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by william42 15y ago
One thing I've heard about Japan is that it has lifetime employment contracts.
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by william42 15y ago
Considering the lightyears involved, I assume this means we'll see it in 2013?
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by william42 15y ago
"both gifted kids as well as children who have emotional and behavioral disorders" The two groups are not mutually exclusive.
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by william42 15y ago
Yeah, but if we leave, then the advertisers(their "real customers") will too, so it works out the same.
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by william42 15y ago
Nope, that's an urban myth. The law explicitly contains language saying that it doesn't override any previous laws on detention. Don't trust things you see reblogged on tumblr, especially if they don't cite sources.
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by william42 15y ago
Allowing corporations to be sued is exactly why corporate personhood exists, isn't it? Not sure you could imprison a company though. That'd probably be the same as the death penalty.
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by william42 15y ago
I have to disagree very strongly with one of his suggestions: the differently sized buttons. The buttons have different sizes because they're used at different rates. You make things that are more often used bigger because it makes your i
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by william42 15y ago
I don't use Apples much but I'm pretty sure that the keyboard has a ⌥ symbol on the option button.
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by william42 15y ago
Campfire's a webapp, so presumably https.
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by william42 15y ago
You know what I dislike about this the most? That it's a fork . It's not a fork. It's a completely different project.
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by william42 15y ago
william@aldebaran ~ $ ed bash: ed: command not found
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by william42 15y ago
I think that at that point calculus was a grad-school-level thing. At the very least, it wasn't being taught in high schools. In fact, I'm pretty sure it's only taught in high schools today under the aegis of Advanced Placement classes,
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by william42 15y ago
When you respond to a sentence using the words "generally", "tend to", or "usually" with one using the words "not all" or relatives, you are effectively conceding the point. Correlation cannot be denied with a mere counterexample.
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by william42 15y ago
I didn't even see HnNoPassMailer until I turned on showdead, and after I did I only saw an upvote link, not a downvote link. I think it's some feature of HN.
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by william42 15y ago
It blows my mind that something called Berkeley DB is owned by Oracle. You'd think it'd be a UC Berkeley project.
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by william42 15y ago
In fact, median is very very explicitly what you want to use, because outliers are just that and the vast majority of people aren't. One study on UNC-Chapel Hill graduates in the 1980s said that the best-paying major was geography. Why?
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by william42 15y ago
The page on notability seems to imply that notability means having sources that don't require original research; which is a reasonable thing to do but probably should have just been put under that rule. Wikipedia avoids original research fo
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by william42 15y ago
Try awesome[1]. It uses Lua, which is probably a more familiar language(I never learned Lua, but am still able to make minor changes to the config file, something I wouldn't try with Haskell). That, combined with a few other things, is wh
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by william42 15y ago
Too bad most software patents belong to either giant companies using them as a strategic hammer or patent trolls, then.
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by william42 15y ago
Please explain to me how to type the fraction (a^2+b^2-c^2)/(2ab), which is the simple $\frac{a^2+b^2-c^2}{2ab}$ in TeX, so that the numerator appears above the denominator in HTML. Or any non-TeX layout.
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by william42 15y ago
From what I can tell, the software limit is that everybody has a different set of custom macros and styles that they use, and that distributing extra code is a violation of Apple policy, one that can't be fixed unless you get rid of not onl
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by william42 15y ago
I'm surprised that you don't use screen(or tmux, which I have yet to try out).
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by william42 15y ago
That's exactly what I was thinking.
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by william42 15y ago
I'm pretty sure this is exactly what Ghostery and the like block.
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by william42 15y ago
Didn't Knuth write TeX in a variant of Pascal?
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by william42 15y ago
Well, except for the part where calculating income is still as difficult as it was. Somehow, I don't think the piecewise linear function that is progressive taxation is the cause of the difficult parts of the tax code.
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by william42 15y ago
Actually, seventy-something percent of the OWS protesters are employed.
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by william42 15y ago
How do you know this? The comments are anonymous.
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by william42 15y ago
Well, at the scales we're dealing with, healthcare is an infinite resource. Emergency rooms in the United States cannot turn anyone down, and even uninsured Americans will end up going to the hospital when something serious happens, beca
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by william42 15y ago
"We will have more people in the hospitals for things that don't require medical care with less room for people that actually need it." That's actually the problem with the current American system. Because people have to pay, they avoid

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