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by tanker 10y ago
Consumers are like water seeking the path of least resistance. It takes lots of engineers to reduce the resistance. Someone pays these engineers. That money comes from the users. Users don't like to actually pay for things if there is
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by tanker 10y ago
I like the way Richard Hamming stated a similar sentiment: " I claim that luck will not cover everything. And I will cite Pasteur who said, ``Luck favors the prepared mind.'' And I think that says it the way I believe it. The
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by tanker 10y ago
You identified a separate problem from the parent post rather than refuting it. #1: Big corporations can push small guys out of business by tying up their products in patent disputes. #2: Patent trolls can bleed corporations big and small w
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by tanker 10y ago
Your comment made me think about how Waze could direct many people on slightly sub-optimal routes to clear the main routes for some class of premium users.
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by tanker 10y ago
I wanted it originally because Amazon didn't have a Kindle app for Linux. I could read in browser, but I thought this would be the easiest way to download and read.
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by tanker 10y ago
I think the organic material idea is good, but not at a distant collection point. If you throw organic material away --> transport to site --> sort it --> delay --> transport to stores --> transport back to garden I think yo
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by tanker 10y ago
True, but then they are the all-time greats for a reason.
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by tanker 10y ago
I consider a progressive tax code to be justified by supporting the system which permits large gains. There is also an argument about holding onto large amounts of wealth being difficult without expending some of your resources to protect i
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by tanker 10y ago
I think haircuts are a buyer beware situation. I trust the average person to give safe haircuts 100/100 times. If the hairdresser is noticeably disturbed or drugged, I'll be moving on. I can leave at any point in the process if I
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by tanker 10y ago
I think your decisions were reasonable. Would you consider a part time teaching job now? If so, how many days per week and at what salary?
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by tanker 10y ago
I disagree. I like the analogy of a magazine or newspaper publishing letters to the editor. There is a two way aspect, but clearly the editors choose what to publish.
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by tanker 10y ago
>For the autodidact it is a time to begin choosing modules that make sense for their own career trajectory. I think the end of his part 2 courses is a good point to pick a set of courses that will get you to your desired end state. I wou
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by tanker 10y ago
I think a sunset on all laws would be helpful. It would probably require a change to other parliamentary procedures or the representatives wouldn't have enough time to vote on everything. I expect the US would struggle with this more t
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by tanker 10y ago
I've been wanting to buy a Digital Paper from Sony since it came out for technical articles / textbooks. Overall, I think the product is worth the price (around $1000 last time I checked), but I have other things to spend the mone
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by tanker 10y ago
Author is not Scott Adams. I double checked.
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by tanker 10y ago
The idea of ads indistinguishable from content is troubling. I agree this is a probable outcome. It sounds like food for conspiracy theories. I see two paths. First, ads so good you seek them out knowing they are advertising. This would be
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by tanker 10y ago
How do you encourage full employment with fiscal policy? Does the concept of full employment imply large corporations hire most of the people or do the fiscal policies also encourage small business and self employment?
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by tanker 10y ago
You raise a good point. Economies are the collection of individual decisions. Perhaps what people are getting after is the short term vs. long term incentives or the potential for conflict between the incentives for individuals and those fo
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by tanker 10y ago
I communicated poorly. Paying your employees more and giving them a discount is harmless. Lots of employees receive a discount. I meant you run into problems when you end up effectively paying them less and justifying via a larger discount.
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by tanker 10y ago
Obviously, you would have to avoid the "Company Store" problem. I think it could be a terrible PR move. If you effectively pay your employees less and justify by giving them discounts. A program that begins with good intentions co
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by tanker 10y ago
That's an interesting problem. I have a few ideas 1) Replace tuition with taking x% of income for y years following graduation. I'm not sure how this would work in regards to low-income degrees / departments. For example, wou
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by tanker 11y ago
"Overall, 62% say the government doesn’t do enough to help the middle class, while 29% say it does about the right amount and 6% say it does too much. Roughly the same share (59%) says the government does not do enough for poor people
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by tanker 11y ago
I disagree, at least at the undergraduate level. There is no shortage of problems and solutions to check your knowledge for much of undergraduate mathematics. As to the value of tutorial sessions for you, it is important to remember that pe
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by tanker 11y ago
I think there is a trend in this direction. The Art of Problem Solving series is a good example. As I understand it, the Every Child Succeeds Act gives more control to the states, but still seems to optimize for high test scores. That may h
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by tanker 11y ago
There may be a problem. Computer science may be a solution. The author establishes neither. My opinion, is that it would be good if we could find a way to reduce the requirement for unskilled manual labor through computer science. Without m
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by tanker 11y ago
Agreed, with the additional observation that this is just a reservation builder akin to a knowledge of Microsoft Office products from yesteryear.
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by tanker 11y ago
This is the only part I saw that directly addressed the question of "Will the Push for Coding Lead to ‘Technical Ghettos’?" >...for students of color in particular, whether the emphasis on knowing Java and JavaScript only puts
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by tanker 11y ago
I would wait until you have a Raspberry Pi 3 on order, or you might be waiting longer than you would like.
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by tanker 11y ago
Consumers can prefer Blu-ray quality while being satisfied with much lower quality. For many, quality of content and selection would be valued over picture quality.
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by tanker 11y ago
I think it is because, for a lot of people, Lisp is fun. If Lisp flourishes, more people would get to use it at work. Lisp not flourishing means less fun. Also, when I've worked in Lisp it just seemed like the right way to do things. E

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