MisterMashable

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by MisterMashable 11y ago
Legalized quote stuffing.
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by MisterMashable 11y ago
Ending illegal wars, the death penalty and torture are even more important. Why would our government which has no problem killing, maiming and even "torturing some folks" even begin to care about poverty, illiteracy and disease?
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by MisterMashable 11y ago
It's opposite is probably also true, how very common things are made to look rare and exceptional e.g. blood moons.
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by MisterMashable 11y ago
Fields are real because perturbation theory (Feynmann diagrams) is unable to describe solitons, vorticies, monopoles and bound states.
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by MisterMashable 11y ago
Quantum Field Theory is really just ordinary Quantum Mechanics. It is necessary to use fields instead of "wave equations" because the number of particles can vary when the energy of a system exceeds a certain threshhold. (e.g. a
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by MisterMashable 11y ago
Hey, I knew a MUMPS programmer. Nice family guy too. Anyone would have guessed by appearances he was a car mechanic (dirty jeans, greasy hair etc.) and not a programmer. Not many MUMPS programmers out there, sound like anyone you know?
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by MisterMashable 12y ago
We will all speak Schwiitzerdüütsch or at least be able to spell like we speak it.
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by MisterMashable 12y ago
Whatever the official cause of cancer it will never be food additives, processed or poor quality foods, prescription drugs, air pollution, contaminants in the water supply, contaminated vaccines (I'm a believer in vaccines so don'
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by MisterMashable 12y ago
If Finland's great teachers were to teach in U.S. schools, they would encounter significant pressure to conform from students, parents and administrators. The ones who tow the line and preserve the status quo would get to keep their j
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by MisterMashable 12y ago
Microsoft has turned into Ma Bell. Microsoft is so large that any innovation at this point has to be minimal and highly managed or it would rock the boat, threatening the cohesiveness of the company. This is the worst environment for the
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by MisterMashable 12y ago
In 2004 a whole layer of top CIA officials were forced out. Defense Secretary Colin Powell resigned. Dick Cheney purged the CIA of personnel who might have served as some counterbalancing force. Once the good and reasonable people were g
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by MisterMashable 12y ago
Interesting how Peter Thiel who froze $45,000 of assets of Facebook competitor Diaspora* has taken a special interest in bad mouthing Twitter, call them "horribly mismanaged" etc. It's very clear he wants Twitter to fail. P
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by MisterMashable 12y ago
I wonder, what is the ratio of exercise programs articles vs. people who actually follow them?
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by MisterMashable 12y ago
Minikanren is featured in a follow up to 'Seven Programming Languages in 7 Weeks' by Manning Pubs. 'Seven More Programming Languages in Seven Weeks'. I think Elixir and Julia are also going to be included in the book.
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by MisterMashable 12y ago
The most fruitful definition of a real number is as a limit of a Cauchy sequence. That way is much more useful in proving theorems. Using infinitesimals is logically valid (alternative real analysis), useful for physics and other practical
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by MisterMashable 12y ago
Well there is no way Lisi's E8 theory can fit gravity and the standard model at the same time. At first glance the group structure seems to allow it but the actual group representation (which are the actual particles allowed if one wi
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by MisterMashable 12y ago
The dilepton events are the best evidence yet IMO
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by MisterMashable 12y ago
Not confirmed in the sense that many in the community are denying the result, which is as it should be. Even considering many models including dust a robust result remains. I think PRL and others are being unreasonably pessimistic but the
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by MisterMashable 12y ago
There's a very subtle undertone of negativity in this article about physics. Before I get into, William Bardeen is not in the same league as 'Surfer Dude and his E8 Theory of Everything' which throws basic facts about repres
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by MisterMashable 12y ago
We can only hope their new package system will contain something that allows the programmer to chose their own database. I want to use Couchbase and Elasticsearch. I can't see why any other document store couldn't do the same
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by MisterMashable 12y ago
I was a bit turned off by the term 'isomorphic javascript' when I first read it mostly because of how it is so fundamental to mathematics and we can say the term isomorphic definitely earned its keep there. In programming I'
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by MisterMashable 12y ago
If we take relativity at face value, the speed of light is c = 2.997 x 10^8 <<<locally>>>. <<<Globally>>> the speed of light can be anything. Cosmologists talk about the universe expanding faster than l
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by MisterMashable 12y ago
I hope this clarifies the appartent contradiction. Light can't help but move at any other speed than c = 2.997 x 10^8 m/s. It can't go faster, nor slower. So how does the speed of light appear to slow down in certain circu
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by MisterMashable 12y ago
From experience I would have to say 'differential forms' seem to fit the bill for a unifying mathematical language as applied to geometry and physics. GA seems to me as more of a computation tool. Differential forms are pretty s
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by MisterMashable 12y ago
Gauss-Bonet all the way! :)
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by MisterMashable 12y ago
I studied several of Hestenes' papers around ten years ago. Most of them are computational in nature and do not proceed to do geometry in an axiomatic way. This isn't to say he didn't write such a paper but I never found on
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by MisterMashable 12y ago
The point is this has nothing to do with software or anything of interest to Hacker news. Why bother reading HN if it's going to be cluttered with posts and comments that clearly belong elsewhere (Huffingtonpost.com, Disqus, Twitter w
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by MisterMashable 12y ago
Unless the plane crash was due to a software bug, this story, however important it is, has no place here. I appreciate your interest and concern but this isn't the right forum.
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by MisterMashable 12y ago
Teenagers act crazy bc biologically they are adults. If we were doing our job raising kids and not depriving them of real life experiences and honest learning opportunities, they would be better prepared to channel that amazing youthful en
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by MisterMashable 12y ago
This was an amazing and somewhat sad story. How's Gembe doing today? Based on his near adoration of the Valve developers, it would be fitting if he worked in the gaming industry. Maybe he could set things right by helping to make Ha

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