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901.
by hugh3 15y ago
Surely if it were that, then fingers should wrinkle faster? If I stick my hand in water then it gets wet immediately, but doesn't wrinkle for... what, fifteen minutes? And that's warm water -- cold water (like practically all the naturally-
902.
by hugh3 15y ago
What are folks actually suggesting here? That we go back to the more relaxed pre-9/11 days where you'd go through a metal detector and get your carry-on X-rayed, but it wasn't that big a deal? Or that we actually abolish airport security en
903.
by hugh3 15y ago
"You are a tiny band of nutjobs. You can't kill us all. You can't even kill .00001% of us." If we're talking about the US population, then 0.0001% is thirty people. They can probably manage that. However , on your broader point, nouveau-
904.
by hugh3 15y ago
Oh. :(
905.
by hugh3 15y ago
My rule of thumb on whether it's appropriate to call someone fascist: would they label themselves as such? "Fascism" is a notoriously hard to define term -- there was never a "fascist manifesto" the way there was for communism. Life is too
906.
by hugh3 15y ago
Poor people and minorities can't afford to work for a year for free Poor people and minorities? So minorities, even if they happen to be individually rich, can't afford to work for a year for free?
907.
by hugh3 15y ago
Speaking of which... am I crazy or is there a new black bar at the top of HN too? (edit: removed second sentence after finding out actual reason)
908.
by hugh3 15y ago
HN Feature Request: a filter that strips the word "amazing" out of all headlines.
909.
by hugh3 15y ago
If there are, there certainly aren't any which are widely-used English words like "pram".
910.
by hugh3 15y ago
The following two statements are not incompossible: 1. At each time T, we believe that "machine intelligence", according to the definition in use at time T, is a few decades away; 2. At each time T, we're right. They're not incompatible,
911.
by hugh3 15y ago
Indeed. I can believe that (maybe) sometime within the next few decades we'll have hardware theoretically capable of running a simulation of a human-level intelligence. I don't see any indication that we'll have the relevant software, nor a
912.
by hugh3 15y ago
Where are my friends? They seem to be showing up one by one. How do I bring over my contacts from Facebook? (the Facebook --> Yahoo --> Google+ thing was ridiculous) Ah, but that's exactly what I don't want to do. I want to st
913.
by hugh3 15y ago
Pah, in my day we'd just email stuff to huge copy-and-pasted lists of the email addresses of everyone we knew.
914.
by hugh3 15y ago
In this case I'd wager that our model of how quickly quasars can form is probably what needs revising, rather than the age of the universe. But, y'know, standard-issue overly-dramatic science-journalism headline.
915.
by hugh3 15y ago
Selling 'em as in "trying to persuade other people of their worth" rather than selling 'em as in "getting money for 'em". Still, I concede the ambiguity.
916.
by hugh3 15y ago
I just had a quick look at the website. On some level it sounds tempting. On another level, paying forty-three thousand dollars a year to sit around reading Homer doesn't sound like that great a use of money and time.
917.
by hugh3 15y ago
Maybe, but the journalist's job is to take the press release and make it better , not worse. If you ask me, the most interesting question is "So how does this thing actually work?" And the answer according to engadget is "PCM is based on a
918.
by hugh3 15y ago
You can say "I wish she was not so informal", but that's a perfectly reasonable use of the word Surely it should be "I wish she were not so informal"?
919.
by hugh3 15y ago
If I have just one criticism of google+ so far, it's that the look-and-feel is just a bit too white and sterile at the moment. It feels like hanging out with your friends in a hospital waiting room. Of course that's partially just that ther
920.
by hugh3 15y ago
If you're in the US, try Virgin Mobile. They've got the LG Optimus V (a reasonably capable Androidy sort of thing) for $200 on prepaid, then you pay $25 a month for unlimited data + unlimited text + (I think) 300 minutes of voice. It's chea
921.
by hugh3 15y ago
I wouldn't either, if I were them. Y'know how facebook causes every random annoying person from your past, from kindergarten onwards, to try to wend their way back into your life? Imagine that plus being a billionaire. "Oh hi Larry, remembe
922.
by hugh3 15y ago
You're right, it's a pretty damn non-ideal list. Another problem is that some of the "books" are vast. I really have to read the whole goddamn Bible plus the complete works of William Shakespeare? But that's okay. My goal isn't to read on
923.
by hugh3 15y ago
I work in academia. In academia, we pay crap, especially to the people at the bottom of the totem pole. But even we pay our summer interns.
924.
by hugh3 15y ago
Or to put it the other way around, supposing you have seventy years of reading (from the day you learn to read 'til the day your eyes give out), then you'd only have to read 0.89 pages per day to read the whole thing. If it takes you fiftee
925.
by hugh3 15y ago
I've recently committed myself to reading all the books on that supposed "BBC book list" that has been floating around (largely as a facebook meme) recently. http://fashionabroad.wordpress.com/2011/03/30/bbc-book-list-... I'd already read
926.
by hugh3 15y ago
True, but missing the point. If you prove, convincingly, to a "locavore" that the stated benefits of their choices are in fact better achieved by (say) acquiring all your food from Wal-Mart, will they thank you and be glad that they know th
927.
by hugh3 15y ago
Is that really true? More than twice as much meat as, say, the Australians, Germans and Argentinians? update: According to http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/datablog/2009/sep/02/m... your implausible-sounding numbers are wrong. In fac
928.
by hugh3 15y ago
This explains some of it. It doesn't explain why I need to pay $500 an hour (well, $300 an hour) to get a lawyer to look over the contract when I buy a house. I'm not too concerned about having the best possible lawyer in that case -- as lo
929.
by hugh3 15y ago
I'd love to see this done in South Central Los Angeles.
930.
by hugh3 15y ago
You don't need to extrapolate much further from the 0.01% of the shares bought in this transaction to see how ridiculous that is. That's how 37signals became a $100B company with a $1 investment following the same template Extrapolating t

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