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by hugh3 15y ago
shouldn't the extremely wealthy be held to higher standards about what they're expected to do with their charity? Well, no, nobody should be held to any "standards" about what they do with their charity. It's his money, he earned it, an
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by hugh3 15y ago
Here's the thing: I remember that folks spent years and years trying to develop a useable technology for e-ink. "It reflects light just like paper", they said, "so it'll be much easier to read for hours without getting eyestrain". Then a fe
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by hugh3 15y ago
If I were ucla.edu I wouldn't be too worried about it since ucla.xxx isn't a threat to me. On the other hand if I were the owner of hotmangoatporn.com then I'd be annoyed, since hotmangoatporn.xxx is a threat to me, and I'm now obliged to
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by hugh3 15y ago
The militarization of fact-checking. I like it. Of course, facts alone can't talk anyone out of being a nutty extremist, as anyone who has browsed reddit will attest.
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by hugh3 15y ago
On the offchance that it turns out to be really true, it will certainly point us in the direction of some interesting new physics, so it'll be a step in the right direction. I'm still trying to keep my expectations down for now, though.
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by hugh3 15y ago
What possible reason is there for not doing so? The code and the ideas within have no direct commercial value, surely? Laziness, lack of time, and the fact that most scientific code is not suitable for public consumption. For instance, my
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by hugh3 15y ago
If I were involved in this project, I'd be sitting around saying "please don't let it be my fault, please don't let it be my fault". Somewhere, somebody screwed up... and if the problem is in my code then I want to find it and correct
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by hugh3 15y ago
No it isn't, it's an explicit way of saying that the number of real parameters needed to specify a quantum state is exponential in the number of systems.
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by hugh3 15y ago
Pelosi will never fail to get re-elected. But as House Minority Leader she has other things to worry about, in particular getting all the other Democrats re-elected. And that means trying not to piss off any big donor group. Big Content i
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by hugh3 15y ago
It's not like these are even particularly technical terms, though. Anyone who has shopped for a TV in the last five years should know what "1080" and "720" are, even if they don't quite grok the "i" and the "p". Not everybody understands
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by hugh3 15y ago
Sure, problems can "barely exist" while being significant for the statistically small number of people whom they effect. Rhinoceros attacks, for instance, are "barely a problem"... unless you're one of those poor unfortunates who is sufferi
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by hugh3 15y ago
I know there are food programmes and soup kitchens --but those suffer from poor funding. I mean, I feel that we should make sure everyone has access to balanced nutrition (not talking gourmet --just good nutrition) regardless of why they m
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by hugh3 15y ago
Warning: that link is an Excel spreadsheet. I do note, however, that: a) It still doesn't say precisely how food consumption is estimated. b) However it does say this: "The food consumption refers to the amount of food available for huma
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by hugh3 15y ago
This is a tired complaint. In fact, one of the most tiresome things I find about America is the insistence of Americans upon complaining about how awful things are in America (despite apparently limited experience with how things are in oth
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by hugh3 15y ago
It's not hard to reach, but as an average over the entire population? Is there any explanation of the methodology by which these numbers were derived? I don't think it's possible to accurately measure this kind of thing -- heck, I have en
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by hugh3 15y ago
Mostly a combination of (a) that article being largely made-up BS to exaggerate the size of a problem that barely exists (i.e. by using ridiculously broad categories for "food insecure" and a measurement methodology which involves cajoling
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by hugh3 15y ago
I've always found manic depression fascinating. I recommend the book "Electroboy: A Memoir of Mania" by Andy Behrman. He talks primarily about his manic phases, how he would rush out and buy things he couldn't afford, get into weird sex sit
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by hugh3 15y ago
If you found out that he had been behind some kind of huge success, would you agree with him more? ... If he could fill a paper with things that he's done for people you've never heard of, would that make him more credible? Honestly, yes.
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by hugh3 15y ago
Now there's a crashblossom-friendly company name.
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by hugh3 15y ago
I'm also not sure why a "top designer" wouldn't have his own office space.
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by hugh3 15y ago
Someone has to step up and lead, so maybe a motivational speech is just what the team needs. The points about partying and making money might matter to his team, maybe its why they're working on the project in the first place. (And none of
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by hugh3 15y ago
These guys are partners rather than employees? Wow. This is a bad way to talk to your employees, but a far worse way to talk to your partners. Your partners would be well advised to cut you out of the project... or perhaps to dump the proje
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by hugh3 15y ago
A hug, or possibly medical treatment for his bipolar disorder.
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by hugh3 15y ago
If they did, then they'd stop being Car and Driver and start being Motorcycle World .
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by hugh3 15y ago
If your job involves regularly receiving emails like this, you need to run, not walk, away from that relationship. This guy seems like one of those poisonous people who will inevitably screw things up (through some combination of ego and ig
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by hugh3 15y ago
It's not "very small", it's just significantly below unity. In, say, physics, I'd say that somewhere around 50% of PhDs wind up, long term, in professional research positions. That's 30% in academia, and the remaining 20% in government/mili
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by hugh3 15y ago
I'd only want an estimate of the travel times between destinations, not an estimate of how long I'd actually spend stopped at each (which I wouldn't attempt to estimate in advance anyway). For me the use case is this: I want to drive from (
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by hugh3 15y ago
Hmmm. Well, the "places of interest" it suggested to me didn't look interesting, but it's nearly useful. What it really needs is just to have a "time" column estimating how far each stop is from the last one. Maybe I just grew up watchi
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by hugh3 15y ago
Kinda makes me wonder why they don't tighten up the application criteria. Bachelor's degree in something vaguely sciencey plus three years experience? Compare that to the actual CVs of the nine folks they selected (out of 3500) last time:
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by hugh3 15y ago
I liked to imagine astronauts as individuals who excelled so much in their given fields that they stood out and were actively recruited by NASA. Instead, I find out that NASA posts job postings and interviews people just like everyone else

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