jibiki

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by jibiki 17y ago
This is hardly the first time the US government has bailed out private corporations. Was compensation a major issue when we bailed out the railroads?
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by jibiki 17y ago
> I assume that the Finnish method isn't magically successful, and it looks good on paper at the expense of not enabling the best and brightest to reach their full potential. Here's some supporting evidence. Let's compare it to a count
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by jibiki 17y ago
I am blinded by your sparkling wit =/
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by jibiki 17y ago
As far as I know, yes.
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by jibiki 17y ago
What kind of game are you writing? If you're just a hobbyist, you might want to try a popular choice like python. (Pygame is insanely well known.)
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by jibiki 17y ago
> Just approaching it as if it were a difficult task helps. I have literally the exact opposite experience. I procrastinate horribly on difficult tasks (or just any task that I don't know exactly how to do.) I guess different people a
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by jibiki 17y ago
A balloon is mostly empty space. The paradox deals with solid spheres rather than atomic matter.
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by jibiki 17y ago
> Funny, I think all of these people are athiest/agnostic, goes to show you... Why do you think that? Dylan famously converted to Christianity, BHO is a long time churchgoer, and Ron Paul is supposedly a creationist Christian. I don'
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How do you (personally) pronounce sudo?
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by jibiki 17y ago
There is a time and a place for ad hominem arguments, but this is not it.
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by jibiki 17y ago
I think he's missing a </jest> tag. Or maybe not. British humor ("humour?") is totally inscrutable to me.
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by jibiki 17y ago
> Or, everyone follows their self interest and realizes that they will need to work out some agreements to moderate fishing or there will be no fish. This can have downsides, namely the sort of "credentialism" that's often derided on th
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by jibiki 17y ago
I had expected the opposite argument. Dilbert is pretty smart, but he sure isn't rich. His boss, on the other hand...
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by jibiki 17y ago
> and real dollar terms What does that mean? Obviously, you need more US dollars today to purchase food than you did in 1950, due to inflation. Does "real dollar terms" mean adjusted for inflation? http://www.gti.net/mocolib1//prices
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by jibiki 17y ago
People do gamble on chess... but I guess "people mostly prefer gambling on games like poker rather than gambling on chess" would be too long for a proverb.
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by jibiki 17y ago
"What differs most is the teaching style. CS has far better lecture notes. Of course, the stats people wrote a very good book; but better lecture notes win because I can access them later and send them to people for free." So very true. Wh
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by jibiki 17y ago
> mathematically 0.9999... is less than 1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/0.999.. . "In mathematics, the repeating decimal 0.999… ... denotes a real number equal to one. In other words, the notations 0.999… and 1 represent the same real n
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by jibiki 17y ago
Here's an interesting question for you. I do an experiment, and I reject the null hypothesis with p = 0.04. Then I do the experiment again, and get p = 0.09. Does the second run of the experiment make me more or less confident about reje
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by jibiki 17y ago
The standard counterargument runs like this: "Great, now founders have to waste time pitching to VCs and applying for government aid. Even less time available for working on the product." Of course, this doesn't quite address your point
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by jibiki 17y ago
> that sort of government action mainly encourages /hoarding/ behavior Citation needed? > Spending more on public goods like health care helps I think most of us are fine with government supporting the public good, building infrastr
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by jibiki 17y ago
Um, BSD is a unix, right? Did you mean to ask about porting from Linux to BSD?
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by jibiki 17y ago
I believe you should keep this thread going. It might get you covered on Techcrunch :)
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by jibiki 17y ago
It's like anything else: some mathematicians see mathematics as a science, and others don't. Most probably don't think about it one way or the other. > I think most mathematicians would disagree with your assertion that math is about "
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by jibiki 17y ago
> two uncorrelated variables can't both have a correlation coefficient of .8. Can you prove this? I think that the greatest possible correlation is sqrt(1/2) (around .7), but I have no idea how to prove it. (Formally, the conjecture is
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by jibiki 17y ago
> The answer to the puzzle #1 is simply totally incorrect: how long the permutations are has nothing to do with whether your name is in any of the boxes in the permutation that the prisoners start with your name. The answer is correct.
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by jibiki 17y ago
Any universe in which I win powerball 10 times in a row will be suited to me winning powerball 10 times in a row. I can't claim "isn't it suprising that I won powerball 10 times in a row" because anyone who can say it, can say it :)
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by jibiki 17y ago
There is a famous story about this: Wunderkind, by Carson McCullers. (You can find it online if you search around.)
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by jibiki 17y ago
Gobbles =/= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Goebbels Anyways, it's nice to get a different perspective. Don't worry about the downvoters.
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by jibiki 17y ago
> How many times does "health care" appear on such a list? I've never heard it cited once. It comes up occasionally. Here's an example I found with searchyc: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=764255
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by jibiki 17y ago
I don't understand your comment. You're saying that certain research should take priority over solving internal problems, but space exploration shouldn't...? Why?

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