Radix

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by Radix 17y ago
:) That's an interesting perspective, and I agree with your anti-Sony sentiment. But, I believe blueray has sold many PS3s and will be worth their trouble in the long run. (I've only seen one PS3 game I've wanted to play that wasn't also
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by Radix 17y ago
I think they won with blueray.
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by Radix 17y ago
Dupe http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=563882 The first FYI comment links to a really interesting HN submission on a very interesting blog post debunking this guy. That blog post is much more interesting than this article. Oh, and 3.
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by Radix 17y ago
Oh yes, of course... but how does one eliminate subvocalization. I find I can't take in information unless I vocalize it. Because of this I can't read sentences.
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by Radix 17y ago
What does "Orson Welles' filmography" return?
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by Radix 17y ago
I believe he meant to say "they are not ". The quarterly profit incentive pushes companies to push products out to early or create unnecessary versions.
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by Radix 17y ago
If the owners of the temporary plywood walls recieved any money, I would. But, I don't live in a city. If warfangle is right then I guess not.
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by Radix 17y ago
The few billion people bit refers to the sentence before. This bit: "no testimony could possibly convince you, without observable, repeatable evidence." That is, the few billion can be convinced, not they have had a direct personal experi
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by Radix 17y ago
As someone who was raised christian I still don't understand this. Why knowingly and purposefully believe in something that you do not hope to rationalize. (OTOH, I'm always glad to see religious people who actually and clearly follow thei
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by Radix 17y ago
I wish Wacom had more competition and that touchscreen laptops were cheaper. I believe a lot could be done with them if they could be brought down to the general consumer's price level. I would rather spend $350-$400 more on a touchscreen
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by Radix 17y ago
Notice that 'most' refers to 'popular' not 'advanced'. So, the point I believe you were making has nothing to stand against. MySQL is very popular and is also advanced.
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by Radix 17y ago
Maybe, but if Amazon can help them kill used textbooks then it might become profitable enough to drop the price. I imagine there is a lot of money lost on students turning over their books each semester.
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by Radix 17y ago
Thats part of his problem, and mine. Reading the comments sometimes takes longer than reading the article.
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by Radix 17y ago
Treadarounds is hilarious. Reminds me that people get up to exercise, walk a treadmill, then go cart about for their afternoon golf game.
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by Radix 17y ago
I checked the comments first. I was initially bummed that it wasn't about Nikola Tesla after all.
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by Radix 17y ago
That video proposed knives for guns. A less "cowardly" way to kill. I like it better than the expensive bullets bit.
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by Radix 17y ago
I want to second this suggestion. With some good advertising and some bad math you could probably convince some users that they're practically guaranteed(!) to earn money from one of the lottery's run whenever there data is sold. Tie that
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by Radix 17y ago
No it's not. With option one businesses choose where they intend to conduct research. With option two the government chooses what research should be funded. It becomes something that can be politicized. But thanks for pointing out the ne
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by Radix 17y ago
How is forming a conjecture different than generalizing an observation?
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by Radix 17y ago
At 100 karma you can downvote comments, for a period, and I believe you can flag posts and submissions. I think if enough people flag the same article, it is automatically pulled. edit: I agree, there isn't anything interesting that can be
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by Radix 17y ago
Thanks, I needed some new shoes and was about to ask where I could get "Shoes that let your foot function like you're barefoot - they're the shoes for me.", as the article quotes. Even though the TPV shoes are about $100 more than I would
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by Radix 17y ago
It might be possible to run barefoot on dirt, but not on a track! Until recently the local highschool track had nothing on it but a thin film of rubber on a solid cement. I remember being unable to run very well on it (hard), but I could r
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by Radix 17y ago
I had not heard of this man till today when I came across the comment below by Alan Kay; I thought to share it: "I don't think you could find a physicist who has not gone back and tried to find out what Newton actually did. It's unimaginabl
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by Radix 17y ago
Good points. Thank you. You've clearly articulated why I rejected Pascal's wager when I thought of it. I'm not sure I would have communicated as well to some other if I needed to.
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by Radix 17y ago
Pascal's Wager
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Collected Articles of Doug Engelbart(dougengelbart.org)
15 points by Radix 17y ago|3 comments
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by Radix 17y ago
I know he's famous, but I really like this guy. He says interesting things like this: "Basically, the reason I work with children and not adults is because adults are famously difficult to change in any significant way. They've made a comm
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Alan Kay: The PC Must Be Revamped (2007)(cioinsight.com)
27 points by Radix 17y ago|7 comments
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by Radix 18y ago
Electronic, and by sources I mean forums or blogs. Somewhere with interesting people like HN, but with an electronics focus. It was 4 or 5 years ago that I first heard of Stripe Snoop http://stripesnoop.sourceforge.net/ I thought it soun
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by Radix 18y ago
I wish there were more on hardware hacking around here. Maybe one of you can share alternate sources for hardware.

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