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by lupatus 14y ago
More seriously, I could also do the rise of Facebook and Wikipedia and the adoption of smart phones.
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by lupatus 14y ago
That's a great one. Probably also the Higgs boson.
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by lupatus 14y ago
A series of tubes? ;-)
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Ask HN: Greatest science and tech accomplishments of the 21st Century?
3 points by lupatus 14y ago|7 comments
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by lupatus 14y ago
Kevin, It seems that the Singularity Institute also reads James Altucher: http://www.jamesaltucher.com/what-is-the-quickest-way-to-mak... . My guess is that your "productize step" is to also use your researchers to train a specialized medi
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by lupatus 14y ago
This is essentially my grandfather's sleep schedule. He uses the early morning hours to go hiking, snow shoeing, hunting, reading, and journaling. This schedule works especially well during hunting season because it allows him to have b
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by lupatus 14y ago
Yeah. IANA lawyer or tax professional, but it seems to me that capital gains and dividend taxes for C Corporations will be going up if the Bush tax cuts expire: http://www.deanmead.com/deanmead-newsletter/effects-of-tax-r...
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by lupatus 14y ago
This looks like a huge capital loss for HP. But, is it actually a move to lower HP's tax burden ahead of the expiring Bush tax cuts? It seems to me that they valued it one-way a year ago, based mainly on intangible value. But now, they ar
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by lupatus 14y ago
This reminds me of a tale from the Internet of yesteryear... Long ago, circa the year 2000, I was a member of the very first niche social network, makeoutclub.com (MOC)[1], a site originally about indie rock music. One day, a group of memb
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by lupatus 14y ago
2012 - 30 = September, October, November, December 1981 && 1982 Dates are weird. Having a birthday at the end of Dec., 1981, I am close to being the last Gen.-Xer.
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by lupatus 14y ago
Pre-seed google with your BS and SEO it to page 1.
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by lupatus 14y ago
This header idea is great because then you only need to keep one strand and can toss the other, potentially quadrupling the amount of data storage (I'm assuming you can keep single strands of DNA stable). [Left strand] A = 00 T = 01 C = 10
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by lupatus 14y ago
Long term, rarely accessed backup?
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by lupatus 14y ago
IANA DNA expert, but they still seem to be ordered [1]. So a possible scheme to increase data density could be: AT = 00 TA = 01 CG = 10 GC = 11 The trick would be to always correctly identify which is the left and which is the right strand
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by lupatus 14y ago
I work from home / where ever every day. And, it is wonderful. I can even take as much unpaid time off as I want, whenever I want, as long there is no disruption of business services to our clients. This works because I get paid hourly (
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by lupatus 14y ago
So, Unalakleet has had settlements there for (the best guess I could find) 2100-2600 years [1]. It sits at the ocean-side of a natural portage route between the Bering Sea and the Yukon River (Kaltag is at the Yukon river side of the porta
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by lupatus 14y ago
I'll concur that talk of moochers and me-firsters is bullpucky. But, the danger I'm concerned with (and the reason for me going on and on about the relationship of entrepreneurship and subsidized infrastructure) is that the "you didn't buil
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by lupatus 14y ago
Trees in a forest aren't considered subsidized infrastructure. They are natural resources. You're struggling now.
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by lupatus 14y ago
The point I'm trying to make is that in our equation of the relatedness of entrepreneurship and subsidized infrastructure, entrepreneurship is the independent variable and subsidized infrastructure is the dependent variable. I won't argue t
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by lupatus 14y ago
It can become highly interdependent, I won't disagree with that. But, there is a real cause and effect happening. If the people in a community stops subsidizing infrastructure, what happens to the infrastructure? It crumbles away. If a co
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by lupatus 14y ago
Please be more specific. I can think of an example off of the top of my head using the Interstate Highway System to support my argument. The end points of I-80 are New York City and San Francisco. Both cities predate the Interstate system
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by lupatus 14y ago
This is incorrect, for the USA at least, and I suspect other countries as well, because you are ignoring the facts of history. Those roads exist because people had to get somewhere. In the beginning, those somewheres were private Trading P
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by lupatus 14y ago
Try emailing "info@ycombinator.com" with this suggestion. From the guidelines: Please don't post on HN to ask or tell us something (e.g. to ask us questions about Y Combinator, or to ask or complain about moderation). If you want to say som
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by lupatus 14y ago
So, we have a bunch of identical-looking options and cannot know which pays out better beforehand. It sounds to me like we should apply the Multi-Armed Bandit algorithm to the problem.
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by lupatus 14y ago
Sorry for the late rebuttal... Actually, according to Wikipedia, Haiti paid off their debt to France that resulted from the Haitian Revolution in 1883: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/External_debt_of_Haiti . Free of their French "landlords"
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by lupatus 14y ago
I checked-out your company. It seems really cool. And, I think that it is really awesome that you are commercializing this tech and advocating it so much on HN (seriously). But, the part I am having trouble understanding, as an amateur,
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by lupatus 14y ago
Farmville made me hate my friends on Facebook.
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by lupatus 14y ago
Wrong. If this were true, then when the colonists from "core" countries left a colonized area, then that area should have seen an increase in wealth because those rent monies would have remained in the colony. The history of numerous areas
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by lupatus 14y ago
So, was Genghis Khan a victim or an oppressor? Try reframing from an oppressor-victim category matrix to simply co-competitors because that is evolution's perspective. Moreover, the oppressor-victim matrix provides competitive benefits to i
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by lupatus 14y ago
Society's power structure doesn't matter. If it did, pivots wouldn't work - ever. Stop reading so much Occupy BS.

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