dhume

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by dhume 14y ago
Outside the Valley, people would hear this and say, "get a job."
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by dhume 14y ago
Is it? I just get a blank page.
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by dhume 14y ago
with JS, people who are opting-out should blame themselves No, I'm going to continue to blame that subset of JS coders who consume far too much of my CPU/memory resources. Thanks to them, I got to watch my browser slow to a crawl and beco
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by dhume 15y ago
How many tests did he run? What confidence interval did he establish? What factors did he control for and how?
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by dhume 15y ago
Memorization is not learning. Neither is a subset of the other.
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by dhume 15y ago
1. Reviewing everything submitted by users is unreasonable to expect. 2. People are upset that takedown notices are issued for works to which the issuer does not hold copyright and that those who issue such notices do so with impunity.
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by dhume 15y ago
If they're going to take up scarce public resources (i.e. RF spectrum), then the public has a legitimate concern in ensuring such resources are used in a way that benefits the public.
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by dhume 15y ago
As a disclaimer to all of this, I was the type that had fun proving stuff in seventh grade and had already read through Spivak's Calculus by Grade 10. This makes your earlier claim of never having seen most of the concepts rather dubious.
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by dhume 15y ago
So sales produces a prospectus that suggests this is a bad investment. Then they continue agreeing to package and promote these securities. Were there some information excluded from the prospectus which suggested to the sales force that the
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by dhume 15y ago
I'm a stats-heavy computer scientist, but I'd argue the opposite: the ability to construct and evaluate a rigorous argument is the first thing lacking: one that plausibly analyzes the domain, recounts opposing arguments reasonably fairly,
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by dhume 15y ago
All I could think of was making it difficult to find exactly what commit fixed/introduced what bugs.
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by dhume 15y ago
From what I've heard, it's combination of time restrictions for reviewing a patent and penalizing rejections that later get overturned when the applicant appeals the decision.
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by dhume 15y ago
On the other hand shadow work is exactly what empowers people: 1. Automation allows to DIY tasks that previously were too expensive to acquire in the market in exchange of a bit of your time. Quite the opposite: this is all the dull, meni
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by dhume 15y ago
nobody forces the creator to create [or distribute the work]. Of course not. We just want to encourage them to do so. Nope, somehow "creators" feel that the society is owing them the copyright protection. That's the agreement between th
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by dhume 15y ago
If distribution cost were high and creation cost insignificant, copyright would not be needed -- the creator can handle competition from other distributors of his creation because they have to cover the same costs he does. It's only when cr
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by dhume 15y ago
Nor does he seem aware of inflation (see his "grandparents" paragraph at the end). The site below suggets $7k in 1950 would be about the same as $65k today, and I would hope people aren't amazed at the notion of being able to live on $65k p
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by dhume 15y ago
Are you trying to make a compiler that targets multiple platforms?
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by dhume 15y ago
From what I've heard from them, I think "better safeguards against regulatory capture" would cover a lot of it, though I have yet to hear that term specifically.
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by dhume 15y ago
If you think Zuckerberg is evil and that we're all just going to try to screw you, there's nothing I (or anyone else) can tell you that is going to change your mind. Nothing you can say, perhaps, but here's something Facebook can do: esta
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by dhume 15y ago
So Mark's gone from having an uninspired house interior and no way to pay the bills to having a nicely-decorated house and no way to pay the bills. Directly trading one luxury for another doesn't help when what you need is a way to feed you
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by dhume 15y ago
That's an emergent property of the system as a whole, not the desire of the typical participant, and it is not based on any motivation for working beyond desire to collect a paycheck.
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by dhume 15y ago
Or perhaps they do want to get into computer science and there are a number of obstacles stopping them. Most people would agree with this. Keep in mind when looking for the cause of the lopsided male-female split that it happens well befo
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by dhume 15y ago
Your argument broken down goes like this: "If you can't touch it, it isn't natural, therefore disregard it" It's more of an acknowledgment that our concept of ownership is derived from the scarcity of the objects we may own. Whether the t
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by dhume 15y ago
In case my username didn't give it away... It's been a while since I last read TPM though.
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by dhume 15y ago
Ever wonder why the private school teachers are content with their lower salary? Public sector teachers have to deal with all of the problematic students that private schools can remove or refuse to admit in the first place.
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by dhume 15y ago
Insurance does nothing to really insure your health. You are confusing "insure" and "ensure."
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by dhume 15y ago
As the userbase here tends towards software-based startups, people often forget that there are many markets where becoming a seller requires very large initial capital.
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by dhume 15y ago
1) Patents shouldn't be transferable -- this eliminates patent trolls 6) If you don't use the patent in a business use-case, you lose it. A bit like Trademark. Suppose somebody invents a device but lacks the facilities to mass-produce the
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by dhume 15y ago
if they were so obvious beforehand, somebody would have: a) implemented it into a working system (prior art) b) patented it themselves first It seems to be fairly common that somebody already did (a) but chose to forgo (b). spent $130 mi
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by dhume 15y ago
A comment from a related article makes me question the competence of the people making this proposal. From someone who was present at a meeting discussing this: “This decision, apparently still potential, is a permanent statement of the Un

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