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by hugh 18y ago
Indeed. I was expecting a lot more from the title than it delivered -- perhaps some kind of in-depth discussion of how the largely somewhat bizarre plots of Murakami's books can be related to startups. Maybe the end of the world in Hard Boi
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by hugh 18y ago
Your comment was probably modded down since it didn't seem terribly well informed, nor to add much to the conversation. Are you sure you understand quite how much energy 10^45 joules is? And the fact that they have absolutely no idea how sa
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by hugh 18y ago
Oh, sorry. With a hand-crank you could get about 63.108 poundal-furlongs per lunar year, so... given all six billion humans you could generate that much energy in... uhh, 5.2 * 10^27 fortnights.
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by hugh 18y ago
Someone vaguely respectable saying something vaguely sensational? Got New York Times written all over it.
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by hugh 18y ago
Let me see. With a hand-crank you could get about 25 watts, so... given all six billion humans you could generate that much energy in... uhh, 5.2 * 10^27 fortnights. Any other units which might be clearer?
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by hugh 18y ago
So in summary, some guy thinks that the kind of work he does is important and should be better funded. Not a big surprise there.
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by hugh 18y ago
"That's about the amount of energy you'd get if you converted the entire mass of Jupiter into pure energy via E = mc^2," said Cleaver Or, to put it in terms (slightly) more easily visualised, that's the total amount of energy put out by a
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by hugh 18y ago
I just looked at knol. It seems to be set up in such a way that it will encourage the creation of junk adword-magnet articles ("how to buy a hi-fi system", "how to find a personal injury lawyer in the state of Michigan") rather than the cre
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by hugh 18y ago
And for most code where the speed actually matters, the code is sufficiently complicated that you'll never really know whether it's truly as fast as it could possibly be.
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by hugh 18y ago
Uhhh, politics?
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by hugh 18y ago
I find that less shocking, since while films were aimed at a general audience, comic books were aimed at children. If you read it as a list of things that are unsuitable for small children then a lot of it still sounds fairly reasonable (wi
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by hugh 18y ago
Nobody liked Giuliani's being moderate, no no no. While he was too moderate for some (as was, for instance, Clinton on the other side), can you find me an example where "moderate" was used as a term of abuse against Giuliani? "Moderate" r
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by hugh 18y ago
Some of it isn't even that. Fast food: it's fast, it's food. Side dish: it's a dish, on the side. Sitcom: it's a comedy, set in a particular situation. Road rage: it's rage you feel while on the road. Cure, news, choice, baby boomer: I've f
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by hugh 18y ago
I don't know of anyone who's actually opposed to sex. Plenty of people are opposed to sex at certain places and times, between certain pairs or groups of people, or in certain styles or orifices, or as part of a commercial transaction, or i
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by hugh 18y ago
I'm not saying that it's a scientific belief, I'm saying that it isn't a religious belief. There are many other types of belief, including: * belief based on incomplete experience (The traffic on I-80 is going to be terrible on Friday) * be
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by hugh 18y ago
Sorry, perhaps I was unclear, I was trying to contrast rock stars with rap stars. Rap stars are the 2008 equivalent of rock stars, but nobody talks about rap-star programmers, because rappers aren't nearly as cool -- at least, not to the de
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by hugh 18y ago
Let me try: "this post is pure romples". Not bad, but I'd prefer a verb form -- to romple? "Dude, you're rompling. Stop it."
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by hugh 18y ago
Even most financial planning books/sites will tell you that it's "normal" to spend about 30% of your after-tax income on housing. WTF? Since when it's been "normal"? 30% of after-tax income doesn't sound unreasonable to me. Given that: (a
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by hugh 18y ago
I think "rock star" has, and is intended to have, a certain retro charm about it. A marker that those who use it are from a more civilized age (the 1980s) when songs were sung instead of spoken, when mistreating women was something you did
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by hugh 18y ago
The government is like wikipedia. Some people focus on all the things it gets wrong, but personally I'm amazed that it works at all. It makes glaring errors from time to time, and plenty of things it does non-optimally, but the fact is that
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by hugh 18y ago
There should be a word for the phenomenon whereby people try to make things sound more interesting than they really are by pretending they're disallowed, banned or censored. The phenomenon is common enough and annoying enough that it'd be g
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by hugh 18y ago
OK, everybody: stop calling views you disagree with "a purely religious belief". None of the ideas mentioned above is a "purely religious belief", even though several of them are half-wrong and the others are half-right. Animals bred for sp
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by hugh 18y ago
Personally I think the Pike's Place Roast is a big improvement over their old brewed coffee, although I find it varies from day to day.
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by hugh 18y ago
I'm not convinced that a four-dollar cup of coffee is really a feel-good luxury item though. A luxury item stops feeling like a luxury when you buy it twice a day -- it just feels like an overpriced daily necessity.
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by hugh 18y ago
Anyone know whether it's been proven that the formula will generate an infinite number of primes? Or might it start looping back on itself eventually?
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by hugh 18y ago
In my experience the people who select the text are just professors, either individually or in some kind of committee. Yes, the publishers will send them free copies of textbooks, but that's not exactly a great perk. There could really be r
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by hugh 18y ago
It depends on your privacy settings -- if you set them to minimal then I'm pretty sure anyone in the world with a facebook account can see your profile.
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by hugh 18y ago
This is what I'm wondering. Digg as it currently exists isn't worth $400 million, but if google can use its clout to bring it into the mainstream then maybe it would be. Of course, there's the question of how a site like digg could cope wit
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by hugh 18y ago
What are you talking about? The email address is an image to make it harder for spammers to harvest it. If you want to email one friend it's not that difficult to re-type their email address.
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by hugh 18y ago
I never would have assumed they couldn't. By a snooping librarian, even if not by the FBI. I don't think it's likely that a librarian would bother to look through my very boring records, but it's certainly no less likely than the prospect o

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