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by dejb 18y ago
Quick summary Dyson isn't so sure that global warming is cause by rising levels of CO2. Either way he doesn't see this as being a big problem as global warming would be a good thing for the world. He is more a Global Warming Embracer rather
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by dejb 18y ago
Wonder how it compares with Quake for Pocket PC which I used to play about 4 years ago. Tricky to reproduce all the controls without many buttons but hopefully they'll come up with something. The accelerometer might come in handy.
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by dejb 18y ago
I agree the Chinese are in a bit of a pickle what with holding so many US dollars. The fact that they are prepared to risk their investment by saying this is suggestive. In the end I think the US would still like to hold onto the USD as the
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by dejb 18y ago
It's an interesting idea. Seems better than just gold. However I don't necessarily think it would be more stable. Changes in supply and demand of resources could have numerous unintended consequences.
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by dejb 18y ago
I think it would work something like this 1 SDR = 1.3 USD + 1 EURO + 80 YEN + 0.5 GPB + etc It isn't perfectly stable but it isn't so dependant on any individual currency. Even if the USD halves in value then the total impact is less than 2
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by dejb 18y ago
What's with all the moralising? You think China are under some sort of moral obligation to take their losses cause they 'had it coming' for keeping the yuan low? Just like the US they'll do whatever they see is in their advantage. I don't s
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by dejb 18y ago
One good alternative explanation of CEO salaries is by analogue to sports stars. Most people can see the impact of hiring a standout player for a team. There may a huge pool of competent players but a team full of mediocre players will most
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by dejb 18y ago
I think you are focusing heavily on one particular model of an 'intelligence algorithm'. The model you are assuming sounds a lot like the type used for chess program. I played along with the 'culling algorithm' bit for the sake of convenien
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by dejb 18y ago
> Anyway, there are certain problems that require a "minimum mental speed" to accomplish; Mensa test questions are basically designed so that your working memory capacity will be exhausted by extraneous branches unless your mind can cul
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by dejb 18y ago
It's possible though that this is analogous with running. An IQ test could be seem as a relative sprint whereas the business of solving genuinely complex problems might be a marathon. A 'sprinting test' may actually provide a rough gauge of
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by dejb 18y ago
This lack of consistent colour presentation is actually an advantage for Google's approach over the designed based one. Their approach is optimising across the population of 'end colour presentations'. Even if 50% of users happened to see i
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by dejb 18y ago
> "Yes, it’s true that a team at Google couldn’t decide between two blues, so they’re testing 41 shades between each blue to see which one performs better. " Actually the evolutionist in me thinks this is pretty cool but I can still und
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by dejb 18y ago
Senator Conroy is now saying the the list is not the real blacklist http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/03/19/2520929.htm?se...
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by dejb 18y ago
So far people have identified the following in the list - Ordinary porn sites (thehun, xtube) including one that is operated from Australia (abbywinters) - All of the major poker sites - Betting exchange Betfair which operates legally in Au
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by dejb 18y ago
Yes this censorship is wrong - I agree with that. However the technical aspects of trying to censor the internet do have important ramifications. To effectively make censorship work on the internet it would require the government be able to
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by dejb 18y ago
If you just mean hierarchies of threads then I know Drupal forums do this. But if you are looking for the voting and vote ordering then I'm not sure. I suspect you'd find some module in Drupal though.
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by dejb 18y ago
Actually I'm just the opposite. I prefer hacking media and business to code. I'm more interested in how twitter will fight spam than how erlang can scale. Each to their own but I see this as a kind of 'Business for (ex)coders'.
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by dejb 18y ago
Maybe it isn't what you meant but to me you post comes off as... "What would they know. They aren't from the valley"
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by dejb 18y ago
And the phone.
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by dejb 18y ago
Somewhere in the middle of all that text on the page is the actual complaint 'The product never arrives!! The user ID and password won't get into your mailbox!! You will keep getting daily emails urging you to buy products for your pets!' T
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by dejb 18y ago
So you had a problem when coming back to Hacker News and you choose to blame that on the site with the dark background? If that is the case then you should be saying 'Wow I never realised how hard it is on the eyes to be viewing light backg
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by dejb 18y ago
I think it is a mistake to pretend that the world is perfectly just and to ignore the mechanics of how various systems work within it. Many websites receive more than 50% of their traffic from google and so their rankings can count for a lo
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by dejb 18y ago
This sort of thing will be the downfall of google. The lack of communication with smaller (1-10K/mth) business partners is a big problem. When you do a certain level of business with them you'd expect to be able to talk to somebody on the p
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by dejb 18y ago
> 1) TV screens are much bigger and cheaper. I guess the majority of people still find it tough to hook their computer up to their TV screen. I can't see what the problem is myself. Surely soon most people will be able to do this soon.
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by dejb 18y ago
> "In my opinion, these CEOs should be tried for high crimes against humanity and nature." This was a single instance of somebody speaking as a private citizen about people being tried (not specifically jailed) for their -->ACTIONS&
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by dejb 18y ago
Good to see that you put in the effort to back up your claims. Despite the fact that your other claim was misrepresented (I'll reply to that separately) I'll take you at your word that this instance is as stated. Your original statement imp
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by dejb 18y ago
Cold fusion shows that the scientific process can quickly correct for errors before they become widely accepted. Even if those theories are ones that would lead to major increases in scientific funding. Maybe in your conspiracy-theory, wack
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by dejb 18y ago
Should have proof read this.
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by dejb 18y ago
> AI before the winter qualifies. No it doesn't. Modelling a natural systems (climate) on the one hand and technological progress (AI) on the other hand are 2 enirely different areas. You wouldn't have found a predominance of scientific
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by dejb 18y ago
It seems your conception of the conspiracy runs deaper than I could have imagined. You are only one step from arguing that global warming as the basis for a plot to enslave the people of the world. In the end governments have people's expec

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