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Comment: Re:How is this news? (Score 1) 453

by buswolley (#42526847) Attached to: The Problem With Internet Dating's Frictionless Market
Complexity theory obviously. Anyway, I also think that the problem with these kind of markets is that effort to find the best deal has reduced economic payoff. Thus, it reduces the number of footholds small up-and-coming enterprises can use their ingenuity to climb faster than the competition. Also, the lack of market inefficiencies pushes consolidation to the biggest (i.e. Amazon). Also, it makes shopping boring. Seriously.

Comment: Re:Can't America get its acts together ? (Score 1) 1059

by buswolley (#42522535) Attached to: Congressman Introduces Bill To Ban Minting of Trillion-Dollar Coin
Oh Please. The only constraint on government spending is inflation. 'Debt' can always be repaid by fiat currency creation. If this notion was understood better generally, the debate would not be about 'debt' and having enough money to pay for this or that, but would be about whether spending that much would undermine the value of the dollar or not.

+ - What Experiment Would YOU Run on a Single Hamster?

Submitted by buswolley
buswolley writes "As I was typing away on a research proposal last night, my daughter's hamster was busy turning his very squeaky hamster wheel. To make the incessant squeak more tolerable I posed a thought exercise to myself, which I now Ask Slashdot:

What clever experiment could you conduct on a single hamster that will teach you something about your field of research that you didn't know before.

For extra achievement points, let’s treat Ham-the-Case-Study-Sam neighborly."
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+ - 100 billion planets in the Milky Way galaxy

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The Bad Astronomer
The Bad Astronomer writes "A new study finds that there may be 100 billion alien planets in the Milky Way alone, with 17 billion of them the size of Earth. Announcements like this have been made before, but this new research is more robust than previous studies, using data from the Kepler planet-hunting spacecraft over a longer period and analyzing it in a more statistically solid way. They also found that smaller planets are not as picky about their host stars, with terrestrial planets forming around stars like the Sun or as small as tiny, cool red dwarfs with equal ease."

Comment: Re:What? (Score 2) 295

by buswolley (#41952311) Attached to: The Release Candidate For Linux Mint 14 "Nadia" Is Out
hmm is Mint the most popular Linux Desktop distro? I've heard about Mint, and that it was a response to Unity. Still I hadn't kept tabs on it lately, and didn't know whether it had fully capitalized on the Unity debacle. Also, I'm not shopping for Linux systems lately since I've been using NeuroDebian and centOS exclusively in my fMRI analyses.

All life evolves by the differential survival of replicating entities. -- Dawkins

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