hughprime

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by hughprime 17y ago
Flagged as... well, exactly the sort of article you might expect from the headline.
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by hughprime 17y ago
question of degree not one of "action vs. non-action" Not just of degree but of kind. Assuming anthropogenic global warming really _is_ a problem of nonzero severity, there's a vast array of actions that can be taken on a governmental lev
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by hughprime 17y ago
By advocating inaction, you are expressly taking the side of the denialists, even though you claim not to agree with them, technically One thing that the world really needs to do is move beyond labels like "denialist". I'm sick of depicti
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by hughprime 17y ago
I'm not sure what this guy's problem is. If this is what he wants then every time he buys a used game he can just send a one-pound cheque to Electronic Arts or whoever.
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by hughprime 17y ago
I was in Death Valley a few weeks ago and I was surprised to find it wasn't all that big, or all that isolated. Heck, most of it is within 100 miles of Las Vegas (and more importantly, it's all within about 70 miles of the McDonald's in Pah
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by hughprime 17y ago
Whenever a twitter VC story comes up there's not much else to do except debate whether the company will ever be worth that much.
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by hughprime 17y ago
If your coding style works for your company, then I won't complain about it. The code I'm talking about was incomprehensible on many levels -- most of the cryptically-named variables were global, and might have a comment explaining their
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by hughprime 17y ago
a) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hear,_hear b) The little triangular "upmod" button is perfectly sufficient to express your agreement if you don't have anything else to add.
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by hughprime 17y ago
Eliminating _all_ comments is a little extreme, but if faced with the choice between excessively long names and insufficiently descriptive names, I'll go with excessively long every time. I've spent way too many months digging around in F
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by hughprime 17y ago
Fun exercise: write a new headline for this article which isn't a vast, trollish overinterpretation of the actual results.
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by hughprime 17y ago
I agree, the lack of male teachers is a far more serious problem than the lack of female coders. Too many boys nowadays grow up without fathers. If they don't have any male teachers either, they'll hit puberty before they meet anyone whose
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by hughprime 17y ago
which aside from being good for those particular people I'm not sure that being a software developer is really that great a prize, unless you happen to be one of those small minority of people who just happens to have a brain which really
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by hughprime 17y ago
* I would think that we'd be too afraid to try something like that during the cold war in fear of starting a legitimate war.* Yes, but the system could be located in advance and disabled as part of a first strike. Even the vague details in
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by hughprime 17y ago
Wow, you're right. Check out, for instance, this so-called doctoral program from the apparently partially-accredited Walden University: http://www.waldenu.edu/Degree-Programs/Doctorate/18220.htm 130 credit points, of which 30 are a disser
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by hughprime 17y ago
I'm not sure what you mean by "most of the research will fail". In my experience most (proper scientific) research succeeds eventually, both in the sense that it (a) gives the authors something to write a paper about and (b) it adds somethi
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by hughprime 17y ago
Well, if the world were a simple mathematical model it might go as follows: there's enough food to feed ten billion people, so one day a baby is born taking us up to ten billion and one and oops -- somebody dies of starvation. From that mom
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by hughprime 17y ago
Does any of that contradict the statement: "When his seeds were used widely in 1963, Mexico instantly went from famine-prone to a wheat-exporter. Their wheat harvest was six times greater after" ? The seeds may have been capable of incre
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by hughprime 17y ago
I think the assumption is that eventually the world's population will stabilize as third-world folks start breeding at bare replacement levels like rich folks do. If we (as a species) can keep producing enough food right up to that point, t
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by hughprime 17y ago
He dared to have political views which differed from those of the black establishment. Like Colin Powell and Condi Rice, if he was a Democrat he'd have a road in every town named after him.
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by hughprime 17y ago
Yeah, ask Zimbabwe how that's working out. Hey, if anyone has Fuck You money it's Robert Mugabe. (He also has a Fuck You army though, which I guess helps).
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by hughprime 17y ago
Slightly off-topic, but what does it say about Bill Gates that his foundation is called the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation?
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by hughprime 17y ago
Soon after he left Ohio and returned to California, a black parent from Shaker Heights went on TV and called him an "academic Clarence Thomas." Perhaps part of these kids' problem is that they have parents who think that being compared to
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by hughprime 17y ago
If I were the OSS I would have written up this section of the booklet and then leaked it directly to the enemy at all possible levels. What better way to cause chaos among the German bureaucracy than to spread paranoia that anyone engaged i
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by hughprime 17y ago
I'm confused -- is labour cost a big part of rocket fuel costs? Actually I'd like to know much more about rocket economics. How much of the cost is in fuel vs engines vs support staff etc? If we started cranking out Delta rockets at mass pr
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by hughprime 17y ago
One of the confusing parts of this thread is that the FCUK brand has different associations in the US from what it has in the UK or Australia. It's pretty rare to see a FCUK t-shirt in the US (apparently they only have 19 stores nationwide)
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by hughprime 17y ago
And if pink is considered a status symbol, they've never seen the bridge and tunnel crew ;) This is why Bridge and Tunnel folks (and their equivalent in every other major city) are an excellent example of what's being talked about in the
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by hughprime 17y ago
Many of these are, I think, signaling of things other than status -- e.g. membership of a group. I also think this thread is missing the point slightly: status signaling doesn't explain every clothing decision ever made by anybody, but it d
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by hughprime 17y ago
I'd like to know exactly how old the author is, actually.
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by hughprime 17y ago
I'd say that Bell's theory is completely accurate, and that fcuk is a terrible example of it. Without wanting to offend anyone, the only people I've seen wearing obvious fcuk-branded clothing are what someone else referred to as the Bridge
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by hughprime 17y ago
The price isn't announced yet, so it's dumb to make pronouncements based on a rumoured price point. I've also heard rumours of prices as low as $30K, at which point it becomes pretty compelling. Even if it is $45K I'm not going to deride ev

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