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by gambling8nt 18y ago
There's a karma minimum for downvoting.
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by gambling8nt 18y ago
"Once you're broadcasting the fact that you're thinking about suicide on the net, it's only a matter of time." Do you really think that every time someone talks about suicide on the internet that they are actually serious? Or even most of
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by gambling8nt 18y ago
That doesn't necessarily make it any more real to the viewers. Do you feel personally connected with celebrities you see on television?
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by gambling8nt 18y ago
If someone hangs themselves from the tree in my front yard, is there an element of fault with me for supplying the tree? Any effort to shift blame onto j.tv for this is little more than an over-reaction caused by a state of grief...while it
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by gambling8nt 18y ago
The pace of such games is too low to be interesting or effective. Also, students of this age will be more inclined to guess if you include any sort of graphical cues at all.
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by gambling8nt 18y ago
In spring of 2005 I did a back of the envelope calculation on the total cost to produce the mass of carbon nanotubes needed for an elevator with cross-section of 1 cm^2 using the methods available then and got a result of about 1.25 quadril
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by gambling8nt 18y ago
Or, for other means of comparison, $700b is about: 87 next generation aircraft carriers (or about 155 current-generation aircraft carriers) 500 stealth bombers (or 5000 stealth fighters) 10 years of federal education spending in the US 1.1%
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by gambling8nt 18y ago
On the contrary; an incompetent leader is easier to manipulate, and therefore more likely to be favored by whatever secondary powers arise as the fascist nation stagnates.
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by gambling8nt 18y ago
The problem with estimating the net worth of the Catholic church is that an overwhelmingly large fraction of its wealth is in buildings (the many churches it owns throughout the world), real estate (the land those churches are built on, plu
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by gambling8nt 18y ago
Family size for $50k to qualify under the federally mandated definition of poverty is 12. In fact, $50k is approximately the median household income (for 2007), with mean household sizes in that income bracket at about 2.6.
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by gambling8nt 18y ago
$700b is almost certainly insufficient to do this; the Catholic church has around 4 times this amount by itself (most of it is illiquid, though--a large fraction is in real estate).
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by gambling8nt 18y ago
Spoiler Alert: If you wait long enough, all fascist countries are eventually run by retards.
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by gambling8nt 18y ago
The only one of these you could afford for $700b is Equatorial Guinea... :P
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by gambling8nt 18y ago
With a $700b loan, it wouldn't exactly be failing any more...that's sort of the point of this whole exercise.
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by gambling8nt 18y ago
$700 b is not nearly enough to make a space elevator with existing technology; you're off by about a factor of 1000. Of course, if you're willing to wait ten years for the cost to produce carbon nanotubes to drop...
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by gambling8nt 18y ago
"It is well known" is shorthand for "I don't want to bother figuring out the correct original reference for it", not "the average layperson knows this".
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by gambling8nt 18y ago
It's 99% making something people want; the sorts of projects in question are rarely something anyone actually wants.
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by gambling8nt 18y ago
I don't agree that whenever there is a power imbalance, one side will get "fucked over". Indeed, the whole idea of having a market is that people are mostly equal in terms of power (read Hobbes' Leviathan). It's only when power imbalances
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by gambling8nt 18y ago
Spacecraft launches are much more impressive when viewed up close (2ish miles away) and in person. No video can do justice to the feeling of the wave of heat washing past you after ignition, or to the incredible sense of scale and speed in
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by gambling8nt 18y ago
It directly affects his social conditioning, which in turn affects the lifestyle advice he imparts to his descendants.
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by gambling8nt 18y ago
None of the phenomena referenced in this article are particularly new; all are well explained by fetal hormonal effects and social conditioning, without reference to epigenetics.
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by gambling8nt 18y ago
That is because, unlike most authors, Tolkien was actually trying to put symbolism into his work--he wasn't trying to just write a novel; he was telling an epic. Being a linguist, he recognized that, in the many retellings of an epic, smal
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by gambling8nt 18y ago
You need both blocks down there.
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by gambling8nt 18y ago
I don't agree with your choice of cutoff age--certainly it is correct that the historical figures who had made the largest contributions to the field of mathematics have done so while quite young--indeed, the prime ages for developing new m
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by gambling8nt 18y ago
I would say that this isn't really hacker news...but it's actually a fairly clever social hack to try to calculate how many people are interested in NASA's return to the moon. EDIT: It would be nice if the input form were a secure page thou
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by gambling8nt 18y ago
The ability to do these sorts of competitions is a learned skill like any other. Certainly, it is a learned skill that has some relation to research ability within mathematics, but neither tests, nor grades, nor classes are the be-all or e
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by gambling8nt 18y ago
Blown out from the bottom of a trench? Without the trench getting filled in?
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by gambling8nt 18y ago
He came much later; in particular, he lived shortly after Archimedes, whose existence doubtless steals much of his thunder.
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by gambling8nt 18y ago
Actually, Aristarchus, a contemporary of Eratosthenes (slightly earlier in fact) determined the ratio distance to the sun/distance to the moon to be about 20 (actual answer is about 390), and that the distance to the moon was about 20 Earth
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by gambling8nt 18y ago
His problem is that he has to go through a lot more effort because under FF2, etc., he only had to type a few letters from the beginning of the URL in order to get where he was going.

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