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by jsmcgd 18y ago
Is there a correlation with your results and the weather? I was just trying to think what might dramatically alter peoples' interest in parks and all I could think of was the weather.
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by jsmcgd 18y ago
When the stakes are this big, I would advise hedging your bets.
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by jsmcgd 18y ago
I tell people about it but most people aren't interested. I think they're happy to let me be their geek news filter, or perhaps they're just humoring me. Either way I think the aesthetics of the site go a long way to keep out wrong people.
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by jsmcgd 18y ago
C'mon pg. Imagine if you had polled the community before changing the name of Startup News. They'd have said no and we'd still only be reading about venture capital and where to incorporate etc. Consensus almost always favors the status quo
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by jsmcgd 18y ago
Please please please do this. If nothing more than for the experiment itself. Personally I had just decided that I need to switch the no procrastination feature on so I was delighted to the title of this post. HN is too interesting, it's do
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by jsmcgd 18y ago
I agree but personally I view art in the sense that it is an intermediary between the artist and the audience, a symbolic representation of the true value of it: the semantics of the piece and how the artist chose to express themselves and
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by jsmcgd 18y ago
I don't understand why he is so morose. I could understand if it had been revealed that Chopin was actually a computer. Being upset about this seems akin to being upset that the world's fastest sprinter can be equaled or bettered by a motor
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by jsmcgd 18y ago
Sorry I was just being facetious. I had the phrase 'unmaintained projects' in my head and within the first second of looking at the site I noticed the word windows. Juxtaposed my brain thought: 'windows is an unmaintained project'. If true,
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by jsmcgd 18y ago
On the front page the first thing my eyes noticed was the word 'windows'. I thought, 'ah that explains a lot'.
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by jsmcgd 18y ago
I don't think it would burn up because its relative motion to the atmosphere will be zero apart from a relatively small vertical acceleration due to gravity. It would most likely come straight down on top of its base.
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by jsmcgd 18y ago
My inner geek cringes, since the sides of a lever move in opposite directions . His inner geek need not cringe, a crowbar is a kind of lever where the 'sides' move in the same direction. Voilà!
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by jsmcgd 18y ago
The Mercator projection has a lot to answer for. Did you know that Sudan is the 10th largest country in the world?
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by jsmcgd 18y ago
They should send the bill to the west.
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by jsmcgd 18y ago
I know it's a prototype and I know it's a house but that was really slow. Not really too sure what that demonstration demonstrated at that speed. I didn't get any sense of viability. Too harsh?
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by jsmcgd 18y ago
Make tech friends. There's bound to a bunch of people in Dallas that would like to team up with you. Go find them. They'll give you the ideas you need.
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by jsmcgd 18y ago
This video is a little more informative: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7685466.stm
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Supersonic car targets 1,000mph(news.bbc.co.uk)
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by jsmcgd 18y ago
Great response. Don't worry I didn't think you were being a jerk before. In truth I was enjoying advocating a contrarian position and I expected a reaction. (I like to think I wasn't trolling(!) because what I said was my honest opinion). A
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by jsmcgd 18y ago
Hmmm. I don't think we're in disagreement. I never claimed the market is perfect. My point is its miraculous tendency for self correction even in spite of fraudulent practices and bad government policy. You cannot expect this kind of silly
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by jsmcgd 18y ago
Capitalism FTW! The current crisis, far from being a failure of capitalism is actually a major success of capitalism. Because, despite contrary to the best efforts of some people, the market place has not been hoodwinked and is currently, o
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by jsmcgd 18y ago
Me too. Anyone else?
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by jsmcgd 18y ago
This doesn't feel like progress. Feels dirty. Feels like the dirty thin edge of a dirty wedge.
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by jsmcgd 18y ago
SJ looks pretty thin in the last picture.
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by jsmcgd 18y ago
The author missed a trick to unwind some of the self promotion by keeping the profile and exercising a bit of self defamation.
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by jsmcgd 18y ago
Talk about nostalgic! Well done!
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by jsmcgd 18y ago
“Two people with the same genes correlate as much as a person does with himself a year later,” Plomin says. “Identical twins reared apart are almost as similar as identical twins reared together.” But these similarities also take time to e
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by jsmcgd 18y ago
I agree. I don't think he knows how hard it is to obtain a non ridiculous domain name these days.
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by jsmcgd 18y ago
Fair cop. Would it be possible to have the relevant rules presented to us in the submission form? I sometimes forget.
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by jsmcgd 18y ago
Seems fair enough to me. Entrepreneurs and VCs are major wealth creators. It doesn't make too much sense to stifle nascent wealth with blanket taxation rules.
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by jsmcgd 18y ago
No? Are we Brits feeling bullish?

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