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by hfinney 16y ago
But the fraction of the traveling public that reads HN has to be minute. Seriously, what would you estimate the increase is in the probability of significant improvements to TSA policy, by virtue of this article being posted vs if it had be
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by hfinney 16y ago
Those are indeed interesting and relevant points but they don't have much to do with climate science per se. Climate science is about understanding how climate works, not costs of adaptation or geoengineering.
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by hfinney 16y ago
It's refreshing to read an article all about the service you're providing to your customers and not your percent conversions or CPM. So many of the entrepreneurs here are all about the money rather than the product.
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by hfinney 16y ago
It's an interesting topic, but if you look at the challenge questions, most of them raise issues with the idea that reality is digital. But from the little I know, modern quantum theory is analog. The polarization state of a photon is expre
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by hfinney 16y ago
With great power comes great responsibility.
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by hfinney 16y ago
I'm always surprised by the relative dearth of smart-ass comments on this site.
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by hfinney 16y ago
I like this idea. I was really shy in my dating days and it was hard for me to approach girls I liked. But maybe I could have sent a love note if it only had a 10% chance of going through, and best of all if she'd know that I was assuming i
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by hfinney 16y ago
- = dash not slash
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by hfinney 16y ago
Greg Egan's novel Diaspora has some mind-bending scenes set in 5 dimensional space. Imagine orbiting a 5 dimensional planet and trying to scan the entire surface. The surface itself is 4 dimensional. Lots of area to search.
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by hfinney 16y ago
Why are all these donations happening so late? It's four days until the election. Half the electorate has already voted, and the rest are tuning everything out by now. Prop 19 is failing and it's too late for advertising to make a differenc
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by hfinney 16y ago
Let me offer a couple of other ways to view this. The most important point is that higher dimensional space is very roomy. There are many degrees of freedom, many directions. Take the first puzzle, the inner sphere that is bigger than the o