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781.
by hugh 18y ago
(a) Looks nothing like an Apple ad. (b) Badly rendered. (b) Product sounds more like somebody's fantasy than a compelling business model. (d) It's tiny -- assuming that slot is the width of an ordinary DVD slot, it's maybe two thirds the he
782.
by hugh 18y ago
I'm not sure whether you're confused about the meaning of the word "app" or the word "oxymoron".
783.
by hugh 18y ago
Wow. Some people have way too much invested in their own personal theories about events which have nothing to do with them personally.
784.
by hugh 18y ago
Aarg. Not another set of initials to learn! Even after looking at the article it took me a while to figure out who "JMC" was since I expected his last name to start with a C, not an M, and that James P. Comer guy threw me for a little whi
785.
by hugh 18y ago
Why do they never find anyone to interview for these articles who hasn't gone and made an apallingly stupid decision? Like this woman: "The option ARM was initially a blessing and then a curse for Deborah Shaw, a 52-year-old systems analyst
786.
by hugh 18y ago
Wait, you want to have them as a co-founder and you want to pay them a hundred bucks an hour? I can see one or the other, but not both. If the amount of stock is trivial then they're an employee or contractor, not a co-founder. And if the
787.
by hugh 18y ago
I assume the average includes corridors, common areas et cetera.
788.
by hugh 18y ago
I assume it's this one: http://arxiv.org/abs/0806.0377 which was submitted to PRL by those authors two days ago. I'm a physicist, but not an astrophysicist or cosmologist, so I'm having trouble making head or tails of it. But most of the
789.
by hugh 18y ago
I live near Sacramento, and I'd agree it's not really worth going out of your way to visit. It's not a bad or unpleasant place, and parts of midtown are quite nice, but there's not much point in being here if you could be somewhere else. If
790.
by hugh 18y ago
I think in an idealized HN, even the outcome of the Presidential Election wouldn't get upvoted, although I'm sure that in the real HN it probably will.
791.
by hugh 18y ago
The problem seems to be that people will occasionally reflexively use the upmod arrow on an article just to say "hooray for the sentiment expressed in the headline" rather than after carefully thinking about whether it's worthwhile. Example
792.
by hugh 18y ago
If you already have a cofounder, a product, a network, and a six month plan with enough funding to keep you alive until launch, I can't see any point in moving right now. Even without the visa issues, moving to another continent takes a lot
793.
by hugh 18y ago
Agreed. Without a downmod arrow, bitching about upmodding is part of the system. The idea is that if every political article degenerates into a bunch of people bitching that political articles shouldn't be posted, then eventually people wil
794.
by hugh 18y ago
I hate Obama as much as anyone, especially for tax reasons, but I modded you down anyway just for trying to start a political argument.
795.
by hugh 18y ago
I suggest you talk to their Talent Acquisition Strategist about silly job titles.
796.
by hugh 18y ago
Really? Which magic bin is that? I've got a PhD from a foreign university and I'd like to get a green card at some point in the future. (Haven't started looking into it yet, still on a J1 visa.)
797.
by hugh 18y ago
Minor nitpick: it's not true that "a body will emit exactly as much as it absorbs" in general. That's only true once it reaches some equilibrium temperature, which may not be room temperature. If you stick a room-temperature metal sheet out
798.
by hugh 18y ago
Closest it gets: "10. Script. Everyone should be able to throw a script together to get quick results. That doesn't mean you're a programmer. Real programmers put in error messages, look for abnormal behavior, and document. You don't need t
799.
by hugh 18y ago
Oh, I had assumed that was an electron micrograph. But you're right, now I come to read the article again it only works over a narrow frequency range.
800.
by hugh 18y ago
Let me start by getting the "none more black" joke out of the way. Anyway, this is kinda neat (though I'm skeptical that it's really 100% absorption) but not really all that useful for anything, as far as I can tell. There aren't many appli
801.
by hugh 18y ago
Exceptions: Tequila, mountain bike stunts and anything that didn't start to seem like a good idea until three drinks ago.
802.
by hugh 18y ago
Another potential business model to follow, if you're really interested in the cookie industry is the Byron Bay Cookie Company (www.cookie.com.au)
803.
by hugh 18y ago
A: Yes, I'd go there. Milk doesn't get enough respect as a drink on its own. However, would I go there more than a few times, once the novelty wore off? Probably not. B: I really doubt any VC will be interested in this kind of business -- t
804.
by hugh 18y ago
In the interests of keeping extremely boring politically-charged semantic arguments away I'll resist the temptation to reply to that one.
805.
by hugh 18y ago
Building great universities and the free and open societies necessary to support them would be an even better plan. Cambodia has world wonders. Singapore doesn't.
806.
by hugh 18y ago
Well no, asymmetric warfare is any warfare where the two parties differ substantially in strength. In Iraq at the moment, for instance, we're trying to kill the enemy while the enemy doesn't seem to care whether they kill our soldiers or ra
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by hugh 18y ago
What I don't like is the presumption in this article that it would be best if these "uncontacted" people stayed that way. It's just as bad as the presumption that our ancestors would have had that we should immediately go in and start givin
808.
by hugh 18y ago
Except in bed.
809.
by hugh 18y ago
I really think that the 1% prevalence number thrown around for INTPs in the general population has to be an underestimate. I'm wondering how they came up with that number. Where did they get their test sample? Surely if you go around asking
810.
by hugh 18y ago
I think the benefit is less in helping you understand your own personality, and more in helping you understand how others' personalities differ from your own.

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