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by hartror 16y ago
Dead for me.
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by hartror 16y ago
PZ is a reliable place to get the truth on biology/medicine based stories. For space stuff Bad Astronomy usually provides the lowdown on the latest space story flooding the main stream press. ( http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy
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by hartror 16y ago
Absolutely, the big ones are health discoveries where a study has found such and such is good/bad for you. It hits the headlines and suddenly everyone is eating more/less of X or taking supplement Y. The follow up studies that discover proc
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by hartror 16y ago
I think PZ provided a decent grain of salt, pointing out what about the research is important, what needs more work and most importantly what it isn't telling us.
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by hartror 16y ago
This whole thing is yet another symptom of the science reporting ecosystem. Continual attempts at big bang news stories by institutions and their PR companies as well as a science media that goes for attention grabbing headlines. Is this in
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by hartror 16y ago
Depends on what you mean with the term artificial. We have artificial arsenate life forms in the same way we have artificial tame wolves.
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by hartror 16y ago
4. Become a decent programmer (this step is optional but recommended for long-term security) Sad but true, too many people seem to get through coasting and never working on their craft. What really gets me is the lack of passion for it,
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by hartror 16y ago
A shareholder takes the opposite view, layoffs can be a great thing for a companies bottom line (at least in the short term).
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by hartror 16y ago
Well for the elliptical galaxies in question it is likely the amount of dark matter will need to be revised down. Though really if this discovery is borne out then one could say that the dwarf stars were dark matter until they were discov
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by hartror 16y ago
Discussion on the Arstechnica post on the same http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1960161
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by hartror 16y ago
I think the NBN won't prove itself in the next 10 years, it will take longer. I don't know what we will be using the internet for in 2020 . . do you? This is the long haul and frankly the private sector has had 10 years to prove themselves
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by hartror 16y ago
Gah! > It isn't controversial so it doesn't hit the front page of American centric sites/blogs/media. This is the context in which I said it was not controversial to which you said it was. I never said it WAS controversial on the world
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by hartror 16y ago
I mean controversial on the world stage. And I would be happy with it being debated, pity the opposition is too busy trying to scuttle the government to actually provide a cohesive argument and analysis.
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by hartror 16y ago
... tear up Australia's copper network and replace it with fibre. To every home in the country. In US terms that's approximately like a $630 billion project. This deserves front billing. It will make us the envy of the western world when
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by hartror 16y ago
http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/marc/learn_ctrl.html
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by hartror 16y ago
Something I have to remind myself often when starting a new hobby. I have a taste for RL projects but lack the experience in most areas so often the initial iterations suck.
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by hartror 16y ago
Probably not Renai's best bit of writing . . but the point is made. As it was by quite a number of us on the original post. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1948436
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Startmate applications close very soon (Australian seed stage fund)(startmate.com.au)
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by hartror 16y ago
The forces involved in double pendulums are very well studied. As other posters have pointed out the robot has sensors on the two pivot points which makes it straight forward to counter the movement (once you have a precise robot, the right
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by hartror 16y ago
And a smart PHD student, which are pretty cheap I hear ;)
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by hartror 16y ago
The ISP can still tell where the data is coming from/to and how much of it there is. Encryption is not a solution to the threats against net neutrality.
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by hartror 16y ago
I'm from Melbourne and know people working for Envato and Sitepoint/99 designs, the scene isn't huge but i reckon it is growing.
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by hartror 16y ago
This post was my bible around September last year when we started doing a major Django replacement of our code. Combined with Django South it makes managing Django deployments a dream.
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by hartror 16y ago
Two recent high profile examples http://www.atlassian.com/ http://www.adioso.com There are plenty of awesome things happening in the Australian tech scene. Unfortunately the tyranny of distance and lack luster investment and government
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by hartror 16y ago
That is what I am waiting for. I want access to my TODOs anywhere, otherwise I will lose things or have a hard time looking things up.
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by hartror 16y ago
I'll tell you one thing iron supplements do and that is stop up your pipes >.<
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by hartror 16y ago
Ah – he’s gotten the Miranda talk. I hide my smile. Anyone know what this is? Edit: Thanks, live in Australia so don't get all the lingo.
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by hartror 16y ago
Waterfall is dead? I missed that memo!
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by hartror 16y ago
I do this too and stay off NYT for that reason. Also my girlfriend doesn't watch me read for the same reason :)
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by hartror 16y ago
The US no longer tests Nukes right? So how do they know the new stuff works I wonder . . .

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