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by bh23ha 17y ago
They could go public, discounting the benefits of staying a private founder run company like SAS, and instead going for the quick pay-off of an IPO. Then the usual pressures for quarterly results would slowly eat away at their "don't be evi
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by bh23ha 17y ago
Yes, very badly formulated, but I am beyond agreeing with him at this point. Back when I was known as biohacker42 I used to whine about this all the time. Now I've just given up and visit HN a lot less, it's jumped the shark.
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by bh23ha 17y ago
Is it too early to start a media panic about the shrinking humanity? In all seriousness, I've always looked at birth control and education and affluence as a virus which drastically reduces fertility. But obviously some people, besides thei
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by bh23ha 17y ago
This is great stuff. With batteries and capacitors constantly improving we should soon have quiet humanoid robots walking around. I find it fascinating to think where they will be first used as more then a proof of concept curiosity. I woul
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by bh23ha 17y ago
And still are today. Seriously, try watching the same event covered by CNN vs a foreign news source, I won't even mention other cable news channels.
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by bh23ha 17y ago
In summary: Geocities -> Angelfire -> Tripod -> Friendster -> MySpace -> Facebook -> Twitter -> etc...
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by bh23ha 17y ago
I have no idea why they changed this, I noticed it recently and I can't figure it why. User testing must have somehow played a role, I hate to blame non-technical users but... still I can't believe anyone gets better results when the keywor
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by bh23ha 17y ago
This is very neat, but for some reason I'm not super impressed. I don't mean to be glib, but genetic algorithms have been producing impressive results for a while. And if you feed them a huge amount of raw experimental data, I have no doubt
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by bh23ha 17y ago
Get into politics, and try to convince the people of SF that rent control is stupid and needs to be done away with, use yourself as an example. Well that's a good long term plan, in the short term, I'm afraid you might be screwed.
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by bh23ha 17y ago
I have to agree with the latest theory that Britain had the unique combination of expensive labour and cheap energy. It was unique to Britain for reasons having to do with coal and trade with the colonies, but the bottom line is only when
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by bh23ha 17y ago
I believe the problem is with ever advancing hardware. The new chips are much faster and would "overtake" an experiment that's been running. This problem is sometimes described as putting colonists on a space ship and sending then off. They
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by bh23ha 17y ago
Italian article with picture: http://www.eltiempo.com/culturayocio/arte_eltiempo_vivein/AR...
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by bh23ha 17y ago
I think the unluckies would resist the marshmallows better. The hight degree of worry strikes me as mind over emotion. Then again the variables might be independent and there would be no correlation between EQ and luck.
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by bh23ha 17y ago
I have not idea why they embedded the commercial, but did not even link to hulu: http://www.hulu.com/watch/101471/the-tonight-show-with-conan...
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by bh23ha 17y ago
I've been dabbling in Linux for years. But recently I had finally had enough with worms and rootkits on my main XP desktop. I am witting this form Ubuntu, and couldn't be happier.
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by bh23ha 17y ago
The Karma vs Days scatter plot is in absolute terms, and the karma outliers skew it so much it's hard to place anyone who's not an outlier.
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by bh23ha 17y ago
I consider myself a libertarian, however: Many big slaughterhouses will sell only to grinders who agree not to test their shipments for E. coli, according to officials at two large grinding companies Things like this keep reminding me tha
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by bh23ha 17y ago
Digitize and share with the world?