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by hugh 18y ago
They're ugly because the market which was once (in, say, the 1980s) the "sneaker" market has segmented into two markets: casual sneakers, whose purpose is to look cool, and serious exercise shoes, whose purpose is exercise. Serious exercise
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by hugh 18y ago
Ah, well that's fair enough then. But with only seven words to go from, it's rather hard to tell the difference between satire and the real thing.
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by hugh 18y ago
The biggest problem that struck me was the reference to "The Man", reflective of the kind of paranoia that you find in the darker corners of the internet. Aside from that, the article can't really be blamed for the ensuing gold-standard deb
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by hugh 18y ago
Further comment (because I've continued to play with it, because I think it's awesome): I've found a couple of tracks where the time (in green on the right as it plays) was given as "NaN:NaN". That's probably not a desired behaviour. (fwiw
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by hugh 18y ago
Ah, well there you go. If I knew Assembly I'd know have known that knowing Assembly wouldn't have helped me. Either way, it's apparently a useful skill that I lack.
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by hugh 18y ago
Oh, I see, I've got it to work now. I was just clicking "add to playlist" and nothing was happening, but if you click on the name of the song it starts playing. In which case, very impressive. I'm particularly impressed that it even finds m
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by hugh 18y ago
Inessential, yes. But I'm pretty sure that there are cases where knowing Assembly makes you a better C programmer. It lets you understand, for instance, why accessing the elements of an array in one order is faster than in another order. Or
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by hugh 18y ago
I'm confused as to what I'm doing. I search for music, I add songs to my playlist, and then... what?
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by hugh 18y ago
I might be able to help you when you do. I'm starting a startup to help startups to help startups to help startups. That is, as soon as someone helps me by starting a startup to help startups to help startups to help startups to help startu
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by hugh 18y ago
I agree, this article is terrible. I do think quantum cryptography has a place, though, especially if they manage to demonstrate it in satellite-to-earth communications (which is what I assume this article is about, although I couldn't brin
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by hugh 18y ago
Looks interesting, but has anyone got a text version of the same information that won't consume 46 minutes of my life?
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by hugh 18y ago
The second (it's always the second). And you're right, I was wrong, the maximum efficiency of a power plant is more like 50%. Perhaps I was thinking of the efficiency of the turbines rather than the whole process.
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by hugh 18y ago
Yep, 20% efficiency is pretty normal in an internal combustion engine. Burning the same fuel in a power plant, on the other hand, you can get 80-90% efficiency.
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by hugh 18y ago
Genghis Khan? Muhammad? Cheops?
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by hugh 18y ago
But first, find the next Steve Wozniak.
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by hugh 18y ago
Personally I'd be happy to unlock my house the same way I unlock my car -- by pressing a button on a device in my pocket. Better still, it would be the same device. Better still, I wouldn't have to press the button at all, it would unlock a
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by hugh 18y ago
Point one: the temperature of deep space isn't really all that well-defined. Point two: this isn't all that cold -- temperatures in the microkelvin range are routinely obtained in the lab. Admittedly, this is a pretty big thing to be coolin
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by hugh 18y ago
Hmm. The Apple I/II wasn't just a cheap and ugly knock-off of another product though, it was an innovative machine that changed the way computers were built. It challenged the existing notions of what a computer had to be and how much it ha
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by hugh 18y ago
Surely locksmiths should be happy if ordinary key locks become insecure -- they're the ones who are going to be called out to replace them with higher-tech locks. It's the rest of us who should be pissed off, we're the ones who'll have to p
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by hugh 18y ago
How is "middle class" defined in that classification? In the US, for instance, you'd need to earn at least, say, (picking a random number without wanting to start arguments and well-it-depends-where-you-live threads) $35,000 a year to be 'm
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by hugh 18y ago
You're thinking of Steve Jobs circa 2008, who makes pretty white luxury boxes. But the Steve Jobs that counts for is Steve Jobs circa 1978, the Steve Jobs that was making cheap ugly boxes that plugged into your TV. (And of course it was rea
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by hugh 18y ago
How is the next Steve Jobs going to produce millions of hardware units without funding?
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by hugh 18y ago
Article would be more helpful if it actually mentioned how much gasoline China was using per year. According to this article: http://www.greencarcongress.com/2007/03/chinas_gasoline.html the answer is about 20 billion gallons, and estimat
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by hugh 18y ago
Flagged as spam. Dear t3livetrading, please do not create an account and then submit two (boring) links to your own blog within the next two minutes.
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by hugh 18y ago
Why are interpreters forbidden?
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by hugh 18y ago
Biofuels aren't a disaster in general. It's only corn-based ethanol that's a disaster. Ethanol from sugarcane is significantly less of a disaster, though unfortunately not much sugarcane is grown in the US. Ethanol from switchgrass or othe
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by hugh 18y ago
Unconvincing. The article doesn't really explain why people make bad decisions, it just describes the sort of decision which people might make and then asserts it's wrong. Anyone who did decide to commute for an hour just so they could ha
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by hugh 18y ago
The trouble with the word "denialist" is that it's not clear exactly what the denialist is denying. There are a bunch of different things which one could deny, ranging from the sensible-to-deny to the silly-to-deny.
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by hugh 18y ago
I still don't see why you needed to talk about his views on AIDS though.
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by hugh 18y ago
All (mostly) true. I don't think any sensible person could deny that we need to be finding better alternatives to fossil fuels as soon as as possible. There is, however, room for some disagreement on exactly how large and how urgent the pro

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