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by zeteo 15y ago
It's very unlikely that this article is correct. Here is the legal ruling: http://servingnotice.com/sdv/038%20-%20Order%20Granting%20Se... This is a temporary restraining order. Chanel is posting a bond for any damages to the defendants,
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by zeteo 15y ago
Well, you can easily see that the plane's skin is not a Faraday cage since you can make cell phone calls, use your GPS etc.
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by zeteo 15y ago
Based on how Faraday cages work, I don't see how that's possible. Do you have a technical explanation or did you just pull that out of thin air?
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If airplanes were vulnerable to radio frequencies, then terrorists have no need to acquire SAMs. A nice powerful amateur radio should do much better.
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by zeteo 15y ago
No bureaucracy collapses under its own weight. What happens, when rules become too complex, is that they start being enforced arbitrarily, according to the discretion of the enforcers. The system still derives its legitimacy from the suppos
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by zeteo 15y ago
The Eastern European countries seem to be very good at getting women into math, for some reason. I've met a disproportionate number of female math PhDs who were from Eastern Europe, and the first woman to win the Putnam was from Romania, I
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by zeteo 15y ago
I agree that this has nothing to do with Turing himself and everything to do with journalistic low standards. However, I don't think it's an effort to fit Turing into the "forbidden fruit" story, and I really see no snake coming up in this.
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by zeteo 15y ago
Well, come on. The basics are not that difficult. If you just attended the first 1-2 lectures of a CS 101 class, you wouldn't be talking about "the ability to call variables via programmatic statements". Plus, I'm sure any of your developer
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by zeteo 15y ago
> Before going into the galaxy, we have to fix ourselves and our society Space exploration, i.e. NASA, takes up 0.6% of the federal budget, and decreasing. The Great Society programs, Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security, take up 54%
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by zeteo 15y ago
This would be such a great Mindstorms project. If the dice came packaged all in the same orientation, you wouldn't even need the camera sensor.
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by zeteo 15y ago
The article sounds as though there's a lot of pressure on colleges to lower their standards in order to produce the required number of engineers. I was a math/CS TA for several years, and I don't think the problem is with tough freshman cla
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by zeteo 15y ago
I know our age is a bit poor in rhetoric, so go listen to a speech by: Churchill, FDR, JFK, MLK etc. It's really sad to hear some people need to resort to swearing in order to emotionally connect with their audience... If your speech/pres
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by zeteo 15y ago
Let's have a closer look at the "complex algorithm that determines the minimum number of slaves [...] used to produce each product" [1]. The basic data is supposedly taken from five official reports, but only one of these (the one they call
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How humans became social(wired.com)
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by zeteo 15y ago
Rest assured, your stance is by no means Marxist (it might be Veblenian, though). Marx valued the ethos of the small artisan and was deeply concerned about worker "alienation" resulting from mass methods of production.
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by zeteo 15y ago
Here's a PDF of the Meisenzahl, Mokyr paper: http://www.uc3m.es/portal/page/portal/dpto_historia_economic... Yes, many of the "tweakers" discussed did achieve success in multiple business ventures (and took patents). It's not a disparagin
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by zeteo 15y ago
>Gladwell [...] adds this marginally related story about tweakers so the entire article isn't regurgitating [...] anecdotes I think you're missing the main point here. The computer revolution, as a large scale technological and social t
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by zeteo 15y ago
The essence of the rant (which I agree with) is that it's not about the language, it's about the culture associated with it. You can write horribly structured code in C, probably more easily than in C++. And some people do. But most C progr
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by zeteo 15y ago
>C was developed between 1969 and 1973, making it nearly 40 years old [...] C ha[s] already made an exceptionally good start on a century-long reign In all fairness, development continued past 1973. Most C programmers today would have s
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by zeteo 15y ago
Yes, but this is about what causes the bubble. Sloppy credit is necessary and sufficient for that. Price increases are at worst an aggravating factor once the bubble is already under way.
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>The market for beer bonds doesn't exist if there isn't an ever increasing ceiling on the price of the asset that bond is backing That's not correct. The market expands as new bonds are issued. The key factor is that further credit is g
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by zeteo 15y ago
The quoted $18 price plays no role in the story; the point is that it was bought on credit , with the people taking the credit being insolvent, and that there was a systemic bias towards issuing them credit anyways.
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by zeteo 15y ago
It's not Utopia that's creepy in that video. It's the combination of bad acting and advanced technology. For instance, there's nothing creepy about the use of an advanced UI in Minority Report , because there's good acting and a compelling
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by zeteo 15y ago
>When you manipulate nature in a way you don’t completely understand, the consequences can be unpredictable and absolutely disastrous How were those doctors in the 1920s "manipulating nature"? They were just trying to treat sick people
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by zeteo 15y ago
It's not the same thing, I believe. When an OS deletes a file, it's actually deleted as far as the OS is concerned (thus they do make a best effort). When FB "deletes" something, they only make it unavailable to you , but they retain the o
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by zeteo 15y ago
>I really don't get the harsh kickbacks and complaints against things like "Facebook keeps records of pokes even if the user 'removes' them". So what? How is that something that is litigation or 'outcry' worthy? Under US contract law, m
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by zeteo 15y ago
I'd say the chances that the speed of light is still infinite, 9000 years from now, are rather slim. After all, Newton's system was radically corrected after 320 years, and even Aristotle's only held sway for about 2000. Einstein's has held
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by zeteo 15y ago
Even assuming a limit exists, without hard numbers this discussion is a waste of time. There is a huge practical difference between a limit of 8 billion and one of 20 billion; especially as these same UN population models, which the author
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by zeteo 15y ago
Exactly. The price of oil reflects not so much its rarity as the difficulty in extraction. As the difficulty increases, companies like Solyndra will have a much easier time selling substitute products, and will stop going bankrupt despite h
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> when they boarded the plane back to PNG, we were the ones racked with envy – envious of their joyously interdependent community, their clear understanding of what mattered in life, their rock-solid roles, simple pleasures and ample le

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