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by bd 17y ago
They were praised for being "hard workers" meaning they could expect social approval for chugging through boring tasks. The first group already got their social approval for being smart. Once labeled "smart", they already "knew" they were s
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by bd 17y ago
"Can someone estimate the probability of something like that happening spontaneously?" With a lot of handwaving ... ---- If everything goes perfectly (each random mutation flips the right nucleotide), you would need at least 77.5 years to
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by bd 17y ago
Such virus would probably kill you pretty fast anyways. I don't know about THC, but alcohol is definitely a poison (400+mg/dL of blood should induce respiratory failure, coma and death [1]). It would be hard to regulate the overall alcohol
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by bd 17y ago
Exactly, it's called "observation selection effect" (coined by Nick Bostrom): http://www.anthropic-principle.com/primer.html
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by bd 17y ago
Obligatory link: Robert A. Heinlein - All You Zombies http://ieng9.ucsd.edu/~mfedder/zombies.html
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by bd 17y ago
See also anthropic principle: "The conditional probability of finding yourself in a universe compatible with your existence is always 1." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic_principle
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by bd 17y ago
Well, it's even worse than that. Many modern touchpads support multitouch in hardware but it's disabled in drivers [1]. I believe it has something to do with Apple sitting on multitouch patents. Even Android phones were supposed not to have
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Distance Is Not Dead: Social Interaction & Geographical Distance in Internet Era(arxiv.org)
1 points by bd 17y ago|0 comments
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by bd 17y ago
Not to be confused with Daemon Tools :) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daemontools http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daemon_Tools
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by bd 17y ago
See also previous discussion here on HN about this topic: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=793205
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Frequently Asked Questions for programming.reddit(reddit.com)
2 points by bd 17y ago|0 comments
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by bd 17y ago
Also Civilization 4 used Python extensively: http://www.python.org/about/quotes/ (look for "Firaxis Games")
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by bd 17y ago
I think the author has these options covered: - If you do it because you enjoy it, then you are, by article's definition, a "loser" (in terms of potential monetary gains) [1]. - If you do it in order to learn about running your own startu
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by bd 17y ago
"someone else's company" Here lies your answer. A lot of people here either wants to or they already did start own company, so they are more in the position of "sociopaths" (according to the post's terminology - see "The MacLeod Life Cycl
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Wall Street got dangerous when it got smart(nytimes.com)
8 points by bd 17y ago|0 comments
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by bd 17y ago
I learned a lot from Qt: http://qt.nokia.com/ And it's not just their code, everything they do is exemplary. It's one extremely well run software project. See for example their documentation: http://doc.trolltech.com/ http://doc.trollt
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by bd 17y ago
The difference is much easier to perceive after further increase of contrast and brightness: http://alteredqualia.com/visualization/hn/illusion-of-sex.pn...
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by bd 17y ago
Oh memories. It was not just about English - even if you knew what to do, you had to use the exact phrase game creators intended. It could become very frustrating, especially as in those days you couldn't just go to web and find the walkthr
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by bd 17y ago
"For example, Hacker News could change its system so that nobody got a point simply for posting a comment." You don't get a point simply for posting a comment: all points come from upvotes - downvotes. Initial "1 point" label is a purely
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by bd 17y ago
More like this: ♂♂♂♂♂ ♂♂♂♂♂ ♂♂♂♂♂ ♂♂♂♂♂ ♂♂♂♂♂ ♂♂♂♂♂ ♂♂♂♂♂ ♂♂♂♂♂ ♂♂♂♂♂ ♂♂♂♂♂ ♂♂♂♂♂ ♂♂♂♂♂ ♂♂ ♀♀♀♀ ⚥ Male 92.5 % Female 6 % Other 1.5 % http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=749617
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by bd 17y ago
There are some regions with average male height up to 190 cm. "In the late nineteenth century, the Netherlands was a land renowned for its short population, but today it has the second tallest average in the world, with young men averaging
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by bd 17y ago
Yes, that seems to be the case for military use: "The JD-3 laser dazzler is mounted on the Chinese Type 98 main battle tank. It is coupled with a laser radiation detector, and automatically aims for the enemy's illuminating laser designato
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by bd 17y ago
Well, there are actually two unstated preconditions that need to hold for proposed strategy to work: 1) every prisoner uses the same entry (with the same reference frame in respect to boxes) 2) there are no changes in the arrangement of box
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by bd 17y ago
Also Notepad++ has such feature (instant document-wide highlight on selection). It's indeed quite useful. http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm
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Incompetence as a Signalling Device(insidehighered.com)
48 points by bd 17y ago|7 comments
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Turning back the clock: Fasting prolongs reproductive life span(fhcrc.org)
1 points by bd 17y ago|0 comments
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by bd 17y ago
XFEL is probably going to be a better way to look at biological macromolecules (though I'm not sure if the resolution would be high enough to see atom-sized details). It's a kind of the opposite approach: instead of slowly collecting inform
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World faces hi-tech crunch as China eyes ban on rare metal exports(telegraph.co.uk)
47 points by bd 17y ago|37 comments
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by bd 17y ago
Just imagine you are Searle's "Chinese room" :). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room
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by bd 17y ago
Interestingly, you also created a top Google result for this search term (indexed in around 10 minutes): http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=safari&rls...

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