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by hugh 18y ago
What the hell was that? Please don't make me watch videos which contain only text. I can read text faster than a video can play it to me. In this case, the text was pointless anyway.
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by hugh 18y ago
I'm pleasantly surprised that an army of Singularitarians (is that really a word?) hasn't shown up already to tell us how closed-minded we are for expecting to die.
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by hugh 18y ago
Sacramento is out.
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by hugh 18y ago
I think the quality is lower, and I include in that my own contributions to those debates. The other thing is: if you want to discuss the election, or Iran, or Iraq, or unions, or the economy, you can do that on just about every forum on th
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by hugh 18y ago
I should clarify: actually GM's problem is not that their sales are low or that their gross profit per vehicle is particularly low either -- their problem is that they have enormous fixed costs (including, but not limited to, pensions for r
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by hugh 18y ago
I am really disturbed whenever I read about one human being saying he is completely incapable of empathizing with another human being's choice. Oh, I don't know about that. I am completely incapable of empathizing with the human being who
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by hugh 18y ago
This debate is getting silly. Is profit margin more or less important than demand, or just as important? It's a meaningless question. If you have a nice fat profit margin but nobody wants to buy your product, that's no good. If you're selli
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by hugh 18y ago
I don't have the broken-down figures, but I'm sure GM would still be one of the top two or three car manufacturers on the planet if you broke it down that way. Doesn't "top selling car in Europe" mean anything to you?
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by hugh 18y ago
What else is there now? I'm looking at a list of the top ten cars sold last month. Four models were small cars (Corolla, Civic, Cobalt and Focus), four were mid-to-large sedans sedans (Camry, Accord, Altima and Sonata) and two were big tr
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by hugh 18y ago
Last month, GM sold 262,329 vehicles in the US alone. Toyota, in second place, sold 193,234. Ford and Chrysler took the third and fourth spots, with Honda in fifth. You can't claim that "hardly anybody" is buying Detroit's products. And tha
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by hugh 18y ago
Which is to do with their financial situation, not with their sales. Sales are down slightly, but GM still sells more cars than anybody on Earth (except maybe Toyota, I haven't kept up with the sales figures for this year). Every time they
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by hugh 18y ago
Actual numbers: a third of VCs surveyed attended one of five schools: Harvard, Stanford, UPenn, Duke or MIT. So presumably, two thirds didn't. This doesn't really sound like a huge degree of homogeneity, especially given that your average V
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by hugh 18y ago
An interesting fact hidden in the article: the family had to prove that the death was caused by "overwork" in order to get a payout from his employer's insurance. So I guess it's a concept which exists mostly for legal reasons. The only rea
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by hugh 18y ago
If I were you I'd hedge my bets, moving some across now and some across later. I'm also a foreign immigrant living in the US and if I still had a big stash of foreign currency sitting around I'd be looking at buying US dollars right now. I
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by hugh 18y ago
It's 2008. It's not "hacker-related" every time somebody uses a computer.
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by hugh 18y ago
Hmm, except that picture came from a video feed, whereas the other picture came from a still camera. Not enough evidence to decide either way at the moment. Do we have that actual picture from multiple different news agencies? That should t
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by hugh 18y ago
Edit: But Iran never said it wants to attack anyone, or made any threads besides retaliation in case they are attacked. I really don't want to get into a political argument, but you really need to know that this isn't true. Three ways: a)
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by hugh 18y ago
Except in this particular case, the "someone" is Iran itself. (Or, I should say, the Iranian government. Referring to a nation's government by the name of that nation is a habit we need to get out of, especially in cases like this where the
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by hugh 18y ago
"They" also predicted the demise of the steam locomotive, the horse and cart, the vacuum tube, the oil lantern and the whaling industry. Predictions are sometimes right and sometimes wrong, we all know this. Do you have anything to suggest
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by hugh 18y ago
As I understand it, it's not really switching at all. Different signals are sent simultaneously down the same fibre at slightly different wavelengths. This device splits the signal into its individual components. This is the same as what's
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by hugh 18y ago
In addition to the two options you mentioned (voting "Yes" or filibustering) he could have voted "No" or abstained. I'm going to give him the benefit of the doubt here and assume that he was actually convinced by the merits of the bill, at
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by hugh 18y ago
Duplicate of story currently somewhere above this one with more comments.
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by hugh 18y ago
Ordinarily I'd blame journalistic innumeracy, but that's supposed to be a direct quote from the project head himself (a very smart guy, I used to work in the same building as him), so I assume it was a blunder by whoever prepared and sent o
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by hugh 18y ago
What, exactly, are you basing that on? Do you know of any patents which cover this particular area of innovation, or is that just your default response to any invention?
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by hugh 18y ago
Does he think large pink bowties are the future, too? Or perhaps just that they distract from his enormous second chin? Either way, I'm calling his judgement into question. I'm not very old, but I'm old enough to remember the way that Japan
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by hugh 18y ago
Or bubble sort.
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by hugh 18y ago
Even if the article can be defended as appropriately tech-related rather than political, the politically-charged headline can't. Appropriate candidate for flagging?
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by hugh 18y ago
Misleading headline. We're no closer to room temperature superconductivity than we were in the 1980s. edit: Correction: the 1990s.
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by hugh 18y ago
You can't go around dismissing scientific studies just because the authors have a conflict of interest. There's almost always a conflict of interest in any scientific study. For example in most studies there's an "interesting" result (e.g.
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by hugh 18y ago
"unaccented American" I think you mean "with a generic region-free American accent".

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