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by jibiki 18y ago
Interesting. Power in France costs ~$.03/kWh. So to boil a kilogram (i.e., a liter) of water (ignoring the heat of fusion) takes 100 J = .03 kWh which costs about $.001. Looks good to me. (I mean, those little water bottles sell for lik
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by jibiki 18y ago
But Linux for the PC is priced at $0.00, and the gorilla stands. The reason people prefer Windows to Linux is that it runs most software on virtually all hardware. Doesn't OSX has the same problem as Linux?
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by jibiki 18y ago
Interesting. I occasionally watch music videos on YouTube, and I try to watch the official one whenever possible, because all else being equal, I'd like to see people get paid. I think there's a ton of money to be made off of the monetiza
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by jibiki 18y ago
> If radio stations can make it work, so should YouTube. Nobody really knows, but the suspicion is that it's more expensive to do online distribution. Here's Mark Cuban on a similar subject: http://blogmaverick.com/2009/01/27/the-grea
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by jibiki 18y ago
Cambridge?
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by jibiki 18y ago
Marriages in America frequently break up over money, i.e., one partner wants to spend more than the other. I wonder if the Indian system helps avoid this problem. (Of course, India is a massive and diverse country, and there is no singula
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by jibiki 18y ago
> The main character has to "grow" throughout the film There are certain archetypal personal growth stories, like overcoming a loss, learning to be more selfless, learning to trust your friends, etc. The most popular is the bland "lear
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by jibiki 18y ago
My point is that your argument validly defends Apartheid. It is a standard (if somewhat impolite) rhetorical technique to parrot your opponent's arguments in a way that makes them seem obviously flawed.
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by jibiki 18y ago
The concept and system of _Apartheid_ is not something that needs fixing. It has evolved and will continue to evolve to adapt to changing conditions and attitudes.
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by jibiki 18y ago
> Outsiders attempting to generalize, analyze, dissect, and fix things about cultures they barely understand more often than not cause historical and irreversible damage. Maybe it can also cause progress? For instance, the condemnation
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by jibiki 18y ago
> Frankly, if you haven't been born and/or brought up in a certain culture, you simply will not be able to understand some peculiar aspects about it. A true statement, but not necessarily relevant. For instance, I cannot understand Azt
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by jibiki 18y ago
I think the comment is at least halfway tongue-in-cheek. The meaning is that there are certain disadvantages to marrying a strong-willed American woman...
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by jibiki 18y ago
"On Friday, Fox News entertainment columnist Roger Friedman watched and reviewed one of the pirated copies of Wolverine floating around the Web."
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by jibiki 18y ago
> You're trying to have it both ways: you're not willing to stand behind an actual accusation, so instead you hide behind weasel language and only insinuate. Well, how else do you present negative or inconclusive results? I would say
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by jibiki 18y ago
I thought the slideshare thing was funny, although probably not good for business. This, on the other hand, is borderline malicious; there is no way in hell I would use their service now.
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by jibiki 18y ago
He means they're not completely selfish, and the anti-DRM stance isn't just a cynical front.
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by jibiki 18y ago
You're right, and I'm wrong, of course. The problem is that it's hard to know who gets to decide what a fact is. There are many people for whom creationism is a fact. Is it okay for them to teach it to their children? If not, why is it
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by jibiki 18y ago
I think the point you keep missing here is that all education is indoctrination. Even teaching kids to think rationally is indoctrination in the rational method. It's fine to say, "I think we should indoctrinate kids only in rationality,"
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by jibiki 18y ago
Yes. He was one of the early warning voices (2003?) about the dangers of complex derivatives.
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by jibiki 18y ago
It's the kind of thing that can't be priced (as AIG found out.) The distribution of the default rate is unknown and unknowable (fat tails and black swans and so on.) Also, if you increased the price of FDIC insurance, banks would need to m
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by jibiki 18y ago
I think HN needs to have more discussion on this point. For instance, I used to listen to Art Bell: his callers gave numerous anecdotes about UFOs, but I wouldn't say those anecdotes added up to evidence of any sort. On the other hand, if
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by jibiki 18y ago
That makes sense; I have to admit that I haven't read Singer's book, but it seemed like you were telling a story about foreign aid being Africa's biggest problem. This story is very common, but it's just not true. Cutting off all foreign
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by jibiki 18y ago
Ok, let's see some numbers. What percentage of the African GDP comes from foreign aid? What percentage of Africa is fed by free food? The ability of both sides of this issue to avoid discussing numbers is nothing short of alarming. You
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by jibiki 18y ago
What does that even mean?
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by jibiki 18y ago
(Previously, the headline implied that the raid was part of an investigation into the leaking of the X-men movie.)
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by jibiki 18y ago
> The problem I see with talking about that attitude-from-birth is that it encourages complacency. Whether a statement is true or false is independent of what it encourages. Let's assume that curiosity is totally hard-wired. Then is i
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by jibiki 18y ago
> That's one of the reasons I hate Java, because learning Java didn't teach me anything except how truly brain-damaged a language can be. > I learned more in my one year at Google than in the previous thirty. This actually makes sen
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by jibiki 18y ago
Yeah. I think maybe it might seem less seedy if you earned karma instead of cash.
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by jibiki 18y ago
The comments about hard problems and hard instances is very interesting. I'm curious if there are any ways to generate hard traveling salesman problems. Or even better, if you can start with a solution (e.g., an order of 1,...,n) and gene
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Lipton's April fool's factoring joke, part 2(rjlipton.wordpress.com)
13 points by jibiki 18y ago|1 comments

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