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by hugh 18y ago
Oh, I interpreted "almost no one reading this knows..." as referring to the users of this board.
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by hugh 18y ago
I don't think anyone is trying to deny that Curie gets a little more attention in the school curriculum and the popular mind just because she's a woman, but I think the point asnyder was making is that she at least has the distinction of be
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by hugh 18y ago
Swear words seem to be such a necessary part of language that I'm pretty sure new ones would arise if we ever completely legitimised the old ones. When you wake up at 2 am and discover that your balcony is on fire(^), it's nice to know that
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by hugh 18y ago
I dunno, "lies we tell ourselves" doesn't sound like a very good essay. Since we don't know about the lies we tell ourselves, it would have to be "lies I see other people telling themselves". And that pretty much translates to "Things that
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by hugh 18y ago
Perhaps because children tend to assume animals are a lot smarter than they actually are (I remember that I used to), and that their experiences are more equivalent to human experiences. I wonder whether this is natural, or whether it comes
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by hugh 18y ago
Can you be more specific about what you're disagreeing with?
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by hugh 18y ago
I really don't see that "dollars per byte" is a sensible way to measure the price of transferring data. If it makes you feel any better, think of the SMS fee it as a five pence fee for establishing the connection, and then a negligible per-
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by hugh 18y ago
Why not talk about how, for most short messages, sending an SMS is cheaper than making a phone call to transmit the same information? The real question is: who says that the cost of transmitting information should be linear with the amount
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by hugh 18y ago
Sure, but the point is that "constant rent for 30 years" is a pretty lousy assumption.
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by hugh 18y ago
http://www.planit3d.com/source/texture_files/roads/road12.jp...
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by hugh 18y ago
You made pretty much the same points that I was about to. However, since I live in the Sacramento area I will add that his numbers seem way off. $400K doesn't get you a 1000 sqft two-bedroomer nowadays, it gets you quite a nice three or fou
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by hugh 18y ago
Berlin, which is actually one of the cheaper cities in Germany (at least it was two years ago when I was looking at moving there). It's still not great money, but it's hardly terrible.
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by hugh 18y ago
Not to worry, there are still some good jobs in Europe. Like, say, being a journalist for the Guardian. You can spend a week travelling around Europe, collect a few quotes from people who feel like whining about their financial situation, t
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by hugh 18y ago
Go read the overcomingbias essay on the Many-Worlds interpretation posted above. (Or is it below?) The short answer is that in the many-worlds interpretation, this too is a deterministic process. The total wavefunction of the whole system (
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by hugh 18y ago
Yes, I'm sure wine grapes would have to be among the >$1400/acre net crops. As for the Soviet example, don't you think that's more likely to be telling us something about private vs collectivized farms, rather than something about large
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by hugh 18y ago
In fact, small farms are the most productive on earth.A four-acre farm in the United States nets, on average, $1,400 per acre; a 1,364-acre farm nets $39 an acre. Who writes this stuff? Doesn't anybody think about it before it gets printe
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by hugh 18y ago
if you're smart enough to make a successful poker bot, you're probably smart enough to write a program to trade stocks or other liquid instruments like government bonds or commodity futures I'm not so sure about that. I think the main rea
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by hugh 18y ago
I'd just like to say that "I'm not dismissing him: I'm outsourcing my dismissal of him to guys like Dennett" is the best line I've read recently. From now on I'm outsourcing all my dismissiveness to Daniel Dennett. I just don't have the tim
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by hugh 18y ago
No, not really. Well, not in any useful sense. Not any more than you test Einstein's theories every day when you get up in the morning and find yourself getting pulled down by gravity.
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by hugh 18y ago
Interesting. How do you power one of these things? And how is it ventilated?
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by hugh 18y ago
Wouldn't this just encourage people to "pile on" by upvoting things which already have high scores, or downvoting things which already have low scores?
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by hugh 18y ago
At the very least it will distract him for a while. And when the relationship ends he'll have a whole new set of issues to keep him occupied. Eventually, your imaginary existential issues will vanish by your mid-20s anyway. My advice to the
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by hugh 19y ago
Well yes, but the real question is: how do you make a good car for a reasonable price? And the answer is in all those details of the manufacturing process as described in the article.
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by hugh 19y ago
I don't think I've read the essay about why children need to ask to go to the bathroom, but it seems to me that the answer should be pretty obvious to anyone who's ever had to take care of thirty ten-year-old kids. It's hard enough even whe
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by hugh 19y ago
So, umm, I think the real point is: where did you get the idea that Christianity is opposed to the charging of interest? I mean, I'm sure there are some weird minor branches out there where charging interest is still considered sinful, but
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by hugh 19y ago
Or yahoo? Or any internet-related company, for that matter. It uses the old-style rainbow Apple logo, which dates it at 1998 or earlier.
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by hugh 19y ago
Thanks for your opinion, Person Who Coincidentally Happens To Have Exactly The Same Name As One Of the Conference Organizers. (Update: Incidentally, it took me a while to find out the names of the organizers from the website. Which is odd -
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by hugh 19y ago
I occasionally get asked the "should I do a PhD?" question. And I'll tell you what I tell everybody else: if you wanted it enough, you wouldn't be asking that question. There's only one right reason to do a PhD, and that's because you real
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by hugh 19y ago
Perhaps he could have said "It's easier to get your students to upgrade to Word 2007 than to use LaTeX". Which would be true. However, it's a much better idea to get them to use LaTeX.
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by hugh 19y ago
OK, I've finally finished reading the Nature paper. To me the interesting, yet bothersome, thing about this design is that in contrast to the past fifty years of trends in electronics, it actually has moving parts. We're not just sloshing e

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