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by temphn 15y ago
1. But interpretation grades smoothly from "google this text string" to "evaluate a complicated formula published last week". For many variants, seq + google = interpretation. 2. The FDA is a LOT dumber and slower than you might think. Very
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by temphn 16y ago
> Mark Zuckerberg may be a mediocre coder by HN standards, Don't mean to pick on this one comment, but he is certainly not a "mediocre coder by HN standards". There may be a few people at Facebook who are better at raw engineering, but
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by temphn 16y ago
Ok, now we're talking lulz. Tracking people's children? All's fair, I guess. But taking down the PlayStation Network, well...that's over the line. > "Anonymous is not attacking the PSN at this time," said the document. "Sony's official
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by temphn 16y ago
... Besides the provost, the director of the Museum, the director of Communications, the director of Financial Aid, the director of Alumni and Career Services, the director of Continuing Education, the director of Institutional Research, t
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by temphn 16y ago
Well, there are certain mission critical kinds of areas -- like medicine or bridge engineering -- where this knowledge is actionable. Certainly people here on Hacker News don't need to be convinced of the value of finding elite engineers, o
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by temphn 16y ago
(1) Roads and police are a relatively small portion of your taxes. So this statement is a little bit of a bait and switch. Most of it goes towards Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security, and the DoD. (2) By aggregating everything into "taxes",
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by temphn 16y ago
Obvious April Fool.
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by temphn 16y ago
> I have never heard this as a conservative viewpoint. Conservatives believe that charity is only charity if it isn't mandatory. Taxes represent seizure of your assets at gunpoint (no one would pay if the IRS didn't enforce). Forcible a
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by temphn 16y ago
The answer to this question is completely obvious to people who spent formative years in Asia and are free of American/Western taboos (we have other taboos no doubt but not these). Here is why there is no looting in Japan. Across the world
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by temphn 16y ago
Men and women have different chromosomes, organs, lifespans, brain chemistry[1], expressed genes[2], and the list goes on. In particular, they also had/have substantially different risk/reward payoff functions. A man who risks all could pot
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by temphn 16y ago
If NYC wants to attract the next Google, they should start by repealing the outmoded regulations and firing the bureaucrats (like Kathleen Willey) that ban 23andMe (from the wife of Google) from doing business in the state.
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by temphn 16y ago
You seem to be trying to implement plausible deniability in email. People are actually capable of rich probabilistic reasoning on communication, but not in the same way that you're thinking. That is, making electronic plausible deniability
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by temphn 16y ago
Not a web developer, but a scientist who plays around with it a little bit. Here is what I tried: 1) Viewed source. Didn't see any obvious comments. 2) Looked at .css files. Nothing obvious there, though there are styles for form/etc classe
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by temphn 16y ago
> These acts demean women, portray them as just sexual objects, and are essentially misogynistic. How do you know that the real "Erica Albright" didn't make misandrist comments about the size of his genitalia or his inability to measure
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by temphn 16y ago
Indeed. That's the group he feels comfortable slagging off in the post.
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by temphn 16y ago
"World class economists" disagree a lot more on economics than world class physicists disagree about inclined planes. For every Krugman there is a Becker, a Hayek, a Friedman. So argument from authority just plain doesn't work in this area.
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by temphn 16y ago
Zuck, like Gates before him, has realized that the only way to gain the respect of polite society is by wasting millions on hopeless progressive projects. Vietnamese students with a fraction of the educational budget easily outscore Newark'
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by temphn 16y ago
He looked like a neo-nazi. Most people who are convicted for robbery in SF do not. For the typical Salon reader, if a homeless member of a minority group smashed their window and grabbed their stuff, they would feel resignment. They wouldn'
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by temphn 16y ago
Righteous vengeance. Fortunately for her, the demographics of the thief allow the audience to unhesitatingly endorse law enforcement action without blaming the victim. Many people who have been victimized in SF are not so lucky.
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by temphn 16y ago
> saith O'Hare: It’s worth a close look because the author is a law professor, not some high-school dropout Limbaugh lemming, and because the tone of entitlement and whining is typical of a fair number of the comments I got on my post a
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by temphn 16y ago
This all sounds very wise...until you remember that Facebook itself was written by Zuckerberg when he wasn't yet out of college. Linux was written by Linus Torvalds when he was in college. Firefox was written by Blake Ross when he was a hig
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by temphn 16y ago
1) Punitive taxation will result in layoffs and makes no sense if you're trying to revive the economy 2) Many small businesses want to be big someday. Whatever threshold you set at which "good" small business/startup morphs into evil megaco
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by temphn 16y ago
Check out org-babel. http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/
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by temphn 16y ago
> Forcing them It's not a good idea to force someone else to do something you think is good for them, because: (a) they have a right to do what they want (b) you could well be wrong (c) and you would not like them forcing you to do th
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by temphn 16y ago
Maybe the US is the most powerful country in the world _because_ its people work hard in a high productivity system. America is an exception. But perhaps it is "out of sync" with the world in the same way Google is out of sync with your ave
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by temphn 16y ago
> Sure we have fun and all but sometimes I feel the need to be understood. My cofounder does, perhaps that's enough? Yes. Life becomes a whole lot easier once you realize that girlfriends, by and large, are not into math, computer scien
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by temphn 16y ago
If the people don't want to be taxed to pay for state services, then shouldn't the state fire people, stop services, and downsize, just like a business? No startup can point a gun at its customers to force them to give it money. Some startu
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by temphn 16y ago
You should leave South Africa while you still can.
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by temphn 16y ago
The fundamental problem is the centralization of what should be distributed computation and decision making. The federal government busies itself with making rules that prohibit and distort voluntary exchanges between individuals and busine
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by temphn 16y ago
There is one very widely held theory that no one is voicing here. http://lagriffedulion.f2s.com/sft.htm

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