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by xrange 11y ago
>The Ivy League will survive because of social and political momentum. ...and their endowments in $10-40 billion range: http://www.ibtimes.com/ivy-league-endowments-2015-princeton-...
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by xrange 11y ago
>I was brought up to respect my elders and to consider society as a mostly-altruistic, benevolent mass of humanity with a conscience bent more towards justice and meritocracy Interesting. Do you see this as more of a failure in your upb
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by xrange 11y ago
>the waste is not the economies fault, but that of whomever pursued that education. I'm willing to place at least 75% of the blame on the recipient, but I try not to discount the previous 12+ years of "education is our greatest
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by xrange 11y ago
>It's time to get to work, even if "work" is 20-30% (random number) tougher than what our parents dealt with. ...sounds like: "Why Generation Y Yuppies are Unhappy" http://waitbutwhy.com/2013&#x2F
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by xrange 11y ago
>saddled by seemingly insurmountable college debt Does anyone know of a source for statistics on student loan debt? This site http://ticas.org/posd/map-state-data ...claims that the average debt of graduating senio
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by xrange 11y ago
Here's another "secret": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Chinese_Famine
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by xrange 11y ago
You might be interested in researching CYP2E1. http://www.science20.com/news_articles/cyp2e1_gene_and_alcoh...
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by xrange 11y ago
>the Fukushima disaster changed my mind a little. This is what I don't understand. The earthquake and tsunami that caused Fukushima's problems killed 20,000 people, and created an almost unimaginable amount of devastation. No
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by xrange 11y ago
"...This could explain why well-educated, intelligent people, all across the political spectrum, so often make the unspoken assumption that good intentions and well-crafted words are sufficient for making good public policy" htt
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by xrange 11y ago
Are you making the simple claim that, over say a 30 year period, certain broad stock market indexes ended higher than they started? Or are you making a much more interesting claim? I'd like to see the data set for that if you can poi
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by xrange 11y ago
How long does each coin flip take, and how soon can I repeat the game? Does each flip takes an equal and finite amount of time? Do subsequent flips take half as much time? Can I play Graham's number of games in an hour? An countabl
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by xrange 11y ago
I'd like to see a an article about the potential downsides of Basic Income, written by advocates of Basic Income. Is it all "there are no downsides", "there are only minor downsides for the ultra-rich", "there
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by xrange 11y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pack_rat#Behavior
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by xrange 11y ago
"...This could explain why well-educated, intelligent people, all across the political spectrum, so often make the unspoken assumption that good intentions and well-crafted words are sufficient for making good public policy" http
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by xrange 11y ago
One man's paltry can be another man's extravagant. If you are coming from R5RS, then that Racket library would be a breath of fresh air. If you are coming from Perl, then maybe not so much.
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by xrange 11y ago
>Scheme is actually used quite a few places Don't leave us hanging, I'm sure lots of people would like to know of Scheme success stories besides Jak and Daxter. http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?LispInJakAndDaxter
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by xrange 11y ago
>not that the world ends Lexcorvus and I apparently have similar memories, because my recollection is that all the articles discussing peak oil had a mandatory section predicting the eminent demise of Western Civilization (and quite a la
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by xrange 11y ago
...is this the string library you are referring to? http://docs.racket-lang.org/reference/strings.html ...or something more extensive?
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by xrange 11y ago
My favorite scheme antecdote: http://philip.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=...
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by xrange 11y ago
Hmm, I wonder if Pharo/Squeak publish their download numbers? Is the recent uptick in smalltalk articles on HN an indicator in increasing interest in the language (even though they've been mostly harsh).
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by xrange 11y ago
>Ruby, at least, performs quite well. Are you talking absolute performance (as in machines are faster now, so speed has become less important) or relative performance (compared to performing the same task with a different interpreter&#x2
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by xrange 11y ago
Can anyone tell us how cumbersome it is to do the same thing with the free Smalltalks?
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by xrange 11y ago
Maybe start with "Smalltalk 80: The Language", and just read the first three chapters: http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr/FreeBooks/BlueBook/Bluebook.... Also available for $1.89 (plus shipping) used from A
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by xrange 11y ago
So I was interested when someone noted that apparently Pharo/Squeak stumble when it comes to unicode: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/3ha1gu/why_are... ...it seems like that could pote
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by xrange 11y ago
Maybe you mean something other than the photoelectric effect? None of light-emitting-diodes, liquid-crystal-displays, or cathode-ray-tubes rely on the photoelectric effect. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photoelectric_e
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by xrange 11y ago
http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/Current-and-Future-Generat...
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by xrange 11y ago
Deaths from nuclear power: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_and_radiation_... Deaths from coal mining : http://www.msha.gov/stats/centurystats/coalstats.asp
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by xrange 11y ago
If only humanity had discovered an energy source which was safer and cleaner than everything that came before, and produced no GHGs. Oh, and that we hadn't spent the last 60 years irrationally demonizing it.
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by xrange 11y ago
...has everyone forgotten the 20,000 people who died in the tsunami? What's the opportunity cost with the $300 billion that will be used to rebuild the devastated areas? And yet we've got no deaths from Fukushima. How many othe
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by xrange 11y ago
Here's a question. How anonymous can an employee be? For the U.S. It seems like you need to get a Social Security number for tax purposes. Is a name also required?

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