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by breadbox 13y ago
Those bits are my favorite parts!
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by breadbox 13y ago
Everything's relative except c . Best I could do.
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by breadbox 13y ago
You're not dumb. It's a subtle point, otherwise special relativity wouldn't have been necessary to invent. (You may find it worthwhile to read a more normal article on special relativity -- it's much easier to understand than general relati
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by breadbox 13y ago
What a cool pic. I'm glad that you made it and put the link here. I want to hang it up on my wall!
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by breadbox 13y ago
You're talking about accelerating. The original passage was just talking about simple constant motion. The point being that you can't distinguish constant motion from remaining perfectly still without something else to measure against. That
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by breadbox 13y ago
Actually, Hofstadter states that he was inspired by a magazine contest.
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by breadbox 13y ago
Yes to both.
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by breadbox 13y ago
What I was trying to express by "inky void, not even a star" was that the void didn't even include anything resembling an aether. "You are the only body in that void" is meant to include non-material bodies. All this passage is trying to es
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by breadbox 13y ago
It was in fact the latter. (I was inspired in part by Douglas Hofstadter, who did something similar on a smaller scale in "Le Ton Beau de Marot".)
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by breadbox 13y ago
Kepler was launched 4 years ago, so I think your first sentence is misworded. Its original 3.5-year mission was pushed out 3 years due to issues with noisy data, so it hasn't really completed its original mission yet. (Not that it hasn't do
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by breadbox 13y ago
The complaint says that they have not actually given out the offered refunds. Is that not true?
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by breadbox 13y ago
Whenever I see one of these questionable science articles jump to the front page of HN, I want to remind people that thoughtful, well-informed criticisms of said article often take a few days to appear (sometimes less, sometimes much more).
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Ultraconserved words? Really?(languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu)
8 points by breadbox 13y ago|1 comments
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by breadbox 13y ago
The biologist P. Z. Meyers argues that the skeleton is clearly that of a fetus. Quote: "It’s 6 inches long, which would make it a fetus around 20 weeks postconception; assuming a fair amount of shrinkage during dessication, I could guess as
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by breadbox 13y ago
I'm entirely unfamiliar with the usage displayed by examples 7 onward. In fact they seem to have lost something essential in the meaning of slash, since they seem to be introducing mere afterthoughts instead of actual alternatives for the p
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by breadbox 13y ago
It's actually "bear with me". I'm not sure what "bare with me" would mean.
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by breadbox 13y ago
It feels like there should be an option in between "2-3 books a week" and "multiple books a year". I read every day but it's rare for me to finish a book in a single week, since most of my reading happens on the bus or over the weekend.
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by breadbox 13y ago
It probably varies depending on the industry. I first heard the term in 1985, and it referred to the computer programmers as well (or software engineers, if you prefer, but nobody I knew back then used such a pretentious-sounding title). I'
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by breadbox 13y ago
I think the _author_ understood that, which is why she was so surprised to get the question. The high school student may not have, but that was kind of the point: even this low, low bar was still too high for her female friends.
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by breadbox 13y ago
Really minor nit: The name for the all-bits-zero byte is NUL. NULL is C's null pointer value, which is also represented by zero (but does not fit into a byte).
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by breadbox 13y ago
Why "instead"? Why not both?
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by breadbox 13y ago
Unfortunately the all-too-brief article doesn't really answer this question (unless the answer is the usual "Deny everything and carry on".)
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by breadbox 13y ago
Indeed. The central point of this post seems to be that "an infinite number of startups" would be "arguably more diverse". Well, okay.
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by breadbox 14y ago
And now for your obligatory bucket of cold water: http://scienceblogs.com/startswithabang/2013/04/03/itll-take... TLDR: "Based on what AMS has presented, there is nothing to suggest that they have detected any evidence whatsoever for part
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by breadbox 14y ago
Think of the AAVE negation, not as an operator, but as a tense. It's like in Standard English when you change a sentence from singular to plural, or from first-person to third-person: several words are required to change in lockstep or else
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by breadbox 14y ago
The snowman is an old meteorological symbol for snow. Predates Unicode by decades. I assume it's because a snowman is easier to render by hand than an actual snowflake. (Or like how rain is symbolized not by trying to draw recognizable rain
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by breadbox 14y ago
Dup of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5452434
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Junk DNA and Junk Science(freethoughtblogs.com)
2 points by breadbox 14y ago|0 comments
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by breadbox 14y ago
Or even better -- I want this to be "Beginning Of Thread". I want to skip over all the rampant speculation and name-calling of the last 24 hours and have the discussion begin here, with this. If only we could, then maybe the next sexism bro
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by breadbox 14y ago
I don't think anyone had issues; they were just confused and asking for clarification. If it's not constructive to have such things on the homepage, then let it get buried by better subjects. Deleting requests for information is just going

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