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by hugh 18y ago
If there's any relevant point to be made here, it's that apparently some people really don't have anything better to do than watch a yard sign. I wonder if there's some way to harvest these attentive-moron-hours for some more useful purpose
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by hugh 18y ago
The even-bigger problem, as I understand it, is that the nanotubes don't just have to be 30,000 km long, they also have to be more-or-less defect free.
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by hugh 18y ago
Headline is both misleading and out-of-date anyway, since they've already decided to keep the article after a long debate (and in the meantime, an improvement of the article). The system works.
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by hugh 18y ago
No you wouldn't. You'd just be focusing less on internet-based software businesses and more on biotech, cleantech, nanotech, and other hardware-type businesses.
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by hugh 18y ago
1: The Palin email hacking wasn't a particularly big story in the US media either -- I don't recall seeing it as the top story on any newspaper, although admittedly it hasn't exactly been a slow news week. Overall the incident is a net win
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by hugh 18y ago
I'm pretty sure that "the lock was poorly designed" has never successfully been used as a legal defence by a burglar, and that "but they were so easy to fool" has never successfully been used as a legal defence by a conman, so I'd be surpri
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by hugh 18y ago
Perhaps it's more meta-ontopic.
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by hugh 18y ago
snow crash was a literal page turner A literal page turner, as in you literally turned the pages? Seriously though, as I recall an awful lot of Snow Crash's exposition came from a series of interminable dialogues between Hiro and his AI l
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by hugh 18y ago
The final chapter almost seemed to me like he was writing under duress. Without wanting to spoil anything, it pretty much goes "Fine, you want an ending you bastards? Here's your fucking ending, they all fucking lived happily ever after. Ha
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by hugh 18y ago
Oh I don't know, I think that "suitable punishments for computer criminals" is perfectly on-topic, as long as it's not too infected by boring politics.
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by hugh 18y ago
I only said I was willing to entertain it, I didn't promise it would make sense.
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by hugh 18y ago
Well, this settles the question, posted in an earlier thread, about whether the culprit was very very smart or very very stupid. (Unless, of course, this guy is innocent, in which case the real culprit was very very smart.) In other news, I
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by hugh 18y ago
i disagree with his implied comments on the dollar. this is a dead currency as of friday The interview is from January, which in Hedge Fund Manager years is, like, three aeons ago. You'll notice that the dollar has been going up recently,
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by hugh 18y ago
The ending was certainly different to his usual endings. While most of his books feel like the last chapter is missing, this one just feels like the second-to-last chapter is missing.
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by hugh 18y ago
I'm willing to entertain, for the moment, the idea that some particularly high-energy collisions are capable of reaching back in time and preventing themselves from happening. But there are easier ways to do it than to reach weeks back in t
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by hugh 18y ago
Nothing wrong with it, it just makes it less interesting than if he had something else to say.
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by hugh 18y ago
Ah, so that's why those homeless people keep stealing bottles out of my trash.
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by hugh 18y ago
The amount of energy coming through in the UV portion of the spectrum is quite small: http://www.sunwindsolar.com/a_images/solar_insolation-b.jpg Everything to the left of the "visible light" portion.
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by hugh 18y ago
Did he actually build one? I haven't seen any indication that he did anything other than "design" one. And it's a lot easier to "design" a nanoscale device than it is to build one. I mean, I'm sure the kid is smart and all (and no doubt has
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by hugh 18y ago
The best solar cells have something like 30% efficiency at the moment. Even if he boosted it by 1% it would be impressive. At the moment I've got no idea what he _actually_ did. Obviously, parts of this story are complete BS (e.g. 500 times
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by hugh 18y ago
That is both interesting and awesome. I just looked at your website. Good luck, and I hope you'll keep us all informed about your progress. (I'd buy one!)
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by hugh 18y ago
Do you also enjoy telling people that you don't watch television?
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by hugh 18y ago
Startups, or only frivolous (sheep-throwing) startups?
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by hugh 18y ago
You could electronically interact with other services, such as FaceBook or MySpace, where other older services couldn't. I like the idea that I can authorize somebody to change my facebook status to "Hugh is dead". It would be embarrassin
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by hugh 18y ago
It's a good idea. But I'm confused -- in what way is this "open source"?
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by hugh 18y ago
don't forget that some of the biggest innovative breakthroughs that we use to this day came from hackers being bored and doing things they shouldn't. Such as? We need to be careful to distinguish between two types of "shouldn't". There's
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by hugh 18y ago
I dunno, they don't give me warm fuzzy feelings towards Microsoft. At the most, they give me warm fuzzy feeling towards Bill Gates, but simultaneously reminds me that Bill Gates is no longer in charge of Microsoft -- he's just a doddering o
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by hugh 18y ago
Ordinarily I wouldn't approve of postings coming from a political site such as michellemalkin, but the message she quotes actually probably contains the best summary I've seen of what actually happened.
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by hugh 18y ago
Oh yeah, hoo-fricking-ray for that brave 4chan script kiddie, heroicially giving up his own freedom so that the rest of us could see more of Sarah Palin's family photos. More likely this particular asshole is just an idiot who didn't think
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by hugh 18y ago
I'm not sure whether "Request for documents" and "Confidential ethics investigation" are really there, but even if they are, they may still be personal email. "Request for documents" could be any kind of request for documents. Maybe it's th

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