katz

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by katz 17y ago
Excellent list.
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by katz 17y ago
Thermal paper faxes is still very much in use. Thermal paper is also replacing dot-matrix printers in cash registers.
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by katz 17y ago
I don't think that publishing research as open access will affect book publishing. The reason for the existence of commercial journals was the printing costs and distribution. With the internet this has basically disappeared. Books, esp. un
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by katz 17y ago
Yeah. The way they used the photos was kinda disrespectful (IMHO). They used it as rotten would use photos (sensationalist). This paragraph irritates me: "The human brain is surprisingly bloody. I've worked in neuroscience labs, and I'm use
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by katz 17y ago
> e, but why not use the Euro instead of the U.S. Dollar then? The Euro is not connected to any individual nation, Yes, but isn't there one European Central bank? That is the problem.
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by katz 17y ago
> you don't have to be "smart", you have to fit in. economics is a self-referential discipline. there is no real standard of truth or verity or validity of a theory and hence a lot of bickering even about fundamental questions. The clos
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by katz 18y ago
This is kinda stupid. It is much safer to be cynical about strangers. Also, asking a stranger to "watch over your stuff" is unfair. You are burdening him with the responsibility of your stuff while their is nothing in return for him. Everyo
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by katz 18y ago
Do you really believe that he would "make things better"? He probably greased a lot of palms to ensure that he is not extradited to the US. He will continue greasing palms (with stolen money) and start again with his corruption. There are n
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by katz 18y ago
The correct name is Nobel Memorial Prize. It is not a "bogus" prize - I can assure you that you have to be pretty smart to earn one.
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by katz 18y ago
> No, but people's DESIRE for gold can change quite quickly. Whether or not people's desire for gold and PGMs change or not - they will still desire products that use PGMs (e.g. catalytic converters). Gold has some awesome properties. A
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by katz 18y ago
Are you sure? http://www.facebook.com/pages/Bernard-Madoff/45015537510
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by katz 18y ago
> But now I'm wondering if, from a utilitarian perspective, the world would have been better with him in jail. No - he corrupted politicians. That is how it works in most African countries - give a lot of money to politicians in exchang
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by katz 18y ago
That is true. There is another problem: most companies want a person with executive experience in the specific field. There are only a few people with that experience since there are only a few companies.
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by katz 18y ago
In most countries, if the police performs any raid on your premises all costs (e.g. fixing doors) are paid for by the state. I also doubt that the cost of doors is that high (compared to other expenses).
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by katz 18y ago
Pretoria, South Africa
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by katz 18y ago
That is true. Most users (at least me) install ad-blocking software because of moving advertisements (flash/gif). Why do every site want to give you an epilepsy attack?
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by katz 18y ago
> If it's a "mild inconvenience", surely you won't mind paying for n instances, for non-trivial n. For all crimes there is a false search rate. A good example is a normal drug "bust" or a stolen property bust. And yes - with the enforce
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by katz 18y ago
> think that's like trying to empty the ocean with a teaspoon. The problem is this: either something is a crime and the police enforce it or something is illegal. Just because it is difficult to enforce a crime does not mean that the cr
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by katz 18y ago
The problem with paedophilia is that it is extremely difficult to enforce. It is not as if a 5 year old kid will walk up to a police station and file a complaint. The internet made it near impossible to enforce paedophilia laws. If the cops
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by katz 18y ago
TB is usually a final stage disease that people with AIDS get. It is one of the most common ones (AIDS only destroys the immunity). When you hear someone who died of AIDS or lung infection in a high-AIDS country (e.g. South Africa) you can
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by katz 18y ago
> So I would hesitate to donate to a university rather than, say, an AIDS prevention charity. You know that most AIDS prevention charities are a giant waste of money? There is almost no metric with which they are measured - so people ke
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by katz 18y ago
The printing of physical journals was extremely expensive. So this was the main concern. Also - this MIT is interesting (and good) but I doubt it would be applied everywhere. Will everyone at MIT stop publishing in IEEE journals (very restr
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by katz 18y ago
If you are talking about cognitive enhancement there are a few (not all are technically “stimulants”). Firstly, things rich in Omega 3 has shown to improve your memory (e.g. flaxseed oil). Ginkgo Bilbao has shown to work in some studies. T
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by katz 18y ago
> drug, or indeed anything that improves our quality of life is addictive. There is a difference between using something (and getting used to it because it increases your quality of life) and a chemical addiction. > The chemical/psy
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by katz 18y ago
I have a few problems with this. Their attempt to block wikileaks is so that no one can see the URLs they blocked. This is a bit of nonsense - no one can argue for the websites - so in effect they can block everything they want. If they hav
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by katz 18y ago
> Is the age factor something so relevant in this context? It is fairly old (late 80ies) so there won't be any newish digital stuff in it (buses, etc...). Art of electronics is more of a hands-on book showing you how to do stuff. I reco
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by katz 18y ago
It is a type of "art" book showing how to build circuits. If you are going to program or do digital design this will probably not help you. If you're going to build AM modulators and power supplies then it would be useful.It is also fairly
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by katz 18y ago
> `The Art of Electronics' (Horowitz & Hill, Cambridge University Press) I had to learn this one the hard way...
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by katz 18y ago
That is true - it is the same with space. They put a man on the moon 40 odd years ago and now they are still struggling to launch a shuttle without it blowing up.
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by katz 18y ago
Maybe. I am guessing that most of the USA has cell phone coverage (and some would either have EDGE or 3G depending on the provider). The costs differ though (from a mild raping to worst). There are also independent service providers (region

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