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by hugh3 15y ago
Everybody in this discussion seems to be focusing on the problem of work, but how many of us would want to move out to some remote location even if we could perfectly telecommute? I know I wouldn't. I'd go crazy being alone all the time, an
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by hugh3 15y ago
Interesting, I'd always thought that idea was due to Asimov in The Caves of Steel, but apparently the Heinlein predates the Asimov by 14 years. Unfortunately, fast-moving underground moving sidewalks sound like an incredible waste of energy
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by hugh3 15y ago
Private space is important. So is freedom from interruption. And of course, the fact that trains don't always run on time, and never go from exactly where you are to exactly where you want to be.
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by hugh3 15y ago
News stories work this way, putting the important information at the top. Other styles of writing (e.g. fiction) needn't. Fiction is designed to catch your attention at the beginning, and make you want to read to the end. News is designed s
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by hugh3 15y ago
I like this idea. Four buttons: "good comment", "bad comment", "I agree" and "I disagree". Agreement vs disagreement would be displayed but would not determine comment position or commenter karma. Comment quality would determine comment pos
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by hugh3 15y ago
Only works for top-level threads though. A bad response to a highly-rated OP will continue to hang out near the top of the page. It's a genuine problem, what do you do with bad comments? The average bad commenter is a fifteen-year-old boy
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by hugh3 15y ago
This isn't really the sort of thing that can be supported with relevant examples. It's just an idea. And I think it's an idea worth discussing -- what might happen to the discussion if moderation were removed completely? But I happen to
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by hugh3 15y ago
This is the kind of comment that isn't helpful. I really have no idea why you're assigning one columnist's opinion to "conservatives" in general, nor charging hypocrisy based on one rather carefully-reasoned opinion that maybe one arm of th
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by hugh3 15y ago
I definitely share this experience, for instance in many of the recent "Groupon is a scam" threads, or anything having to do with Android. It becomes a disincentive to participate in conversations about certain topics. I find that the wor
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by hugh3 15y ago
I disagree, but am upvoting you anyway because you were in negative territory. Comment scores are necessary because: a) Not everybody has time to read every comment on every thread, and b) The scores provide a slight psychological reward fo
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by hugh3 15y ago
I agree, invisible comment scores add noise, because if I read something I agree strongly with I feel compelled to show my approval. In the old days clicking the up-arrow would show a suitable quantum of approval, but nowadays I sometimes f
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by hugh3 15y ago
But another peculiarity of the ITC is that its rulings can be waived by the president. Verizon thinks it would be great if President Obama, in a blanket statement, made clear he would not let stand any decision blocking importation of cons
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by hugh3 15y ago
I feel envious for the guy who lives as if it's 1975 and never touches a computer. Must be nice.
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by hugh3 15y ago
I'd rather learn that in the headline, thus knowing whether it's worth my while to read the whole story.
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by hugh3 15y ago
I refuse to believe that a large number of other animals know when earthquakes are coming shortly before they arrive, but that we somehow mysteriously managed to lose this (very occasionally slightly useful) trait. I am amused by the fact
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by hugh3 15y ago
If Apple shares come down to $100 you should buy more than one.
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by hugh3 15y ago
It's no longer a small company, but I was reading today that SpaceX encourages it, on a "one full week out of every five" basis.
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by hugh3 15y ago
It's a woman. Aging skin is very important for them. As a man, I've found that at the age of 31 I look exactly the same as I did when I was 22, except that I'm slightly better-looking due to being more tanned. I don't regret not wearing sun
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by hugh3 15y ago
The other half of Apple is big strategic decisions. Do the iPod. Do the iPhone. Do the iPad. Maybe, but a lot of this is just a matter of picking the biggest new trend in consumer electronics and entering that market. mp3 players are beco
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by hugh3 15y ago
As Buffet said, "the stock market is a popularity voting contest in the short term, but a weighing machine in the long term". I like that quote. I'm going to eat it.
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by hugh3 15y ago
No, the best way to quit is when you're not dying.
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by hugh3 15y ago
I wish you were right, but Steve Jobs is clearly not a well man, and he seems to have been getting worse for some time. On the offchance that he did stage a miraculous recovery and decide "Well shit, now I'm all better I think I'm gonna g
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by hugh3 15y ago
For oil dependence to go away, mankind either needs to give up the energy and things which are derived from petroleum or find suitable replacements, and that is a monumental challenge at this stage in the game It's pretty easy to get oil
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by hugh3 15y ago
It's worth noting that the Bering Strait end of Alaska is as far from Seattle as Mexico City is from... well, Seattle.
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by hugh3 15y ago
Ehh, the only actual good coffee in Berkeley is Philz. Oh, and Mokka, but that's far from campus. Oh yeah, and Local 123, but that's even further from campus and overpriced. Guerilla should in theory have good coffee but their service i
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by hugh3 15y ago
Slightly over half the size of Western Australia!
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by hugh3 15y ago
Well, one out of several hundred thousand is a pretty low failure rate.
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by hugh3 15y ago
While I must admit that is one of the better applications of the In Soviet Russia meme I've seen, I'm still modding you down for it.
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by hugh3 15y ago
According to http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/44212283/ns/world_news-europe/ the report was from The Times, not The Sun.
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by hugh3 15y ago
Well, it's easy to understand cartographic projections without necessarily having an intuitive grasp of 'em.

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