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by hugh3 15y ago
Do teenagers still say "like" and "totally"? Come to think of it, is teenage slang far slower-moving than I had always thought? When not being deliberately driven by Ninja Turtles or Clueless, that is?
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by hugh3 15y ago
Almost certainly because they're not native English speakers.
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by hugh3 15y ago
Well, I would think one should avoid using a famous quotation outright. My passwords tend to be based off nonsense sentences. Personalized nonsense I can remember, but nonsense nonetheless.
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by hugh3 15y ago
Eh. Solids are an inherently quantum phenomenon.
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by hugh3 15y ago
"Pump and dump" scam is, I believe, the correct term. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pump_and_dump
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by hugh3 15y ago
Well, tulips.com will sell you 300 tulips for $347, though I'm sure you could get them a lot cheaper if you pick 'em up from the farm yourself. Roughly three to one, though, would appear to be the going rate.
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by hugh3 15y ago
Not particularly quantum mechanical. Well, no more so than everything else you might happen to see in your everyday life.
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by hugh3 15y ago
Makes sense! I admit I've never actually been to Detroit, but from what I've heard nobody should be pushing for Detroit to be anything other than a nice clean crater.
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by hugh3 15y ago
If there's enough people who want it and are willing to pay for it, why can't they make a profit off it?
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by hugh3 15y ago
It makes me feel far cleverer to be playing a game called "Pico Fermi Bagels" than a game called "Bagels". Someone knows how to pander to an audience.
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by hugh3 15y ago
Well that's talking about retiring rich -- i.e. on a $200K lifestyle. And then he goes to excessive lengths to show that you can't life on a "$200K" lifestyle for the rest of your life given only $4 million. That's fine, but you can retir
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by hugh3 15y ago
Desalination plants? Sure, they're widely used in many dry parts of the world, particularly the Middle East, but also increasingly in Australia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desalination According to International Desalination Associatio
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by hugh3 15y ago
I learned C++ in the mid-90s and haven't changed my style since. What am I doing wrong? My strategy for writing in C++ is to write in C until I suddenly think "Hey, I should totally use an object here!"
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by hugh3 15y ago
I'm confused -- why are your father-in-law's millions worthless?
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by hugh3 15y ago
The biggest potential danger I see is to Google's brand image. Google is respected as producing high-quality... stuff. Television networks aren't respected because they produce... an awful lot of garbage. If google starts being directly res
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by hugh3 15y ago
Too slow for me though, I'd already cancelled my "Qwikster".
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by hugh3 15y ago
I'd just like to pop back in to say that the low quality of discussion here is exactly why politics stories should be squashed as soon as they appear. Please, this shit has already taken over reddit, let's not have it here.
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by hugh3 15y ago
Also the Jews! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLSvK2eIoBs
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by hugh3 15y ago
The annoying tabloid-style one-sentence-per-paragraph formatting detracted from the formatting. Let me explain... is not a paragraph. Which brings me to an interesting point. is not only not a paragraph but not even a sentence.
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by hugh3 15y ago
Occupy is about an end to corruption and getting money out of politics No no, the Tea Party is about an end to corruption and getting money out of politics. This is just about being a dick to people.
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by hugh3 15y ago
Indeed. I urge everyone to be vigilant with flagging, since "groups of people with agendas" are one of the things which HN needs a strong immune response against.
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by hugh3 15y ago
An iron-clad law of the internet: if you complain about how X sucks in country Y , you'll inevitably just wind up with a thread full of comments about how X sucks in the USA.
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by hugh3 15y ago
I think the laptop, rather than tablet, form factor is going to dominate in the medium-term future, because the portability vs usability tradeoff just doesn't encourage giving up your keyboard. That doesn't necessarily mean that the laptops
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by hugh3 15y ago
They're the only type of "wearable" computers that make sense: i.e. computers you can easily carry in your pocket. Occasional fantasies of computers built into actual clothes are the domain of people who don't understand clothes very well
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by hugh3 15y ago
Too large; didn't read
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by hugh3 15y ago
I'm really not sure how any freedoms are won or lost by the existence of Apple devices. Buy an Apple device or don't buy an Apple device... who cares?
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by hugh3 15y ago
Yep, it's okay to criticize someone before they die (though "evil" is usually overdoing it). And it's okay to criticize someone with a reasonable buffer after they die. But taking the opportunity of their death to criticize them is just p
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by hugh3 15y ago
It's okay to express gladness about the death of the truly evil (Saddam Hussein, Fidel Castro, Osama bin Laden). It's not okay to express gladness about the death of people with whom you merely disagree, or who might have done things of whi
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by hugh3 15y ago
An unauthorized leak out of a secretive program disclosing a major vulnerability? That sounds very court-martialable. Especially considering the presumably small number of people who would know about it, and hence the high probability of
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by hugh3 15y ago
I skimmed the headings and was briefly interested in reading about this "Epilogue" language that I hadn't heard of before, but it turns out it was actually just an epilogue.

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