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by hugh 18y ago
I know a few physicists who are serious mountain climbers. But I know more who are serious drinkers. Where's the article about that?
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by hugh 18y ago
The Freudian model isn't simpler: it postulates three "selves" with constant, fixed agendas. This model talks about arbitrary numbers of selves with arbitrary agendas which pop into existence all the time. The "short term self" vs "long ter
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by hugh 18y ago
Such contradictions arise all the time. If you ask people which makes them happier, work or vacation, they will remind you that they work for money and spend the money on vacations. But if you give them a beeper that goes off at random tim
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by hugh 18y ago
Buckypaper is made from tube-shaped carbon molecules 50,000 times thinner than a human hair. It's really time for a new social contract, in which people who read Wired promise that they know what a nanometer is by now, and in which journa
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by hugh 18y ago
Your comment seems to be more relevant to your own issues than to the actual story, but let me just point out that the "Steve Jobs" character in the story (let's ignore the question of whether or not it's actually true) isn't demonstrating
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by hugh 18y ago
I thought it was going to be about protons.
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by hugh 18y ago
Surely it's also at least partly a show in order to make terrorists feel like they won't get away with it? It's easy to complain about airport security, but you gotta admit: terrorists seem to have more-or-less given up on targeting aeropla
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by hugh 18y ago
These could be significantly improved by superimposing them over pictures of cats.
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by hugh 18y ago
OK, I'll be the one to ask... how is that ironic?
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by hugh 18y ago
Probably the same way that their reacted when they told them that mellowing out was groovy. Or the way _their_ parents reacted when they told them that the hep cats were jumpin'. Or the way _their_ parents reacted when told that some bird w
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by hugh 18y ago
If I had a good chemist, programmer and doctor, I'd use them to design rational drug design software.
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by hugh 18y ago
Wikipedia's list of countries by public debt is interesting: I see no correlation between rank and economic strength. Also curious: there are no countries with negative net debt, so why isn't the circular debt resolved? Most (?) governmen
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by hugh 18y ago
Unfortunately even the most zealous of the "free market solves everything" advocates don't think that the free market can solve the problem of government regulation. Which is why free market types spend most of their time complaining about
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by hugh 18y ago
Australia is part of Oceania in most usages of that term (both outside and including 1984): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oceania
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by hugh 18y ago
In the great heat and confusion of battle, you see men cower, become smaller, or retreat into some psychological refuge. Then you see the few who rise up out of the smoke and fire like an avenging spirit, usually with a mad gleam in their
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by hugh 18y ago
I don't know where exactly you live, but for any house worth $600K, the land value is probably at least $400K. The difference in cost between building a smallish 3 bedroom house and a hugeish five-bedroom house is quite small as a portion o
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by hugh 18y ago
The real problem: asking people "are you happy?" isn't a good metric of their well-being. The answer you get is determined mostly by (a) their personality and (b) what's happened in their lives over the past few days (whether good or bad).
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by hugh 18y ago
Kijiji is a name you can stare straight at, and still not be sure how to spell it.
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by hugh 18y ago
Rules to live by: 1. If someone feels the need to point out, at the end of an essay, that they have a PhD, they're probably a kook. 2. That goes doubly for anyone who feels the need to tell you which prestigious institution their PhD is fro
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by hugh 18y ago
Some of those were only moderately bad, some were awful. Without a doubt the worst was ooooooooc (and I'm not going back to the page to figure out exactly how many "o"s there were supposed to be in there).
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by hugh 18y ago
But you'd love Tolstoy! The last third of War and Peace breaks off every five pages so Tolstoy can argue against the "great men" view of history. Then he has a fifty-page appendix at the end in which he reiterates his case, just in case you
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by hugh 18y ago
People didn't "buy houses they couldn't afford". They bought houses who's value was 40-50% inflated I don't understand the distinction. If you pay half a million bucks for a house, and you can't afford to pay half a million bucks for a ho
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by hugh 18y ago
Well yes, that's what the article says, eventually, except you have to wade through a whole bunch of BS about construction costs to get there. It seems to be mostly wrong about _why_ land is more expensive than it's ever been, blaming it on
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by hugh 18y ago
DeBeers marketing department are geniuses, but they can't perform miracles. Nobody, as far as I know, buys luxury goods which are absolutely indistinguishable from cheaper versions. A $300 bottle of wine tastes somewhat better than a $10 bo
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by hugh 18y ago
After a few minutes' googling to find somewhere that sells nacho hats (as featured in The Simpsons) I was disappointed to find that they don't seem to really exist. So, definitely somebody needs to start making 'em.
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by hugh 18y ago
s/general/inaccurate
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by hugh 18y ago
Flagged as xenophobic flaming. Seriously, this kind of thing destroys forums.
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by hugh 18y ago
Also... Joan of Arc? Really? I don't remember it working out well for her. Luke Skywalker did okay, but only because his dad was willing to bail him out.
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by hugh 18y ago
That headline overreached analogically.
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by hugh 18y ago
That's what I do now (except for the dock, I just plug everything in) but if I had one of these I could save: (a) on buying a separate keyboard and (b) on desk space. OK, it's not a huge advantage, but it's neat. Only downside: unless the

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