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by tc 17y ago
This is of course anecdotal, but a few years back I did the polyphasic experience, and I can confirm that dreaming consistently occurs during those 20 minute naps, which strongly suggests REM sleep. In fact, those dreams were some of the
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The Jack Welch (online) MBA (and how to buy accreditation)(online.wsj.com)
1 points by tc 17y ago|0 comments
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by tc 17y ago
I certainly sympathize, but it isn't always black and white. Even the ultimate arbitrator of appropriateness here jumps into politics from time to time [1]. And hackers are interested in the law for at least a handful of reasons particu
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by tc 17y ago
I scroll down to bottom of these threads just to see where you've reliably complained about them.
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by tc 17y ago
We're talking about JavaScript, so Scheme is a better example than C. At the level of abstraction Javascript deals in, bit twiddling like this should not be necessary. Even using all caps constants just feels dirty. And JavaScript isn't
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The Story of Alice and Kev, a Sims3 tale of hardship(aliceandkev.wordpress.com)
1 points by tc 17y ago|1 comments
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by tc 17y ago
You can still inflict a lot of damage if you can create collisions. Producing a rogue CA is just one possibility. http://www.phreedom.org/research/rogue-ca/ The potential for intentional collisions makes it critical that an attacker cann
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by tc 17y ago
The actual depiction of the "Incredible Bread Machine" starts at about 30:30 into the film. But really, don't miss the rest (Milton Friedman is featured, along with Secretary of the Treasury William E. Simon). Watching media from over 30
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The Incredible Bread Machine Film (1975, features Milton Friedman)(youtube.com)
6 points by tc 17y ago|2 comments
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by tc 17y ago
You're not serious? The loop macro is the most Pythonic aspect of CL (c.f. list comprehensions). Your trouble handling that loop has nothing to do with lambdas.
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by tc 17y ago
Pascal Costanza (the OP) is a smart guy. He's behind the ContextL and AspectL frameworks, and he just published an interesting paper on implementing hygienic macros within an unhygienic macro system [1]. But in this instance, it seems he
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by tc 17y ago
Very few people want free markets. The rest just want the standard of living that only free markets can offer.
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by tc 17y ago
This is a great modern fable. It overstates the moral imperative, however, by casting people as agents of the dragon, making them actively responsible for the death of others [1]. The truth of the matter is that working to defeat mortally
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by tc 17y ago
I'd hate for someone reading your comment to miss the article because they assume it is just a piece about procrastination. This article is a compelling story that suggests there is a moral imperative to engage in anti-aging research, and t
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by tc 17y ago
That's interesting. I, on the other hand, was so disgusted by the RIAA's tactics and lobbying that I stopped buying CDs altogether without resorting to (currently) illegal downloading of music. I can make my own music. I decided many ye
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by tc 17y ago
My favorite part of this essay is where he translates a verse from Ecclesiastes: I returned and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of und
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by tc 17y ago
Switzerland has fewer than 8 million people today. No, it is clearly not a superpower, but then again no one is writing articles about how it has failed to live up to its potential. And Great Britain seemed to do acceptably well with fewer
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Greenspun: Ruby on Rails and the importance of being stupid(blogs.law.harvard.edu)
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by tc 17y ago
Perhaps. I'm not willing to assume that Intel is stupid though. It's conceivable that they are playing a strong card here. Intel could be in the right on this dispute; AMD could be clearly in breach, but Intel simply didn't want to pursu
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by tc 17y ago
We live in a messy world where regulators often have wide discretion and politically-driven motivations. Guilt or innocence in a matter like this is on a completely different plane from guilt or innocence in a murder trial. Even if we had
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by tc 17y ago
Keep in mind AMD was the one lobbying worldwide for anti-trust actions against Intel (even as their market share was growing). Setting up your competition to get slapped with a record-setting fine on dubious non-sworn evidence is playing p
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How exactly Google failed at radio advertising(online.wsj.com)
1 points by tc 17y ago|0 comments
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by tc 17y ago
WiFi has become important enough—and the interference problem bad enough—that the report recommends creating a new "2.4GHz friendly" logo program to brand devices that are good radio-frequency citizens. Are they kidding? Since 802.11_ pr
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by tc 17y ago
Your definition of freedom, as implied by items 4 & 1, is sloppy and dangerous. The parent posts use the word freedom in the political sense, as an antonym to slavery, subjugation, and tyranny. Modern medicine raises our standard of l
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by tc 17y ago
You're ignoring qualitative differences and other costs. Commuting to work in your own car, which lets you keep that demo system handy that you're going to show a customer, and lets you pick up groceries on the way home, has a higher value
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by tc 17y ago
.... which is why the problems of government get worse the bigger and further away government gets. Taxes and services at the state level are less bad than at the federal level, and taxes and services at the local level are better still. W
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by tc 17y ago
Yes, but the key difference here is that you can download the Hadoop sources and try it out Yahoo's way yourself.
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by tc 17y ago
Summary: Lessig thinks Declan's criticisms ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=601234 ) of his old book are mostly fair. Lessig's own position has changed, and if he hadn't been urged to do so, he wouldn't have responded at all. Lessig h
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by tc 17y ago
But Microsoft wasn't taken to court for doing a great job with Windows 95. They were taken to court for exploiting that success technically, contractually, and financially to suppress entire other markets that concerned them. That is corr
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by tc 17y ago
you don't want to discuss the law, Discussing what the law should be is of interest to me. Using the law as an argument for why a company should be obligated to do something (outside of practical concerns for the company itself) is a

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