Agathos

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by Agathos 15y ago
On a totally different note, my wrists hurt just looking at that picture of Carmack in front of his Intergraph monitor. Lower your keyboard, man!
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by Agathos 15y ago
If you sincerely want the legislature to tax you less, you should ask it to reduce or eliminate sales taxes on all retailers, not just on Amazon and not just on online retailers. To grant an exemption to one company or to one industry, the
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by Agathos 15y ago
Explain to the jury that you lost the key before you knew there was a criminal investigation. It only becomes illegal afterward.
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by Agathos 16y ago
Damn you, Cambridge Brewing Company!
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by Agathos 16y ago
If I want to activate more of my telomerases, I'll take up smoking.
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by Agathos 16y ago
Their methodology is a great mystery, but I think they poll people who hit the websites in question. In which case Fox News' score is no surprise. It's the most polarizing news source out there, and the other pole isn't part of the poll.
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by Agathos 16y ago
Intel also lost that case where they tried to trademark a number (386 or 486). Looks like a precedent now that someone's trying to trademark a unit of measurement.
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by Agathos 16y ago
If he publishes and doesn't file a patent, no one can.
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by Agathos 17y ago
"I consider it amazing that some people do go cover to cover in my books. In most cases I know that people are going to pick and choose the parts that they like. But they know that if they dig further then they'll get something that has onl
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by Agathos 17y ago
"The Petronas Towers were the tallest skyscrapers in the world." Only if you count unoccupied, decorative spires.
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by Agathos 17y ago
Homogenized milk? I haven't heard that one before.
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by Agathos 17y ago
6 months sounds great. Since the recession is probably over (most recent GDP change was positive, although the NBER hasn't ruled yet), we should have recruiters kicking our doors down by April or May. And then we'll hire carpenters to repla
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by Agathos 17y ago
Did it lag so much on the way down?
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by Agathos 17y ago
In the worst case, structural engineers don't produce bridges. I'm sure you could find some poor soul who spent a career drawing up proposals for bridges that were never built.
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by Agathos 17y ago
HIV, a retrovirus, contains RNA, not DNA.
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by Agathos 17y ago
Someone else started it, but Knuth continued it. So two people made mistakes. It's understandable and I might do the same in his situation (once I'm important enough for an article, of course). But it's still against policy and if it contin
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by Agathos 17y ago
How much higher is the image density here? Is it worth a 15-fold markup? If I'm paying out of pocket and can't afford $1500, can I have the option of paying $100 for a lower-density image?
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by Agathos 17y ago
It's comforting to see that even demigods get it wrong sometimes. Knuth shouldn't have used Wikipedia as his blog.
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by Agathos 17y ago
Yes, but not recently. This is after all the guy who posted anonymously on his own company's board at Yahoo Finance for a couple of years. He weighed in on such weighty matters as his own hairstyle, then disappeared to honor a bet he lost t
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by Agathos 17y ago
I thought he was saying they stop being cool when too many people discover them.
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by Agathos 17y ago
Everybody was boycotting the (non-existent) app store for the first year of the iPhone's existence. I don't think Steve Jobs was upset about this.
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by Agathos 17y ago
No TechCrunch links and nothing about Twitter. That's an exceptionally good front page for HN.
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by Agathos 17y ago
Often leads to the statisticians giving the biologists tutorials in statistics and the biologists giving the statisticians tutorials in biology. Which is okay, but then you have to wonder if more formal study up front would have been more e
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by Agathos 17y ago
Isn't this what The Innovator's Dilemma told us to do? Dip a toe in every "can't possibly get big enough to threaten our main business" business because sooner or later, something will.
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by Agathos 17y ago
In a thousand years, with no selective pressure to preserve it, the phrase would mutate beyond recognition and probably be deleted altogether.
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by Agathos 17y ago
Remember that book, The Bible Code? And remember how it worked on any book, such as Moby Dick? Someone should plug the published human genome(s) into it.
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by Agathos 17y ago
I'm a little surprised they didn't know the language. It doesn't sound like it's too far off from Grant Speak and the Sunlight Foundation has obviously applied for a lot of grants. It's unfortunate that a chunk of that $18 million must be t
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by Agathos 17y ago
Could HN do it better and cheaper in bed?
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by Agathos 17y ago
If we didn't have this promise until yesterday, does that mean the haters were right all along until yesterday?
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by Agathos 17y ago
"And we haven't even touched things like... internationalization" Well from one of the recent podcasts it sounds like Jeff is set against doing internationalization. And Joel is showing admirable restraint in not strangling him.

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