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by hugh 18y ago
What materials are proven unbreakable in a 500 mph aeroplane-meets-hard-surface collision? Also, what about a surface-to-air missile?
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by hugh 18y ago
Wow. If you'd told in October 2001 that in seven years people would be seriously proposing putting nuclear reactors in aeroplanes I'd think you were crazy. And yet, here we are. Have we forgotten? How quickly we swing from one kind of hyste
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by hugh 18y ago
OK, I'll be the jerk with the extreme example here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_James_Bulger Happy to hire those guys?
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by hugh 18y ago
A quick note for readers who aren't familiar with the ins and outs of Australian politics: the two senators named here as supporting these measures (Xenophon and Fielding) aren't part of any major party, and certainly not part of the "Gover
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by hugh 18y ago
I dunno what the next generation recon platform is, but I doubt it flies at night while lit up like a goddamn Christmas tree. (Of course, aliens probably wouldn't do that either: they'd be a lot more subtle or a lot less subtle.)
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by hugh 18y ago
Is it actually an attempt to impersonate pg qua pg, or just a random scam sent with a plausible-sounding combination of first and second names? Has it been targeted at founders, or is it just that founders are the only folks likely to forwa
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by hugh 18y ago
Anyone know how they fill the vacancy? Is it advertised just like any other professorship, or do they invite people? Not, I should add, that I'm planning on applying.
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by hugh 18y ago
No, but it doesn't mean they can be forgiven for using blatantly inaccurate terminology.
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by hugh 18y ago
...and then they closed at 8,378, just 3.6% down over the day. Well, that was pretty anticlimactic, wasn't it?
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by hugh 18y ago
Why not require a programming course for physicists and mathematicians? I think part of the reason is this: programming (badly) just isn't all that hard. Programming (badly) is a skill that most smart twelve-year-old kids can easily teach t
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by hugh 18y ago
I'm not convinced that Fortran has any remaining advantages. Sure, a bunch of libraries (BLAS and LAPACK in particular) may be written in Fortran, but that doesn't mean you can't call them from C. Maybe there are some uncallable-from-C libr
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by hugh 18y ago
markets are random, probably better off investing in yourself at this point. Very well put.
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by hugh 18y ago
Well, that seems to have been a big deal about nothing (as of just before noon, New York time). It opened about 4% down, but crept back up and is now 3.5% down, at 8,387.
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by hugh 18y ago
Let's set aside for the moment the issue of whether it makes sense to call this "compression". What I'm interested in is: does the simulated instrument sound any good? At first, I was extremely impressed... but then I figured out I was list
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by hugh 18y ago
Fair enough. I'm still not gonna invest six hours in it, but thanks for clarifying what it's about. And I apologise for guessing about the "fringe views". I've seen too many LaRoucheites on campus today.
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by hugh 18y ago
Huh? That seems pretty irrelevant to my question.
167.
by hugh 18y ago
Or take a leaf out of the London newspapers, and blend news with pornography.
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by hugh 18y ago
I doubt the people are worth that much. Staff journalists don't vary _that_ much in quality (though editorial standards do) and there's tons of fresh meat coming out of j-school every year. The most valuable asset that the New York Times ha
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by hugh 18y ago
I think I'm going to need a much more detailed recommendation than that if I'm going to invest six hours in watching a video. Indeed, the only people likely to (a) watch six hours of little internet video about economics and (b) try to pers
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by hugh 18y ago
It would have been straightforward enough to seize the oilfields, staff them with Western engineers, patrol just the pipelines and leave the rest of the country completely alone. Leaving the rest of the country completely alone? So you'd
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by hugh 18y ago
The post 2001 defense spending boom has dwarfed the cold war at minting billionaires. Really? I haven't heard of that many people becoming billionaires off the defense industry, given that it's dominated by giant decades-old conglomerates
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by hugh 18y ago
Or wore a yarmaluke. Seriously though, Ford's test sounds silly. I'm sure he had some kind of justification for it, but I doubt it really did a good job of screening out who would and wouldn't be a good employee.
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by hugh 18y ago
I assume what was meant was that they failed in their job of hedging. Hedging is supposed to involve taking a very conservative position to protect against losses. This, I assume, is a bit of a joke since hedge funds have largely turned int
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by hugh 18y ago
Gah! The BBC writes an article and doesn't bother to actually include a link to the blog? Besides, is this much more advanced than the old Trojan Room coffee pot?
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by hugh 18y ago
Interestingly, googling "Shackleton insurance" gives this New York Times article from January 16, 1914: http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9A07E6DC1730E... It's not clear to me from the article who actually took out the insura
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by hugh 18y ago
A nice thought, but it also hurts my eyes to read stuff in tiny mid-grey-on-slightly-lighter-grey italics.
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by hugh 18y ago
And yet despite all this, I still haven't managed to find one actually for sale in a store. Where the hell are they?
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by hugh 18y ago
Although it's very cool technology, and I like the Thunderbirds reference, I can't really see it being especially useful. Instead of having a "crack team" of Marines ready to be deployed anywhere on Earth within four hours, why not just hav
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by hugh 18y ago
For one thing, the concept of 'communism' according to Marx is a stateless, classless society. Since communist states were 'states' & ruled by parties which were very similar to a ruling 'class,' I thnk we can call this grounds for app
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by hugh 18y ago
Not to contradict your point, but I think there are other reasons we don't live to be 900. A human with a 900-year lifespan would be able to reproduce many more times than a human with a 90-year lifespan, so if a 900-year lifespan were easy

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