yakiv

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> some futuristic chip implant in your head to prevent you from committing it

Just curious, are you thinking of The Alliance?

yakiv

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> Never blame on malice what can be blamed on incompetence.

So, does the early bird get the worm or do good things come to those who wait? We're maybe too inclined to just assert these sorts of things as fact. (This includes me.)

yakiv

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Would every drawing have to loop? Pi doesn't. I personally don't actually know if there's something about this specifically that would force every drawing to loop, though.

yakiv

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Or you could consider both.

yakiv

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Even if you can't measure someone's creative thinking ability very well, that doesn't mean that it can't improve with practice.

yakiv

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I think strait is right. "Elite achiever" only (directly, anyway) has to do with performance, not intelligence.

yakiv

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I was hoping that the neutrinos were actually going faster than light. Confirming established theories is boring, but breaking them is exciting.

yakiv

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Do you know any specifics of how the standard model breaks down at high enough energies?

yakiv

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This (probably) won't discuss the technical problem, but http://www.bitcoinity.org/markets will let you track Bitcoin prices.

yakiv

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Bitcoin seems to be picking up again. From Mt. Gox:

    > Last price:$45.00000
    > High:$48.46900
    > Low:$36.65000

Edit: It could go back down a lot. We'll see what happens.

yakiv

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I'm no expert on bitcoin, but I've read that you can have as many addresses as you want. You could generate a new address for each time you order through bitspend and never give them your "main" address. Overall it may or may not be a better option than just buying directly from a merchant because of other considerations.

yakiv

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Can't be. Has to say "0" sometimes.

yakiv

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This is just speculation.

California has this:

    > California’s Master Plan for higher education, adopted in
    > 1960, guarantees a place in college for every state
    > resident who can benefit. The historic blueprint produced
    > systems and programs that have served as models for other
    > states and for countries across the globe.

Stanford is a private university, and MIT isn't in California. The UCs sound like they're public universities. Perhaps the Asian students in California who are blocked out of other universities end up going to UCs instead.

This one might be incorrect, but California being on the west coast might mean that there are more Asians per person in California than in many other parts of the US, too.

yakiv

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> I thought it was basic enough to be studied at about that age in the rest of the world.

Where do you think GP went to school? Neither the post nor the profile indicates a location.

Edit: I should say that I don't know for sure that you don't know from some other post GP made.

yakiv

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Does anyone here know why the Einstein cross has 4 of the repeated image instead of being a continuous repetition around the lens object? It seems to me like you should see the magnified image as a sort of circle instead of having a finite number of repetitions.

Is this related to the lines forming a cross you see in pictures of stars?

yakiv

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Or to not give an individual power in the first place.

yakiv

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Actually, if you're curious, there's matter that isn't made of atoms, such as neutrinos.

yakiv

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    > Human beings are irrational and sometimes do things that
    > aren't in their economic best interest out of principle
    > or ethics.

Humans might be irrational sometimes, but this isn't one of those times. "Rationality" has no meaning outside of the context of a goal . . . the sentence I quoted makes it seem like you're saying people should only care about their economic (do you mean financial/material?) interests.

You also said

    > Think about it: if I murder somebody, then offer you $100
    > not to tell anyone, would you take the money? I certainly
    > hope not.

so it does seem you aren't actually suggesting that.

yakiv

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I use Ruby some, but I'm not sure I'd describe it as clean exactly. I've used Python a bit recently and was struck by just how clean it seemed. (I'm not sure Python has anything that quite replaces blocks, though. I don't claim Python's all better than Ruby.)

yakiv

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How about Sugar? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar_%28desktop_environment%29)

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