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Book Review: Knowledge and Politics – A Memo from the Devil(digitalcommons.law.yale.edu)
2 points by steve_g 12y ago|0 comments
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No Excuses, No Regrets(accordingtohoyt.com)
1 points by steve_g 12y ago|0 comments
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by steve_g 12y ago
Very cool. This was prefigured in Snow Crash, the novel by Neal Stephenson
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by steve_g 12y ago
My family did a test at a Christmas party just a few days ago. We did a blindfolded tasting of four cheap wines, two red and two white. The goal was solely to distinguish between red and white wines. On average, each person made one inco
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by steve_g 12y ago
If python is your thing, you might want to check out http://pythonmentors.com/ "The mission of the Python Core Mentor Program is to provide an open and welcoming place to connect students, programmers – and anyone inte
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by steve_g 12y ago
Teasing, shaming and other forms of negative humor are very hard to do with a positive result. People are astonishingly different in what they can tolerate and how they respond. I suppose, with the right people, and the right team dynamic
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by steve_g 12y ago
One 72 character column. Why make it complicated!
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by steve_g 12y ago
I think the puddle would take a long time to evaporate because the air is basically saturated with water vapor (100% relative humidity). Saturation at the higher pressures in Aquarius occurs at a much lower water vapor concentration than u
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by steve_g 13y ago
Do you have any links to references on the "membership model?" I've always felt that rating/ranking scales are unworkable, and I'm interested in other approaches.
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Swarm Cyber-Shaming in Science Fiction(fantasticalandrewfox.com)
13 points by steve_g 13y ago|2 comments
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by steve_g 13y ago
Silverlock by John Myers Myers - a fantasy novel written in 1949 with hundreds (maybe thousands) of allusions to mythology, history, and classic literature. It's a lot of fun.
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by steve_g 14y ago
How about, "That's not a very good question for a variety of reasons, so I'm not going to answer it. This is both an answer and a meta-answer."
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by steve_g 14y ago
It's a good question, and one that just recently came up for me at work in a slightly different way. My feeling is that it would be morally OK to register at a competitor's site. It would not be OK to use a false name or somehow attempt t
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by steve_g 14y ago
Preactor is a comercial scheduling software suite. I haven't used any of the tools, but they sound like what you need. They have a free product that you can play around with. Good luck! http://www.preactor.com/Express/Default.aspx
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Ask HN: Salary for IT Infrastructure Manager?
12 points by steve_g 15y ago|3 comments
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by steve_g 16y ago
Would two gardenias work as well?
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by steve_g 16y ago
Wow, I just saw that this was the original posted joke. I guess great minds think alike. Inferior minds don't read what they're responding to.
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by steve_g 16y ago
Rene Descartes walks into a bar. He says to the bartender, "Give me a Bud light." The bartender asks, "Do you want a glass?" Descartes says, "I think not.." and promptly disappears.
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by steve_g 17y ago
But the folks who would bear the costs of improving efficiency don't appear to value the resulting reduction in pollution more than the cost. If they did, they would pay for the efficiency.
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by steve_g 17y ago
The pro-pollution argument is this - pollution is an unwanted environmental result of an otherwise desirable activity. Reducing pollution may mean curtailing the desirable activity (undesirable) or changing how the activity is performed to
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by steve_g 17y ago
If both ends of the communication are on the Microsoft stack, setting up SOAP webservices is straightforward. The tools basically take care of everything. In our case, we have a customer who exposed an ASP.NET webservice that we consume (