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by tc 18y ago
Summary: For at least the last 70 years, physicists haven't taken the nonlocality predicted by quantum mechanics seriously enough. Even supporters of QM considered the prediction of nonlocality a liability, and tried to dismiss it as an ar
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by tc 18y ago
There is quite a bit to this talk that can't be adequately captured by the title. For one thing, Gladwell shows how people cannot articulate what exactly they want (even though they know it when they see it), a point that pg has previously
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Malcolm Gladwell: What we can learn from spaghetti sauce [TED talk](ted.com)
1 points by tc 18y ago|1 comments
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by tc 18y ago
My advice is to stay in cash Which would be fine as long as you aren't at all concerned about the very real possibly of hyperinflation. Be sure to pick your currency wisely.
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by tc 18y ago
If true, this was part of a flight to government-guaranteed debt such as US Treasuries and away from debt such as corporate and municipal bonds. This has been called the flight to 'quality,' but of course the only quality inherent in gover
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by tc 18y ago
You've chosen to defend a group you're familiar with (bankers) only to unfairly demonize other groups you haven't thought enough about. Let's see: 1) Stupid "homeowners" How many of these people were really stupid? Many of these new hom
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by tc 18y ago
If she's waiting for Congress to help her, then she's really in trouble.
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Should we track the race of students taking standardized tests?(blogs.law.harvard.edu)
3 points by tc 18y ago|3 comments
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SEC investigating Apple over Jobs' health(bloomberg.com)
3 points by tc 18y ago|0 comments
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by tc 18y ago
I think it's about time that we renew the institution of capitalism.
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Recursive Make Considered Harmful(miller.emu.id.au)
2 points by tc 18y ago|1 comments
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by tc 18y ago
Yes, this works reliably: http://refspoof.mozdev.org/
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by tc 18y ago
I've been typing Dvorak for years. I made the switch concurrently with changing to a TypeMatrix keyboard ( http://typematrix.com/ ). TypeMatrix keyboards aren't radically different (cf. DataHand), but they are radically better. They don'
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by tc 18y ago
Not that this really needs another implementation, but since I already wrote it before seeing this thread... (defun monty-hall (strategy &aux (winner (random 3)) (choice (random 3))) (let ((monty (if (= winner choice)
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by tc 18y ago
Simple. This allows the state to charge BOTH gas taxes and GPS mileage taxes. No one is proposing the gas tax be eliminated, or promising that it won't be raised in the future. Asking for the 'defect' in the current system is like askin
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by tc 18y ago
I have to admit that I reliably fall for this one, particularly in one-on-one exchanges with friends or acquaintances. Perhaps the best reply would actually be, "yep, you're right, Linux/Lisp/Emacs does suck," but even just typing that now
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Trolling To Win: Can trolling work better than asking for help?(bash.org)
76 points by tc 18y ago|24 comments
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by tc 18y ago
The most interesting thing about the Chinese Room paper, I believe, is that most people who develop an intuitive understanding of how computers operate mentally confront this very question long before they ever hear of John Searle or the Ch
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by tc 18y ago
"The Last Question" by Isaac Asimov (1956) http://www.multivax.com/last_question.html "Oh, hell, just about forever. Till the sun runs down, Bert." "That's not forever." "All right, then. Billions and billions of years. Twenty billion, ma
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by tc 18y ago
When this kind of technology replaces keyboards, mice, and touch screens, do you think that mainstream audiences might begin to appreciate the value in knowing exactly what the software on your personal devices does, and which master that s
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by tc 18y ago
I don't get why people so want to abstract around Javascript itself Macros. http://common-lisp.net/project/parenscript/
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by tc 18y ago
Wealth is created when people take existing resources and transform them into something of higher value. Money is simply one very liquid type of input that a creative entrepreneur can use to create wealth. If the marginal value of more inv
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Private Coinage(mises.org)
1 points by tc 18y ago|0 comments
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by tc 18y ago
What's really interesting about these coin shortages is that they are exactly what we should expect as governments have created monopolies over the manufacture of coinage. Central planning always leads to the systematic misallocation of re
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by tc 18y ago
You can't really do this on a packet-switched network. But in essence, what you have just described is called time-division multiplexing (TDM). This is how phone networks have operated for over 40 years. In fact, before the growth of the
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by tc 18y ago
One reality that perhaps should have been touched on in the essay is the effect of increased regulation on a field over time, which overwhelmingly tends to favor mammoth organizations. We're already seeing this, of course. Bad laws have re
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by tc 18y ago
It has been suggested, before we got into the current bailout boondoggle anyway, that the US government could extinguish its debts and past entitlement promises by simply selling off the western states. With an accrual-basis calculated deb
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by tc 18y ago
The US Constitution was designed to restrain the power of politicians. The problem is that we don't follow it. And unsurprisingly, the more discretionary power that politicians accumulate, the more money flows into the political system de
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by tc 18y ago
The problem with money in politics is only incidental. As long as we allow politicians enormous and ever-increasing power to pick winners and losers and grant special favors to friends and interest groups, the money will keep flowing into
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by tc 18y ago
SBCL has an extremely sophisticated facility called a VOP (Virtual Operation) that allows you to write assembly with s-expressions and integrate the code into the compiler and runtime. The SBCL backend itself is composed of these VOPs. Sig

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