TriinT

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Power Arbitrage(entropyproduction.blogspot.com)
1 points by TriinT 17y ago|0 comments
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by TriinT 17y ago
Do you really think that multiplying large numbers in your head is knowing math well? Seriously. Knowing math well, i.e., knowing stuff like Differential Geometry or Algebraic Topology, is anything but a form of marketing...
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by TriinT 17y ago
"I mean, hell, he's better off than Godel ended up, right?" So far, at least. In 20 or 30 years we will know the answer to that...
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by TriinT 17y ago
Unlike Wolfram, Gödel did groundbreaking work. Gödel was revolutionary. Wolfram is quite smart, but other than Mathematica , I don't really think he has achieved much at all. Any comparison between the two men is ridiculous. They are in en
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by TriinT 17y ago
"Instead of writing personal checks, I'll write personal certificates of deposit to each awardee's account at the Bank of San Serriffe, which is an offshore institution that has branches in Blefuscu and Elbonia on the planet Pincus." Dr.
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Knuth is so revered among computer scientists that they won't cash his checks.(futilitycloset.com)
19 points by TriinT 17y ago|12 comments
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Giving the poor a means to work(businessweek.com)
1 points by TriinT 17y ago|0 comments
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Fermi problems(infoproc.blogspot.com)
4 points by TriinT 17y ago|0 comments
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by TriinT 17y ago
I like your back-of-the-envelope calculations... The problem with such seemingly unorthodox proposals is that they can be either brilliant or totally retarded. The devil is in the details. Unfortunately, neither the media nor the masses car
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How to use pulsars for interstellar navigation(technologyreview.com)
10 points by TriinT 17y ago|3 comments
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by TriinT 17y ago
How much energy would be spent on the production of white paint? How much energy would be saved by painting the roofs white? Unless a detailed quantitative analysis is provided, this is pretty much nonsensical...
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by TriinT 17y ago
You should write a book. Seriously. I love that rare blend of guilt, frustration and bitterness. Hackers and painters. Nerds and artists. Neither one nor the other is destined to spawn. They may be lucky enough to leave their tiny mark on t
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by TriinT 17y ago
I wholeheartedly agree. Too bad I can't upvote you twice. Cheers.
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by TriinT 17y ago
Many people value their own worth based on how much loot they have amassed. If you lose it all, then you're worth nothing. BTW, the german guy was an old tosser just waiting to see what kind of cancer would kill him. Not much of a loss to m
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by TriinT 17y ago
"Being 19 and male is miserable, except for the few who are lucky enough to find a soulmate that early" I get the impression that you didn't enjoy college. Who wants a soulmate so early? Seriously. Only weak and / or disabled people need
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by TriinT 17y ago
"Social sciences" is an oxymoron. Everyone with a functioning brain knows that....
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by TriinT 17y ago
Where's the trial?
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by TriinT 17y ago
So much ado about nothing... Lacking a rigorous and universal definition of what happiness is, all this talk is pretty much pointless. Maybe the whole feminist movement fed women with unrealistic expectations and their misery stems from the
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by TriinT 17y ago
Astronaut!! Does extra-vehicular activity count as outdoors activity? ;-)
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by TriinT 17y ago
If Paris reminds you of NYC, you probably drank way too much 6 euro wine... Would you care to elaborate on that please? How's Paris like NYC? Seriously.
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by TriinT 17y ago
I get the impression that the author is painting things with a very, very broad brush. For starters, not all ethanol comes from corn, and thus ethanol does not necessarily drive the price of food up. What about miscanthus? There are MANY wa
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by TriinT 17y ago
Not to mention that such a policy would greatly benefit the sugar-cane farmers in Central and South America too...
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by TriinT 17y ago
True, but literacy is literacy. You proposed going against the religious establishment... and I am all for that, but it's fighting a battle uphill. Mentalities change very slowly. Mankind has huge mental inertia.
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by TriinT 17y ago
If you want to distribute your wealth, go ahead, but don't force me to distribute mine... How about creating markets so that the 3rd world farmers could sell their products? So much gospel on free markets and the U.S. and E.U. are still pro
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by TriinT 17y ago
I am aware that the U.S. spends way too much money in health care and gets less than brilliant results. I will never understand how that is possible...
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by TriinT 17y ago
The problem with those measures is that they take decades to yield results. And in a few decades we will all be fucked anyway...
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by TriinT 17y ago
WW2 killed "only" 60 million or so. Population control would require having 2 billion or so killed. Unless one goes for nuclear warfare, I don't see war solving the overpopulation problem. Unfortunately, there are not enough resources to gu
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by TriinT 17y ago
But isn't oil carbon neutral? ;-) It's widely accepted that oil has a biological origin (some people dispute that). The carbon absorbed by plants millions of years ago had to come from somewhere, and that is the CO2 in the atmosphere. If oi
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by TriinT 17y ago
Why would mankind be at risk because of oil? Mankind may be at risk because of nuclear weapons, sure, but oil? When oil is over we may have to start riding horses again, but I don't see that as such a huge catastrophe.
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by TriinT 17y ago
"The same professional association exists in Canada and other countries, yet our health care expenditures are under control." Many times, the costs are not under control, they are hidden. I come from Europe, and in my homecountry the AMA-

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