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by zeteo 16y ago
The comparison with the US is not appropriate, as we're talking about very different cadastral situations. The US has, at the time, a wide open western frontier, with enormous quantities of fertile arable land freely available. Britain is a
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by zeteo 16y ago
That's the standard Marxist analysis, but it's been refuted since, by Armstrong and others. The Enclosure Acts "kicked" very few people off the land. What they did mostly was to transform poorly utilized common land (marginal pasture, fores
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by zeteo 16y ago
"the poor were much more worse off than the poor in rural areas." Do you have any support for that assertion? The poor themselves decided en masse to move from village to city at the time, which seems to indicate the contrary. Yes, in the c
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by zeteo 16y ago
Are you kidding me? Victorian Britain was the most prosperous country on Earth, at the time. Sure, the average Brit had it much rougher than they do today, but that's not a valid comparison. Give me one country that had it better during the
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by zeteo 16y ago
Yeah, especially considering that the masses' opium used to be religion, but now it's Internet porn.
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by zeteo 16y ago
Unlike say, physics, there is a big shortage of over-arching theories in chemistry. The field (in my experience of it, at least; about 5 semesters' worth) is mostly a collection of ad-hoc rules, with many exceptions and special cases. So I
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by zeteo 16y ago
Warning: do not use this ranking to decide which schools to apply to. 75% of the criteria weight appears to be based on absolute figures (total number of papers, total number of Turing Awards etc.). If you'd prefer a school where 4 out of 1
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by zeteo 16y ago
"The Medium is the Massage (sic)" Freudian slip? :)
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by zeteo 16y ago
I agree that, at core, there is a good idea. But the presentation, in this case, does not do good justice to that idea.
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by zeteo 16y ago
Some trivial arithmetic, topped by the not-so-insightful conclusion "In our opinion, this is one of the easiest ways to grow your business [...]. Just add value." Is this HN front page material these days?!
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by zeteo 16y ago
First they say no buzzwords, then "Steve Jobs's natural talent is to imagine not only what consumers want now but also what they will want in the future -- and pay a premium price for. He searches for discontinuities in the external landsca
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by zeteo 16y ago
There are two meanings of the word "America" in common usage. The restricted meaning, used by the article, refers to the political entity USA. The general meaning refers to the continent(s). I don't think many people who saw the title were
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by zeteo 16y ago
"Which came first? The color orange or the discovery fruit orange?" It seems the fruit came first, as it is mentioned in documents three centuries before the color. The old English name for the color is "geoluhread" (yellow-red). http://en
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by zeteo 16y ago
"verb (used with object) * to put into one's pocket: to pocket one's keys. * to take possession of as one's own, often dishonestly: to pocket public funds. * to submit to or endure without protest or open resentment: to pocket an insult. *
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by zeteo 16y ago
As a marketing heads-up, the site name, letspocket.com , may raise negative connotations. See for instance definitions 21-23 here: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/pocket
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by zeteo 16y ago
>>You'd be there, banging away at your regular girl, and find yourself thinking "you know, if I was with Haskell, I'd be doing this completely differently." You'd think "I could be doing so much bigger and better stuff with Haskell.
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by zeteo 16y ago
"students benefit by being exposed to students from a variety of socio-economic backgrounds" You got any evidence about the trade-offs on that? In my experience, the very diverse student body of my alma mater formed closed cliques (racially
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by zeteo 16y ago
Do you have any arguments why exams would be pointless and dated out? From meeting lots of students, I found out that their understanding of the subject correlated much better with exam than assignment grades. The way I see it, there are tw
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by zeteo 16y ago
In my experience as a TA, the worst obstacle in teaching someone something is when they think they already know it. There's nothing that can replace a bad grade and the consequent soul searching in these situations. A disagreeable experie
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by zeteo 16y ago
If you google "to paraphrase Winston Churchill", you hit the figure of speech that you've used. It's a pretty common turn of (para)phrase. PS: Don't rely too much on dictionary.com, it's not the best. E.g. the New Oxford American Dictionary
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by zeteo 16y ago
It's not misquote, it's paraphrase.
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by zeteo 16y ago
"I [...] hired a very nice little boy for CTO for IT and the sweetest little girl in the world for Deputy CIO. I have a hardworking tyke for Associate CIO and two others are working hard too and they want to make the good little boys and g
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by zeteo 16y ago
The submission title is misleading and inexact. It's not a quote from the article. The article actually says "Alone in the USA and Canada approximately 40 people are killed each year by pigs – six times more than by sharks worldwide."
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by zeteo 16y ago
The average citizen under a communist tyranny had far, far worse problems than being denied suffrage. Read The Gulag Archipelago and The Black Book of Communism for an idea of the horrible sufferings that the Soviet Union imposed on its cit
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by zeteo 16y ago
You've re-discovered the fundamental dilemma of historical Chinese civilization. "In Taoism, intuition was the guide to wisdom. Reason and reading the classics were the basis of Confucianism." (The alphabet versus the goddess, Leonard Shlai
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by zeteo 16y ago
"what they’ve done is set up three screens, in a triangular pattern" Triangular pattern doesn't say very much. Is this supposed to mean that the trick will work iff the screens are not collinear?
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by zeteo 16y ago
Not really. According to this link http://www.konarka.com/index.php/power-plastic/material-char... the materials used are 100% recyclable.
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by zeteo 16y ago
Fiorina's (mis)adventures with HP are hardly news (she resigned in 2005). This is a purely political article before next week's election, and it is "off-topic: most stories about politics [...] unless they're evidence of some interesting ne
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by zeteo 16y ago
Why not? I'm not advocating the use of Brainfcuk for all your programming needs, and Turing completeness has plenty of other uses in discussion. (It's particularly useful for converse statements - e.g., for most languages, there exists no c
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by zeteo 16y ago
Ouch. That kind of sucks, actually. IIRC, Turing incompleteness had some nice side effects for SQL - such as guaranteeing program halt, and allowing perfect automatic optimization.

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