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by hugh3 15y ago
I don't have an overloaded inbox, but for those who do , it seems to me that they're mostly overloaded with stuff that was sent to a group rather than to them as an individual. If the sender is even thinking about the question "Does this p
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by hugh3 15y ago
I hadn't looked at Khan Academy in a year or so, but it looks like they've vastly expanded their offerings since then. In particular, they've added a couple of hundred lessons of Art History stuff, which I'm quite keen to look through. The
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by hugh3 15y ago
In my childhood I did enough IQ tests [1] to be able to say "Oh, it's one of this class of problems again". I assume that people taking repeated IQ tests get better at them, because there's a limited selection of problem types. [1] Only thr
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by hugh3 15y ago
Tragically, whether or not something is depressing appears to be uncorrelated with whether or not it's true. Anyway, clearly "IQ" isn't hard-coded. People get different scores on different days on different tests, and people tend to get hig
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by hugh3 15y ago
I'd love to, but unfortunately I live in a glass house.
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by hugh3 15y ago
Y'know, for a random BBC news article, that was pretty well written, and set out pretty well the advantages and disadvantages of these sorts of things. I strongly reckon that the best way to learn anything is in a one-on-one conversation wi
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by hugh3 15y ago
What proportion of jobs in the United States are in programming or things analogous to programming? What proportion of jobs in the United States are in agriculture, manufacturing, or things analogous to agriculture and manufacturing? I thin
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by hugh3 15y ago
Are there any examples of cancers caused by viruses apart from HPV? Certainly it can't be true that all cancers are caused by viruses, can it? For instance, some cancers are caused by radiation.
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by hugh3 15y ago
You could also look at Microsoft's history and declare that if it hadn't been for the widespread adoption of the internet then the Gates Foundation would be even richer than it is now.
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by hugh3 15y ago
We need to stop talking about "job creation" and start talking about "wealth creation". It's easy to create jobs -- e.g. I can go round breaking windows with rocks and create jobs for glaziers. But creating jobs that create wealth -- that
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by hugh3 15y ago
Which one is that? Anyway, like I said, wikipedia ain't perfect, but it's amazing how far from terrible it is.
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by hugh3 15y ago
Sometimes when I'm really bored I read the Articles for Deletion. It's always enough to satisfy myself that... yep, the articles being deleted really are crap. I admire wikipedia editors, the gnomes of our age, working tirelessly on a bor
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by hugh3 15y ago
Sure, there was something behind the idea. But it was a combination of thinking: a) "Waah, life sucks, I can't get everything I want", and b) "This is somehow a problem unique to my generation" both of which are universal thoughts held by t
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by hugh3 15y ago
Whichever recession you're talking about, they only lasted a couple of years each (at most) so there's no way an entire generation could have graduated into one of 'em.
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by hugh3 15y ago
Boomers were the hippies But y'see, this is the problem with these sorts of generalizations. The vast majority of boomers weren't hippies. The vast majority of them were sensible people who finished their education, got jobs, got married,
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by hugh3 15y ago
I'm not saying that good things were not accomplished and I'm not saying that they didn't push the world forward in some ways. They have. They've also managed to destroy the world's economy and leave it in debt for at least another two gen
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by hugh3 15y ago
I think the underlying theme of the OWS movement is the rampant amount of pandering to special interest and lobbying groups due to campaign contributions and other quid pro quo shenanigans Ironically, this also happens to be the underlyin
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by hugh3 15y ago
I wish my grandfathers, who grew up in the Great Depression and went on to fight in World War 2, were alive, so they could write a response to this. It would probably go something like "Oh, rubbish."
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by hugh3 15y ago
Well now, that's an assurance that it wouldn't work, but not an explanation of how. I understand you don't want to give away all your secrets, but any hints? Any assurance that you really have worried about the problem that someone might
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by hugh3 15y ago
Oh, I don't know. In developed countries at least, condom use is sometimes hampered by the fact that putting one on "breaks the mood", so shaving valuable seconds off the process would seem to be helpful there. I have no idea if it will wor
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by hugh3 15y ago
If a sufficient amount of money starts using a product like this, what's to stop me gaming it? Step 1: I go long on Nike Step 2: I use my ten thousand twitter sock puppets to tweet about how they just bought an awesome new pair of Nike shoe
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by hugh3 15y ago
To me, wikipedia is like a dog walking on its hind legs (as Samuel Johnson said of women preachers). The point isn't that it isn't done very well, the point is that it works at all. If you'd asked me, at the start of the wikipedia project,
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by hugh3 15y ago
Actually I was thinking that this would be the perfect time for Apple to crush them both...
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by hugh3 15y ago
Can you summarise the interesting points rather than sending us all off to read a whole book to find out how advertising has changed over the past few decades?
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by hugh3 15y ago
Plenty of people working on projects far less interesting and far, far, far less worthwhile than this for 24 years.
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by hugh3 15y ago
You know we already have maglev trains, right?
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by hugh3 15y ago
Don't try this at home, kids! Actually, are we sure the liquid nitrogen is actually hitting his hand? The point of contact is obscured by vapour. I mean, I'm familiar with the effect, but can also believe that a big stream of liquid nitroge
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by hugh3 15y ago
What evidence is there that "anonymous" is an actual group, rather than a label that a bunch of folks self-apply when they want to do things? I'm annoyed at Anonymous because I strongly supported their first action (picketing the Church of
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by hugh3 15y ago
Amazing the resources that can be wasted on a case like this. A 488-page review put together by an independent panel which came to the conclusion that the US and UK are substantially similar? How many man-years and taxpayer dollars did that
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by hugh3 15y ago
That is hecka totes wack.

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