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by smanek 18y ago
This reminds me of Searle's Chinese Room paradox. Imagine you had an English speaking person providing responses to mandarin stimuli in accordance with a function that mapped every input of mandarin words to a mandarin output. Most people w
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Are Hackers Getting Fatter?(sbender.net)
2 points by smanek 18y ago|5 comments
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by smanek 18y ago
This just seemed like a rehash of the power of compound interest. Just remember the rule of 72 (for when you need to estimate these sort of figures in your head), and read a chapter from a finance book on the time value of money so you can
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Who Needs the Tech IPO? Open source and Facebook have changed the economics of Startups(slate.com)
5 points by smanek 18y ago|1 comments
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by smanek 18y ago
Wow, I just looked at his comment history, and you're right. The guy is a bloody moron and is self contradictory more than once. wrigley: "I think when the net goes to the IPv6 there will be many more domain options" There's nothing wrong w
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by smanek 18y ago
The BEA itself said under 1% growth in the first quarter, iirc. And The Economist ( http://www.economist.com/countries/USA/profile.cfm?folder=Pr... ) estimates less than 1% net growth for the year.
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by smanek 18y ago
A recession is defined as two or more consecutive quarters of negative real GDP growth. According to the official figures, GDP has been just a little above flat (~0.5%) for well over a year now. But, everyone knows that inflation is really
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by smanek 18y ago
No one has ever seriously suggested using Hydrogen as an energy source - that's impossible. What we are suggesting is using hydrogen as a battery, until we get things like super-capacitors working. And, we can fill the battery with nuclear
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by smanek 18y ago
But, it seems like it should be relatively simple to make the compiler convert your multiple assignment code to static single assignment form at compile time, with relatively little trouble. If there is any good reason not to do this, or if
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by smanek 18y ago
nuclear energy is safer, per watt generated, than any other scalable energy. Even if you include hiroshima and nagasaki in nuclear energy's death toll.
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15 Awful Mistakes Made by Designers(gomediazine.com)
7 points by smanek 18y ago|0 comments
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by smanek 18y ago
Pretty cool in principle. The IP geodetection thing is really great. I agree that the layout could use a lot of work. It's rather difficult to use on my X60 (1024x768 resolution). Also, the filtering is very nice, but there's still a bit of
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by smanek 18y ago
now that's just not true. Microsoft, Facebook, Google, and countless others started as copies of existing companies.
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by smanek 18y ago
yep, it's horrible. Manufacturers purposefully change the model number between retailers so it's impossible to do any sort of comparison shopping.
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by smanek 18y ago
As my old boss used to say: "JavaScript is my favorite language with curly braces" (we were lispers)
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by smanek 18y ago
I found this particularly interesting: "Heller demonstrates that the anti-commons can be found in places like medical research, and this is where the book gets depressing. He recounts the story of Compound X, a treatment for Alzheimer's tha
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The Problem With Property Rights (slate.com)
1 points by smanek 18y ago|1 comments
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Perfection is Possible (in Cambridge)(multicians.org)
7 points by smanek 18y ago|0 comments
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How to Write with Style (Kurt Vonnegut)(literature.sdsu.edu)
86 points by smanek 18y ago|18 comments
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by smanek 18y ago
Take a look at "The Road to Reality." It starts assuming nothing more than basic arithmetic, and builds up to differntial equations, tensors, string theory, quantum relativity, etc. I'm warning you up front that it's very math heavy. It t
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by smanek 18y ago
Oh, and the 10 was an upper bound. If it's 3 that's even better - women are even more of a limiting reagent and they have less of a evolutionary need for massive amounts of wealth.
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by smanek 18y ago
fair enough. Let me rephrase to say that a moderately successful women (on the par of a low level aristocrat) could easily support 10 children. It still supports my contention that men had more to gain from being hugely successful (king lev
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by smanek 18y ago
that's close - but not quite what I was taught. Basically, men aren't as important as women. If 99.99% of men died today, the human race could be back to it's normal population within a generation (a man could easily father a child a day fo
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by smanek 18y ago
It has nothing to do with him being a linux coder. It doesn't really matter who you are, you should be given a fair trial. And, this was simply a piece of bad reporting - regardless of who the suspect was.
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by smanek 18y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the major evidence was: 1. He had taken out the front seat of his car 2. He had hosed down the interior 3. He had his passport and several thousand dollars in cash on him. 4. He kept removing the battery from h
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by smanek 18y ago
"Everything Hans said reinforced the image I already had of him. He wasn't interested in what was true, only in whether or not he had been treated fairly." I think that being treated fairly is a pretty important point. It's pretty obvious n
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The World's First Software Engineer (David Caminer) has died(independent.co.uk)
2 points by smanek 18y ago|0 comments
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by smanek 18y ago
Maybe - if that seems to be the consensus I'll gladly delete this submission. My thinking was that there is at least some applicability since Reddit is a YCombinator company
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State of the Web - Summer 2008(0at.org)
7 points by smanek 18y ago|0 comments
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by smanek 18y ago
I've always been a bit of a student of economics (spent 3 years of studying it in school plus it's a hobby). And this paper has got to be the most concise explanation of elementary economics I've ever seen. It covers most of the material fr

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