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by 1gor 18y ago
I'm not going to bore you to death with my questions so please you do not have to answer. However, I am puzzled what was problematic with that story apart from that it challenged certain consensus scientific views (which was the reason for
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by 1gor 18y ago
Sorry, I've deleted my previous comment because I've just found out this thread has been 'deaded', so readers don't see it on HN front page. Apparently only people who have commented already can still see it. The discussion was interesting
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by 1gor 18y ago
No, I was not referring to the title. It was not be the best, but it was not misleading. Readers followed the link on the title, read the article and voted it up to the front page anyway. Why to kill a front page thread with a lively discu
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by 1gor 18y ago
why?
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Ask HN: how many points do I need to be able to censor others people's headlines?
1 points by 1gor 18y ago|6 comments
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by 1gor 18y ago
BBC bans respected scientist for denying man-made climate change should have been the title. Sorry, my fault.
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by 1gor 18y ago
BBC bans respected scientist for denying man-made climate change. should have been the title. Sorry, my fault.
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by 1gor 18y ago
BBC bans respected scientist for denying man-made climate change should have been the title. Sorry, my fault.
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by 1gor 18y ago
Dissidents were not sent to prison camp after Stalin has died, unless they tried to organize a movement or something. There were actually very few political prisoners in the USSR in the 70s. But those who thought differently and were not af
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by 1gor 18y ago
The article is a first-person narrative from the scientist. It's an interview. There is nothing added to its text by the tabloid apart from the introduction. I cannot understand why you won't take an interview for a face value, unless you a
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by 1gor 18y ago
He was not allowed to do programs about plants, which is area of his core competence. He was not proposing new program topics, they banned him from making ANY program. Before they banned him, he presented around 400 TV programmes and publis
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by 1gor 18y ago
I agree with your point, but the essence is the same. He was a fixture on TV screen at one point -- then they stopped inviting him for the reasons he stated. They fired him from being a regular contributor.
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by 1gor 18y ago
I say it is a silly argument.
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by 1gor 18y ago
Java UML tool like ArgoUML?
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by 1gor 18y ago
C++ will drown you in complexity. There are many ways to look at complexity as an abstract concept. You could look at code length. Or you can count how many 'degrees of freedom' your code allows you to have, and be sure that you need to con
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by 1gor 18y ago
That's a bad day to say "leave it to the market".
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by 1gor 18y ago
Totally disagree about STI. I once had abstracted a complex application as a directed graph that have only nodes and edges. From there I STIed most of my business entities. The resulting app had only two tables and complexity relating to th
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by 1gor 18y ago
To answer most of the sibling comments: "U.S. Court Affirms Employer's Right to Read Employees' Email" at http://goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/gi_0199-14518/U-S-Court-Affi... Keeping anything private on a corporate laptop or accessing private
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by 1gor 18y ago
An employer has the right to check private email of an employee. It seems that the shafted guy is pissed off because he did not think that his employee status would give his opponent the right to snoop.
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by 1gor 18y ago
Why to have downmods on comments then?
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by 1gor 18y ago
Ruby ".map" with a closure, chained. Suddenly I could do tons of text/data manipulation, all with a single line of code.
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by 1gor 18y ago
>huge wave of antiquarianism I would call it nationalism. Medieval Europe had no notion of nations. The Dutch national hero, for example, is Prince of Orange, a small sunny principality in South of France. Throughout the history people
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by 1gor 18y ago
The bulk of your first post still reads like a character attack, regardless of the disclaimers you've put in. A nazi can do perfectly good rocket science, an oil company researcher can produce perfectly valid climate studies. Discussing cha
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by 1gor 18y ago
Why do you need to focus on personalities? Is it because the arguments are too persuasive to discuss?
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Need Press? Repeat: Green, Sex, Cancer, Secret, Fat(nytimes.com)
4 points by 1gor 18y ago|0 comments
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by 1gor 18y ago
This whole 'nerd' vs 'jock' meme seems to be a fairly typical situation of 'invest' vs 'consume'. A young kid has no other assets apart of time. You can spend you time being popular NOW, at the expense of studies and other form of self-enri
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by 1gor 18y ago
The author is clueless about RMS: >is Richard Stallman seriously suggesting that it’s right to illegally obtain copyrighted software? Software is recored knowledge. Human progress means always building on top of somebody's knowledge. "O
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by 1gor 18y ago
I fail to understand how Kasparov made it to the list. He has no following in Russia whatsoever, and not many in the West like his neo-conservative connections. His inclusion makes the rest of the list somewhat suspect.
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by 1gor 18y ago
This chart is interesting. http://www.technologyreview.com/files/17765/chartusads_x600.... Online advertising is growing massively. Social network advertising is growing dismally. Why so many people are still kicking the dead donkey?
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by 1gor 18y ago
>though it does look rather awkward on my widescreen how about resizing your browser window?

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