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by dmfdmf 17y ago
I think that if you try and hold infinity in your mind as a real thing it could break you. Same thing if you think really hard about the concept of time... you start thinking in circles and yet with each lap you feel like you've made pr
902.
by dmfdmf 17y ago
I love math, unfortunately they don't teach it in the schools any more.
903.
by dmfdmf 17y ago
I can second at least one article by Clay Skirky "Thinking the Unthinkable"... Its not just that the newspapers and MSM have a revenue problems, its that we are in the early going of a radical change in the very institutions that, in the p
904.
by dmfdmf 17y ago
I agree the main point of this. An important economic point that is often ignored is that anytime you take money by force and spend it on some grand project the gains or benefits to individuals has to be less than the costs, otherwise it co
905.
by dmfdmf 17y ago
Read Gary Taubes' book "Good Calories, Bad Calories".
906.
by dmfdmf 17y ago
What does HN run on?
907.
by dmfdmf 17y ago
What's the old joke about giving up rich food, drink, smoke and women -- you won't live any longer but it will feel a decade or two longer?
908.
by dmfdmf 17y ago
I was on our high school football team and once we were going to another school by bus for a game and along the way there was a loud bang and the engine died and we were stuck on the side of the freeway. The driver and coaches were clueless
909.
by dmfdmf 17y ago
This critique is pretty lame, especially for some guy who claims to have been follower or student of AR for a time. He either wasn't paying attention or not very bright. The objections he raised are all addressed in detail by Rand in her wr
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by dmfdmf 17y ago
Did anyone here take a crack at this? I had some ideas that I wanted to try this summer but now its too late. If anyone already has a model built and made submissions using the KNN and SVD methods perhaps we can talk. I thought of a diffe
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by dmfdmf 17y ago
I was at a client's once and their young daughter around 5 or 6 was having a fit in the late afternoon, wanted some candy and the mom said no that it will ruin her dinner. She kept pouting and whining... then said mom can I have some OJ? Of
912.
by dmfdmf 17y ago
> I am sorry your doctor didn't take it seriously In a sense he did take me and himself seriously. By the accepted theory on apnea, my symptoms were impossible. Hence the dismissal. In the docs mind its as if I were arguing for ET or Lo
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by dmfdmf 17y ago
Well, this is the medical establishment's party line on apnea -- complete with arrogance, condescension and non-sense. I am questioning the differential pressure theory of apnea causing throat collapse. That is basic physics and the assumpt
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by dmfdmf 17y ago
<i> sleep apnea is very frequent and very likely if you are overweight.</i> The current theory on apnea is that the throat collapses due to lower pressures on inhale. Being fat makes that situation worse. However, I believe
915.
by dmfdmf 17y ago
I used to design nuclear reactor control systems. One of the never ending debates was how much to automate and how much to leave for the reactor operators (or pilots in this case). There is no clear cut answer since with today's technology
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by dmfdmf 18y ago
This is absolute ignorant non-sense. Edit: I designed the Feedwater Control System for the Lungmen Nuclear power stations going up in Taiwan. Edit2: Reply to jibiki below; Yes, no containment was the absurd comment. I don't know the details
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by dmfdmf 18y ago
The good news is the internet will put an end to this type of argument by intimidation in academia. The university system is toast just like the journalist and newspapers. No one knows what will replace it but that is the process underway
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by dmfdmf 18y ago
I stopped reading Time, Newsweek, USNWR, etc whan I was in High School. Later I read that these magazines were written for 8-9th grade level. That was in the late '70s so I'm sure they are dumbing-down to the 5th grade level by now. Bad st
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by dmfdmf 18y ago
As a former design engineer in the nuclear business I have to make the following comments; 1) The lessons of TMI are far from forgotten. TMI is one of the most studied accidents and the lessons learned are incorporated throughout engineerin
920.
by dmfdmf 18y ago
I used to think that the problem with newspapers and journalism was a revenue problem. (e.g. CL took their classified ad revenue). Like a lot of people, I thought that eventually someone would figure out a new source of stable revenues and
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by dmfdmf 18y ago
search tab to go with header new/threads/comments/leaders/jobs/submit
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by dmfdmf 18y ago
I read an article that blue light can cause delayed sleep. Apparently, it interferes with the evening release of melatonin, a hormone that regulates sleep. The article speculated that the common perception that hackers are night-owls could
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by dmfdmf 18y ago
I once signed on as a contract engineer (mechanical, not software) for a Fortune 100 company. My contract was actually with a contract agency that this company normally uses. I had negotiated the details of the job with my manager and then
924.
by dmfdmf 18y ago
I hardly think FW needs an existence/non-existence proof because without it you can't have knowledge, concepts, language, morality, math, science nor HN discussions!
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by dmfdmf 18y ago
Unpredictability of what is the consquence of FW?
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by dmfdmf 18y ago
"John Conway and Simon Kochen, claim to have proven that if humans have even the tiniest amount of free will, then atoms themselves must also behave unpredictably." I think there is a big equivocation here. Free-will does not mean "unpredi
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by dmfdmf 18y ago
Scarier than the playground bans was this line from the article; >There's only one solution. Someone on behalf of society >must be authorized to make these choices. Courts must >honor those decisions. Otherwise, the pious accusa
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by dmfdmf 18y ago
Damn! Realplayer....
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by dmfdmf 18y ago
Read the book "Good Calories, Bad Calories" by Gary Taubes. The scientific evidence supports the theory that carbos, especially refined carbs and sugars, are the cause of obesity and a raft of modern ailments. The most striking comment was