ChristianMarks

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by ChristianMarks 9y ago
I visited the Amazon Bookstore in Columbus Circle when it opened. It was evident that with its vast computing and data facilities, Amazon can solve economic allocation problems with an accuracy and precision beyond the wildest dreams of the
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by ChristianMarks 10y ago
I manage by not starting a family and by not having kids (to my knowledge). Too expensive.
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by ChristianMarks 11y ago
Unfortunate. University IT departments are susceptible to neoliberal evangelical insanity. When it happened to my department, I decided that I was unworthy to clean the digital bedpans of a destructively competitive, rank and pedigree cons
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Scriptogr.am will go belly up 9/14/15(scriptogr.am)
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by ChristianMarks 11y ago
It has control mechanisms. What it doesn't need is precisely what you describe: a self-appointed, self-styled group of "leaders" who followed the wasteful winner-take-all, judgmental, rank and pedigree conscious ethos of the
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by ChristianMarks 11y ago
I used SNOBOL4 in the 80s. It was beautiful for parsing.
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by ChristianMarks 11y ago
Animal ag is environmentally devastating.
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by ChristianMarks 11y ago
Downvoters can take a warm piss on a power line. The researchers are quoted asserting the profound significance of their discovery. This is reason to be skeptical, given the field has a reputation for Nobel prize winners rushing to publish
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by ChristianMarks 11y ago
If you are not sure, then read the article and keep track of what the researchers say. This will increase your degree of sureness.
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by ChristianMarks 11y ago
Self-promotion is suspect in this highly competitive, and not infrequently nasty field. It was known that there was some transport mechanism--now there are details. But I would caution some skepticism, especially when the discoverer trumpet
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by ChristianMarks 11y ago
"Mathematics and the Internet: A Source of Enormous Confusion and Great Potential" http://www.ams.org/notices/200905/tx090500586p.pdf Is critical of scale-free networks of the preferential-attachment typ
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by ChristianMarks 11y ago
Yes. Many category theorists would find Moggi91 opaque. It could benefit from commentary and more detail than would be standard for a published paper, if the intention is to make the categorical semantics of functional programming with side
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by ChristianMarks 11y ago
Not a great deal of explicit category theory in this. Somone ought to implement Moggi's paper on exceptions and show exactly what the constructions mean.
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by ChristianMarks 12y ago
No xy support yet...
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by ChristianMarks 12y ago
That's one reason I use unexploitable public goods, like public tranportion, and go to salad bars not trendy enough for some kid to want to scalp.
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by ChristianMarks 12y ago
OP, do not listen to the moralizers who tell you that you need to exercise discipline and will power. Let them deplete their limited reserves of will power and see how far it gets them: you can change your environment so that you thrive in
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by ChristianMarks 12y ago
"1.) Doing things you don't want to do, but are necessary for a paycheck or otherwise is a basic part of being a grown-up. Lacking the discipline to simply get such things done and move on is a huge handicap as it's burning l
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by ChristianMarks 12y ago
Then again there are Nietzsche's three terrible truths: 1. Existential: death and suffering are inevitable.* 2. Moral: life is amoral. 3. Epistemic: most of what we think we know about the world is illusory. *I include being downvoted
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by ChristianMarks 12y ago
It has everything--except for an ex employee to "open source" a sexual harassment and hostile workplace scandal on social media [1]. 1. http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2014/04/22/th
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by ChristianMarks 12y ago
MarketRiders has been providing similar advice to invest in low load index funds and EFTs for some time [1]. The real issue is that if you are paying 2% fees or if the account is being churned (or both), you're getting screwed. Suggest
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by ChristianMarks 12y ago
Piketty need not wait for the return of patrimonial capitalism for democratic and meritocratic institutions to be undermined by elite economic interests: that ostrich has already taken off, that horse has bolted, that rising tsunami has alr
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by ChristianMarks 12y ago
Right. In most cases, the only effective way to "steal" an idea would be to steal the entire company that goes with it.
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by ChristianMarks 12y ago
Suppose you do describe some IP for exclusion. Does this mean subsequent improvements or modifications undertaken on your own time and on your own equipment are not excluded?
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by ChristianMarks 12y ago
I turned down a software job due to its all-encompassing, amoeba-like intellectual property terms. Instead, I chose to work in the public sector, which does not limit the freedom to pursue and own the intellectual work one does on one'
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by ChristianMarks 12y ago
I want one.
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by ChristianMarks 12y ago
These also work: http://www.amazon.com/Uvex-S0360X-Ultra-spec-SCT-Orange-Anti... I cured my insomnia by replacing white compact fluorescent lamps with amber lamps from http://lowbluelights.com . An old comment on
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by ChristianMarks 12y ago
No, you aren't "yourself" in any sense that you could meaningfully account for. Whatever substrate lies below yourself is not accountable to you, and in all likelihood neither to itself or to anything else. Yet it is this unc
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by ChristianMarks 12y ago
I've witnessed it myself. The solution in my case was to work with my ancient friends.
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by ChristianMarks 12y ago
The Silicon Valley cartel conspirators helped to depress wages and increase unemployment. Universities have relied on cheap student and postdoc labor. Their game-theoretic strategy is cheap talking their serfs into the belief that they too
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by ChristianMarks 12y ago
The apologetics here are nauseating. You want to be slaves. Maybe technical labor ought to form its own cartel and stop working for these companies. Let the executives clean their own toilets.

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