lcargill99

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by lcargill99 14y ago
Isn't the joke that if the sun did just go nova, then a $50 bet is meaningless?
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by lcargill99 14y ago
It's skyhooking. Given enough time and enough compute power, we should be able to completely simulate it. It may not be economically feasible, and it may take a long time.
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by lcargill99 14y ago
There's a general "smear" feel to Project Shame. YMMV. I don't find the information at the link compelling.
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by lcargill99 14y ago
Sounds like the process worked. interviewing is pretty much a lost art. So it goes.
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by lcargill99 14y ago
I suspect that we could reorder some class offerings to improve the "throughput" of a math program. I can divide my math education career into before and after the semester I took the course based on Smith/Eggen/St. Andre's "A transition To
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by lcargill99 14y ago
I presume they mean 802.11ac. It would have been nice had the "journalist" said that.
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by lcargill99 14y ago
you really, really should never write things such that task priorities must be of a certain arrangement for the thing to work properly. It's very bad form. Also, from the link "Tasks on the Pathfinder spacecraft were executed as threads wit
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by lcargill99 14y ago
it didn't really fail. You were up after it was all over with. Fast, cheap or good - pick two.
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by lcargill99 14y ago
Money is not the root of all evil. The love of money is the root of all evil. This is something like being obsessed with money, or reifying the "symbol" of money.
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by lcargill99 14y ago
The theory says that workers with low marginal productivity can move up the productivity scale. And largely, that's what's seen, but it's far from perfect.
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by lcargill99 14y ago
"Empower" how? Subsidies? If you enact subsidies, then you create an environment in which somebody has the incentive to aggregate the subsidy - in a large business. That's agricultural policy in the US for the last hundred years in a nutshe
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by lcargill99 14y ago
Isn't that the tradeoff? You either join the circle of people selling each other insurance, or you get a real job.
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by lcargill99 14y ago
Signal is signal and noise is noise. A bias towards passive face time is embracing noise and will reduce the ability to execute.
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by lcargill99 14y ago
Prices had been pegged very high due to the Ukraine famine in the 1920s, and global trade further collapsed due to Smoot Hawley ( which was immediately countered worldwide ). Redistributing excess produce for free can work well in the face
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by lcargill99 14y ago
This is one reason the Obama cigarette taxes were outrageous.
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by lcargill99 14y ago
Mainly healthcare prices, education and some classes of real estate go up. Those are extremely rent-sought markets, not subject to competitive forces. And inflation is now running less than the 2% Fed target ( including the things mentioned
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by lcargill99 14y ago
So is salt still bad for you this week? Because you don't hire them to nag you, you hire them to finance certain forms of consumption. None of the numbers about even smoking have held up very well over time. "Lifestyle policing" is, like ex
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by lcargill99 14y ago
I heard the explosion for writing an assembler attributed to Von Neumann, not Turing.
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by lcargill99 14y ago
Tcl is one heck of a Swiss-army knife solution. The core team is of the first order. The best thing is that it's so easy to use pipes to integrate a 'C'/C++ console mode program and control it via stdin/stdout/sockets. That turns out to be
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by lcargill99 14y ago
Entertainers are liberal because narrative is a very Liberal Art. Data, myth and legend are more on the Conservative axis, although there are mighty quantities of overlap. I always enjoyed Neil Young because he was always both liberal and c
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by lcargill99 14y ago
it's in a fullsize case, but the Compaq cq2701 seems to have more and better for $20 less... ( bought one for my wife last weekend .) It's a 2.3 GHz G630T dual-core, which is fine for her uses. Yeah, it's Win7, so what, wanna fight about it
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by lcargill99 14y ago
Never mind that yes, A/C can count on polarity and that you are isolated from the grid by one or more transformers. The third prong is the "safety" ground, in case neutral fails. Go back to old guitar amps with "the cap of death" or a "grou
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by lcargill99 14y ago
I would actually call it an emphasis on the appearance" of growth without doing the heavy lifting necessary to have real* growth.
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by lcargill99 14y ago
They tried that - North Dallas was a rising star as a tech magnet. Nortel/Enron/Worldcom ( and dare I say Cisco? ) killed it dead. There's a modest smattering of tech left there, but it's all very weak and thready in pulse. Perhaps also di
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by lcargill99 14y ago
Because language wars.
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by lcargill99 14y ago
That's pretty questionable, really. Suppose ten percent of car commuters were offered telecommuting 80% of the time. House size ( which is an input in to air conditioning energy use ) is dropping.
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by lcargill99 14y ago
It's a very real problem. Even if GPL infection isn't a problem, it's perceived as one and the benefit of GPL is limited at best.
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by lcargill99 14y ago
It's an excellent book, but it's very broad, and requires a commitment in time.
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by lcargill99 14y ago
My understanding is that Godel's proof was the inspiration for much of Turing's work.
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by lcargill99 14y ago
I would recommend coming to terms with "A Transition To Advanced Mathematics". Once you feel like you can plumb Cantor's Diagonalization without nausea :), then read on Godel. GEB is excellent but frothy ( not pointed and a slog ) but is

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