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by te_platt 14y ago
First chess and now this... It would be fun to see two robots play each other.
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by te_platt 14y ago
Except that C is a (the?) natural third cord to use with G and D. And then it's a bit tricky to not get something that sounds like a John Denver song.
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What not to name your spaceship(slate.com)
3 points by te_platt 14y ago|1 comments
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I think you are both right as long as it is a matter of "usually" instead of "always". I am very loose about upvoting a show me post. Still, sometimes the poster should have gone through a round of showing friends and doing improvements b
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by te_platt 14y ago
Pieces of puzzle = true statements about the natural numbers. Pieces already put together = proved true statements. Pieces that won't fit = true but unprovable statements. Of course every analogy breaks down somewhere but I thought this one
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by te_platt 14y ago
I thought this article sounded familiar but it took me a while to place it. It's the parable of the sower, Matthew 13:3-8. 3 And he spake many things unto them in parables, saying, Behold, a sower went forth to sow; 4 And when he sowed, som
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by te_platt 14y ago
I wouldn't say any of his books are exactly casual reading. The Large the Small and the Human Mind is probably the most casual in that it merely requires thinking and even then some of that is done for you the responses from Abner Shimony,
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by te_platt 14y ago
Some of the quotes are interesting on their own. All of them are interesting in that so many people found them significant. Also, if you read too many of them at once you start to think in one or two sentence snippets.
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Golden Balls Split or Steal – Explain This Episode to My Students(volokh.com)
2 points by te_platt 14y ago|0 comments
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by te_platt 15y ago
Yes, I do question the value of antitrust laws. The Friedman quote was meant to show that given the existence of antitrust laws, it is still not in your long term interest to seek to have them enforced in your industry. Arguing that the g
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by te_platt 15y ago
The important question to me is will this lawsuit do more good than harm. Having the government establish when prices are too high (price fixing, Apple in this case) or too low (unfair competition, Google maps in France) is a risky situati
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Viacom v YouTube Decision - Not As Bad As All That(volokh.com)
1 points by te_platt 15y ago|0 comments
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by te_platt 15y ago
It would be interesting to see how total income is allocated. That would include income taxes, debt payments, and other things that aren't purchases. Also, I think it's interesting that recreational spending has increased very little. Are
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by te_platt 15y ago
It is to give some feedback on how other people react to your submissions and comments. When you click on the up triangle next to a comment the person who made the comment gets one karma point. The down triangle takes one away. Up-voting ca
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by te_platt 15y ago
Thomas Sowell gives a nice introduction on predatory pricing here: http://www.forbes.com/forbes/1999/0503/6309089a.html From Sowell's article: It is a commentary on the development of antitrust law that the accused must defend himself, no
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by te_platt 15y ago
I particularly liked this quote from the article: "My training is never complete." It's a good reminder that a degree or certification is a marker of progress but not an end in itself.
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by te_platt 15y ago
While valid, your points all seem directed to protecting people from themselves. Depending on the details it may be a very bad idea to invest or take investment at this level but who should be the one to make the decision? In this case I
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by te_platt 15y ago
I don't think you can stop money affecting politics any more than you can stop piracy, or stop people from taking harmful drugs, or stop people from saying stupid things, or a lot of other things. In those cases I think the costs of stoppi
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by te_platt 15y ago
Or here for no fee. http://www.cis.rit.edu/class/simg716/Gauss_History_FFT.pdf As a Gauss fanboy let me just say wow. Especially note that from 1828 to 1965 there a various versions of the FFT presented for special cases but Gauss had the
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by te_platt 15y ago
No, Facebook/Google engineers should consider their actions carefully and do what they think is right. In fact everyone should. I'm happy to oppose SOPA but I'm not joining a mob.
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by te_platt 15y ago
He talks about diversity of sex and race being necessary to have a diversity of viewpoints. If that is true doesn't that imply that that different sexes and races have fundamental differences based on those attributes? If so shouldn't we
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by te_platt 15y ago
It's a nice thought but tried many times before, never with success. http://lawreview.law.pitt.edu/issues/65/65.2/McGowan.pdf gives a nice review.
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by te_platt 15y ago
Lesson: Enjoy whatever it is you enjoy. I know people who get upset when their favorite song doesn't make some end of year "best of" list. Don't let other people decide what you should like.
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by te_platt 15y ago
I think it's a stretch to say the author is wrong. He was very clear in stating that aren't necessarily bad, just that they come with costs. In his case it looks like the costs outweighed the benefits.
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by te_platt 15y ago
I agree that as of today 3D printers can't replace almost any commercial manufacturing technique. I think the article was meant for excitement about what may be coming soon. Most of the comments here sound a lot like what photographers sa
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by te_platt 15y ago
First I would do some research. Does he support SOPA? if so why? how strong? What is his technical background? Would it be useful to have simple explanations of different parts of internet technology? What technologies does he use? How wo
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by te_platt 15y ago
No, It doesn't change the estimate of the number of asteroids near Earth. It just points out that more get caught in orbit than previously thought.
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Mythbuster Adam Savage: SOPA Could Destroy the Internet as We Know It(popularmechanics.com)
1 points by te_platt 15y ago|0 comments
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by te_platt 15y ago
It would be difficult but possible to organize a user's union that accepted/denied terms as a group. Something like a better business organization for software services. Hmmm -- the more I think about it the difficulties increase and the p
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by te_platt 15y ago
Only bleem is not the secret integer between 3 an 4 but the smallest real number greater than zero. Yes, I know real analysis and all about supremum and coverings and epsilons and all the other ways to hide its existence. John Conway gets

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