the crime), then they can search your living room. In the case
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You’re confusing the DMCA takedown request procedure with the procedure for serving a warrant.
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For what? If the warrant is valid, I don’t see how anyone affected by the raid has a case. If the police serve a warrant on the house next door to you, and your street gets blocked off while they go over the building with a fine-toothed co
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by sethg 15y ago
I suppose this makes sense... the US government doesn’t really care if you get fleeced buying or selling British pounds, and the British government doesn’t care if you get fleeced buying or selling US dollars.
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As I understand it, before the iPhone, the real challenge that cellphone app development companies had was negotiating with the carriers . Compared with that barrier, the pain of coding to a badly-designed API was not worth caring about.
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by sethg 15y ago
Are there also books on what entrepreneurs can learn from homemakers who keep their families on a budget, raise well-behaved, happy, and productive children, and stay married for decades?
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by sethg 15y ago
I forget the name of the company, but some guy is working on electric cars with swappable batteries: the idea is that instead of plugging your car in overnight to “refuel” it, you would take it to a service station and change the discharged
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by sethg 15y ago
The “Cape Wind” project saw massive opposition from residents of Nantucket... but they failed to block its approval.
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At least according to the Wikipedia “Greenhouse gas” article, it’s hard to measure exactly how much each gas contributes to the greenhouse effect, because different gases absorb and emit radiation at different frequencies. Regardless of how
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by sethg 15y ago
Those factors affect a bitcoin’s exchange value: for the purpose of exchange, a bitcoin is arguably more valuable than, say, an original haiku. But the difficulty in double-spending bitcoins is irrelevant if there is nothing to spend one
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by sethg 15y ago
I have a hard time believing the intrinsic value of anything is zero. Think of the contrast between “value for use” and “value for exchange”. A gold coin, even if you have no interest in exchanging it, can be pretty to look at, or melted
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by sethg 15y ago
How fast does the market move? If someone buys my coffee based on the posted USD/BTC conversion rate as of 12:00:00, and I convert those back into dollars at 12:00:01, how much variance am I likely to see between the original USD price and
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by sethg 15y ago
Advocates of Bitcoin portray its independence of state-sponsored currencies as a feature . Why should governments do anything to make Bitcoin safer to hold (even if they could)?
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Why the Media Is Always Wrong About the Value of a College Degree(tnr.com)
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