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by athom 16y ago
I'm gonna call "citation needed" on this one. The clean coal part, specifically. Reasons: Technically, it should be possible to filter out uranium. Thorium, too. Both are heavy enough, it should be possible to centrifuge them out of just
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by athom 16y ago
I know this probably marks me a cl00l355 n00b (as if the pseudo-733t spelling didn't), but is there some reason that page wants to pull in a script from 127.0.0.1, port 5337? Possibly amusing note: I checked Google for references to this po
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by athom 16y ago
Sounds like he got his start programming spreadsheets.
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by athom 16y ago
If the guy outta Venice knew his stuff, he'd have immediately delegated those tasks to others and got back to his own business, rather than do them all himself. Such is the art of management.
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by athom 16y ago
And yet, when its phrased like that, it (almost?) seems perfectly reasonable. It's easy to miss the "obvious" issue, and I've been following the skeptic scene for years!
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by athom 16y ago
http://www.sabrina-online.com/thismonth.html
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by athom 16y ago
How long ago was that? I felt one from Michigan myself a few years back, that originated down in southern Indiana. That was around 3 or 4AM, though, so unless you were working late or living in your office... The American midwest may not be
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by athom 16y ago
Terry Pratchett told us a tale of making a crude vision system out of one of these. If I recall correctly, he figured out the memory modules were light sensitive, and if exposed to a focused image, the image could be 'read' straight from me
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by athom 16y ago
Thanks, but I got a little update: it won't work on strings. The help says as much, in fact. Actually, what it says is, "Returns the sum of a sequence of numbers (NOT strings)," which I think is meant to imply it won't parse numbers out of
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by athom 16y ago
After reading this, I got to wondering if I could hijack sum into joining lists. My first attempt didn't work: sum([ range(n,n+5) for n in range(5) ]) just gave me "TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for +: 'int' and 'list'", whi
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by athom 16y ago
I just wish I could afford one. Can you still use the pay-as-you-go plans with this one?
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by athom 16y ago
I'd like to take this opportunity to present the coolest take on RPS I've EVER seen: a board game, invented by oddball web cartoonist Tailsteak! He presents the rules in this strip: http://leftoversoup.com/archive.php?num=34 and you can p
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by athom 16y ago
I was going to comment on the eye-tracking story in my reply to Max, but it really didn't fit there. Anyway: If you read it, you'll notice that story didn't really lead to much beyond a cool experience impressing a couple of guys who ought
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by athom 16y ago
Read a little closer. Start with the beginning: "When I was 17 and a high school drop-out..." followed by the (near) ending: "I was 22 at the time and making roughly twice what she was..." So there's about five years in between the high sch
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by athom 16y ago
Not very professional of them, I'd say.
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by athom 16y ago
Actually, much of the Myst series' "eye candy" provided considerable depth, with all the journals and their diagrams, video segments, and (sort of) interactive points. While the environments were largely static (read: empty, dead), the ba
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by athom 16y ago
Microsoft first introduced Windows 1.0 on November 20, 1985. Since the introduction of Windows the operating system has dominated personal computers ever since. Not to be pedantic, but I don't seem to recall Windows "dominating" anything
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by athom 16y ago
I half expected to get downvoted for the obscure comment myself, but decided, it's worth it! ;) Glad to see it caught a few knowing eyes, after all!
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by athom 16y ago
Maybe written by a cockroach?
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by athom 16y ago
Taxes levied on harmful activities kill two birds with one stone. They generate desperately needed revenue while discouraging behaviors whose costs greatly outweigh their benefits. Actually, I've long been of the opinion that such taxes c
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by athom 16y ago
After reading (most of) the article, I'm not so sure about Jordan's premise. Can we really assume that webapps are really designed to streamline our lives? Perhaps that's the idea behind them, but let's consider the example of a (generic)
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by athom 16y ago
You know, I really never wanted to join Facebook in the first place. I only got involved after a couple of friends invited me. After about half a year blowing way too much time on Farm Town, Mafia Wars, etc., I pulled way back, and only d
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by athom 16y ago
So, where/how do you get a dump of your DNA, anyways? I suppose it must cost a pretty penny, too?
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by athom 16y ago
This is why I read hn comments first, period. Always seemed the best way to find out if a link's worth even following. Of course, I guess that wouldn't work if everyone did it that way...
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by athom 16y ago
Point up for raising awareness of fiverr.com Well, I'd never heard of it before, anyway.
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by athom 16y ago
Without looking at the page/video (And after what everyone else has said, pleeeeze don't tell me I have to?! ;), does this sound anything like that Chandler project[1] they wrote about in Dreaming in Code [2]? [1] http://chandlerproject
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by athom 16y ago
When I read that headline, the first thing that came to my mind was http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_of_the_Four_Emperors Presumably, the course of Firefox will run a little less bloody. =)
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by athom 16y ago
I can't say I really know. I didn't hear about anyone breaking it, certainly.
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by athom 16y ago
If you want to talk economics and science fiction, maybe we should ask ourselves how relativity affects compound interest? Like, suppose you deposit your money in a bank account at, say, a couple percent interest, then head off for about te
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by athom 16y ago
Which was actually my point. I don't see anyone willingly adding a feature to actually restrict functionality the way a currency detection engine would/does. At least, in an open source project, I think there would be enough resistance from

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