ThaddeusQuay2

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by ThaddeusQuay2 15y ago
How should I know any of that? I'm still busy designing NUBE's logo! Although, if we were to have lunch at a place which was cognizant enough of our needs to provide copious napkins, I would guess that one way to accomplish the goals of whi
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by ThaddeusQuay2 15y ago
Good idea. As a civilization, we're a bit behind on the big stuff. Personally, I'm starting NUBE: Nerds United for a Better Earth. We'll use nanotech to turn this planet into a death star, thereby mooting all of that space-related effort. W
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by ThaddeusQuay2 15y ago
It's also a Kardashev problem, and a BDO, and kind of like Ringworld. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kardashev_scale http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Dumb_Object http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ringworld
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by ThaddeusQuay2 15y ago
"Kevin Drum is a political blogger for Mother Jones." Yes, politicians and the politically-oriented are those of us who best understand space, the technologies required for use in it, and the costs related to the same. They've already shown
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by ThaddeusQuay2 15y ago
Thanks for the correction, and the explanation. I recalled reading the following in the Wikipedia article, but forgot about it as I was writing the comment, while trying to juggle several other things. "The initial three-stage design was ca
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by ThaddeusQuay2 15y ago
I'm not an expert here, but my opinion is that there is no limit on the megatons, or if there is, it's substantially higher than 50. The reason I believe this comes partly from one sentence in the Wikipedia article: "Atmospheric focusing ca
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by ThaddeusQuay2 15y ago
Actually, his idea of a database for each user could still work, even though there is sharing of data between users. Take each database, and turn it into an executable object, which reads/writes its own data, and which communicates with oth
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by ThaddeusQuay2 15y ago
The 100 megaton version of Tsar Bomba was only a design. The biggest one tested was 50 megatons, because anything more powerful would have been too large and/or too heavy to carry, and the pilots would not have had enough time to get to a s
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Megaflop: 4 millennia. Exaflop: 50 years more?(theregister.co.uk)
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by ThaddeusQuay2 15y ago
Just to point out, for those who have never heard of it, you can learn a lot about parsing, pattern matching, grammars, and term rewriting from TXL, which is definitely a Perlis language. http://txl.ca http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TXL_(p
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by ThaddeusQuay2 15y ago
"It's easier to ask for forgiveness than it is to get permission." Possibly, but people who are constantly apologizing are usually annoying, manipulative, cloying, or insincere.
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by ThaddeusQuay2 15y ago
Not that it might matter to your reply, but FYI: I added a couple of sentences just as you were posting. Clearly, your experiential matrix is not the same as mine. I'm 45, and I've worked in many different environments since I was about 15,
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by ThaddeusQuay2 15y ago
"It's an issue of definitions. If you took that single atom away, you would not have a transistor any more." No, you would still have a transistor, albeit a non-functioning one, just like you would still have a car if you removed the engine
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by ThaddeusQuay2 15y ago
"How to scare off female developers?" Nail a huge, purple dildo to your office door, and enjoy the quiet solitude of a nag-free, gossip-free, rage-free, single-gender work environment, where you can get stuff done, and in which you may occa
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by ThaddeusQuay2 15y ago
"Does this say something fundamental about transistors or something fundamental about atoms?" Neither. It just says that someone has gotten better at using a hammer to guide an egg, into a frying pan, without breaking it. And they performed
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by ThaddeusQuay2 15y ago
This reminds me of Percy Bridgman, whose work with high pressure got him a Nobel Prize in physics, and which led to the creation of synthetic diamonds at GE. "Bridgman committed suicide by gunshot [at age 79] after living with metastatic ca
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by ThaddeusQuay2 15y ago
"There are some misconceptions that shell scripts are only for a CLI environment. You can easily use various tools to write GUI and/or network (socket) scripts under KDE or Gnome desktops. With the following tools you can build powerful, in
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by ThaddeusQuay2 15y ago
I don't have the time to look for it now, but I recall, somewhere in the myriad of recent HN comments on GoDaddy, there was at least one where the person stated that they switched with no downtime. If you find it, you could ask them if they
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by ThaddeusQuay2 15y ago
After reading various reasons as to why it's bad to be incorporated in the US, you held off on applying to YC, but you are still using GoDaddy? Moving from Singapore to the US is a hard decision. Switching from a sleazy registrar to one tha
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by ThaddeusQuay2 15y ago
I posit that the old interface could be the new interface. For example, I'm willing to bet that most people spend most of their online time using complex interfaces to acquire tiny, yet important to them, bits of information. By "complex",
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by ThaddeusQuay2 15y ago
"It is really, really, really, really, really hard for me to find a good temporary distraction nowadays." You sound like a typical bored teenager, with too much time on their hands, wearing their boredom as a nihilistic badge of honor, expe
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by ThaddeusQuay2 15y ago
I recently made the same distinction on HN, but there's not much point to it because the Moral Majority has made real discussion of CP so toxic that pretty much everyone avoids it. The situation is so bad that your very question might get y
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by ThaddeusQuay2 15y ago
Please continue. Your comment appears unfinished.
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by ThaddeusQuay2 15y ago
HN isn't allowing me to post my intended reply to you, because every time I do, the comment is immediately marked as "dead". Censorship is everywhere.
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by ThaddeusQuay2 15y ago
Your comment merely serves to affirm falsehoods which we, as a society, have come to accept without question. There is a good amount of "child porn" which does not injure the subject. http://news.cnet.com/2100-1030_3-6139524.html (Federa
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by ThaddeusQuay2 15y ago
"Surely this is exactly the opposite of what Martin Luther King wanted when he asked us to judge people not by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character." Putting aside the ridiculousness of that statement, given that i
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by ThaddeusQuay2 15y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Column-oriented_DBMS
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by ThaddeusQuay2 15y ago
Animated, colored bubbles aside, history supports my claim. Gapminder's data is flawed because it mixes Whites with unwhites. For example, when Whites arrived in South Africa, there were so few blacks that the place was pretty much empty. W
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by ThaddeusQuay2 15y ago
"In fact the best way to lower humanity's impact on the environment is to reduce third world poverty and thus reduce population growth." False. When you reduce poverty in a third world population, they simply breed more. This has repeatedly
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by ThaddeusQuay2 15y ago
Or obviate all of the potential downfalls with null by simply sticking "anonymous" in the name field.

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