mkarmac
Re:My Y Combinator interview.
on Monday November 22, 2010 @03:07AM (#1929088)
Fascinating. Source?
Re:Google fires employee who leaked memo on raises
on Thursday November 11, 2010 @01:33AM (#1893098)
A somewhat classier, less-heavy-handed approach would have been to simply not give that employee a raise.
Re:Simple bouncing ball puzzle, with $50 prize
on Wednesday November 10, 2010 @04:31AM (#1889749)
1) The ball stops bouncing in a finite amount of time.
2) The ball bounces an infinite number of times.
3) This is not a contradiction, no more than the idea that a projectile passes through an infinite number of spatial points in finite time. Please go and read about geometric series and Zeno's paradox on wikipedia, as another commenter has already suggested.
Re:Turns out, it is a river in Egypt
on Tuesday November 09, 2010 @02:16PM (#1887553)
This idea of "containment" may have worked well in the past, but is not as practical anymore. The world is so deeply connected, and technology so advanced, that international cooperation is far more essential.
Nuclear weaponry is but one of a number of salient examples. Even such staunch realists as Kissinger have come to recognize that they must be eliminated, and that intense international cooperation will be necessary to do so:
http://www.hoover.org/publications/hoover-digest/article/610...