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This is hardly the first time the US government has bailed out private corporations. Was compensation a major issue when we bailed out the railroads?

> I assume that the Finnish method isn't magically successful, and it looks good on paper at the expense of not enabling the best and brightest to reach their full potential. Here'…

I am blinded by your sparkling wit =/

As far as I know, yes.

What kind of game are you writing? If you're just a hobbyist, you might want to try a popular choice like python. (Pygame is insanely well known.)

> Just approaching it as if it were a difficult task helps. I have literally the exact opposite experience. I procrastinate horribly on difficult tasks (or just any task that I don…

A balloon is mostly empty space. The paradox deals with solid spheres rather than atomic matter.

> Funny, I think all of these people are athiest/agnostic, goes to show you... Why do you think that? Dylan famously converted to Christianity, BHO is a long time churchgoer, and R…

Wikipedia gives three possible pronunciations, but I'm curious about which is actually the most common (I say "sue dough".)

There is a time and a place for ad hominem arguments, but this is not it.

I think he's missing a tag. Or maybe not. British humor ("humour?") is totally inscrutable to me.

> Or, everyone follows their self interest and realizes that they will need to work out some agreements to moderate fishing or there will be no fish. This can have downsides, namel…

I had expected the opposite argument. Dilbert is pretty smart, but he sure isn't rich. His boss, on the other hand...

> and real dollar terms What does that mean? Obviously, you need more US dollars today to purchase food than you did in 1950, due to inflation. Does "real dollar terms" mean adjust…

People do gamble on chess... but I guess "people mostly prefer gambling on games like poker rather than gambling on chess" would be too long for a proverb.

"What differs most is the teaching style. CS has far better lecture notes. Of course, the stats people wrote a very good book; but better lecture notes win because I can access the…

> mathematically 0.9999... is less than 1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/0.999.. . "In mathematics, the repeating decimal 0.999… ... denotes a real number equal to one. In other word…

Here's an interesting question for you. I do an experiment, and I reject the null hypothesis with p = 0.04. Then I do the experiment again, and get p = 0.09. Does the second run of…

The standard counterargument runs like this: "Great, now founders have to waste time pitching to VCs and applying for government aid. Even less time available for working on the pr…

> that sort of government action mainly encourages /hoarding/ behavior Citation needed? > Spending more on public goods like health care helps I think most of us are fine with gove…