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by dmfdmf 13y ago
I agree. Also, no more zooming car ads and I would consider Yahoo as my home page again.
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by dmfdmf 13y ago
The economy is not fine. You can't fix a credit fueled housing market bubble and subsequent crash with $4T in more debt. The Fed papered over the worst of the crash to minimize the political consequences. I don't agree with all o
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by dmfdmf 13y ago
Some of that is due to the recession/depression (depending on your worldview). The rumors of the death of the desktop have been greatly exaggerated. WinXP is (finally) reaching EOL and they can't run forever even if you don'
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by dmfdmf 13y ago
That was Microsoft marketing talking, not me ;-) I use both types and they both have their strengths and weaknesses.
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by dmfdmf 13y ago
That is a fair point and what MS is really afraid of but consumer device are not going to replace desktop computers, at least in my opinion.
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by dmfdmf 13y ago
The reality is most businesses and 85-90% (? I don't know the latest stats off the top of my head) of computers are still running Windows.
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by dmfdmf 13y ago
I see two big issues with Microsoft. First is that they have drifted away from a basic principle that made Bill Gates a billionaire -- backwards compatibility, or at least when backwards compatibility had to be broken there was clear benefi
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by dmfdmf 13y ago
The Occupy movement was not "peaceful". They squatted on public and private property for days and refused to leave. Eventually they had to be kicked out. Most people that were arrested were release and never charged unless they w
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by dmfdmf 13y ago
This is bogus. Without revealing the nature of the "fuel" it is impossible to even say that it is an energy source. The electrically heated coil could just be releasing the binding energy in the "fuel". Even the 10X results of this "expe
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by dmfdmf 13y ago
The context I was referring to was the era soon after the Einstein-Bohr debates culminating in the Copenhagen interpretation of QM. This was an uneasy truce and the attitude at the time was "shut up and calculate" -- meaning shut up about t
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by dmfdmf 13y ago
I just finished listening to Walter Isaacson's biography "Einstein" (on CD). What was distinctive about Einstein was not how he thought but what he thought about. His special theory of relativity is a solution to the contradiction between
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by dmfdmf 14y ago
The problem with the American diet is not HFCS but sugar. HFCS and sugar is in everything because Americans like sugary, sweet tasting food. HFCS is used as sugar substitute because it is cheap (thanks to govt subsidy). Replacing HFCS wi
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by dmfdmf 14y ago
You need a system to translate your ideas and dreams into consistent action. Don't feel like you to reinvent the wheel here. I recommend some kind of dayplanner/calendar system to keep control of tasks, there are electronic options today bu
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by dmfdmf 14y ago
Yes, I just wanted to expand on how completely different these reactors and accidents were. Also, it was a minor point but LOC Accident (TMI) is different than a Station Black Out (Fukushima), these are defined accident scenarios in the de
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by dmfdmf 14y ago
Good review but "qualitatively different" is a bit of an understatement. tl;dr: Chernobyl/RBMK reactors are inherently dangerous in nuclear design and in operation without suitable containment structures, unlike Western reactors like TMI or
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by dmfdmf 14y ago
Evidence presupposes a mind capable of making a choice. All these attacks on free will are self-contradictory, free will is an axiom that you can't escape; you must use it even to deny it. Whatever the neuro-scientists are measuring it i
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by dmfdmf 14y ago
True. But if it got that popular it could then be used to optimize the schedule road use of all the participants taking everyone's situation into account. It would probably be even MORE efficient at finding semi-optimal travel schedules for
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by dmfdmf 14y ago
I was hoping for a solution that can solve (or at least minimize) the problem between 6-9am and 4-7pm. I think there are a lot of short-lived local effects that can be avoided. For instance near my office is a government agency that quits w
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by dmfdmf 14y ago
I'd like to see a website where I can enter my home address and work address and it will generate a chart of leave and arrival times for each day of the week based on prevailing and constantly measured and updated typical traffic patterns w
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by dmfdmf 14y ago
I always thought someone should start a reddit-style site for adults, say over 40.
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by dmfdmf 14y ago
Here's a link http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2009/03/newspapers-and-thinking... This article puts the end of Newsweek in the wider perspective of the greatest social revolution in history triggered by the invention of the internet. I think
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by dmfdmf 14y ago
> The reality is that each point on that curve is the result of team of very smart people making a breakthrough. My view is not meant to disparage the work of the people who keep the progress going. My point is that at some point Moore
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by dmfdmf 14y ago
tl;dr: Some researcher does the math and finds that computer chips are becoming more efficient over time, i.e., electrical efficiency doubles every 1.6 years. He wants to call it Koomey's Law. Neither Moore's or Koomey's "Law" are very dee
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by dmfdmf 14y ago
HP desktops and networking hardware is good. I don't know about their laptops but they were horrible 4 or 5 years ago. Their printer division has been resting on its laurels for almost a decade and its not clear if the hardware is any good
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by dmfdmf 14y ago
> After all, business is war. Not true, not even metaphorically as with team sports. War is about literal destruction whereas business is a competition in production and creativity.
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by dmfdmf 14y ago
I just read that Fog Creek Software is (among other actions) carrying 55 gallon drums of diesel fuel up 17 flights of stairs to keep things going. I doubt that method is sustainable for very long. http://twitter.com/fogcreekstatus
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by dmfdmf 14y ago
The industry joke at the time this research came out was that if the regulators were serious about auto safety they should mandate a sharp dagger sticking out from the steering wheel aim directly at the driver's chest. People would drive v
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by dmfdmf 14y ago
Internet social revolution still in progress; http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2009/03/newspapers-and-thinking...
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by dmfdmf 14y ago
Another side effect of continual ibuprofen use is it interferes with the healing process. I have chronic neck/back pain (had some surgery over ten years ago) and was taking ibuprofen every day, my doc even prescribed some 800mg pills. Over
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by dmfdmf 14y ago
I think I agree with you, please see my reply to unconed above; http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4618495 I'd love to know if I am wrong.

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