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by dejb 18y ago
I think it is probably most relevant to consider where the funding comes from - 'He who pays the piper calls the tune'. You really would have to involve those who fund the research in your little conspiracy theory for it to make sense. Publ
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by dejb 18y ago
Some excerpts > The report by Japan Society of Energy and Resources (JSER) is astonishing rebuke to international pressure... > JSER is the academic society representing scientists from the energy and resource fields I think in this
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by dejb 18y ago
> Intelligence is going down as fewer and fewer books are being read As far as I am aware measurable intelligence is increasing. I would also think that the internet has lead to a general increase in reading and intellectual thought.
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by dejb 18y ago
Hey man I agree with you and I said a similar thing. Doesn't seem to be what people want to hear at the moment. Seems the gung ho crowd have this topic all sown up. I'd like to play them in a 5 set match.
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by dejb 18y ago
I think Nadal actually differs from most players in that he 'plays the point'. Most of the great players are said to lift in important situations such as service break opportunities or tie breaks. Perhaps if you have such amazing stamina t
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by dejb 18y ago
> Shouldn't Google push for dominance as far as it possibly can? If they want to live up to their 'Don't be Evil' motto then they should do it with better products and services not by cutting others down. In the long term I think that w
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by dejb 18y ago
I feel that the benefit in letting webmasters know what their users are looking for outweighs any privacy gains to be had. If people are that concerned about their privacy they could always set their browser to not send the referrer. I doub
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by dejb 18y ago
Downmods with no comments to a serious proposition -> Mac zealots, morons or some combination of these.
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by dejb 18y ago
I'm more interested in what CMS they are using. Any ideas?
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by dejb 18y ago
It wasn't all that long ago that many Palm branded phones being sold were actually running Windows Mobile. I suspect that commentators are way too quick to write off the Windows Mobile platform most cause they don't really know much about i
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by dejb 18y ago
Interesting point. So perhaps the implicit suggestions is to randomise your backgrounds and colour schemes to improve productivity. Maybe if you told others that it was part of an experiment and the results were 'being monitored' it might w
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by dejb 18y ago
Pretty much every web publishing company aims to make money from advertising and yes many do actually make a profit. Perhaps you have not framed your question as intended.
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by dejb 18y ago
> Servers, being larger/louder/faster than the average PC I'm not sure about larger or faster. A lot of web servers are physically smaller (i.e. they fit into 1 rack unit) and less powerful. Have a look at web hosting options. I believe
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by dejb 18y ago
Some measurements of air temperatures show failing temperatures but the sea has been steadily warming. The amount of heat stored by water is much greater than air and so the total heat in the system has increased. http://www.newscientist.c
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by dejb 18y ago
I fail to see what is so bad about saying that I have already posted pretty much exactly the same thing in exactly the same context. Scroll down and you will see my post. I think that originality matters and that it is better to merge dupli
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by dejb 18y ago
There is always the possibilty of obvserver bias though. If you able to accurately assign the never-give-ups, middle and slacker groups before the process started then the 'attitude => result' case would be pretty watertight. But if you
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by dejb 18y ago
OK firstly you stole my point and secondly it is more accurate to say that most death is caused by lack of oxygen to the brain.
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by dejb 18y ago
You will probably also die because of a lack of oxygen supply to the brain but some people like to look for precursors. I agree with the broader point as it applies to life in general but obviously at a project, business and even career lev
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by dejb 18y ago
Of course you wouldn't follow a non-profession's diagnosis withour further support or verification. But I do think that crowd sourcing would probably be able to find and identify the correct solution faster a few experts. As long as the pro
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by dejb 18y ago
It is interesting to contrast the different approaches taken by Steve Jobs and Sergey Brin with regards to information about health issues. Sergey seemed to be trying to open/crowd source his (potential) problems where as Steve has taken th
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by dejb 18y ago
Glad to see you are actually prepared to refer to something to back up your arguments. It looks like you are interpreting those grey bands to be a maximum error margin. I can't see that actually mentioned anywere on the graph and since ther
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by dejb 18y ago
The climate models do not pretend to be able to predict the climate in an individual year but the medium and long term trends. > By their own standards, by their own confidence intervals, the models from several years ago are at 5%-ish
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by dejb 18y ago
Of course no one is suggesting that efforts be made to cool the globe before significant heating has already occured and the climate models are 99.9% percent confirmed (as opposed to the current 80-95%). But if we get to the stage where tem
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by dejb 18y ago
Yes I think the withdrawal effects from quitting smoking and likely to dwarf everything else. After several weeks the conclusion of his experiment is likely to be that 'Neurogenesis' makes you angry, anxious and unable to concentrate.
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by dejb 18y ago
I have nothing against professional athletes. In fact I admire them a lot. But let's face it, sports is a zero sum game from the perspective of skill level. What real difference would it make to the world if all the world's athletes were 10
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by dejb 18y ago
Something is going wrong with the HN ranking algorithm for this to get to the top with one vote. What's going ON?
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by dejb 18y ago
No because unlike sport, which is artificial competition for entertainment, mental work is real productive work that benefits society. Increasing our mental abilities can make the the world a better place, the same cannot be said of steriod
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by dejb 18y ago
No the fact that they are being parodied is an effect of their increased profile.
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by dejb 18y ago
> Also, this isn't at all relevant hacker news, and it's not that intellectually interesting. It is actually. It shows the effects of Apple maturing into more than just a niche player and the different pressures that can bring. It comes
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by dejb 18y ago
Turns out that there are lots of people not from America. Who would have thought?

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