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by thisrod 11y ago
cities are a lot younger and grew much faster meaning that is not so much the case. Melbourne, in Australia, is a counter example. It started in 1835, it was the centre of the fastest land grab in history, then the population doubled in
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by thisrod 12y ago
I found the real answer: the low taxes were all lies, and Mr Lee actually took half of everyone's salary for his family to invest. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Provident_Fund
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by thisrod 12y ago
> set up his 'wealthy, modern' state by money laundering for Burmese junta D'oh! I've been wondering how Singapore's low-taxing government accumulated all the capital that it invested, and that answer is so obvi
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by thisrod 12y ago
This looks like a good start. You'll need to use the Wayback machine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sendmail#External_links
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by thisrod 12y ago
> Imagine if when visiting a website you had to remember whether or not it's HTTP, XYYZ, or FKME before typing the URL. Old farts like me don't have to imagine it. In the mid 90s, gopher and nntp URLs were quite common. It wa
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by thisrod 12y ago
And #2 never works: people who try that soon find that they're too worn out to climb anything fun, they're stuck in the mountains, and they don't like being there any more.
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by thisrod 12y ago
For their 2015 outlook issue, The Economist asked readers to submit predictions by Twitter about the year's events. One prediction they published said, "The Economist will continue to recommend market-based solutions for everyt
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by thisrod 12y ago
I think the examples would be clearer and shorter if they were written in AWK. They might not be showing Nial in its best light: they solve very simple problems, AWK's sweet spot, but a field where Nial is bloated by features that nee
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The founding of Australia's web newspaper(crikey.com.au)
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by thisrod 12y ago
It seems to be meant for research and development, not as the asteroid from the lex manpage. It would make sense as a teaching language for compilers, too. The people who need to know how Lex and Yacc work could read the Dragon Book later
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by thisrod 12y ago
Plan 9 came close. You could create /foo/a and /foo/b at your leisure, then bind /foo over /etc. This atomically replaced /etc/a and /etc/b with /foo/a and /foo/b, for
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by thisrod 12y ago
Here's the transcript of his Nobel Lecture: http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/196...
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by thisrod 12y ago
Scientists believe in global warming because Earth is warm and space is cold. Scientists also believe they know what causes that. It seems very plausible that increasing one of the causes will increase the effect.
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by thisrod 12y ago
I've heard several computational physicists make this complaint to NVIDIA sales reps. The standard response, which I'm sure is correct, goes as follows. Designing a fast processor is very expensive, far beyond the means of the re
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by thisrod 12y ago
For the purpose of this study, "exercise" means "walked on treadmills ... three times per week for 30 minutes". I'd be cautious about extrapolating the results to more than homeopathic doses.
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by thisrod 12y ago
What society have you seen that wasn't created/run by dead white men? Because colonialism, slavery and all that. You're free to count the lives that your ubermen improved, but the rest of us are going to subtract the ones
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by thisrod 12y ago
No doubt 1 out of 1 of the world's best newspapers, as ranked by the Telegraph, are written by white males too.
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by thisrod 12y ago
It's an interesting coincidence for Mr Cook to come out alongside the movie adaptation of Alan Turing: The Enigma . When I was an undergrad in the 90s, that book was the only obvious story about an out geek, and it was far more catha
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by thisrod 12y ago
I expect the point is to get from a C compiler to an Arc prompt with "make install && arc". Much later, if you're worried about speed, you can install a C++ compiler and libraries, compile an ancient version of Racke
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by thisrod 12y ago
Come visit Australia to see a real history of drinking. The British colonists ran out of pound notes, and chose rum as the national currency. Then an argument about distilling rights led to a coup d'etat.
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by thisrod 12y ago
Our hosts are betting that Michael is right about part of this, the part that is far enough removed from their lives that they might be considering it objectively. http://www.ycombinator.com/rfs/#science
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by thisrod 12y ago
About 5 years ago, I could see that this kind of thing was inevitable. I've avoided Facebook in protest ever since, and I now try to avoid Google as well. I admire most people who work in those places, but sufficiently advanced corpo
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by thisrod 12y ago
> is it legal to exclude people based on gender? In Australia it's against the law, but the courts can make exceptions if you convince them that what you're doing serves the public interest. Things like gay bars and women&#x27
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by thisrod 12y ago
The Abbot smear is silly, seeing that he belongs to the federal executive, and this order was made by a state judiciary. However, the "Asian values" comment is completely apt. I'll say no more, because the phrase alone coul
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by thisrod 12y ago
The problem is that it's cold up there, so the vapour pressure in a cartridge of liquified gas is much lower, and the flame in your stove is pretty marginal.
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by thisrod 12y ago
Things could be worse. There are caseworkers pretty much like these ones in the Australian department of immigration: the difference is that they've been given a wider scope for bastardry, and they're using it to build concentrat
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by thisrod 12y ago
The way we got here is interesting. In 1995, if you'd wanted to implement one of today's websites, you might have written a Tcl/Tk script that users could download and run. Tk solved pretty well all the problems people are
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by thisrod 12y ago
> All statements are true, false, arbitrary, or nonsensical. In which category do you place the arithmetical statement that Godel showed how to construct?
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by thisrod 12y ago
Half way through Don Dunstan: Intimacy and Liberty . It's about the things that people didn't explain to their kids when I was growing up in Adelaide. It might provide some relief for those disillusioned by current American pol
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by thisrod 12y ago
Experimenters have tell fibs in order to discover the truth about your behavior: the only way to prevent you from thinking of the word "elephant" is say the experiment is about cats. This is generally considered OK, provided that

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