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901.
by Tichy 14y ago
But how do they know how much energy a bit requires?
902.
by Tichy 14y ago
" To record a single bit by changing the state of a system requires an amount of energy no less than kT, where T is the absolute temperature of the system and k is the Boltzman constant." How does that work? It seems odd that is is independ
903.
by Tichy 14y ago
I was referring to the blog posts, I think the mom wanted to choke her kid for singing in the car.
904.
by Tichy 14y ago
I admit that is something I also worry about, should we ever have a second kid.
905.
by Tichy 14y ago
Attention for what, though? Also, you are probably better off without a TV :-)
906.
by Tichy 14y ago
Great link, thanks :-)
907.
by Tichy 14y ago
Could you give some examples? I guess my kid is still too young (2 years old), but I wonder, why not sometimes just let them be? I have sometimes been a little bit stressed out, but it wasn't his fault, and it didn't go as far as wanting to
908.
by Tichy 14y ago
Actually, no, you don't just sometimes end up to want to throttle your kid.
909.
by Tichy 14y ago
I don't usual hit my thumb with a hammer, but I have no empirical evidence that I shouldn't. Maybe I should smash my thumb with a hammer occasionally? Seriously, does this need research? Just try it, and you'll see some pain go away, not th
910.
by Tichy 14y ago
Families have other ways of passing on psychological problems besides genes. Just wanted to mention that. Not saying that genes never play a part, I don't know.
911.
by Tichy 14y ago
How did he manage to walk with such precision? Assuming it isn't just photoshop.
912.
by Tichy 14y ago
I think Ryan should receive a lot of money from the media. Can the media really just ruin somebody's life and not even pay a dime for it?
913.
by Tichy 14y ago
Well this used to be the way I migrated people with old phones to Android. Since it is impossible to still get the arcane sync software for old Nokia or Sony phones to work, I always just synced them to Google. Once - then that person's new
914.
by Tichy 14y ago
Why gmail and not email?
915.
by Tichy 14y ago
I know I am a minority, and I am not very likely to switch to a new editor anyway, but I'd like to point out that not everybody watches videos. And if it absolutely has to be a video, why not make it work without flash? I'd have to switch b
916.
by Tichy 14y ago
What kind of reviews do his books get?
917.
by Tichy 14y ago
:-(
918.
by Tichy 14y ago
I hope you don't feel bad for not writing a blog post. It is not a requirement at all.
919.
by Tichy 14y ago
"Never has there been less hunger, less disease or more prosperity." That seems unlikely to me, given the recent growth of the world's population. I would guess there are now more people hungry than there were people alive some centuries (o
920.
by Tichy 14y ago
Wouldn't it be a good thing as that would open our eyes to the fact that Wikipedia articles are really not reliable at all? I don't see how a fast deletion mechanism makes the articles more reliable. The proper solution seems to be to let t
921.
by Tichy 14y ago
The complete package page looks a bit messy to me (messy stacks of videos and what not).
922.
by Tichy 14y ago
According to the last Dan Brown novel, Twitter is god. Seriously.
923.
by Tichy 14y ago
I wonder, isn't there something like frivolous contracts? So that even if you sign away the rights to your music while you are young, the law would still somehow protect you?
924.
by Tichy 14y ago
The question is, how do you license it? What if licensing it costs a government fee of 10000$ for the bureaucracy?
925.
by Tichy 14y ago
I don't know the exact phrasing either. Also not sure if everybody wants to put their content under CC. I think the government could make this messy enough to even foil the CC plan. For example they could set it up like GEMA for music - the
926.
by Tichy 14y ago
Isn't this a case for the internet bat signal? I must admit I still haven't included it on my sites, mostly because last time I looked they only provided JavaScript hooks making my site vulnerable to their site being hacked. Perhaps they ha
927.
by Tichy 14y ago
Sure, and I would welcome that. But I think smaller publishers (including bloggers) might have problems, too. The law would apply to their blogs as well, they would have to figure out how to allow Google and others to still quote them. It m
928.
by Tichy 14y ago
Maybe, but for example, perhaps today completely different things matter? In the past perhaps it was important to get on TV or cooperate with some supermarket chain, whereas today you should have a billion Facebook followers and be pushed b
929.
by Tichy 14y ago
Also, I don't know, wouldn't somebody who built a sales channel (whatever that is) in the past have done so with completely outdated methods? Presumably fax machines and telephones?
930.
by Tichy 14y ago
Yes, I printed that one out and stuck it to my monitor, actually :-) I still value HN very much, and I read the comments because there is often useful information. It is just the way I interact with it that is the problem - certainly not HN

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