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by hugh3 15y ago
That's a pretty accurate description of life in Sydney, yes.
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by hugh3 15y ago
Yeah, going to university in the hopes of learning discipline is like going to [some place not commonly associated with X] to learn [X] . [1] If it's discipline you need, you'd be better off spending four years in the military. Perhaps y
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by hugh3 15y ago
The dislike comes form it being pointless busywork. It may not have been pointless busywork to you, depending on your upbringing. Or from what university you're at, and what you're studying. My advice to programmer types who come into uni
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by hugh3 15y ago
40 hours per week? Sure, maybe if you're a total conch. For me, undergrad was more like eighteen hours a week for fourteen weeks, then fifty hours a week for one week. And that was with a heavy physics/maths courseload.
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by hugh3 15y ago
That's great, but I take all my all-caps vague overly-general motivational advice from courage wolf.
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by hugh3 15y ago
I'm a native Sydneysider, but I have to agree that Melbourne would be the place I'd go to start a startup. Apart from the costs (lower) and the general frictional costs of life (getting around takes less time) and the coffee (oh, the coffee
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by hugh3 15y ago
If South Asians are severely under-represented in the US bone marrow donor registry, can't we just buy bone marrow from donors in (say) India?
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by hugh3 15y ago
I like to see them go on the record as saying that if we actually tried, they would not immediately turn around and start screaming about the 150,000 km^2 of Mother Earth we just converted to industrial land. Oh, don't get me confused w
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by hugh3 15y ago
I don't think I've heard that kind of touchy-feely attachment to their vehicle of choice from even the most hippie-ish pro-cycling movements Sure, that's because a bike doesn't promote emotional attachment, unlike a car. A cyclist enjoys
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by hugh3 15y ago
I once got a ticket ($140ish) for cruising through a stop sign on a bike. Ever since then, I come to an obnoxious tire-skidding halt at every stop sign before starting up again (and take the opportunity to swear at those who don't obey the
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by hugh3 15y ago
My perspective: I both cycle and drive quite a lot. When I'm driving, I hate cyclists, and when I'm cycling I hate drivers. Both groups are filled with complete freaking idiots who shouldn't be allowed onto the roads under any circumstances
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by hugh3 15y ago
While the Wealth of Nations was a great book for its time, I suspect that the time it takes to read it would be better spent reading four shorter economics books. I do recommend P. J. O'Rourke's book On The Wealth Of Nations , though, whic
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by hugh3 15y ago
I am pretty tired of this meme (incidentally, often misattributed to Gandhi, but appears to actually come from some guy called Nicholas Klein: * First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. A
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by hugh3 15y ago
Yes and no. I don't think it's an empty tree hugger comment, but I do think we need actual numbers in order to discuss these things. World energy usage: 474 exajoules per year Incident solar flux: 1000W per square metre Let's suppose (optim
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by hugh3 15y ago
When I was a kid, I'd heard of the "Mythical Man Month", but I thought it was some kind of dodecannual periodical about (or for) mythical men.
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by hugh3 15y ago
I can't imagine under what circumstances I wouldn't have enough time to sleep, but I'm pretty sure I wouldn't have time to post on HN either.
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by hugh3 15y ago
Or the classic hedge currency: canned food and ammo. (Maybe not the ammo, in Europe. Get a bat.)
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by hugh3 15y ago
I read somewhere, many years ago, that there were thousands of suspected carcinogens, but only dozens of known carcinogens. The known carcinogens are things that raise your (fairly low) chance of getting some particular form of cancer by
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by hugh3 15y ago
Not always . For instance, the temperature in my fridge is a pleasant four degrees celsius constantly, but the compressor keeps on switching on and off. In the absence of a feedback loop, though... yes.
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by hugh3 15y ago
Well, you can rent a trailer and you can rent a generator, so I don't see any reason why this wouldn't work! Could be fun to try driving a Tesla transcontinentally with a trailer and... however many generators it would take to keep it runni
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by hugh3 15y ago
You'd be much better off getting, say, a Nissan Leaf for local journeys and a Porsche Boxster (or whatever fun car you like) for longer trips. You'll have better fuel economy and about $20K in change.
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by hugh3 15y ago
Salary offers ranged from $132,888 to $145,000. The average salary offer was $123,972. The median salary offer was $138,944. One of the candidates was offered $43,000 because the individual was pursuing a Post-doc at a university which I d
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by hugh3 15y ago
I thought that the article was exceedingly lacking in substance, typically for an nytimes.com article.
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by hugh3 15y ago
It's badly subsidized research. Compare to, say, the budget of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colorado. For five hundred million dollars, you can get, say, five thousand man-years worth of actual research. As opposed
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by hugh3 15y ago
Yep, that's science for you. It's an exciting time to be a planetary scientist.
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by hugh3 15y ago
What a three-dimensional phone may look like: http://www.zsqts.com.cn/product-photo/2009-05-06/9d783160c8b...
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by hugh3 15y ago
Would there need to be some sort of syntax test at the door?
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by hugh3 15y ago
Neat. But will the whole thing last a full 24 hours, or will certain longitudes have a better shot of seeing them than others?
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by hugh3 15y ago
What is a loan guarantee, anyway? Oh, I looked it up. Apparently it's an assumption of the risk if the company defaults. So if I'm understanding this correctly, from the US Government's point of view it has all the risk of giving them a l
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by hugh3 15y ago
I have moderately high hopes for Tesla, but I really can't see Fisker being a success. It's weird-looking, expensive ($100K), has a very limited electric range (32 miles) and is incredibly fuel-inefficient (20mpg) once the battery runs out.

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