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I was under the impression that at least part of the perceived rise in cancer was because more people used to die of things like heart disease in their sixties or even fifties, and thus didn't live long enough to get cancer. (I have no
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Poll: Christopher Lee's best role
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Dracula
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Lord Summerisle
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Saruman
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Count Dooku
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Scaramanga
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Duc de Richleau
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Jinnah
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> People demand that "something must be done" Yes, Prime Minister nailed this one: Something must be done. This is something. Therefore, we must do it.
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Can you link to the article in question? Wanting a sofa does not seem unreasonable (you have to sit on something), and I feel I'm missing something. Was it a particularly expensive sofa? Or by 'sofa', do you mean something ot
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Do you agree with the proposition that "the software industry doesn’t reflect the needs of society as a whole"? If so, in what way does it not reflect those needs? What are those needs? How could the industry reflect them?
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Fair points. But: - The software industry is more than just twenty-something males writing dating and social media applications. - The software industry will produce what it thinks it can make a profit on, which is an imperfect proxy for wh
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> The problem is that the software industry doesn’t reflect the needs of society as a whole, she argues. ‘Twentysomething-year-old boys are solving their problems with dating or meeting friends, but there are different problems in the wo
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This is why I love HN. Someone launches a web service with a flashy site, lots of marketing blurb and monthly plans from $10 to $200. And in the HN comments thread, two random people reimplement the functionality in three lines.
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The government argued there was no need for a ban because it trusted teachers' judgement, but in at least one primary school, that trust was misplaced: the principal invited an evangelical group in to preach to the children and hand ou
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The E.coli long-term evolution experiment: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._coli_long-term_evolution_exp...
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It's the tea. It sends us all bonkers in the end.
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He certainly is. I like his story of how he's actually met John Constantine, twice. I'm almost jealous of his, erm, idiosyncratic perception of the world.
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Alan Moore (he of Watchmen fame) invokes the Roman god Glycon in ceremonial magic, even though he knows Glycon was exposed as a sock puppet in the second century. Nonetheless, the magic works (for certain values, presumably ones meaningfu
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Maybe it's not a case of simplification over time, but of abstraction: the gradual comprehension that, say, canis in canis virum mordet ("the dog bites the man") and canem in vir canem mordet ("the man bites the
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One Clojure style guide actually recommends [0] certain single-letter names for input parameters: x and y for numbers, n for an integer, s for a string, f (and g and h) for functions. These are used in the clojure.core namespace, and their
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AFAIUI, under pilot-wave theory it's instantaneous. It's how the theory gets round Bell's Theorem, which only forbids local hidden variables. (Again, I am an interested layman, not a scientist, so this comment may be nonsen
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> my understanding of 'natural' physics is as a relation between particle(s) and every other particle in the universe The key word in the parent comment is instantaneous. This means that pilot-wave theory is not compatible wi
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> Why does observation cause the wave function to collapse? According to the Many-Worlds Interpretation, it doesn't. Both the thing being observed and the observer exist in many states simultaneously (a superposition of states).
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Ask a Mathematician / Ask a Physicist (askamathematician.com) is pretty good, with a bias towards the Many-Worlds Interpretation†: http://www.askamathematician.com/2011/11/q-according-to-the-... http:/&
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That is the nicest and most readable typography I've seen for a long-form article on the Web.
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Except with tasers: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/feb/09/police-federati...
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'Sensible' is a false friend in English for French speakers, and vice versa.
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Socialist in the same way that the German Democratic Republic was democratic.

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