hugh3

111 ms·

721.
by hugh3 15y ago
I never saw the point to that one at all. Mind you, I was young, and couldn't get over "Why would this smart guy have sex with this random dumb woman?" Now I'm older I know better...
722.
by hugh3 15y ago
I learned most of what I know about philosophy from "The Bluffer's Guide To Philosophy" when I was about twelve. It enabled me to win arguments with philosophy undergrads at least up 'til second year uni.
723.
by hugh3 15y ago
Treat it as "unreliable narrator". I enjoyed it as a story, without taking too seriously any of the opinions which are put into the mouth of the main character (or... either of the main characters, if you prefer). I'd put it on the "To
724.
by hugh3 15y ago
That's well put. The internet provides us with a vast pool of borderline-interesting activities, and almost nothing of actual interest. This comment was borderline-interesting for me to write. I hope it was borderline-interesting for you to
725.
by hugh3 15y ago
The big question I have is, being on a major network owned by a well-known conservative mogul Murdoch is Australian, and conservatism and Christianity don't have nearly as much overlap as they do in America. I would be extremely surpris
726.
by hugh3 15y ago
Y'know, I've never actually seen much of Cosmos, but I'd like to put in a plug for my favourite 80s documentary series, David Attenborough's Life On Earth .
727.
by hugh3 15y ago
I'm a little late to this party, but: Short answer: technology destroys jobs for dumb people and creates jobs for smart people. Until now this has been okay, because there have still been enough dumb jobs for all the dumb people. But as tec
728.
by hugh3 15y ago
My favourite thing about that link is how it functions both ways. It describes an example of Republicans trying to shift blame onto Democrats, and it is an example of Democrats trying to shift blame onto Republicans.
729.
by hugh3 15y ago
Move over, Wikileaks, there's an even bigger group of cunts with even lower ethical standards in town! This will not end well.
730.
by hugh3 15y ago
Hey, as long as the dish washers get stock options it's still a pretty good job.
731.
by hugh3 15y ago
Are you a facebook employee question mark "Hey Mark, am I a facebook employee?" "Not any more!"
732.
by hugh3 15y ago
I like the idea that he implemented this feature today and submitted it to HN himself, just to fire yid. Sorry yid.
733.
by hugh3 15y ago
Mine is on the order of 503 million, and there definitely weren't five hundred million users when I joined in... late 2006, I think.
734.
by hugh3 15y ago
Well, maybe you got hired by facebook but can't remember. If you check this and it says yes, you'd better hurry up and go to work!
735.
by hugh3 15y ago
"I looked into it more deeply and I found that apparently what happened is that yid was laid off five years ago and no one ever told him about it; but through some kind of glitch in the payroll department, he still gets a paycheck. So we ju
736.
Juno mission to Jupiter due to launch 12:25 EST -- live launch blog(nasa.gov)
2 points by hugh3 15y ago|0 comments
737.
by hugh3 15y ago
And even the Columbine sociopaths were targeting people they knew, rather than random strangers. Random murderers targeting random strangers are even rarer.
738.
by hugh3 15y ago
But I would hope that even Teenage Sociopath is smart enough to figure out that this is equivalent to just shooting up the clinic with a gun. Or, even if you think he's less likely to get caught, the world is full of undetectable opportunit
739.
by hugh3 15y ago
I'm much less concerned about vulnerabilities which will allow people to kill me than about vulnerabilities which will enable people to steal my data or money. There's far more people who want to steal my data or money than who want to kill
740.
by hugh3 15y ago
I look forward to the VOTE FOR THIS IF YOU LIKE COOKIES ACT of 2012.
741.
by hugh3 15y ago
Only 500px? My 13-inch MacBook (1280*800) doesn't even show the bottommost pixels of the headline.
742.
by hugh3 15y ago
Whose internet law is it that says that any sufficiently advanced idiot is indistinguishable from a troll? Or is it that any sufficiently advanced troll is indistinguishable from an idiot?
743.
by hugh3 15y ago
Most importantly, if life was found on Mars and it was convincingly shown to have had a separate origin to life on Earth (i.e. no panspermia) then this would severely impact upon our understanding of how common life in the universe is. When
744.
by hugh3 15y ago
The Matt Damon looking guy is fifties game show fixture Bill Cullen: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Cullen and he looks less Matt Damonish in higher resolution.
745.
by hugh3 15y ago
Incidentally, be careful with rental cars. There are codes out there which cause the quoted price to go up!
746.
by hugh3 15y ago
More importantly, it needs to draw contributors from outside the Anglosphere to work on languages other than English. English wikipedia has 3.7 million articles. Spanish has only 810,000, Chinese just 300,000-ish, and Hindi less than one hu
747.
by hugh3 15y ago
most of the tv work she DOES do seems to be driven by people who like her work on the Guild and so they reach out to her Or else they know she has a huge online following, and throwing her into a few episodes will give 'em an extra half a
748.
by hugh3 15y ago
"But apart from that, Mr Seymour, how was the play?"
749.
by hugh3 15y ago
Realistically, in the first world it's gay men who most need to worry about HIV, due both to the greater likelihood of it being transmitted by anal sex and the much greater preexisting incidence among gay men. http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/topics
750.
by hugh3 15y ago
I'd just like to congratulate everybody on the fact that there are seven comments so far and not one of them says "That's no moon..."

More ›