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by zeteo 15y ago
Worst use of the term "unlimited" since bandwidth-throttling ISPs. Basically they seem to be flexible about holiday timing and to have a Japanese-style minimum vacation policy.
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by zeteo 15y ago
Politicians still don't use slides. It would be more interesting to retrieve an actual business presentation from the 1940s.
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by zeteo 15y ago
This is a poorly written, sensationalistic article. Here's the original press release: http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/35358.wss Basically, this is about IBM and 3M starting a new research project. Whether it would work, ho
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by zeteo 15y ago
There's nothing new about this. Apple has been doing vertical integration for decades. When things went badly, pundits criticized it. Now it's the whole new rage. There's nothing particularly enlightening in this article, nothing that would
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by zeteo 15y ago
What kind of cryptography do you need to use, in order to avoid the prospect of two different predictions, encrypted with different private keys, resolving to the same encrypted text?
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by zeteo 15y ago
With a supercomputer, it's easy to tune lots of parameters, and make models that fit the past well. I'll believe it when they make some falsifiable predictions about the future.
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by zeteo 15y ago
It can probably be accounted for by comments (e.g. people sometimes comment out half a block). Although the comments should be left out, so as not to mix the C and the English.
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by zeteo 15y ago
I imagine they wanted to access the site from the OS itself, with a text-only browser.
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by zeteo 15y ago
Post is being downvoted, but it's a valid point. Lots of things have been used as currencies. WW2 POWs used cigarettes; some Pacific islanders used huge, immovable rocks. If anything, BitCoin is much more like a currency, because, unlike co
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by zeteo 15y ago
Archaeologists are usually interested in object assemblages that belonged in the same context. Thus it would be far more interesting to preserve, say, a complete print shop, than a juxtaposition of dental floss and Donald Duck.
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by zeteo 15y ago
After reading the small print, the article reduces to "someone with an email address from company X is using our product, therefore our product is better than their industry standard". (Map this argument to the Fortune 50, 100 and 500 lists
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by zeteo 15y ago
Looking at the paper, it seems the passengers were the same and boarded five times in a row, with the last two methods proving the fastest. The major experimental flaw seems to be that the passengers themselves might learn to become more ef
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by zeteo 15y ago
Why yes I think we should make an effort to (relatively) ignore the things that kill fewer people. We have some inborn biases to give disproportionate attention to some rare threats (terrorism, penis amputations) and to ignore others that a
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by zeteo 15y ago
For the people who have read the book / taken the course: I can see how a simple assembler and a simple game can be built quickly, but Computer Architecture, Compilers and Operating Systems are usually separate, semester-length courses. (An
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by zeteo 15y ago
Knowing how to do a square root efficiently by hand is probably a bit overkill, although it can still be useful sometimes. I was rather arguing about addition, division etc., which come up much more often in back-of-the-envelope calculation
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by zeteo 15y ago
People who can do basic arithmetic on paper have an advantage with back-of-the-envelope calculations and ballpark estimates, and will end up using such simple and effective tools more often. The mental cost of pulling out a calculator and c
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by zeteo 15y ago
It's not like the guy grabs a handful of dirt and then sells it to the first passing foreigner with a nice sales pitch. What people pay for is the packaging. There are many people who would like to take back a soil sample from places they'v
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by zeteo 15y ago
The article is obviously tongue-in-cheek. But anyways, not all sections of the population are declining at the same rate. Women who attend religious services regularly, for instance, are much closer to the generational replenishment rate, i
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by zeteo 15y ago
I've never heard of any well-known economist arguing labor and capital are the same; got any reference? While labor and capital are indeed factors of production, they are quite distinct. Capital is the accretion of past labor and serves to
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by zeteo 15y ago
Labor does not become obsolete. Inefficient capital is discarded, but less efficient labor is always useful to some degree, because of comparative advantage ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparative_advantage#Example_1 ). This holds even f
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by zeteo 15y ago
>Your reply misses the point. No it doesn't. Capital becomes obsolescent, labor does not. >What happens when we develop technology which can do 99% of what a human can do better, faster, and cheaper? During 99% of recorded history,
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by zeteo 15y ago
For contemporary economists (e.g. Adam Smith), transportation horses were capital, not labor.
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by zeteo 15y ago
Even if the problem that markets are trying to solve is NP hard, this doesn't mean anything. Market forces are always subject to random factors. For practical purposes, randomized approximation algorithms are actually a great choice for tac
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by zeteo 15y ago
I'm surprised that the article, while otherwise well-researched, doesn't even mention the Zahavi Handicap Principle. In Zahavi's view, altruism is a form of signalling: the altruist is doing so well, they can afford to lose a good deal of m
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by zeteo 15y ago
What's the misquote? The parent makes three points ("motivations, determination or moral conviction"), and the middle point is invalid.
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by zeteo 15y ago
>The rioters this week haven't shared the same determination Are you saying you'd have liked the rioters better if they didn't give up so "quickly"?
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by zeteo 15y ago
> when people are using social media for violence, we need to stop them. Is this the same Cameron who criticized Libya when they shut off the Internet against what, in their view, were violent protesters?
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by zeteo 15y ago
It still seems quite useful to know someone is there, and where they are. There's a big difference between "invisible enemy" and "stranger with a mask".
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by zeteo 15y ago
>We have evidence that that the environment as it exists now, is a relatively stable regime. Umm.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowball_Earth ?!
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by zeteo 15y ago
>The only financial disaster in the last decade German bankers appear to have missed was investing with Bernie Madoff. (Perhaps the only advantage to the German financial system of having no Jews.) Ouch.

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