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by hugh3 15y ago
Well, there aren't that many computers on the top500 that aren't owned by a government or university. I'm too lazy to look through the whole 500, but just in the top 100 let me count. Airbus has one at 29. I think it's clear what they use
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by hugh3 15y ago
Gender Studies (along with Critical Theory, Intersectionality, etc) are some of my non-programming educational pursuits, and I agree. That stuff is hard. And not just because of the density of the language, a lot of it is conceptually very
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by hugh3 15y ago
I don't see a lot of papers rolling by in Science, Nature, or Xarchiv where the work required the use of one of the top 500 There are many papers in Science and Nature based on work from supercomputers. And if by Xarchiv you mean arXiv, t
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by hugh3 15y ago
The hostage returned with a message claiming that the kidnappers said any exposure of information resulting in the outing of a gangster would result in the demise of Anonymous 10-fold. Where's the evidence that there ever was a hostage?
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by hugh3 15y ago
I don't get it. If materials modeling, drug discovery, seismology and atmospheric modeling sound "squishy" to you, what on Earth wouldn't be squishy? Most of those machines are shared between a bunch of researchers working on a bunch of d
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by hugh3 15y ago
Many aspects of this story sound too good (too narratively neat, that is) to be true. Is there any evidence that this is anything other than a big hoax orchestrated by Anonymous for publicity and/or lulz? Any third-party confirmation that
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by hugh3 15y ago
There's a simple solution: stop subsidizing useless degrees. If someone wants to pay money to spend four years of their life studying Gender Studies or Semiotics then good luck to 'em, but make sure they're paying the full cost of their deg
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by hugh3 15y ago
Wow, now there's a loaded question. Why don't you just ask us whether we're gonna stop beating our wives? The reasons to be skeptical of Groupon are well documented. Not that it's a bad business, by any means, it's just that it's an industr
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by hugh3 15y ago
I don't know why the "per share" price is the headline number here -- what matters is the total valuation, which is $12.65 billion. Dunno about you, but I'm not gonna be buying at that price.
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by hugh3 15y ago
See where I said "kinda sorta"? If all the objects in the solar system were in exactly the same plane we'd have a solar eclipse every month. The moon's orbit, for instance, is inclined at five degrees to the ecliptic.
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by hugh3 15y ago
My problem with all of these systems is the same: I'm disorganized, I forget to charge my phone or bring it along, and so the chances of me having a fully charged, working, switched-on phone with me when I want to buy something are far lowe
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by hugh3 15y ago
The sad part is that regardless of whether it's copper or gold, the economics of mining asteroids still doesn't work out.
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by hugh3 15y ago
Hmm, I wonder if the poles would get hit less often than the tropics due to the distribution of asteroids being more or less in the ecliptic, or whether that's not sufficiently significant. Probably not -- I don't know of any latitude-depen
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by hugh3 15y ago
Don't forget that's a two-dimensional picture of 3D space, so it's probably not nearly as close to the moon as it appears. While most of the objects in the solar system are in kinda-sorta the same plane, they're not quite.
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by hugh3 15y ago
The n -body problem is hard to solve analytically, but trivially easy to solve to arbitrarily high precision numerically.
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by hugh3 15y ago
Magnitude 3. Big deal. That's what happens when you break rocks -- they shake around a bit. In fact, I'd say gas fracking is earthquakes -- you characterize what you're doing underground using a seismometer and picking up the vibrations.
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by hugh3 15y ago
What course is that, though? Vegetable physics?
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by hugh3 15y ago
No, he mentions a generalized experience which he puts in the second person and claims is mine . However it's not mine (I breezed through first-year mechanics), so I can only assume it's his.
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by hugh3 15y ago
This started out looking like it was going to be an interesting critique of how undergraduate physics is taught, but it got weird at the end. There is a certain truth to the fact that the physics courses for engineering and life science stu
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by hugh3 15y ago
Since when is there a "real" Anonymous? Heck, I went to an anti-scientology protest one time, surely that gives me as much of a right as anybody to claim to be Anonymous.
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by hugh3 15y ago
Nope, my plan involves only one big transfer, which earns the ten thousand "credits".
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by hugh3 15y ago
Fun fact, but I think you've misread what I was saying if you think it's relevant.
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by hugh3 15y ago
Sounds roughly right. Or to put it another way, you can, at the cost of an extra daily chore and a bunch of "special offer" emails, earn about four point eight cents a day. I'm afraid I'm just not sold on the value proposition.
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by hugh3 15y ago
The same reason that most men will never become CEO, perhaps?
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by hugh3 15y ago
Makes sense. Saccharine is a sugar alternative, and I don't expect saccharine to replace sugar.
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by hugh3 15y ago
It's more cynical than that. Like the vast majority of online petitions, they exist primarily to harvest email addresses.
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by hugh3 15y ago
I'd prefer a "stop pretending like you care about these petitions" petition. I mean, it's neither practical nor desirable to have the White House do whatever someone can persuade 0.01% of the population to sign a petition for 'em to do. You
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by hugh3 15y ago
It's not that hard for the Obama spin machine to respond to this. "Blah blah blah, of course we take all suggestions very seriously. In fact we have already done [something unrelated]. We thank you for your interest. Give us money."
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by hugh3 15y ago
Alright, I think I understand the rules now. You earn one "credit" for every dollar you deposit into a registered savings account (or every dollar you pay off a registered mortgage, or whatever). There's no limit to how many credits you can
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by hugh3 15y ago
So I have to sign up for your service before I find out what it does? I can't find any details at all outside the media coverage, and if I'm gonna sign up to turn my financial affairs into a game I'm gonna want to know what the rules are fi

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