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   by tesseract 18y ago

   See also: Facebook.
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   by tesseract 18y ago

   Taking that line of reasoning further, a reasonable definition of "independently wealthy" might be, "able to maintain an upper-middle-class lifestyle on investment income alone, while also growing one's capital at or above the rate of infla
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   by tesseract 18y ago

   Producer/consumer where there are multiple I/O bound producers (examples that come to mind: RSS reader, web spider, multiple-file search). They can also be a useful abstraction for things like waiting for events from multiple sources, or ru
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   by tesseract 18y ago

   _Project Orion_ by George Dyson is a decent book about the project. In addition to the historical narrative, it has some good and detailed (for a popularization, anyway) explanations of how the technology was supposed to work.