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by hugh3 15y ago
Without wanting to burst anyone's bubble, I'm guessing that the words actually refer to a dose of serious palliative care grade painkillers. I don't like the emphasis on "last words" anyway. When I'm dying (and probably not especially lucid
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by hugh3 15y ago
And don't forget there are big, serious players out there who wouldn't think twice of using dirty tricks (and the know them all) to quash you like a bug. She's lucky she's under the radar. Somebody dropping a couple hundred thousand for a
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by hugh3 15y ago
Not necessarily. If I'd invented a wacko free energy source (and I don't believe for a moment that they have) then I'd sell the machines, or the patent to the machine, and not the energy. Why? Because I don't want to spend the rest of my li
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by hugh3 15y ago
Biggest factor left out: laziness. I have no philosophical objection to sharing all my raw data just on the offchance somebody wants to look through terabytes of wavefunction data. But it'd take time and effort to organise it all. It's
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by hugh3 15y ago
Yeah, I periodically try to shift it a bit earlier -- 8 'til 4 is nice. Not sure I could cope with quite that early though. For one thing, it would destroy my morning go-get-coffee ritual if there were no cafes open when I get up.
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by hugh3 15y ago
Given that your account appears to be eighteen minutes old... wow, that was fast!
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by hugh3 15y ago
Thankyou for a well-timed reminder that I really should buy a sports car before I get married.
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by hugh3 15y ago
Whoa. $160 initial investment for seventy cents a day profit? Your kid is investing at 160%! If I spent $50K on these, I could retire! (Except I wouldn't be retired, I'd be driving around all the damn time taking care of my three hundred an
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by hugh3 15y ago
What was the initial investment?
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by hugh3 15y ago
Is this one of those "honeypot" articles were were talking about? Bad submitter! Bad upvoters! No biscuit!
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by hugh3 15y ago
Well heck, I am an Apple shareholder, but still don't particularly care whether Apple happens to sell more phones than any other individual company, as long as they're still selling plenty of phones and making plenty of money. I mean, I'd
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by hugh3 15y ago
It seems to me that instead of worrying about fancy ways to enforce the guidelines, perhaps the guidelines should be rewritten to be more explicit about what is and isn't on-topic. This: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, un
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by hugh3 15y ago
I'm really confused as to why some people seem to have strong feelings about this.
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by hugh3 15y ago
I work 40 hour weeks. Nine to five. I got into the habit when I started my PhD, because I knew that if I didn't force myself to work to a certain schedule, I'd probably slack off. If I only worked when I felt like it, on what I felt lik
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by hugh3 15y ago
Y'know, I went looking for something to debunk this (rather implausible sounding) theory, so I googled "rothschild snopes". Snopes doesn't actually have anything, but I did find this rather delicious thread from the prisonplanet forums, whe
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by hugh3 15y ago
A million bucks isn't much nowadays. Certainly not enough to retire comfortably in the US (yes yes, I know we've had a recent rash of articles on how to retire on $9000 a year or whatever, but I don't wanna live in a trailer park). I reckon
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by hugh3 15y ago
But Gates's own example shows how wonderfully useful and fulfilling it can be to have tens of billions of dollars to mobilize in a really heroic cause, like working to eradicate various infectious diseases from the human experience. Maybe
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by hugh3 15y ago
Sorry, I'm confused. Are you disagreeing with me anywhere?
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by hugh3 15y ago
What do you mean by "game loop"? Surely something like Farmville has some gameplay elements, right? I've never played it, but there are some choices to be made (shall I get chickens or cows), right?
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by hugh3 15y ago
Y'know, I think most roguelikes are a bit more respectable than the pure super-optimized Skinner boxes that Zynga and Blizzard produce. Why? Because you die. A lot. And when you die, you need to start all over again. And you make progress f
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by hugh3 15y ago
Alternative hypothesis: the point of the competition is to make people think that reconstructing shredded documents is harder than it is. Why? So that the enemy will keep on shredding documents instead of burning 'em.
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by hugh3 15y ago
That sounds like the start of a boring and offtopic thread. Let's not fall for it.
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by hugh3 15y ago
It's not that tricky, it's a problem easily solved with money. Step one: "Hey big-name famous professor, want a job at Stanford NY? We'll pay you $big_face_money and you'll get all our fancy new facilities, plus the Stanford name, and whate
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by hugh3 15y ago
Well, to be honest I didn't really read yours either. I glanced at the headings, picked up a few words in the body, and said "Ohhhh, he's just describing the teaching methodology he's used in the past, not providing some general philosophy
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by hugh3 15y ago
Maybe they just disrespect him because... let's face it, surgically mutilating your penis, taking a bunch of hormones and demanding that everybody call you "she" is just plain weird , regardless of what current orthodoxy says.
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by hugh3 15y ago
I'm reading your "Academic job hunt advice" right now, very useful. Until I read your teaching statement I'd never really been clear on what the hell a teaching statement was supposed to be.
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by hugh3 15y ago
And "less than 1 hour" is supposed to be a good thing now? I used to complain about the RTA (the NSW equivalent) in Sydney. But I have to admit that last time I showed up to get my New South Wales licence renewed, I was in and out with a
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by hugh3 15y ago
Another day, another HN thread about misogyny and sexism in STEM Actually, we're not talking about STEM in general, we're talking about computer programming in particular. As I was reading this thread, I was just thinking about how other
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by hugh3 15y ago
I see no reason why a guy who owned a hundred identical black turtlenecks should not also have owned a succession of identical Benzes. It's not what I'd do, but hey, I'm not (yet) rich enough to be eccentric.
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by hugh3 15y ago
I see dozens of people failing to obey traffic laws every day. Few of them appear to be billionaires.

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