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by hugh3 15y ago
The player was pretty dumb not to have more than a thousand dollars in savings at the start of the month, then.
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by hugh3 15y ago
The same state where internet is $60, the power bill for your tiny apartment is $100 a month, where landlords increase your rent the day after you move in, and where you can't get an apartment for less than $800 a month.
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by hugh3 15y ago
Sounds like a good job! In the game I took the option of being a waiter working for $2.15 an hour plus tips, thinking that based on all the waiters I know I could easily earn some pretty good money. It told me I wound up earning $8 an hou
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by hugh3 15y ago
But what are they gonna do? They can't legally evict you under those circumstances, so just keep paying the originally-agreed rent.
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by hugh3 15y ago
I played for an entire month. Not only did my dog die, but my grandfather did too (the funeral was a $350 airfare away). Then my best friend from school got married a few days later (another $350 airfare). I got sick twice, and my mother go
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by hugh3 15y ago
It's not racist at all. Quite the opposite. It's culture-ist. It suggests that the success of Asian immigrants is not due to their race at all, it's due to their culture. And that this culture can be emulated by people of other races to ach
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by hugh3 15y ago
Well, there's already a lot of comments here pointing out that he game is unrealistic and rigged. But I'd like to add to this a bit, and to say that the memes which the game is rigged to spread are not only wrong but pernicious. There are t
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by hugh3 15y ago
Well, we can never fully bury a theory like that, but it's looking pretty unlikely.
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by hugh3 15y ago
This is an excellent choice, and (of course) congratulations to the recipients. Their work really did add an extremely significant chunk to our understanding of the universe. And I think it has now been long enough to confirm that their obs
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by hugh3 15y ago
That is indeed non-obvious, thanks for pointing it out.
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by hugh3 15y ago
It is in no way comparable to the ultra deep field. That's optical. This is sub-millimetre (the region between infra-red and microwave). You see entirely different things, and use 'em for entirely different purposes. It's like saying that a
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by hugh3 15y ago
I'm also a novice emacs user. I know a few commands, but I'm aware that I've barely begun to scratch the surface of what it can do. I've been using it every day for about ten and a half years now.
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by hugh3 15y ago
My knowledge of protein folding algorithms is pretty limited, and in any case everything in this press release is pretty vague. However, this press release is dated September 14, and this is the first I'm hearing about it. A google news sea
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by hugh3 15y ago
Yeah, I was expecting at least some kind of handwaving explanation. Usually the writing of these press releases goes like this: 1. Researcher discovers something that's pretty cool, and as the publication or patent is getting released decid
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by hugh3 15y ago
Gattaca, not Gattica. It's easy to remember, there's no "I" in ["A","C","G","T"]. On your broader point: yes, there are all sorts of legal problems that need to be sorted out first. Actually there are all sorts of moral problems which need
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by hugh3 15y ago
I'm always skeptical of the kind of snob who claims that the best X in the world just happens to be the X which is only available in some country on the other side of the world. That's a convenient coincidence, isn't it, Mr Snob? Becaus
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by hugh3 15y ago
it's another to have it proven in a rigorous scientific experiment Y'know, I don't think there can ever be a rigorous scientific experiment which will show, definitively, that running a pomodoro timer is more effective than not running a
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by hugh3 15y ago
Sometimes I feel compelled to take a one-year break from all computers. But I know that if I did, I'd just feel compelled to blog about it.
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by hugh3 15y ago
I assume there was some context in previous posts in this series, but I have no idea what's going on here. Why are these guys trying to build a pen? What's a "minimal" pen? What's wrong with a fifty-cent Bic?
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by hugh3 15y ago
But given that "me" includes all my experiences as well as my genetics, we have to throw the probability of all those into the equation as well. At the very least, if you're going to take these sorts of calculations seriously you're going
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by hugh3 15y ago
Ehh, first and last are both pretty good. Only middle is slightly problematic, and the middle children of the world can band together and whine about their victim status. /youngest of three
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by hugh3 15y ago
Milo of Croton was a real guy, so it's not a "Greek Myth" in the usual sense. Almost certainly most of the exaggerated stories told about him are apocryphal, though. Legends say he carried his own bronze statue to its place at Olympia, and
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by hugh3 15y ago
Heh, no thanks, I'd rather not know.
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by hugh3 15y ago
It's amazing how much effort has gone into phoney-baloney correlations between personality and signs of the zodiac, when there's so much real correlation between your personality and your birth order. Also: how old you are compared to the
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by hugh3 15y ago
Walking around the streets isn't quite the same thing as walking around your own place, though.
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by hugh3 15y ago
Well, it's always been possible to see if someone has defriended you. Just search for their name, or click it on someone else's wall post, or whatever. On the other hand, the idea that facebook will deliberately remind you of people with wh
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by hugh3 15y ago
Well, obviously not everyone has as much autonomy as Feynman had. Though if this is pre-QED then it's likely that Feynman didn't have quite as much autonomy at this stage as he might be making it sound. But having the correct attitude is ke
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by hugh3 15y ago
Surely software copyright prevents reusing of the same source code, but not a different implementation of the same algorithm?
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by hugh3 15y ago
A sophisticated algorithm for drug design. A sophisticated algorithm for simulating turbulent flow near jet engines. A sophisticated algorithm for optimizing [some complicated industrial process]. If you want a specific example, this is jus
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by hugh3 15y ago
Actually I think direct links to petitions shouldn't be allowed (much like posts with subjects like "Vote Up If You Like Cookies"). Links should exist for the benefit of the reader, not the benefit of the submitter.

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