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by dasht 17y ago
I asked a feral human (which really, takes some doing) and he explained that by corralling the rich people into the cities, and getting them to help push out the feral -- well, it made the rich people easier to harvest or, more commonly, cu
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For those encountering this paper for the first time I thought it would could helpful to point out some stuff: "The Strong Free Will Theorem" is a successor paper to an earlier paper called "The Free Will Theorem" (easily found via a search
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We'll see if this is later confirmed but, I think it pretty funny that (as of this writing) Slashdot appears to be, well, Shashdotted over this post. (Disclaimer: Obviously it won't be quite so funny if it turns out to be a malicious DoS
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I think that Mr. Schmidt is trying to do two things: (1) Preparing for Google to eventually be "outed" about just how much data it actually hands over to the government on the basis of the Patriot Act; (2) Distracting the general public fr
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Here is a hypothesis which can be refuted: "There does not exist any naturally occurring genotype whose existence is not explicable by a process of natural selection in the context of non-directed mutation." Let's call that the DarwinWins
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So, a box fan that looks roughly like the one pictured seems (from a quick poking around) like it uses 80-150 Watts. Intuitively (not measured, not scientific - just a hypothesis) it seems like a box fan will also move much more air than i
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Dang, that's nice. Depicted in the video are several shots of Berkeley, CA where I live. I gave up owning a car a few years back and use a bike for most everything. I make pretty heavy use of our Bicycle Boulevards. FWIW, here are some o
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LBL challenges / opportunities in green building(youtube.com)
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I'm pleased to have been helpful and, of course, wish you extravagant luck. One of my pet peeves about web sites in general, related to your state: every damn commercial site everywhere should have a darn "about" link so interested poten
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I can't tell what your app promises to do for me from any of the information on the front page. I can't tell what problem it tries to solve. I can't tell what would actually happen if I uploaded a file. All I know is that you want me to
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Academic libraries work, although you need to actually go or be affiliated in a way that gives you their online access. The paywalls (ACM, IEEE) are what they are. Sometimes, not always, if you find a paper behind a paywall but look at the
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"Prior art" -- nice.
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The funny thing about Sokal is not so much that he (supposedly) slipped a bogus paper past the editors, but rather in how so many people react to the event and take it as proof positive that the entire field is bogus or even that publishing
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by dasht 17y ago
You left out that not only are the prisons crowded but, more importantly, the incarceration rate (as a percentage of population) is absurdly high by global standards.
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Across the table from the protesters sits the UC Berkeley administration and the UC Berkeley campus police. Rehiring the custodians is the only immediate action for which the administration has authority - the administration lacks authori
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Hi. To try to calmly explain a bit, "End Budget Cuts, Don't Raise Our Fees!" is not the self-contradictory statement you make it out to be. On the one hand, although state revenues are down, state spending priorities are all messed up (e.
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I'm not sure there is any good answer to your question but I noticed something about how you phrased it. You DID NOT say "a killer opportunity to get filthy rich". You DID say "a killer opportunity to buck the cog-in-a-wheel machine". Do
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Recoveries would (likely, for now - less likely a few years from now) be more often necessary and slower for most users all else being equal, but it's not that simple. First, if users have software freedom and are running the system on serv
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That would seem to be a fairly deep architectural flaw. Namely, that (roughly speaking) all users of the basecamp server experience performance and reliability roughly equal to that of those users experiencing the worst performance and rel
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The post in question doesn't acknowledge that "that's how things are" and it certainly doesn't acknowledge that there are reasons why things being that way is an undesirable condition. On the contrary, the post in question joins in making
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With due respect, I think that this post is unbecoming HN. JWZ's quip was sexist and so is this follow-up. Also, while there is a long history of the successful monetization of business models which "get people laid," generally speaking
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Heh. Suppose a CEO pretty much single-handedly runs a company into the ground and ensures its failure shortly after he leaves - but he also wins the investors a tidy exit. Is he a good CEO? :-) -t
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I don't have that sense, rajeshamara. YC seems important to me for a few reasons: One, they do a better job than many investment firms at teaching some basics about start-ups. In that way, I think they encourage a lot of people to try who
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I'm going to assume you mean closures as in Scheme, not closures in a pure functional language. For that, what I would try is an operational approach: "Joe, you know how local variables are allocated on a stack?" If he says "no" I'm not su
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I'm kind of new here. I don't quite like any of the choices in the poll. I think the elements of HN's winningness are: a) Paul Graham gets good PR and often says interesting things low on pure hype and high in thoughtful content (in a ki
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I don't know anyone who does it this way but an idea I like would be metered, like Amazon, but with a twist: a safety net and "grace amount" for users: Customer signs up, gives a CC or other payment assurance, says "I am willing to pay up
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I'm potentially in on that bet, too, but what do we mean by public utility? It's a hard bet to decide the outcome of. -t
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Conversely, to fail to become sufficiently bureaucratic that the lunatics run the asylum. They are too big not to fail.
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1) (Google as Page and Brin's bull session fantasy): Schmidt has been there for a long time, sure, but it's only in recent years that they've so clearly polarized between the "the guys" and Schmidt, the former representing vague hype and th

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