tribune

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by tribune 11y ago
Absolutely. Every time I log on, I feel like I'm going to accidentally email my entire contact list.
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by tribune 11y ago
Larger jackpots will sell more tickets. When half the country is buying tickets for a historic jackpot, Powerball (and therefore the States) will take in much more money than if this same jackpot was split over several drawings.
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by tribune 11y ago
Interesting hypothesis. Whenever an article like this comes around, I'm reminded how little we really know about sleep. How did it start? Why is it necessary at all? Hopefully studying the sleep of other animals will reveal some of it&
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by tribune 11y ago
Incongruences in the back story? The alphabet appearing in the deciphered message? Words used before they entered the English language? The author selling his pamphlets for profit?! Occam's four-bladed razor cuts right through my hopes
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by tribune 11y ago
Ditto. My curiosity grew out of the computer games I was playing, and my first "game" was "Guess the Number" written in TI-BASIC for my TI-83 calculator.
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by tribune 11y ago
> Modern children are also deprived of another key ingredient that has powered many a young person down the road to a career in science: boredom, and lots of it. I've always had a little pet theory that boredom is actually a major d
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by tribune 11y ago
Reminds me of a sarcastic response from my classmate back in my undergrad Signals class... the professor showed us a sample black-and-white photo and asked (rather rhetorically) how we would represent it using as few bits as possible. Class
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by tribune 11y ago
I agree. The only major success from Ballmer's career that the article highlights is his capturing of that eight percent stake early on. A better title might have been "How to Be Like 1980 Steve Ballmer".
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by tribune 11y ago
Impressive musical presentation of what would otherwise be random noise. If the duration of the notes was constant and the chords were left off this wouldn't sound like anything remarkable. This reminds me of the article on recurrent n
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by tribune 11y ago
I'm not sure it means much, given that the market as a whole has ended up pretty flat over the past year. The market was soaring while these companies were raising private capital; it's no surprise their valuations came down a bit
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by tribune 11y ago
Interesting article, but the first sentence bothers me. The "Byzantine Empire" was the same thing as the Eastern Roman Empire (the latter being its more proper name anyhow). The 9th and 10th Centuries were actually some of the Emp
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by tribune 11y ago
Not to discount the severity of the student loan problem, but the market is really not large enough to cause the next big crash. For some perspective, pre-crisis mortgage debt was almost two-thirds of GDP whereas student loans are still a m