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by weeksie 16y ago
Don't paint every country with the same brush. In Australia it's legal and regulated. Sure, there are dodgy brothels (usually the asian ones) but the normal ones are mostly college girls who are earning a bunch of extra cash.
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by weeksie 16y ago
Well, are you qualified? How does your economics education differ from my guess? Was my assumption correct? Again, back to my original point, it's often people who explicitly aren't qualified who most vehemently argue the topic, particularl
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by weeksie 16y ago
Expert; meaning he's studied macro economics, holds a PHD, teaches at Princeton, and is widely regarded as such, I'm aware his specialty is currency crises but it's not exactly like that's the only thing he knows. That doesn't mean he's rig
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by weeksie 16y ago
Again, I don't understand the hostility. I wasn't in fact trolling, I was trying to get into a discussion about why economics gets people so riled up and then you came along and reinforced the point I was making without actually adding to t
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by weeksie 16y ago
This is exactly what I'm talking about. I only mentioned Krugman because he's often vilified by the same people who get wound up in economics threads. People on the Keynes side of the equation also get wound up over mentions of Chicago Scho
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by weeksie 16y ago
I find economics, more than almost any other topic of discussion amongst techies, elicits an incredibly strong Dunning-Krueger effect. Mention economics, particularly something like Austrian economics which doesn't have complex mathematical
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by weeksie 16y ago
I'd suggest taking the trends from TREGNY (but not the actual values, as they are skewed high). Then taking scrapes from craigslist, leaving off the outliers, and then fitting those values to the trend curves and adjusting based on the inpu
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by weeksie 16y ago
I love the idea, finding an apartment in this town is a harrowing experience. It's even worse for newbies who don't know the market and often get stuck with overpriced apartments like the ones Jakobson Properties rent out. What do you plan
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by weeksie 16y ago
Bingo. The big reason why coffee sucks in the US is that the Italian immigration wave hit before the espresso machine was invented. It hit Oz afterward. And, leading from that, coffee in Oz has been pretty damned good for a long time. I've
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by weeksie 16y ago
I know it's probably not nerd-ok but I read the article hoping it would be his take on the Henry Miller book. Of course, I was sorely disappointed. Then I re-read the title.
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by weeksie 16y ago
Well, every development job I've had has been a ten am start. Most people I know out here(finance, advertising, marketing) start a ten too. Then again all of my buddies that work in finance work in boutique agencies so maybe it's different
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by weeksie 16y ago
Mostly NYC at the moment since I'm buckling down on the new project. Wintering in Oz is a fantastic lifestyle though, I must say :) For the next few years I'm living three months in Oz and nine months in NY, though spread out over the year.
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by weeksie 16y ago
You must have either been worked to death or extremely incurious. I've lived all over the world and currently spend my time between Sydney and NYC. I moved here on a shoestring, ran a startup for the first year and half I was here, sold my
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by weeksie 16y ago
I've never had a job here (or heard of anybody in a professional job) that required them to be there by 7am. 10am is pretty much the standard.
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"Shared social responsibility" as a path to greater profit?(blogs.discovermagazine.com)
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by weeksie 16y ago
The point the book makes is that as we transferred from foraging to farming the entire dynamic shifted. As hunter-gatherers there was not competition for resources and it didn't matter who the genetic father of a child was. In most foraging
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by weeksie 16y ago
Actually that's what made Sex at Dawn so interesting, they explore a number of hunter-gatherer societies (Amazon, Africa, China . . . ) and they are predominantly non-monogamous. They might have the concept of marriage, but often it won't b
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by weeksie 16y ago
Interesting. I've just finished reading Sex At Dawn which explores human sexuality from an evo-psych point of view, particularly the link between us and Bonobos. I have a healthy amount of skepticism about most evo-psych but the book made a
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by weeksie 16y ago
If you're really having performance problems that will be fixed like that then why not use Duff's Device? It's (and this is sure sayin' something) easier to read than that.
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by weeksie 16y ago
Unless, of course, you consider the rest of the world . In India English is an official language and they spell things in the UK way. In fact anywhere I've ever seen international English used the UK spellings have been used unless they we
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by weeksie 16y ago
Heh, I've always thought that South Australians are like the Liverpudlians of Oz, accent wise :)
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by weeksie 16y ago
While 'going against the grain' might not be the correct way to phrase it, you have to reali[sz]e that the entire rest of the English speaking world spells things like that. England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Canada, Australia, New Zealand,
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by weeksie 16y ago
Hrm. I never noticed a large difference until I left. Now that I'm in NY I can usually pick someone's state right away. Folks from Melbourne have the most pronounced accents, I reckon. Something about how the 'e' becomes all elongated when
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by weeksie 16y ago
So there's one fibonacci sequence benchmark that's faster? Come on. The issue with Ruby is that the things that make it so nice (all of the great object model and meta-programming additions) also bring a certain level of overhead. If it was
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by weeksie 16y ago
The MacRuby folk would be wrong. I actually hadn't looked too closely at MacRuby. It is quite an achievement, but compared to (particularly) Lua it's just not fast enough. Compare that to LuaJIT and the differences are remarkable. If MacRub
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by weeksie 16y ago
Good point, but I imagine that a better way forward would be to go to a dynamic language that can be optimized really well. Lua or Javascript would be fantastic choices. Ruby is a great language, and one of my favourite to program in, but i
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by weeksie 16y ago
Well, the problem was the unstable branch. The general case larger problem was that he wasn't paying attention to what the hell he was doing. Oh yeah, hi BJ :)
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by weeksie 16y ago
Kallisti! And yes, I always enjoyed RAW's jabs (or nods) toward Rand, Joyce, and Pynchon. That man was a treasure.
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by weeksie 16y ago
What an absolute shame. It's funny because I started reading Ulysses because it was available for a free e-reader iphone app. I had always been a bit wary of it (Pynchon drives me nuts and I often hear Ulysses and Gravity's Rainbow mentione
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by weeksie 16y ago
The iphone ecosystem is much larger, at least within the circle of people whom I will have to apologise to for dialing them up and showing them various parts of my body.

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