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by erdos2 18y ago
"But the essay causes concern. I worry that lots of small ISVs will read his article and believe that they need to hire great hackers." Why does this rise to the level of concern? If these small ISVs take what the author considers misguide
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by erdos2 18y ago
The author Elliott is miserable, negative, hateful, boastful and self-righteous. Don't forget (now there's a patronizing phrase, as if anyone forgets the obvious) that the article is entitled, "MY, MY, MY (not someone else's: MY) Interview
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by erdos2 18y ago
1. Zero 2. Infinity 3. It fails to maximize your expected utility while minimizing everyone else's.
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by erdos2 18y ago
The author misses the point that PG's essays are not intended to be understood literally, but as literature, to be appreciated on an aesthetic level only.
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by erdos2 18y ago
The idea of a static mindset is itself limiting. One needs to have a mindsheaf, which could be a time-varying sheaf of mindsets. This would be a contravariant functor F from the real line, with its usual topology, to the category of sets. T
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by erdos2 18y ago
Saul Kripke is an example of this. Terrified of publishing in case he doesn't live up to his immense talent.
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by erdos2 18y ago
The Times is usually scrupulous about fact checking--except when it comes to supporting Imperial adventures and warmongering.
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by erdos2 18y ago
It's expensive to raise a family in the United States. The economics and the culture are against it. Add to that the cost of raising a family with someone who turns out to be the wrong person: your expected income after marriage must be red
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by erdos2 18y ago
The article claims that "...a number of intellectuals—including Aitzaz Ahsan, Noam Chomsky, Michael Ignatieff, and Amr Khaled—mounted voting drives by promoting the list on their Web sites." This is false about Noam Chomsky: there were no "
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by erdos2 18y ago
This is Objectivism gone awry. A society of Ayn Randians will ultimately face challenges that leads to its collapse.
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by erdos2 18y ago
Thanks--I hope the experiment works also. It seems as though it should, based on my experience. It's also an opportunity to record the results of an experiment in Google docs, using their fancy spreadsheet gadgets.
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by erdos2 18y ago
I've had lifelong problems maintaining anything remotely resembling a normal, consistent sleep schedule, coupled with chronic insomnia. Two sleep studies several years apart and a CPAP machine have done nothing. Scientific findings of a "fo
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by erdos2 18y ago
You asked for a source: I provided one. A request for an explanation is something else. I'll give you another source instead: http://www2.owen.vanderbilt.edu/Mike.Shor/courses/GTheory/do... As for $35, it pains me to mention libraries...
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by erdos2 18y ago
Exactly.
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by erdos2 18y ago
"Isn't that more relevant than your personal, negative opinion of her philosophy?" No, because it's not only a personal opinion, but a statement that Rand's philosophy of rational self interest is logically invalid ('rational' does not impl
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by erdos2 18y ago
Who is Ayn Rand? An utterly dreadful writer and philosopher who believed that the axiom of reflexivity of identity had substantive ontological, social, moral and political consequences. It's no accident that Objectivists sought to justify t
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by erdos2 18y ago
There are opportunity costs either way. When I was your age (I am now, on one leg), I didn't have my degree. After my father's premature death, I went to work to help support my mother and two brothers. I was working in videotex--this was b
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by erdos2 18y ago
If you like category theory, the lectures by The Catsters on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/user/TheCatsters are entertaining. Their latest video describes Lawvere's example of generalized metric spaces as categories enriched over the
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by erdos2 18y ago
Terrific link!
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by erdos2 18y ago
It's pretentious to say that it's pretentious; in fact, any use of the word pretentious is extremely pretentious, including this one. The use/mention distinction also breaks down for the word 'pretentious': it's not even possible to mention
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by erdos2 18y ago
The only thing pretentious about 'autodidact' is the use of the word 'pretentious' to characterize a common vocabulary word.
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by erdos2 19y ago
Government funded research is one way of transferring the risk of product development from business to the tax payer. If the research succeeds in creating a marketable product, the taxpayer return on the investment is the opportunity to pay
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by erdos2 19y ago
Google broke off talks with Free411.com to start a competing service? So much for "Don't be evil."
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by erdos2 19y ago
Sagan intended this as an allusion to Thomas Carlyle. 'A sad spectacle!' exclaimed Thomas Carlyle, contemplating the possibility that millions of planets circle other suns. 'If they be inhabited, what a scope for pain and folly; and if they
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by erdos2 19y ago
This post is obviously a troll.
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by erdos2 19y ago
A member of the National Academy of Sciences of my acquaintance once said that life was too chaotic to plan beyond six months.
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by erdos2 19y ago
I agree that he will lose those things.
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by erdos2 19y ago
On the subject of morality, I suggest Bernard Gert's "Common Morality: Deciding What to Do." http://www.amazon.com/Common-Morality-Deciding-What-Do/dp/0195314212/
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by erdos2 19y ago
Shouldn't your nick be "trojan"? ;)
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by erdos2 19y ago
I had a jaw deformity, which didn't get corrected until I was an adult. (Had I not been so socially withdrawn, I might have gone to a better school when I was younger.) By the time my condition was treated, years past the time most of my p

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