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by artsrc 6y ago
You say "gatekeeping device" like it is negative. All companies I have worked for have had a system of gatekeeping that includes things like university qualifications. I don't see why this system can't be improved. Man
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by artsrc 7y ago
White Light is actually a mix of colours, the rainbow. You can split it into parts with a glass prism, or in good weather a sprinkler? Light is a bit like a wave through the air and in the blue light the waves are closer together. The sky
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by artsrc 7y ago
In the discussing the "acid rain scare" and Scandinavia, the situation with fish and lakes there is worthwhile understanding. I did a quick google, but my searching is probably no better than yours: https://link.spring
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by artsrc 11y ago
building a lane of high speed urban transport is really expensive. And a rail lane has 50 times the passenger capacity of a private motor vehicle lane. So if the problem is linking people to sfo, rail is much cheaper. You need to get the li
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by artsrc 12y ago
Some say other things: > If you want me to do things only for ROI reasons, you should get out of this stock http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/mar/03/tim-cook-...
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by artsrc 12y ago
Let's imagine you care about educational outcomes and child poverty, what kinds of things would help? Certainly free and easy access to sex education, contraception and abortion is something that is a good policy. People, even poor peo
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by artsrc 12y ago
> LaMattina counters that pricing should be based not on R&D costs but on the value a drug delivers to patients. I love this line. We should do it for oxygen. Your bill is pretty high because oxygen delivers a lot of value. Pricing
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by artsrc 12y ago
Amazon will sell you audio files, they won't sell them to me. I live in the wrong country. Amazon will sell me a CD at the same price you pay, plus shipping. Apple will sell me audio files, at a 30% premium over what they charge you.
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by artsrc 12y ago
The thing you watch in the living room will increasingly be connected to the internet, and be able to function interactively. In the kitchen appliances will increasingly be connected to the internet and be able to download recipes. The ingr
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by artsrc 12y ago
ReST shows that a person can invent a technical term, write a long dissertation on what it means, clarify any ongoing misconceptions on the web, and have people use the word to mean whatever they like. http://roy.gbiv.com/un
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by artsrc 12y ago
My ideological fairy tale is that hiring the most qualified person leads to better outcomes. My reading of this analysis is that they compared 100% male boards, to ones with at least one female (but still many males). And found under perf
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by artsrc 12y ago
I would go a slightly lower temperature than sea level boiling point.
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by artsrc 12y ago
I think you put hot water in. Creating really nice steamed milk is more difficult than creating an intense coffee liquid that will I enjoy.
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by artsrc 12y ago
> operation of these plants that are vital for steady, dependable electricity supply Maybe. http://theconversation.com/baseload-power-is-a-myth-even-int...
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by artsrc 12y ago
Solar usually generates the most supply when there is the most demand, when the air conditioners are on in summer. It think this is a pricing problem. I run my dishwasher in the middle of the night because I get charged the least for elect
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by artsrc 12y ago
It seems to me that all you need to gain above average return is to identify someone who will accept below average returns. For a long time US shares that paid high dividends were disadvantaged from a tax perspective compared to those that
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by artsrc 13y ago
What about the other half of the uncertainty? The company does not know how much revenue each of those ideas will deliver.
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by artsrc 13y ago
People would work it out... In Sydney, we have always had daycare next to home or work, in San Francisco I put the kids in a bike trailer. The number one thing that worries me about my 9 and 12 year old getting to and from school are the ca
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by artsrc 13y ago
> life is better when I separate whatever holds the state from whatever has the behavior If you are not doing what is traditionally taught as OO, and you are doing something better why not say that? I wonder why you don't say: &quot
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by artsrc 13y ago
Perhaps the male monkeys are brought up differently (I bet they are), and some part of the difference is the mothers rearing style (perhaps from culture or genetics).
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by artsrc 13y ago
I want to quote http://roy.gbiv.com/untangled/2008/rest-apis-must-be-hyperte... : > I am getting frustrated by the number of people calling any HTTP-based interface a REST API. If REST is to mean something usef
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by artsrc 13y ago
Universities can put their whole course online for free and still charge $30K per year because you are paying for credentials or something. Community colleges are quite cheap. $46 per course in San Francisco. Lots of programming courses.
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by artsrc 13y ago
Eventually, software will handle that situation better than any human. In the video you show 2 out of 3 affected cars crashed. In an automated car world eventually 0 out of 3 cars would have crashed. Compared to any driver, a driverless ca
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by artsrc 13y ago
> We lost the fight with viruses a decade ago. If you get infected with a deadly viral disease, like rabies, it's curtains. There's nothing any hospital can do for you except sedate you until you're dead. The fight we have
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by artsrc 13y ago
Software for in-house use might be fine. Bureaucracy reduces efficiency. The more organizationally significant the software the worse risk there is. Processes and procedures are the ways institutions manage risk. So the more significant the
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by artsrc 13y ago
Amazon have a Kindle product that is an Android fork with serious market share. I don't know if Google has anything in the Kindle market place with GMail etc.
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by artsrc 13y ago
The fact that this sluggishness is not present in Visual Basic programs implies this is the library, not the programmers or the language.
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by artsrc 13y ago
Sorry I was not clear enough. I am not making any kind of sufficiently smart compiler claim ( http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?SufficientlySmartCompiler ). You think I am saying that a compiler can do optimization better than a
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by artsrc 13y ago
I agree that C code is currently faster than Java in most benchmarks: http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u32q/benchmark.php?t... There is no contradiction that a compiler written in a language with expensive seman
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by artsrc 13y ago
C++ is a tool for language experts. If you can effectively apply that expertise it is extremely expressive and efficient. Java does have some unfortunate complexity, but I don't think it is in the same league. Java also includes a lib

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