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by alister 15y ago
So you're saying that the great theories and discoveries these days don't get the fame that, say, the Big Bang gets, because there are so many of them. If that's the case you should still be able to name a theory or discovery in your area
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by alister 15y ago
But can you name ANY amazing breakthrough in physics in the 20th century past about 1960? Or in biology and chemistry for that matter? The original question still stands.
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Ask HN: Where are the great scientific theories of our lifetime?
14 points by alister 15y ago|25 comments
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by alister 16y ago
This article further confirms the ridiculousness of asking friends and co-workers to recommend a dentist. I do trust friends and co-workers to recommend movies or restaurants because most people have seen hundreds of movies and eaten at hun
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by alister 16y ago
I kept reading that you were "passionate about recreational consumption", but then the rest of the sentence didn't make any sense. A single comma makes a big difference to understanding what you meant: "When I have as much time as I want to
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by alister 16y ago
Can we conclude that this is the wistful daydream equivalent of the "Maserati Problem" I'll go out on a limb and say that even normal retirement planning (50 years into the future) is a Maserati Problem. Everybody that makes very long-t
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by alister 16y ago
The same is true for me (more than a decade of software contracts) and I also have never been screwed. I have the feeling that the people being jerked around are doing web sites. The problem with standard web work is that (a) the competitio
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by alister 16y ago
> Modern attackers are active by default; they proxy connections from phishing sites or attack the DNS. The biggest attackers by far are the NSA and similar agencies -- that's passive attack -- scanning your emails, VOIP calls, browsi
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Ask HN: Six reasons why P=NP doesn't kill encryption
6 points by alister 16y ago|0 comments