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by hugh 18y ago
Ummm, what the hell was that? Sorry, usually I feel the need to make more intelligent comments than that, but in this case I'm just gonna have to go with "what the hell was that?"
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by hugh 18y ago
You hope he lives five billion years so that he can see the sun become a red giant? Seriously, everyday 95+ temperatures in anyone's lifetime? Ridiculous exaggerations like that are the reason that overdone backlash articles like this exist
603.
by hugh 18y ago
When you're only making $10.12 an hour, it probably is.
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by hugh 18y ago
This article agrees with all my prejudices, but I still don't think it should be here.
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by hugh 18y ago
Well, this is an especially poorly-written article. I stopped reading and skipped to the comments after the second sentence was: As Jane Austen might have said, it is a truth universally acknowledged that a man who single-handedly loses a
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by hugh 18y ago
But is that his doing, or the doing of the Nike marketing department? As I recall, Jordan was the first sportsman to be hyper-marketed in the way he was.
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by hugh 18y ago
I would say that: Dude, quit your job, work at a coffee shop, and build things because you want to build them. is good advice only in response to I'm bored with my job AND I have an idea I really really want to work on. Here's the idea:
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by hugh 18y ago
Countries which are surprisingly green: Venezuela (some kind of crazy government subsidy scheme, perhaps?) and Thailand. Countries which are surprisingly yellow: Japan, as mentioned earlier. Countries which are surprisingly orange: Argentin
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by hugh 18y ago
That looks really un-googly. The whole idea of chatting with someone using a complicated 3D avatar goes against google's usual fondness for simplicity in interface design. I assume it started out as somebody's side project, but I'm amazed t
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by hugh 18y ago
It doesn't work in quite the same way for physicists/quants though. Once you leave physics and go into finance it's extremely hard to make the jump back -- a few years in finance puts you way behind your peers in the race for publications,
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by hugh 18y ago
Because, in our society, rhetoric has become accepted as evidence. How do your examples count as "rhetoric"? Also, can you provide examples of any other societies, present or past, where this was different?
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by hugh 18y ago
That's not sad, that's just a good opportunity to buy GM shares. update: Actually I just checked and GM is still worth 5.85 billion.
613.
by hugh 18y ago
Still? And yet so few Columbia jokes.
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by hugh 18y ago
Thanks, guys, I really don't care that much. I've got enough karma to change my top bar from ugly orange to pretty blue, what else do I need?
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by hugh 18y ago
[I haven't done the above since the 3rd grade. Lining up for a bathroom break. Geez.] You obviously don't go to the same bars I do, then.
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by hugh 18y ago
This should be cross-referenced to the earlier-posted article "How To Say Nothing In 500 Words"
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by hugh 18y ago
Amateur stuff. Learn how to say nothing in 70,000 words, and you've got yourself a PhD.
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by hugh 18y ago
What's the incentive for a professor to offer a high-wordcount course?
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by hugh 18y ago
One thing I've wondered: why aren't there more factories in Mexico? With low wages, high unemployment, semi-skilled workers, lax environmental laws and easy access to the world's largest market it would seem to be an ideal place to outsourc
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by hugh 18y ago
Coincidentally I'm also a scientist who was brought up in Australia and has spent the last two and a half years in the US, so I can see we're coming at it from similar perspectives. And actually I don't think that fearmongering (especially
621.
by hugh 18y ago
It certainly does seem to suggest that there might be a worthwhile business opportunity (at least for those with loose morals) in connecting people with personal injury lawyers. If these guys are willing to pay that much to have people sent
622.
by hugh 18y ago
Presumably there were two or more Michigan personal injury law firms who got involved in a bidding war at some stage. Something similar must be going on for mesothelioma (which I had to look up, but is the kind of lung cancer you get from a
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by hugh 18y ago
Actually, at a million years per second, the age of the universe (so far) would go by in five simulated hours. I don't want to speculate on how long we have until heat death, but I doubt it's long enough to simulate a single human lifespan
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by hugh 18y ago
I actually meant the original article, not a quote from some New York Times summary. I wanted to know whether the study corrected for things like people who are teetotal only due to some other medical condition. I'm prepared to believe that
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by hugh 18y ago
Lisa and Jeff R. Peri of Los Angeles depleted their $200,000 in savings, maxed out their credit cards and borrowed $300,000 from family and friends to develop and market their low-impact car-wash product. The concoction, Lucky Earth, comes
626.
by hugh 18y ago
I don't know how useful it is, but I'm willing to give it eight points for the acronym alone.
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by hugh 18y ago
Surely when you're dealing with the Chinese censorship authorities, attributing everything to malice is usually a pretty reasonable approach?
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by hugh 18y ago
teetotalism is as bad for your health as being morbidly obese That just sounds really unlikely. Got anything to back that up?
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by hugh 18y ago
Why do you immediately assume that an aspect of our culture comes from "conditioning" by the "the American media"? I think the main reason for it is this: for the most part it's difficult to form close friendships with people significantly
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by hugh 18y ago
Hmm, that would seem to make them involuntary emigrants rather than involuntary immigrants, but I see what you mean.

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