hugh3

21 ms·

181.
by hugh3 15y ago
Yep. This story started out sounding like it was going somewhere. But in the end, it didn't.
182.
by hugh3 15y ago
It would turn corporations into tax shelters, allowing investments to compound at a faster rate Is that so bad? Is it bad if we encourage people to invest in businesses rather than term deposits (or CDs as I think they're called in the US
183.
by hugh3 15y ago
Really? Including getting my licence renewed? I've been putting off going to the DMV for nearly a year now. My licence is very, very expired. If I can join AAA to avoid this, I definitely will.
184.
by hugh3 15y ago
If I'd had a silver SL55 I would have de-plated it, in the hope that Steve Jobs would have got blamed for everything I did.
185.
by hugh3 15y ago
A six-month-old, slightly used SL-class AMG? $120K is about right. They're $140K new.
186.
by hugh3 15y ago
More like $140K. Actually I think they don't make the SL55 any more, so the latest one would have to be an SL63. It doesn't look all that different to a $45,000 SLK, though, which makes it the insanely fast borderline-supercar of choice f
187.
by hugh3 15y ago
Are we sure we don't have this backwards? Perhaps it's not that he got a new car every six months because he really disliked plates. Perhaps he just got a new car every six months because he really liked having a brand new car. Heck, I woul
188.
by hugh3 15y ago
Sunlight is one of the least reliable forms of power out there. If the grid goes down then... well, you're screwed unless it just happens to be daytime and sunny.
189.
by hugh3 15y ago
Find a way to burn the twelve hundred calories you just consumed?
190.
by hugh3 15y ago
Ew. I must say that the whole "please let me sleep on your couch instead of making me stay in a hotel room" bit was the most bothersome part of this whole rider. I respect RMS for his work, but I wouldn't want to let him in my house.
191.
by hugh3 15y ago
It's well known within a certain rather narrow community of people. The folks who booked him may just have read his name on a list of "vaguely important people who are willing to give speeches".
192.
by hugh3 15y ago
So if I provide tea he likes, I don't have to provide milk and sugar. If I provide tea he doesn't like, I have to provide milk and sugar. Unless of course he chooses to drink his own tea, in which case my tea, my milk, and my sugar will all
193.
by hugh3 15y ago
The problem I think is rooted in piracy, at least as it is practiced in first-world countries where convenience is worth more than price. Piracy has several built-in practical issues, because it is frankly inconvenient to be conducting ill
194.
by hugh3 15y ago
The problem is that the only people who bother getting up in arms about this are the objectively pro-piracy crowd -- the folks who think that they ought to be allowed to freely download a copy of any movie in existence without paying for
195.
by hugh3 15y ago
He doesn't drink coffee. If I didn't drink coffee I'd be cranky in the mornings too.
196.
by hugh3 15y ago
Right. Which wouldn't have happened, if he hadn't already added in the first paragraph about how he really likes parrots and would be "very very glad" to stay with someone who owns one.
197.
by hugh3 15y ago
Interesting idea. So it's like an anonymous tweet-stream associated with a particular geographical location? Comments: a) It took me some time to understand what it was. I certainly didn't get it from the first paragraph, I had to scroll do
198.
by hugh3 15y ago
That's reasonable, yes. The two paragraphs on the subject of parrots, however, seem rather unnecessary.
199.
by hugh3 15y ago
I was thinking just the other day that something like this should exist. I'm happy to know that it does.
200.
by hugh3 15y ago
So is there anything other than this one comic book store an Legoland San Diego available? How can we find 'em? I'd love to go for a stroll through, say, the British Museum.
201.
by hugh3 15y ago
There are plenty of professors out there without PhDs, even nowadays. Not at Cambridge, and not in Physics, but they exist.
202.
by hugh3 15y ago
I'm just bummed that he stopped the experiment before Mr Jose Fuentes got involved.
203.
by hugh3 15y ago
Well, let's face it -- it's not like banks actually make money any other way out of checking accounts. Any bank account with less than... I dunno, $50K in it... is probably costing the bank far more than it's worth. The bank ain't a charity
204.
by hugh3 15y ago
This is what I was thinking. It's difficult to imagine the sort of scientific project which would simultaneously be: a) Too early-stage for traditional funding agencies, and yet b) Sufficiently small that you can make significant progress f
205.
by hugh3 15y ago
Are you speaking from experience, or from what you've heard? I don't know much about NIH funding, but if you're looking for funding from (say) NSF, DOE or DARPA it doesn't have to be that "safe" except in the sense that they really want y
206.
by hugh3 15y ago
Grad students are probably somewhat cheaper than developers too Actually, the cost of funding a grad student is surprisingly large. If you're a professor with an external grant, then the first thing that happens is that the university tak
207.
by hugh3 15y ago
Take one really smart guy, add seventeen billion dollars and a job title that gives no real responsibilities, and see what happens. I hope it's something interesting.
208.
by hugh3 15y ago
Or an escalator.
209.
by hugh3 15y ago
This strikes me as a non-sequitur. There's a lot of bad stuff you can do without actually committing a crime. Especially if you have enough money to influence the law. And it's the Government's job to make sure that "bad stuff" (ie stuff
210.
by hugh3 15y ago
This would be a more useful comment if it were more specific.

More ›