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by hugh 18y ago
You get extra credit in your classes for voting? That doesn't really sound like an appropriate use of power by your professors. It sounds far more like inappropriate use of academic power in order to rustle up more votes for you-know-who.
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by hugh 18y ago
Call me when we get drastically more efficient silicon wafers Not gonna happen: we're already at 30%, and don't have room for a "drastic" increase. I'm far more interested in a drastic reduction in cost.
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by hugh 18y ago
Really? I couldn't.
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by hugh 18y ago
Wow, that was truly awful. At least the most unwanted song had some bright points of originality. In fairness though, I'm sure that the elements here: love, soprano sax, string swells, power chords, and cheesy male-female harmonies, could b
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by hugh 18y ago
I'd be more interested in seeing the cases where this kind of thing fails. Surely there must be some? Does New York have an outpost in Las Vegas surrounding the New York New York casino? Is Venice a bi-lobed city spread between northern Ita
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by hugh 18y ago
A late entry: the Banach-Tarski theorem: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banach%E2%80%93Tarski_paradox
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by hugh 18y ago
Indeed. If they'd kept it down to five minutes and increased the amount of flow between the sections, it probably would have been pretty amusing. I especially liked the operatic rapping section with tubas "It's cowboy livin' the American wa
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by hugh 18y ago
Good point, I'd never thought of it that way. I still don't think the benefits are worth the costs, but that's certainly a benefit.
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by hugh 18y ago
"Illogical" is vague enough to be useless, and is rarely used in conversation except by Mr Spock. "Non-sequitur" is a very specific form of illogic, appropriate in this case. I'm sorry if there's anyone out there who doesn't understand "non
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by hugh 18y ago
Well I'm perfectly white and I still get randomly treated like a jerk by the various US border agencies, so relax. Also, in this story: Let me tell you the last one. A customs officer started speaking to me in Cartman-Spanish (after a brie
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by hugh 18y ago
My preferred solution to this problem (bear with me for a while, since this is a pet theory I only unload very rarely): Many democracies (e.g. the US, UK, Australia) have bicameral legislatures in which legislation must be passed by both ho
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by hugh 18y ago
If you'd spent the whole investment in one night I'd be impressed.
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by hugh 18y ago
I'm not sure that programming and plumbing are all that far apart.
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by hugh 18y ago
An adopted relative of mine is a plumber -- he works hard, runs his own business, does useful things, and probably makes a lot more money than I do with my PhD. Ask him why he "deserves" to be a plumber and he'll give you a confused look: h
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by hugh 18y ago
A bit of a non-sequitur there? It's not exactly easy or cheap to figure out where to dig, then to get the rights to mine there, then to actually build a mine. Mining and entrepreneurship generally aren't competing for the same stock of peop
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by hugh 18y ago
Meh. I don't like Obama either, but take it somewhere else.
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by hugh 18y ago
Unambiguously boring day-to-day campaign politics. Flagged.
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by hugh 18y ago
A well-timed reminder of something that a lot of people here seem to forget: not all startups are frivolous webapps. Some of the interesting ones: Nanosolar: High-efficiency solar cells Gridpoint: Something to do with power grid management
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by hugh 18y ago
It might just be an air pressure thing.
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by hugh 18y ago
I'm guessing that the auto-respond was written in both languages, but somebody forgot to read the English bit and just copied down the bit that looked Welsh. Of course, if these people were rational they might take a step back at this point
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by hugh 18y ago
A car is not an original work of authorship. A picture of the car is... Why not? A car is a sculpture which just happens to be banged out of sheet metal instead of carved out of marble. Admittedly it's hard to think of a Toyota as a sculp
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by hugh 18y ago
Well, that's interesting. Looking further into it, the Countach had been built since 1974, but they never applied for this US design patent until Lamborghini was bought by Chrysler in 1989. By 1992, when it was actually granted, the Countac
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by hugh 18y ago
Exactly. If instead of just copying a DVD, you hired actors, cameras, lighting and props and made a short-by-shot remake of your favourite movie, and then promised not to make any further copies of it, you'd be analogous to this guy. Or, I'
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by hugh 18y ago
Possibly true, but "anyone with a clue knows that X" is a really annoying conversational gambit.
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by hugh 18y ago
Oops. I must have missed the last paragraph.
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by hugh 18y ago
The article says nothing about Palin or Obama, why bring that up? In any case, Sarah Palin graduated from the University of Idaho (after transferring around a few different schools). All of which proves... well, nothing.
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by hugh 18y ago
Equally accurate headline: "Google's Green Agenda Might Not Pay Off"
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by hugh 18y ago
It's irrelevant to the real question here, but it's relevant to the assertion that what you did at thirteen (or in this case, eleven) shouldn't be held against you by employers.
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by hugh 18y ago
I'm not gonna pretend to be an expert on reactor safety, but I do note that the article mentions that a pebble bed reactor is kept inside a big concrete building designed to withstand aircraft crashes. I assume this means that an aircraft c
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by hugh 18y ago
A scramjet (supersonic combustion ramjet) is a variation of a ramjet with the distinction being that some or all of the combustion process takes place supersonically. (from wikipedia on Scramjet)

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