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by hugh3 15y ago
Does buying existing bonds help prop up the Greek govt? Remember - they don't get any money from that transaction Well in some sense... if you create demand for the existing bonds then you create confidence in them, and hence drive down y
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by hugh3 15y ago
Sorry to be even more nitpicky, but... in what sense is it not the other way around?
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by hugh3 15y ago
to donate money to causes who support such workers You mean... by buying more iPhones?
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by hugh3 15y ago
Just remember to take a spare shirt, for after you spill your breakfast burrito on the first one.
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by hugh3 15y ago
Easy, for sufficiently small problem size!
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by hugh3 15y ago
"Effectively spat upon", really? The reason Programmer's Day will never be a thing here is that programming is a low-risk, well-paid, white-collar professional occupation like many others. Nothing special about it, and we don't have a lawye
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by hugh3 15y ago
For transiting exoplanets at least, we should be able to measure spectra pretty soon. That'll mean getting some kind of chemical information, hopefully.
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by hugh3 15y ago
I'd say it's still ambiguous. Liveable for us or liveable for something? Even on Earth we have hyperthermophiles ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperthermophile ) which can tolerate temperatures of up to 122 celsius. And before anyone say
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by hugh3 15y ago
I haven't been able to find any original sources yet (and I'm not about to watch that podcast) but I'm fairly sure that what they have found is a planet in the habitable zone. And that's pretty darn neat in itself. (What was really missin
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by hugh3 15y ago
Investigation and exploration is directly related to imagination and emotion. Because of the great political impact involved, we need to have plans in place to directly image these planets. Plausible technology might, in our lifetimes, be
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by hugh3 15y ago
"This is a pie chart describing my favourite bars. And this is a bar graph describing my favourite pies!" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_J8QU1m0Ng
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by hugh3 15y ago
So in short I don't know. I took a guess, and I did so after weighing what I assume to be the motivations of the actors Well, that's precisely the wrong thing to do. The right thing to do, when you don't have enough evidence, is to say "I
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by hugh3 15y ago
The main difference is that relativity has been tested experimentally, over and over, to extremely high precision. Climate change models have been tested once-ish, to low precision, without necessarily filtering out the other effects. I jus
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by hugh3 15y ago
The mere fact that a majority of scientists think X rather than Y is a poor argument for why you should believe it too. You also need to know why they believe that and how strong their conviction is. For instance, if the available evidence
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by hugh3 15y ago
Would you like it in those exact words, or would you settle for something functionally equivalent? If you want those exact words then it'll probably take me a while to dig up. If you want something functionally equivalent go watch Al Gore's
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by hugh3 15y ago
There is a great big giant humongous gap between something that sounds good in an editorial and something that actually does something useful I am reminded of "politician's logic" from Yes Minister . 1. Something must be done. 2. This is
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by hugh3 15y ago
At which point you've already wasted $10,000 of someone else's money. There's also the good ol' sunk cost fallacy. The longer you've spent working on your dumb business plan, the less likely you are to change it to a smart business plan.
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by hugh3 15y ago
That's a fairly good site, actually. However, when the position taken up by one side is "There is no room for skepticism about what my model predicts will happen in the future!" and the position taken up by the other side is "There is some
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by hugh3 15y ago
I'm skeptical that this is your true reason. What's your true reason? Is it that you just think that humans can't impact the climate? Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but please don't accuse me of lying about what I actually think.
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by hugh3 15y ago
FTFA: Climate change may or may not be occurring. But there is no dispute that 98 percent of climate scientists believe that it is happening and is man-made. The problem is in the phrasing of the question. Questions like "are global aver
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by hugh3 15y ago
The trouble with factory tours is that they're uneven in quality. Many of 'em don't let you see anything interesting. I've soured on them after a couple of bad experiences. The Ben & Jerry's ice cream factory in Vermont should be fascin
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by hugh3 15y ago
I once tried taking one of my C++ simulation codes (dealing with diagonalization of big memory-hogging matrices) and rewriting it using scipy. It was a lot slower. I don't have a good idea of exactly what situations you'll find scipy bein
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by hugh3 15y ago
Article could do with some more numbers. Is the huge growth in compact fluorescent lighting sufficient to account for the difference, alone? I'm wondering whether the other factors are sufficient at all.
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by hugh3 15y ago
This thread is relevant to my interests. On the subject of the "diamond" planet, I'm actually surprised to see the lead author of the paper in question referring to it as a "diamond planet". I thought that was just a media label. I read the
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by hugh3 15y ago
How much do stupid articles with made-up numbers cost the US annually?
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by hugh3 15y ago
Do you read for more than ten hours at a stretch? Personally I'd kill for a tablet that could last the eighteen hours door-to-door from SFO to SYD, but hey, ten hours is a good start.
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by hugh3 15y ago
Was the Socratic method ever a good idea? Doesn't it only work in contrived, scripted debates against an interlocutor who seems to spend most of his time saying "Yes surely Socrates that must be the case"?
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by hugh3 15y ago
Why are you measuring your level of success in uniques per month rather than dollars? How many dollars are you pulling in? Does it cover your costs? Do you think that more hits per month would be enough to make it cover your costs, or do yo
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by hugh3 15y ago
Shit man, where I'm from I live in a city and travel 45 minutes to get to a different part of the city.
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by hugh3 15y ago
2050 is only 39 years away... as far away as 1972. While Puerto Rico may become a state (for reasons having nothing to do with "natural resources and cheap labour") I can't see anything else happening. There's no strong demand for secession

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