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541.
by hnhg 17y ago
Maybe it's not as important that he's 'nice' but rather that he cares and acts upon it.
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by hnhg 17y ago
I scrolled down to #31 before closing the tab - '31. Linkbait. Write fun or helpful “top 10″ (or top 99) types of lists – they always work.'
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by hnhg 17y ago
This is great. I remember having to endure a few days without running water in my apartment thanks to burst pipes and wondering how I would cope - then I realised how lucky I was to be having it return eventually. I've had a few conversatio
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by hnhg 17y ago
My anecdotal experience recently backs this up. I had to give up using AVG (it was adding several minutes onto my netbook's startup time) so tried Avast. It was okay until I couldn't figure out how to stop it running a full system scan ever
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by hnhg 17y ago
I initially read your comment as 'I wonder if it would help (them) to patent placebos" and then reading it properly realised my mistake. I'm sure there have to be some in the pharma industry hoping to turn this into a moneyspinner somehow.
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by hnhg 17y ago
This is utter rubbish if it's meant to be taken seriously. I'm not even disagreeing with the assertion that scientists are largely dull. Good science needs a dispassionate and objective attitude, and it's often solitary. I guess those don't
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by hnhg 17y ago
Yeah, I was expecting to find myself disagreeing with you but I find it a little bleak too. I don't know if it makes me a ridiculous idealist but I do care about doing things to a certain level of quality.
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by hnhg 17y ago
I'm in no position to invest anything but my good self at the moment but I shall remember this when/if I'm ever in the position to move. I'm a little surprised by the lack of foresight by the officials there in your case. Was that in a part
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by hnhg 17y ago
Canada's held a lot of appeal to me since I see a lot of things in common with the UK (home country) only better. Can you tell me more about why it's so bad for finding employment or starting a business?
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by hnhg 17y ago
Maybe we could have a trial week where a bunch of representatives prune out anything that doesn't conform to a set of rules that enforce a strict interpretation of what hackers news should post. Then the following week we can discuss or vot
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by hnhg 17y ago
How would he go about rigorously analysing them over the lengthy time periods required? Maybe I'm missing something obvious but automated analysis is necessary and simply looking at the distribution of keywords over time wouldn't be enough.
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by hnhg 17y ago
It would have been great to see those early events in San Diego. I'm very envious! One thing we did have back in the early 90s here in Manchester was a great radio station called Sunset (it quickly became a commercial mainstream station, al
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by hnhg 17y ago
They were around from the beginning but they had a lot of contemporaries too. Like I said, I'm not an expert but rave culture arguably got going in 89 with the rising popularity of house and then techno (this still sounds fresh from 89 htt
554.
by hnhg 17y ago
I'm by no means an expert on rave but you're definitely wrong about them starting the whole scene.
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by hnhg 17y ago
I'm not as pessimistic. I really hold to the belief that the proportion of unimaginative 'workmen' in a field is constant. Lowering the cost of hardware allows more people to enter the field.and increases the amount of mediocre stuff but al
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by hnhg 17y ago
Doesn't this depend on where your definition is taken from? I remember reading in something reputable (or it might have been a BBC Radio documentary) that at one time they were synonyms for the same thing, but that one was used in the USA a
557.
by hnhg 17y ago
I agree. But the fruits of the research should be available to all for immediate use.
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by hnhg 17y ago
Perhaps the university could receive an endowment and then leave the public sector. I know that taxpayers fund R&D too in the private sector with tax rebates and the like so the situation isn't clear cut between the public and private s
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by hnhg 17y ago
Interesting that the manifesto came from Manchester. I was there until very recently and there is intense pressure to commercialise every project. However, getting the public to pay twice (first by funding for the research and then for the
560.
by hnhg 17y ago
It's simply a bad take on Nietzsche's ubermensch. As someone pointed out he even uses the phrase 'will-to-power'.
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by hnhg 17y ago
A former colleague of mine was working on an EU project to gauge what outcomes this technology would have. The Medical Associations were and are objecting to it being rushed into the public domain without regulation. The Doctors themselves
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by hnhg 17y ago
I suspect he would have got laid without the android app at that particular moment.
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by hnhg 17y ago
This is from his book, 'The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark'. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Demon-Haunted_World I love this book for explaining in simple human terms why we need science so much.
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by hnhg 17y ago
Isn't it a bit more "all or nothing" when it comes to market share and revenues though? I mean you can't just say you've got 100th of the audience of Google and thereby generate 100th of their revenues because of the way advertisers work -
565.
by hnhg 17y ago
I don't like how this has been downvoted. It feels like people are disagreeing with the poster's point by giving him or her downvotes. That's not the point of the voting system, I'd say. rms - though I see what you're saying, in this case I
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by hnhg 17y ago
I also heard that Bertrand Russell exhorted the post-war US and UK governments to launch pre-emptive strikes on the USSR before they got nuclear weapons. It makes for quite a contrast with his later pacifist stance.
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by hnhg 17y ago
I can't help thinking that you're conflating being poor with being socially problematic. Poorer and less educated immigrants often do the jobs that no one else wants in their new home and take opportunities that were denied them in their ho
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by hnhg 17y ago
For those who can access it, this BBC radio show has some great background on Warhol - http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00n3t6y/Archive_on_4_W... It features Jerry Hall (Mick Jagger's Ex) interviewing David Bailey on his time making
569.
by hnhg 17y ago
What are the causes for high population growth? Can they be countered?
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by hnhg 17y ago
I've just come away from watching series one of The Thick of It so I'm nothing but cynical about this. I do hope my doubts are wrongly placed.

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