mojonixon

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by mojonixon 17y ago
Frankly, that sounds like a bullshit policy, and certainly doesn't apply to all universities. Students are paying for access to the resources of the university and shouldn't be giving up IP. UMich has a much more reasonable policy here: ht
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by mojonixon 17y ago
" I have no idea how insurance companies and employers ended up married like that" I believe the short answer is WWII. Price controls meant employers needed to find a way other than higher wages to attract workers.
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by mojonixon 17y ago
If you're uninsured you get price gouged. A simple trip to the doctor with some basic tests can be a months rent. I have catastrophic health insurance; $5k deductible 20% copay to $50k. It won't pay for anything, but it will give me insuran
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by mojonixon 17y ago
Wired had a long but interesting article about Xanadu back in 1995: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive//3.06/xanadu.html?person=... In many ways the story of Xanadu is sad and depressing. Of course, Xanadu is (or would be) a digital remak
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by mojonixon 17y ago
Long term, higher education is screwed. There's no real way to improve the efficiency of 1prof:10-100 students. Most attempts just result in an inferior product. Increasing productivity in all other areas means that professor and the result
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by mojonixon 17y ago
If you're interested in how the pros do it, about 5 years ago I temped at a bulk mailer--mostly medicare checks to doctors--using pitney bowes(IIRC) equipment. The machine I was running was organized in an L shape 20'x20'. One side would st
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by mojonixon 17y ago
Shakers? Quakers are the religious group that prefer the warm fuzzy feelings to dogma. Shakers were the celibate sect.
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by mojonixon 17y ago
The autocorrect is maddening. I've been researching Riak recently. It's new so there isn't a lot available. Paired with another search term I frequently get results only for "risk." Let me know if I might have made a typo, but don't assume
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by mojonixon 17y ago
He is not your employee, he is your son. If he doesn't want to play football, he shouldn't play football. It is not the obligation of our children to make us proud. Frankly, this is just fraked up.
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by mojonixon 17y ago
It's the Chronicle of Higher Education, written for academics. I suspect most faculty, Harvard faculty included, do not wish to be intellectual caddies for the rich kids at the country club.
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by mojonixon 17y ago
Kids have always needed instruction on how to play. "be nice!" "share!" "don't hit!" I find it encouraging that we're finding ways to impart these lessons in less coercive ways.
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by mojonixon 17y ago
Wyoming has oil, which probably pushes out investment in other industries (why invest in a startup when you can invest in an oil well?). It may have a localized version of the Dutch disease. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_disease
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by mojonixon 17y ago
god I hate PR flacks. "As the [pr] plan was constructed, Johnson & Johnson's top management put customer safety first, before they worried about their companies profit and other financial concerns." Do it for PR, not because its the rig
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by mojonixon 17y ago
Because UNESCO isn't thoroughly politicized.
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by mojonixon 17y ago
Why do some of the ads get run more often than others? Seems like google would run the one with the highest click through rate more often. I'm not convinced all of these are statistically significant anyway, but I don't have R at the moment
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by mojonixon 17y ago
Both of these posts, Atwood's and Braude's, are complete messes. Braude tries to compare the development of entire desktop applications with the UI development/document presentation of web applications. Web UI development should be compar
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by mojonixon 17y ago
There are multiple Univ. of Maryland campuses, so it is quite possible he really does have an MIS. Even still his resume is a bit light. But he's a political appointee. None of them are appointed for their expertise. The head of the EPA was
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by mojonixon 17y ago
David Brooks, the great fellater of power.
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by mojonixon 17y ago
Maybe they should get rid of the adless login/register interstitial first (read: stop bouncing readers before they serve an ad). I don't know if they can make it with just ads, but with the way they're doing it they are doomed to failure. A
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by mojonixon 17y ago
Global Gaming Factory X doesn't appear to be a real company. It seems to just be some legal maneuvering by TPB crew. The punks fight dirty. I approve. This is the real news. "TorrentFreak was informed by TPB’s Peter Sunde that the site will
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by mojonixon 17y ago
Even if NextBus "owned" the data, it's unlikely any claims they made on it would be enforceable. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feist_Publications_v._Rural_Tel... I am not a lawyer, and neither is wikipedia.
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by mojonixon 17y ago
thesis: the only measure that matters in auto transport is energy density, and you can't do better than gasoline so there can't be any big disruptive technology as far as Exxon is concerned. He's right about the energy density but makes a l
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by mojonixon 17y ago
IBM has manyeyes http://manyeyes.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/
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by mojonixon 17y ago
Some naive comments. Might makes right, especially when it comes to the law. If PB has found a way to kick the motherfrackers in the shins, more power to them.
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by mojonixon 17y ago
check out erowid.org. It's basically impossible to overdose on acid, but it's certainly possible to take too much and have a bad trip. Since you've taken salvia you should be able to handle it though. Make sure you have a day or two afterwa
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by mojonixon 17y ago
1. real estate brokers are typically state licensed. State licensing boards often have online databases with good contact info. 2. he probably owns real estate. if you can narrow it down to a county, check that county's property records (al
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by mojonixon 17y ago
I can't tell if you're joking or not. GM paid dividends up until last year, decades after it was known that they had large health care obligations. Divert a couple years of dividends in keeping their side of the bargain, and GM is in good
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by mojonixon 18y ago
Raw execution speed matters when dealing with Google sized data sets, but Google and organizations with similar requirements can just throw more hardware at it.
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by mojonixon 18y ago
more work, less circle jerk
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by mojonixon 18y ago
Not even the homeless are moving into the city. The poor and desperate can't afford to leave. Sell your grandfather's house for 10k and go where? Once houses really become worthless, even more people will begin to walk away.

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