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by hugh 18y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries ? And then about eight hours' work to look up and type in the names of all the major cities in each country?
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by hugh 18y ago
Are there many people living today whose parents were involuntary immigrants?
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by hugh 18y ago
Oh, I'm not assuming that. I'm just not-assuming the opposite.
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by hugh 18y ago
Personally I really doubt (2). I work in theoretical condensed matter physics, and it's awfully hard to accurately simulate anything with more than a very small number of atoms. Sure, computers will continue to get faster for a while, but t
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by hugh 18y ago
No, he may be entirely agnostic on all three, neither believing nor disbelieving any of them. That seems like a pretty sensible attitude to have, actually.
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by hugh 18y ago
If science fiction has taught me only one thing, it's that zeppelins (and beards) are very popular in all parallel universes. Perhaps they know something that we don't? Seriously though, I'm also not convinced that it uses less fuel than an
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by hugh 18y ago
Can I just take this opportunity to say that the term "organic foods" bugs me? I mean, of course it's organic -- it's food! With the possible exceptions of water and salt (one could argue about whether they're really food) surely all food i
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by hugh 18y ago
Now I'm glad I invested in a basementfull of eggs.
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by hugh 18y ago
Caterers: preparing food for ten children isn't a big job, all they need is sandwiches and drink boxes which can be prepared in advance and taken out of the fridge. Cleaners: It's only a room, it only needs to be cleaned once a day. Shouldn
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by hugh 18y ago
And if you're spending 40k on a 1 seater car, why are you complaining about gas prices? Because everyone else is doing it? It's pretty much a social obligation nowadays to complain about high gas prices at every opportunity.
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by hugh 18y ago
It doesn't matter how strong it is, if it weighs sod-all then you're going to come off pretty poorly in a collision with something much larger.
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by hugh 18y ago
"Revolutionary theory" is overdoing it, but it'd be interesting if it were true.
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by hugh 18y ago
And of course, now the Wall St Journal has published an article about it, the Chinese Government is going to close the loophole. Thanks, WSJ! Of course they would have figured it out eventually, and of course the Chinese censors probably pa
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by hugh 18y ago
I don't think I'm willing to be trapped into an "anyone who thinks X is crazy" kind of statement.
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by hugh 18y ago
Suit - Tie - Jacket = business casual. If I were you I'd just show up wearing the suit and lose the jacket and/or tie if they recommend it. Also, no white shirts or finely-patterned ties, since those can look bad on camera. Come to think of
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by hugh 18y ago
You can't simply assume that because all of their action comes from low rollers, they are pursuing some sort of brilliant strategy that nobody else is by not courting the high rollers (when they could easily go after both). Sure, they cou
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by hugh 18y ago
Ah, well all you need is a "what they saw as". And for the most part, I don't think any of those other points was nearly as important as the draft. It's one thing to think that a current war is a bad idea, it's quite another to know that yo
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by hugh 18y ago
Thus proving that you can currently get attention for any goddamn stupid idea if you find a way to link it to "climate change". A three-foot sea level rise (being the worst case scenario for this century) would be annoying for a few people
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by hugh 18y ago
I actually think this one is counter-productive. Firstly, when I see an extremely light gray comment, I'm always curious to see what could possibly have been so ridiculous as to justify that kind of downmodding, so I'm more likely to read i
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by hugh 18y ago
An overgeneralization, of course. It's just that those are the ones you hear most about in the media. One could speculate that left-wing media sources are more comfortable portraying the crazy conservatives than the sensible ones (just as F
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by hugh 18y ago
Funnily enough, I was reading Asimov's Guide to Shakespeare last night, and thinking how great it was to have literature explained by a man with a clear scientific mind instead of a mushy literary one. Unfortunately, the Asimovs of this wor
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by hugh 18y ago
Boy, I sure am glad they managed to find a file photo of a guy with glasses smiling to illustrate the concept of "happiness". I might not have understood the article properly, without the benefit of the image. The biggest problem that I can
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by hugh 18y ago
Perhaps, but I'd prefer a seminar on great books taught my one really good professor who knew how to keep his own political views from tainting his views on literature.
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by hugh 18y ago
As a non-leftist who moves in academic circles, I have to say it's still very difficult. Even in the hard sciences, I find that every social gathering I go to winds up turning into a classic left-wing whine-about-everything, and I have to b
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by hugh 18y ago
As I recall, in the end he also turns out to be a great swordfighter in real life though. Something about single-handedly assaulting an aircraft carrier using only his katana? That was pretty much where the book lost me.
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by hugh 18y ago
I'd say it's not nearly that unlikely. If you're smart, you have a good idea, and you work hard on it, your chances of that kind of success (and we're only talking the $10 million payday here, not the $billion payday) are something on the o
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by hugh 18y ago
Even with the interspersed words I still can't make sense of it. Unlike, say, buffalo [that habitually] buffalo buffalo [habitually] buffalo buffalo [that habitually] buffalo buffalo.
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by hugh 18y ago
I really don't like Snow Crash much. Firstly, it's dated quite badly, since it was written in the recent past about roughly-now. He gets the technology pretty much right, but the speculation about how that technology will change society pre
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by hugh 18y ago
I think Atlas Shrugged might qualify -- it takes place in an alternative universe and deals with the implications of a couple of fictional technologies (Rearden metal and John Galt's engine). Animal Farm is really pushing the definition, th
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by hugh 18y ago
Except that your brilliant friend, being your friend, gives a damn about you personally, and Mac OS X, being an operating system, doesn't.

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