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by frisco 16y ago
It's Calacanis recursive blogspam. Incredible.
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Minecraft, ray traced(youtube.com)
5 points by frisco 16y ago|0 comments
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by frisco 16y ago
No. This is the wrong response. Just as the general public shouldn't be afraid of things like this, we shouldn't be afraid of the regulatory response. It is our responsibility to fight that response and preserve fun. If hacker news's
574.
by frisco 16y ago
Why? They're already so cheap the military could buy an unlimited number of them. Or because people will use them to remove military security? I don't follow your logic.
575.
by frisco 16y ago
Calculus is taught in high school and expected to be basic knowledge for any physician, even if they don't use it often, and especially so for researchers. Calculus is fair game on their admissions exam, even! On the other hand, there
576.
by frisco 16y ago
I just discovered Ted Dziuba through your post. This is incredible. He's like a mini Zed Shaw. http://teddziuba.com/2008/04/im-going-to-scale-my-foot-up-y.... http://teddziuba.com/2009/09/twisted-vs-tornado-youre-both.h... http://ted
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by frisco 16y ago
Yes, I agree here. Slightly stronger because though the possibility of alien life is entertained, it's not necessarily the common viewpoint that its widespread and will eventually be found in droves (like I see non-carbon based life). On
578.
by frisco 16y ago
It has to do with electronegativity and number of free electrons. Both phosphorous and arsenic can make three bonds, and arsenic is only very slightly less electronegative than phosphorous.
579.
by frisco 16y ago
I don't think this is hindsight bias though. As a scientist (not in biochemistry or astrobiology, though) I understand this had to be specifically shown, but this is one of those things that most people I talk to and I have always just cas
580.
by frisco 16y ago
This seems silly. Phosphorous not being required for life seems obvious to me: ok, maybe it's believed to be used in all Earth-originated, carbon-based life, but why would we believe a priori that it's an absolutely necessary component of
581.
by frisco 16y ago
Is that really uncommon? Where was your average "young powerful elite" a whole twelve years ago? I think that on average they were lowly grad students or undergrads a decade ago. The bounds for movement over 12 years is huge. It's a l
582.
by frisco 16y ago
Yeah; not that uncommon for a major research university.
583.
by frisco 16y ago
It looks like the TA, Diane Tang, ended up at Google.
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by frisco 16y ago
That would be reddit.
585.
by frisco 16y ago
Unrelated to the content of the site, the design is beautiful. Does anyone know who's the designer behind it?
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by frisco 16y ago
> Will you help us set up something like Y Combinator in our country? > Actually, the seed funding business [is] international. From the YC FAQ.
587.
by frisco 16y ago
That's the point of parent's post: that everyone on the old "stupid repeat ideas" list has now been successfully executed.
588.
by frisco 16y ago
I disagree, though, because it's more subtle than that. I mean yeah if they started threatening people or stuff they'd get shut down pretty fast, but they're master trolls and aren't that stupid. I actually think remarkably few of them wo
589.
by frisco 16y ago
s/SASS/SAAS
590.
by frisco 16y ago
I've wondered for a long time what 4chan vs the government would look like. They're unbelievably creative and resourceful (see http://www.urlesque.com/2010/11/18/hot-topic-rage-guy-shirt-... for a good recent example). I figured they wo
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by frisco 16y ago
Note the second author.
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by frisco 16y ago
No, this case is an argument for a focus on natural language processing and sentiment analysis. The Google way would never involve manual curation, and we'll get some cool NLP research out of it.
593.
by frisco 16y ago
And now he has parlayed his negative reviews into a New York Times article. I can't imagine he'll still show up in Google results after this.
594.
by frisco 16y ago
I like the check for /etc/passwd. For a second the thought that it might just be the most ghetto platform check heuristic ever blipped into my mind, and then I remembered that integer arithmetic is totally portable anyway so it doesn't mat
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by frisco 16y ago
Yes: gene therapy has been used investigationally since the 90s ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_therapy ). It has a bad tendency to kill human patients or cause cancer, but it's very widespread in research. For example, optogenetics (
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by frisco 16y ago
I'm pretty sure that Hitler and the Black Plague are higher on the lists of "terrible events" than anything Facebook has ever done or has interest in doing. I mean, really? There are people dying all over the world from civil war and hunge
597.
by frisco 16y ago
That's the wrong response though. It distinguishes between this bill and other internet-monitoring-and-censoring bills, when in reality none exists: all of them are equally silly due to technological reasons. Instead of saying that nothin
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Notes: Keeping track of Markdown-based notes using Python.(github.com)
1 points by frisco 16y ago|0 comments
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by frisco 16y ago
Once again, the government fails to understand how the Internet works.
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by frisco 16y ago
I believe "neighborhood" has a formal definition here.

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