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by kirse 18y ago
...E. coli is that it cannot process citrate. You must have missed that study I posted where it showed that E-coli already has the capability to process citrate within it's genetic code, it's just typically not utilized. Forcing somethin
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by kirse 18y ago
The "macroevolution is unproven" dodge Except it's not a dodge at all. E-coli is still E-coli, whether it powers itself on glucose or citrate. Regarding Lenski's E-coli experiment, an earlier study on E-coli showed uncultured strains of
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by kirse 18y ago
We don't know evolution is true I think scientists are still waiting on the results of the 100m year experiment where a fish pen turns into a group of intelligent humans. Honestly, I'm sure I'll get flak for this, but I can't believe peop
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by kirse 18y ago
Ouch, what a burn. Just curious, what companies have you built and sold? I tried to check your profile but it was empty.
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by kirse 18y ago
While the test may give some indicators, I think this practice of trying to specialize kids for certain sports is just baloney. There are so many examples of athletes who are / were the best in their arena that certainly were not the ideal
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by kirse 18y ago
Intel has to move in this direction because they can't get beat out by AMD and their Fusion initiative. Intel got absolutely spanked by the Athlon64 for ~5 years and they're not about to repeat that again.
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by kirse 18y ago
Just look back on tasks you've completed with ease and figure out what worked for you in that instance. For you it might be different, for me it's usually: - Eliminate external distractions - put in headphones and listen to music. Sometim
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by kirse 18y ago
Your comment was similar to one I was going to make... It's interesting to see that man still seeks that feeling of meaning (in life) and hope (after death) even when they do not believe in a God/afterlife. How does one find value in life w
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by kirse 18y ago
It all depends on when you wake up in your sleep cycle. 20 minutes is usually that period where you get max rest before entering deeper sleep. The average full sleep cycle is about 90 minutes, so at that point you're usually in light sleep
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by kirse 18y ago
Do significant digits matter in these sort of probability calculations? Secondly, do we want doctors to tell us the probablility estimate that we have cancer or do we want doctors to tell us Yes or No? Personally, I don't care what my proba
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by kirse 18y ago
I wholeheartedly agree. After getting several shoddy outsourced projects I've come to adopt the mantra that "if you want something done right, you've got to do it yourself". The individual who created a template for me did a decent job on
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by kirse 18y ago
I noticed this network-effect with one of my Facebook apps, also. It really took off in Toronto, ON and after that I'd estimate that 10% of my users were from Toronto and at least 50% or so were from Canada in general. Google Analytics al
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by kirse 18y ago
Twitter has plenty of room to continue growing, this is only the first of many offers they'll receive. Honestly, that deal is almost as bad as me starting some BS company, getting it valued at several billion by a few generous accountants,
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by kirse 18y ago
That or just have a service setup to monitor a Twitter feed for updates. So in the case of Robert Scoble, more than 2 hours and he's probably dead!
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by kirse 18y ago
It's awesome to see that YouTube's comment section still remains as funny as ever even when they're streaming live: http://www.techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/youtube... Seriously, some of the funniest things I've ever read come
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by kirse 18y ago
After signing up for Netflix last month, I realized that I am one of those users that the algorithm writer's probably hate. I usually vote things "1" or "5", because a movie I did not like meant I just wasted 2 hours of my time. On the ot
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by kirse 18y ago
I did, in fact, read the article before posting this, and would have been entirely fine with the article if it just objectively looked at the database issues without injecting... -- This: It's asinine to do it this way. However, there is a
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by kirse 18y ago
Is this how were going to sneak useless articles onto the front page now? Take completely-unrelated-to-Hacking topic X and apply secondary "Engineering/Hacker opinion" Y to it? "Well, condition Y now makes this Hacker-related, let's submit
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by kirse 18y ago
I have no clue what this is supposed to mean? My post meant that: 1) I'm a car / driving enthusiast 2) Most American citizens aren't automotive enthusiasts like myself.
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by kirse 18y ago
I will cling to the performance and adrenaline-rushed excitement of driving my 300hp, 6-speed M.T. gasoline-powered car until death (or absolute lack of funds) pries it from my bare hands. I would rather die of starvation before being force
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by kirse 18y ago
Paging SwellJoe and others to this thread... http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=327518 Decide to take the hit on that Google stock yet? Sucks for the DOW though, my portfolio is up 192% on a few Chinese investments over the past month.
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by kirse 18y ago
Damn that website is brilliant, why the hell don't I think of these simple yet effective ideas? Honestly, they host an image, throw a few stats in, and charge exorbitant amounts of money for websites to put a "certified" badge on their page
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Think twice before you go niche, E-Harmony forced to offer same-sex matching service(latimesblogs.latimes.com)
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by kirse 18y ago
I think it's pretty obvious. Cuban is a majority owner in ShareSleuth.com, a website "aimed at exposing securities fraud and corporate chicanery": http://sharesleuth.com/about.html Cuban also funds bailoutsleuth.com which is supposed to
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by kirse 18y ago
One word can also answer that - ego.
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by kirse 18y ago
Is anyone aware of research done into how mentally stimulating various video games are? Maybe someone with one of those open-source EEGs could hook themselves up and do us a favor? This article comes at an interesting time because I notice
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by kirse 18y ago
I wonder who from HN is in Seth's tribe and keeps upvoting his wonderfully perceptive and sagacious posts.
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by kirse 18y ago
Does anyone else find this search to explain the creation of the universe hilariously futile? We will never find the answer in our lifetime. We can't even concretely explain the process by which warm water sometimes freezes faster than col
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From the creator - the History of SkiFree(ski.ihoc.net)
2 points by kirse 18y ago|0 comments
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by kirse 18y ago
I agree. If this was a post about a Dell laptop you'd read endless amounts of comments lambasting Dell / Vista / PCs and hear every single PC-to-Mac switch-story about how the Mac does everything short of being a free energy device that po

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