ajscherer

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by ajscherer 13y ago
>Regulatory capture is THE problem. This is difficult for me to understand. Are you suggesting that if nuclear power were completely unregulated, Tepco's behavior would've been more virtuous (as I read it, totally virtuous)?
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by ajscherer 13y ago
>The media is the reason for this. I don't quite follow. It's not like there is some naturally occurring flow of newspapers, radio and television broadcasts that discuss with the correct, important issues in an intelligent way
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by ajscherer 13y ago
The author said it himself, these errors were caused by humans, not excel. I don't think making excel "smart" enough to prevent people from making dumb mistakes is a good idea. In fact I think that would transform excel into
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by ajscherer 13y ago
When politicians say "small government" they really mean "low taxes", and when they say "liberty" that is measured as 100% minus the top marginal tax rate. Restrictions on people's behavior or privacy aren't really part of the discussion.
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by ajscherer 13y ago
I prefer we not go back to any oversimplistic analogies. That's part of what makes these debates so insufferable. A nation's economy isn't a household budget. A company isn't a person. A nation isn't a person. I don't really see much value
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by ajscherer 14y ago
2009 and the internet? This has been the dominant conventional wisdom in all fitness media for at least a decade. If you open any fitness or "men's" magazine in any given month you will find at least one article telling you that: strength t
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by ajscherer 14y ago
On one hand I think this comment makes a fair point that this isn't a very useful app. The app's creator himself admits that. He didn't expect it to be downloaded much. On the other hand, I think this comment and Apple's rejection have bo
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by ajscherer 14y ago
I'll meet you halfway. It's a terrible comment about a terrible article. I agree that it's laudable to try to invent an improved version of online ratings, but this article wasn't effective in convicing me that they've succeeded. Their arg
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by ajscherer 14y ago
Well the three reasons that the author is hating on FB comments are bulleted in his 16 sentence blog post, so it should be relatively easy to figure out why he is hating FB comments. Your counterpoint only addresses the first of his three r
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by ajscherer 14y ago
This statement makes no sense to me. "Being sexist" encompases an absolutely huge range of behaviors. It could mean something as small as making a dumb assumption about what type of aesthetic preferences someone has, to something as large
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by ajscherer 14y ago
The claim is that if Apple had to pay the sorts of royalties on Samsung's (and others') technology patents that Apple is asking Samsung to pay on Apple's patent on curved lines, Apple phones would be so expensive that they wouldn't sell lik
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by ajscherer 14y ago
People are interested in sports as a demonstration of skill, not of raw physical prowess. That is why golf has it's own channel on TV and distance running is more or less completely absent from TV. There are some interesting facts in the a
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by ajscherer 14y ago
No definition of entrepreneur that I've been able to find says that the business needs to be sustainable or provide value to customers. So I would answer that the definition has never changed from A to B, because it's never been A. The def
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by ajscherer 14y ago
Software is not analogous because it has been developed from the very start with the knowledge that the bits would be easily copy-able, and has been designed accordingly. I remember being asked to type in phrases from a game instruction ma
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by ajscherer 15y ago
For the past couple years I've been using a multiple monitor taskbar tool called Actual Multiple Monitors ( http://www.actualtools.com/multiplemonitors/ ) which I think is superior to the tools he recommends (at least it was at the time I t
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by ajscherer 15y ago
It's a common idiomatic expression and I'd be willing to wager that everyone who read it understood what it meant. I'd also wager that most people could really give a shit if it offended a few language prudes.
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by ajscherer 15y ago
I disagree. This comment supports Dave's argument about as well as any comment I could imagine reading.
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by ajscherer 15y ago
While I am as dubious as the rest of you about how likely we are to actually see this, I appreciated learning that adhesives are one of 3M's 46 core technology platforms. Does anyone know what the other 45 are?
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by ajscherer 15y ago
"You learn that the average new customer brings in $50 in profit over their lifetime" How do you know this figure is independent of your marketing efforts? If I start out paying $1 per customer, or people are just walking in off the street
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by ajscherer 15y ago
I've read it twice in it's entirety, and his main point is that he believes we would be better off changing patent law to create an explicit category for software patents and have different rules for those patents, rather than simply abolis
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by ajscherer 15y ago
So, you knew your troll post would be downvoted, as evidenced by your prediction, and yet you still post it and complain about it when it happens? It's not just that your post contained no thought other than "Government bad!"... your post
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by ajscherer 15y ago
Real names enabled facebook users to quickly realize the "real world" social network within facebook, rather than building an entirely new network. I don't know email addresses or commonly used online aliases for even 10% of the people whos
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by ajscherer 15y ago
Maybe I am misreading your argument, but it seems like you are saying the cause of the US deficit problem is that the faction that trades entitlements for votes has gained control of the system. If that were true, and this faction were rea
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by ajscherer 15y ago
That doesn't really explain why the groups with 100% women did so well, or why the groups that were 50/50 did worse than the groups of all men or all women. Maybe I'm trying to take more information from the chart than is really there.
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by ajscherer 15y ago
"my windows-using coworkers" would be a better fix.
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by ajscherer 15y ago
As sick of paying a premium for antiquated goods as businesses may be, they aren't going to make a decision that has costs far in excess of it's benefits. The benefit of abandoning COBOL is greatly increased programmer productivity. The co
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by ajscherer 15y ago
I agree with you that people can get pretty worked up about the topic of free software, but I think you need to be a bit braver in the face of downvoting and disagreement. I can't ever recall seeing a respectful, well-thought post getting
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by ajscherer 15y ago
A visit to the wikipedia entry on the National Association of Scholars may help you understand the author's perspective. The first half of this article makes a reasonably convincing case that Mr. Khan is a much worse history teacher than ma
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by ajscherer 15y ago
It's wonderful that your parents stressed the importance of an education. If only your education had stressed the importance of actually reading a piece before responding to it! Perhaps then you would have noticed that this piece: isn't i
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by ajscherer 15y ago
It seems like everyone is determined to give you a legal answer to what what I interpreted as a moral question. The overwhelming response has established that legally she still owns the copyright to the photo. The quesiton that's worth di

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