newt0311

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by newt0311 18y ago
"About China, includes even a history lesson for you: http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=14... Read your source again. Maybe go beyond the title this time. Here is a nice excerpt: "The lifetime prevalence rates of i
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by newt0311 18y ago
No but most suppliers are and if the users aren't removed from the situation, we will continue to get suppliers: supply-vs-demand all over again.
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by newt0311 18y ago
Um... All those are legal. Also, the first and third have known beneficial medical effects which would still be allowed if my proposal is enacted.
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by newt0311 18y ago
If you really want, limit it to people in immediate knowing possession of the drugs. However the initial massacre is necessary to establish a precedent. If the US government had not squandered its credibility in law enforcement matters, thi
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by newt0311 18y ago
[Edit 1]: Naturally, this policy would be continued in the future. If anybody is ever found to be knowingly in possession of illegal drugs, they are shot.
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by newt0311 18y ago
Nope. The reasoning is that continued use of this policy will convince possible dealers that the action is not worth the effort. Econ 101. If you want to reduce some activity, increase the costs of engaging in it. That is exactly what this
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by newt0311 18y ago
"While you're at it, why not shoot all the people who skip the bus fare?" Because people who skip bus fare are usually not involved in large organized crime units. Also, skipping bus fair is not addictive (in the medical sense of the word).
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by newt0311 18y ago
Nope. I have never used or dealt in drugs. Nor do I plan to. How about you?
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by newt0311 18y ago
"There are indeed places where drug dealing or use is punishable with death. These places still have pervasive drug use -- in fact, greater use than places without such penalties." Examples please. I have examples to the contrary: Singapore
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by newt0311 18y ago
At which point, we kill them as well. And yes, I really am being serious. For countries which have implemented this proposal or slightly watered down versions: see Singapore and China and note that even though they are in the middle of a dr
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by newt0311 18y ago
Here is another way: line up all the drug dealers and shoot them. Then line up all the drug users and shoot them. Problem solved. (I am being serious.)
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by newt0311 18y ago
In my case, I am actually much more interested in econ. and business. CS is just something I do as well, thus my interest in banking regulation, accounting, and valuations techniques (though I am, by no means, an expert on any of those subj
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by newt0311 18y ago
Prolog is a language where easy things are hard and hard things are easy. It will expand your mind in ways that even lisp cannot manage.
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by newt0311 18y ago
This is basically logic programming. If you really want to do something like this, you are far better off just using a logic language like prolog and saving yourself the trouble.
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by newt0311 18y ago
Baahh... Its the old Risk v. Rewards thing all over again. Also easily explainable by standard economic theory. If some career/job/etc... carries a high risk of failure then those who succeed have to be richly rewarded to main the expected
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by newt0311 18y ago
As has already been mentioned, thats not a function, it is a func tor . It indicates a relation between two objects. Specifically, it tells the prolog runtime that a list appended to an empty list is just the list itself and that the result
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by newt0311 18y ago
"Edit; It looks like it has been sold to an Abu Dhabi holding company, probably since the book was written, but it was formerly owned by AIG. I'm not sure why their website says they're still owned by AIG. Strangely, for a bank he claims ha
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by newt0311 18y ago
Very extreme jpeg pre 2000 compression would probably do considerably worse as it would degenerate into drawing in boxes of averaged color. jpeg200 would absolutely destroy this compression technique as it specifically uses a form of fourie
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by newt0311 18y ago
Now if only we could make software companies do something similar...
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by newt0311 18y ago
Already have: http://www.nhplace.com/kent/Papers/Technical-Issues.html
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by newt0311 18y ago
But thats the problem. Obama has already changed the lives of the 300M people in this country or at least helped in the process. The stimulus bill that he helped pass has permanently expanded the US federal government. His budget will go ev
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by newt0311 18y ago
There is a reason that nearly every book ever sold used black text on white background even in the 20th century when that was no longer the only choice. I only wish that websites would heed this advice more often.
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by newt0311 18y ago
Thats for people using SQL. ORMs screw the entire process up. Another reason why ORMs are a bad idea. ORMs are basically trying to recreate SQL in their own special non-portable immature bug-ridden manner. Thus, even the schema has to be de
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by newt0311 18y ago
Works for me. Using SBCL 1.0.14-gentoo on x86. Which common lisp runtime are you using? And yeah... Lisp-2 is a stupid idea.
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by newt0311 18y ago
Um doesn't tsv = csv with separator=tab?
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by newt0311 18y ago
I have always found this curious: In general, criminals cause significantly more damage than police. Then where is the outcry against politicians who are soft on crime and thus allow these increased rates of crime? Thats what I am really wo
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by newt0311 18y ago
Indeed. This is not a RDBMS problem. Its a MySQL problem and the correct solution is to use a mature DB.
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by newt0311 18y ago
Agreed. The author needs to look at Hotspot's parallel server GCs and the upcoming G1 collector.
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by newt0311 18y ago
A far better analysis of the issue (with primary sources!!): http://www.discriminations.us/2009/02/politicizing_science_a...
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by newt0311 18y ago
The guy who designed these has a webpage here: http://www.math.drexel.edu/~ahicks/ . One of the links on the page lead to more information on the design of the mirrors.

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