D_Alex

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by D_Alex 14y ago
Paternalism: behavior, by a person, organization or state, which limits some person or group's liberty or autonomy for their own good. I do not see any evidence of this in the grandparent post. Edit: Also, I'd like to point out this, on the
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by D_Alex 14y ago
Most sports codes endure, video games get superceded every few years. A professional athlete can coach the sport. There is a fairly high demand for professional sports players on the speaking circuit. There are product endorsements, I don't
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by D_Alex 14y ago
Oh. Thank goodness. But what is all this about then, is there anything available now beyond the Linkedin post?
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by D_Alex 14y ago
So very true... Australia desperately needs a startup scene for stuff other than the resources industry. Having said that - the LinkedIn article does not actually say much about what Startup Australia actually is. A google search brought me
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by D_Alex 14y ago
I don't know whether this is funny or sad, but the game seems to have become a chore for this guy. For me it is hard to imagine a less rewarding "career". What else has such a hard limit on growth potential?
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by D_Alex 14y ago
It seems far fetched to me, because the shutdown did little to limit the access to pirated material. I imagine the next stop for someone who found himself unable to use Megaupload was another similar site, not a legitimate download site.
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by D_Alex 14y ago
There is always Calvinball. http://www.xkcd.com/1002/
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by D_Alex 14y ago
Dude, so much rubbish in such a short post... > Every major religion has the idea of "oneness" Please point out the "oneness" in Hinduism. >they can't name who "invented" religion We can't name who "invented" cooking either. But som
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by D_Alex 14y ago
>where the impetus for this experiment came from...? Seems clear to me that the ultimate purpose is to lower the cost of white-collar workers.
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by D_Alex 14y ago
OMG dude google it! http://www.google.com.au/#hl=en&output=search&sclien... Edit: Why am I being downvoted????
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by D_Alex 14y ago
I don't know whether I should laugh or cry... Please elect more people with a clue. More politicians with a background in science or engineering would be a good thing.
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by D_Alex 14y ago
Twitter and Angry Birds! But seriously, the smartphone.
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by D_Alex 14y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Hadron_Collider ?
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by D_Alex 14y ago
Geared turbofans are not new and reasonably common - eg see link below. Not sure what the innovation is... http://www.honeywell.com/sites/aero/Turbofans3_C67D99379-538...
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by D_Alex 14y ago
Thanks for this link. It is interesting that the overwhelming majority of the (French) readers' comments are in agreement with the Titan's CEO's view that the government should worry about maintaining a competitive French industry, and not
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by D_Alex 14y ago
>You are in the industry for the money aren't you? Not really. In case you are interested, I am in the industry by accident. >I thought you guys pumped misery out of the ground day in, day out? No, we pump oil. And gas. By and large
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by D_Alex 14y ago
I'm not real rich, but I'd turn you down. Someone so selfish running around with close to a billion dollars...no. The misery you could cause! Let the researcher keep their money, they will probably offer it to someone more deserving in the
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by D_Alex 14y ago
To first approximation, the power needed to generate a given thrust is inversely proporional to the rotor diameter. See here; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Momentum_theory
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Why Nate Silver is not just wrong, but maliciously wrong(nakedcapitalism.com)
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by D_Alex 14y ago
So... Where I used to work, someone once put milk in the water container, 'cos they thought that's how you get frothed milk.
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by D_Alex 14y ago
Great question, and one which I would like to try and answer at length, but cannot spare the time... Short answer: There are many definitions of "free will", and many arguments about the subtelties of the meanings of these definitions. AFAI
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by D_Alex 14y ago
We might also be able to solve the world hunger by giving heaps of homework to mediocre students. Valuable nutrients which now end up in dog food could be made available to the starving masses.
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by D_Alex 14y ago
Agree, excellent submission. I saw this as an great example of drawing important conclusions after spotting interesting data.
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by D_Alex 14y ago
No. I did not miss it. I was responding to the general thrust and the overarching message of the article, which seems to be "you should not hire based on experience".
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by D_Alex 14y ago
Sure... "in a wide range of fields" experience counts for little, maybe nothing. The author mentions auditors, clinical psychologists, parole officers etc. I bet astrology and water dowsing could be added to this list. In many other fields,
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by D_Alex 14y ago
I hope he is right about "health data commons". Medical research can be greatly accelerated with access to the masses of data which have already been collected on people's medical histories, their response to treatments etc.
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by D_Alex 14y ago
Mine is "I can't even be bothered to fill out the sign-up forms for all these web sites you redirect me to".
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by D_Alex 14y ago
What the heck is going on in the middle of Australia? There is NOTHING there (not even stuff that might burn!), yet the map shows a pile of lights.
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by D_Alex 14y ago
Nobody really knows, but I think the informed consensus is that consciousness would probably happen long before we "replicate the human brain and its interactions all the way down to the nano/quantum level".
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by D_Alex 14y ago
Well, here is one theory: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity

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