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by bioh42_2 16y ago
Oh joy, another dubious article from physorg.com! With the science sub-reddit's recent acquisition of real scientist moderators, I think we have finally reached the point where the science submissions on HN are less credible then those on r
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by bioh42_2 16y ago
Ashamed? No. Out-competed by an advertising free email service - yes.
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by bioh42_2 16y ago
What pushed me into using Adblock is that every so often adds turn out to be security problems. Sure, it is rare and fixed quickly but if they show up in my gmail account, which I use for authentication, I will start looking for another ema
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by bioh42_2 16y ago
Companies that aim to transform one of these fields should understand that they need to be in the business of producing at least some of the content in that field, they can't just be bit pushers and rehashers. Indeed, but as it has happen
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by bioh42_2 16y ago
I wish casinos allowed betting on science news, then with each headline we could get the over/under spread. And I would only bother reading things when most people put money on them being true.
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by bioh42_2 16y ago
The programming world is remarkably and unfortunately geared towards only certain sorts of minds. Could that be because it is in fact an extreme brain activity that only a small percentage of people is capable of doing? And since men are
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by bioh42_2 16y ago
But he's the CEO of a publicly traded company. And not just any CEO, but like the soul of Apple.
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by bioh42_2 16y ago
Anyone know how redo compares to SCons/CMake/Ant?
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by bioh42_2 16y ago
I'd love to see these anecdotes turned into evidence That's not going to happen. This is a pissing contest between Olympic level pissers. Me, I'd like to see these two families in a wrestling match - just the mothers and daughters obvious
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by bioh42_2 16y ago
There is nothing mysterious about it. This is what I call "legal corruption". Lobbying is fully within the law of the land. It may not be right but it is legal. Unfortunately I don't see a way of changing this. Not within a republic with
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by bioh42_2 16y ago
I would donate money to this.
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by bioh42_2 16y ago
Just assume there is a 99.9999% chance it will kill you. Many people would still take the chance to make a difference.
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by bioh42_2 16y ago
This is excellent! I think only the very last paragraph analyzing the WSJ's motivations overreached a bit, making them a bit too complex. The WSJ's wants to sell papers and add space in those papers. That story just makes for great bait for
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by bioh42_2 16y ago
Would you prefer we test these things on humans? Yes. I would prefer we test all drugs on humans as soon as volunteers can be found and the researcher thinks it would be beneficial. I am assuming a volunteer free from political or even fi
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by bioh42_2 16y ago
Hmmm, I am quite a pessimist so perhaps that means I have quite the acceptance of reality.
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by bioh42_2 16y ago
This article really shows how passionate he is about understanding and accepting human nature. OK I must be weird! I am a software engineer (I know you are shocked, SHOCKED that there's are hackers/engineers/programmers on HN!) and I am a
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by bioh42_2 16y ago
Well to me the most valuable things are knowledge, practice and discovery. After all that is how progress is made. And we study hard to be able to make discoveries and do things which will change the world. And I firmly believe that almost
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by bioh42_2 16y ago
Why would anyone? If they clearly hate school it seems like a mistake to try to entice them I think this is an admission that college, and defiantly CalTech is not about knowledge but academics, and the two are not the same. Imho, academi
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by bioh42_2 16y ago
The biggest benefit of going to a public high school in the DC area was being forced to interact with kids from almost every background you could imagine. But isn't it a bit odd you had to go to college to do that? Wouldn't it be better
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by bioh42_2 16y ago
I fully agree but I've always found the notion that universities can/should teach things other then academics a bit silly. And strangely while many universities aim to do just that, I don't know of any who take it seriously enough to teac
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by bioh42_2 16y ago
Would you admit someone with a fascinating and very impressive personal project who also clearly hates school and barely got C- in all subjects including math and science?
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by bioh42_2 16y ago
I have never sent a thank you note. Not for any job I've ever had. Not for those who really wanted me and fought for me and made me great offers, never. Perhaps I am rude, or perhaps companies looking to make money are not looking for "poli
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by bioh42_2 16y ago
Yes, it is marching on, but not nearly as fast as it used to. And it will continue to slow down. Do you disagree?
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by bioh42_2 16y ago
I am the only one who sees the growing number or cores as proof that transistor density growth is sigmoid and not geometric? At least, not anymore. The fact that we have entered the sigmoid stage is kind of depressing.
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by bioh42_2 16y ago
An AI bot for n00b questions would be a genuinely useful thing.
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by bioh42_2 16y ago
Ah yes, but I think all other dictators be it China, Singapore, Iran or North Korea have learned from the Romanian/Yougoslavian/East German, etc. experience. A successful mob revolution requires a huge mob that can spill over government opp
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by bioh42_2 16y ago
The problem with Homeland Security is that they're a bunch of people sitting in an office thinking: What can we do to promote Homeland Security? That's pretty much true for every organization, be it a private company, the catholic church,
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by bioh42_2 16y ago
If people were given a choice between no bananas and GM bananas, doesn't that make GM bananas a no brainer? Sure. But it's a false dichotomy. The world is full of bananas, we are just running out a single (albeit very commercially profit
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by bioh42_2 16y ago
Practice, practice, practice. The same secret to everything else.
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by bioh42_2 16y ago
Well, clearly this means moving to Germany makes you stupid. Being born in Germany clearly provides some kind of immunity. Or am I drawing erroneous conclusions from the data?

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