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by zargon 17y ago
I like MonteCarlo: http://bok.net/MonteCarlo/
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by zargon 17y ago
The article says it was a motion detector.
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by zargon 17y ago
Okay. Why then, do the education folks complain so much about how USA students test lower in math an science than other countires? Clearly, math and science are dangerous .
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by zargon 17y ago
If you do read his Eat to Live book, it is cited with hundreds of references in the endnotes. I pulled a few dozen when I was near a university and they were fairly well supportive of his points. There was a study comparing weight loss and
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by zargon 17y ago
Joel Fuhrman is a doctor.
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by zargon 17y ago
The definition of fiat currency is the currency that a government mandates for payment of taxes and which courts require you to accept as payment of debts. What country are you thinking of where gold is used by fiat?
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by zargon 17y ago
I was introduced to programming in 5th grade (around 1990) where we made our own adventure games in computer class using World Builder ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Builder ) on 9-inch compact Macs. Everyone in the 5th grade took th
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by zargon 17y ago
In addition to XUL, Firefox exposes many internal APIs to javascript extensions via XPCOM. These hooks allow for powerful modifications to browser behavior. So this also shows a trade-off with Google simplifying extension development at th
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by zargon 17y ago
I wrote a Firefox extension that has (significantly) more than a million downloads. I turned over maintenance to another developer because the Firefox extension platform is so difficult to work with. If Google has really made extension de
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by zargon 17y ago
can't find the demo.
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by zargon 17y ago
If it only accepts google logins, then it doesn't matter if google is using openid as the mechanism -- you can't say you use openid logins. It's like if I said that my application supports CSV, but you have to provide it as an Excel file.
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by zargon 17y ago
Because I don't have a google account. But I do run my own openid provider.
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by zargon 17y ago
I have been using a Now & Zen alarm clock for the last 3 years. http://www.now-zen.com/ (It looks like they are now calling the one I have the 'zen timepiece.') I was fed up with electronic noises. These clocks have a brass bowl th
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by zargon 17y ago
He writes as if belief in aliens is irrational. I'd argue the opposite.
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by zargon 17y ago
This is only anonymous in a casual sense. The relaying party knows who both of you are. For anonymous email in the cryptographic sense, see http://mixminion.net/ . This type of site has value for the low-risk situations where you don't w
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by zargon 17y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=925487
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by zargon 17y ago
Thanks. It's kind of surprising I've managed to avoid all that stuff. ;)
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by zargon 17y ago
I don't have a google account. Could someone describe what is listed if you do?
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by zargon 17y ago
http://www.theoildrum.com/story/2005/12/18/1387/0641#more
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by zargon 17y ago
That statenent is about the Burlington Northern board making a decision in 15 minutes, not Buffett...
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by zargon 17y ago
In 2004 I was using a 2048x1280 display at 112 ppi. Today I can't find a screen over 100 ppi. So in pixel density we have actually gone backwards, except for laptops.
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by zargon 17y ago
"She lived to see laissez-faire triumph over collectivism and one of her leading acolytes, Alan Greenspan, appointed to the president’s Council of Economic Advisers." I would never count the chairman of a central planning entity on the side
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by zargon 17y ago
I refuse to buy a desktop LCD until I can get an even mildly decent PPI. At least 125. 300 would be fantastic. Till then, I have 3 backup FW900s.
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by zargon 17y ago
Are we talking about maids or spies? Compared to a laptop, USB sticks are easier to keep in your wallet, lock in a safe, hide, swallow, etc. So I disagree with that assumption. A maid would need quite a lot more resources to track down b
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by zargon 17y ago
This is why your decryption boostrap should never be on the hard drive. It should be on a usb stick along with your encrypted keys. This is elementary "something you have + something you know" security. The evil maid can't patch a bootlo
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by zargon 17y ago
I have no patience for these contrived dilemmas that few people will ever encounter. When humanity is done making war with one another then maybe we could ask these questions. But until then it is like treating someone's skin rash and ign
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by zargon 17y ago
Wow, this looks way easier to use than gnucash. Thanks!
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by zargon 17y ago
The numbers tell a different story. http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/graph/?chart_type=line&...
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by zargon 17y ago
Being fat does mean you aren't fit. Being thin is necessary but not sufficient for physical fitness.
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by zargon 17y ago
Point taken. How about giving everyone an appendicectomy, just in case?

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