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by te_platt 17y ago
It looks like we need some new words to differentiate what different people mean by a right. Something for an independent right and something different for an dependent right. Dependent meaning it relies on the effort of someone else.
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by te_platt 17y ago
Right, but.... Your dog reads books!? - Yea, but only fiction. Your piano can talk!? - Yea, but not very well.
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by te_platt 17y ago
The cases cited in the story are more in line with bureaucrats maintaining budget. By that I mean you have an agency that needs to justify their budget of X dollars with Y convictions to show for it. It's hard to imagine any of the agents
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by te_platt 17y ago
A nice article on two points. 1. A good explanation of something I had wondered about. 2. A technical level above "History Channel popularization" but below PhD dissertation. Is it just me or does it seem like articles at this level are ve
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by te_platt 17y ago
A lot of comments have pointed out that there are problems with the metric used in the article. Still, the differences aren't measured aren't off by 20 or 30 percent. Some states have 10 times the amount of venture money as others. Clear
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by te_platt 17y ago
Who are you to decide the partnership isn't equal? And just how does the internship law protect the little guy? By making sure she can't get valuable experience? Also, just because you don't understand why someone would offer an unpaid i
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by te_platt 17y ago
Upvoted for using acoustic bicycle as the opposite of electric bicycle. As to the article, the bike is lame if it doesn't do what he wants it to do otherwise get over what other people think.
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by te_platt 17y ago
The president can pardon anyone for any reason except impeachment. See http://www.usconstitution.net/consttop_pard.html for more information. EDIT: I stand corrected to the comment below.
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by te_platt 17y ago
Quick summary - from the article: "If you would not pay for medicine out of your own pocket, then don’t bother to go when others offer to pay." Overall a well argued article.
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by te_platt 17y ago
I think it is interesting how simplicity is a benchmark for the very best in so many different fields. Science: Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler. - Einstein. (actually an abbreviated version of a longer quote
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How A Vehicle's Differential Works(videosift.com)
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by te_platt 17y ago
My understanding of Friedman's position was that the negative income tax was a politically viable (if unlikely) system that would be an improvement (more freedom, less socialism) over the social programs we currently have. Not that he thou
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by te_platt 17y ago
You might want to check out Applied Cryptography by Bruce Schneier. It explains how to dice as well as cards over a network without being able to cheat. It also goes into many other areas in great detail.
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by te_platt 17y ago
Maybe not so green but for aesthetics I prefer this one designed by Guy Dreier: http://www.lloydplatt.com/arch/gill(3).jpg
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by te_platt 17y ago
The point of the article isn't that IQ differences don't exist. Only that on average how hard you work is much more important than how smart you are in achieving success. At least in the measures used in the article - graduate degrees and
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by te_platt 17y ago
Kind of like most of the rest of us. I remember watching eBay's IPO and thinking I should get some of that - but not doing it. Then setting out on my own in late 1999 only to get crushed in the bubble. Seems like I've been following the
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by te_platt 17y ago
It seems like I remember a lot of stories like this about Microsoft before the Xbox came out. Microsoft is going to compete against Sony and Nintendo? Yeah right! --Turns out they did OK. Maybe Bing will work out and maybe not but that's
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by te_platt 17y ago
"Twitter is a mullet". Just checked on google and that is the first use of that phrase on the internet. I'm proud to have been here to see because that is going to stick.
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by te_platt 17y ago
Yes, there have been subsidies but there are also huge costs associated with licensing and permitting (not to mention lawsuits of all sorts) to build a nuclear power plant. On the whole the costs are more than the subsidies. Uranium mining
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by te_platt 17y ago
I've done a bit of work recently for some small scale alternative energy projects. Various combinations of catalyzed electrolysis, wave energy, natural heat differential, and more. I've learned two main lessons: 1. The second law of therm
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by te_platt 17y ago
So what does it mean if you don't put emphasis on any of the words? Or more than one? Also, I can't stop reading the comments without putting emphasis on random words now. I can almost make any sentence say what I want it to, or at least
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by te_platt 17y ago
Doh!
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by te_platt 17y ago
Fun idea, but didn't everyone here have to work this out in their college physics class?
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by te_platt 18y ago
That was exactly the point I was trying to make. "What about" arguments can be valid.
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by te_platt 18y ago
I disagree with the author. Bringing up "what about x" has many valid uses. For example: "Look at my perpetual motion machine!" "What about the cable plugged into the outlet?" "Don't change the subject!" "You are a murderer because you kil
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by te_platt 18y ago
Being an architect is very much like (if not outright identical) to being an artist. Sure, anyone can put paint on a canvas but very few do great work.
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by te_platt 18y ago
Your timing couldn't be any more perfect. On this thread http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=521298 I wrote about using online textbooks at my daughter's high school. Last night I met with the principal and some faculty who are very int
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by te_platt 18y ago
Any details on what you are doing? Anything I can do to help?
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by te_platt 18y ago
What is the status of OpenTextBook? It looks to be fading out - latest post is 6 months old.
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by te_platt 18y ago
Thank you. That is some good material.

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