nebula

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by nebula 18y ago
Ooops! Freudian slip. Thanks for correcting.
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by nebula 18y ago
The fun part aside, are there any real use cases for tweetbymail? At the peak of .Com days, there was a startup that promised to bridge e-mail and snail mail: one can use their service to email people who don't have an email account or conn
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by nebula 18y ago
That explains why pretty much all laptops still have that RJ45 telephone socket (and the dialup modem of course). I used to wonder.
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by nebula 18y ago
From the insurance company's perspective, it's a $1 million bet they are taking that no one will be able to achieve it. From the participant's perspective it's a $1 ticket to a $1 million lottery. From Zucker's perspective a business (I wou
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by nebula 18y ago
At the risk of freaking you out, wormholes also play in space dimension, not in time :)
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by nebula 18y ago
if you'd teleport that thing back two decades Sorry to nitpick, but teleporting "works" at space dimension, not time dimension; You would have to use a time machine if you want to go back two decades :) Although you can bring in the time
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by nebula 18y ago
Those who try to get in at the bottom invariably find that it wasn't the bottom yet. Well, there is a different school of thought too: Those who wait for the bottom to be hit will never be able to realize when it was hit. It's fairly easy
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by nebula 18y ago
I broadly agree with your sentiment that H1-B workers may not be bad for America. But I disagree with your line of argument. Even if I grant your hypothesis on the smartness of H1-B workers, it doesn't necessarily mean a value addition to A
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by nebula 18y ago
"In a world where even a idiot can start a company, you will eventually end up with companies run by idiots." Given that market forces determine which companies survive, if we eventually end up with companies run by idiots, it tells somethi
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by nebula 18y ago
Or your sarcasm detector is giving false positives.
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by nebula 18y ago
I remember similar silly things like 9/9/99, etc., Nothing wrong in observing things like that; there is such a thing as little amusement.
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by nebula 18y ago
While it might be an irony, there is no reason why it is not possible. If you follow evolution, that's how we came into being in the first place. Though there was no specific entity working with that explicit goal in the case of evolution.
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by nebula 18y ago
If I remember correctly, I think it only offers to install(with default behavior being no openoffice install). I think it's a fair enough practice; you are installing java which is free, and nothing wrong if they try to promote some stuff a
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by nebula 18y ago
Loading animations make people perceive it as fast loading? It has exactly the opposite effect on me; If someone site has to show me loading animation,it's not fast enough. I'm thankful for the animations though in situations where delay ca
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by nebula 18y ago
I don't know anything about retroactive lawsuits. But if people can sue these companies after they license the technology, why can't they sue them for not licensing and providing safety? It would sounds so ironic. Am I missing something her
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Carbonite employees gamed reviews of their products on Amazon(ftothefourth.blogspot.com)
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by nebula 18y ago
And, how do we know that those reviews are not generated through Turks?
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by nebula 18y ago
IMO, Kelvin is a wrong example for being usefully wrong. http://www.usd.edu/esci/age/content/failed_scientific_clocks... He argued against evolution based on wrong assumptions (which at his time were speculative). He was arrogant and didn
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by nebula 18y ago
Come on! don't be so full of cynicism.
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by nebula 18y ago
I have been thinking if it's a good idea to give a duplicate warning (or reject duplicates) during submission.
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by nebula 18y ago
Off topic but still relevant: can we have thread folding for comments?
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by nebula 18y ago
Is there any evidence suggesting that Apple is actually working to implement this UI into OS X? I don't think filing for a patent necessarily means betting on it big time.
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by nebula 18y ago
It takes <30 seconds to create an user account here; If you really have some insights to share and don't feel comfortable making those remarks in a non-anonymous way, you should probably consider creating a new user account and share yo
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by nebula 18y ago
Why not have a permanent mail id that you use only on sites that you don't trust.
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by nebula 18y ago
Though I don't know of any names, I think Einstein's explanation of photo-electric effect is not completely out of this world or without precedents. Quantization was known though it was not applied to light earlier; Light's particle nature
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by nebula 18y ago
I agree with you that popular vote is not something that can accurately select the "greatest genius". I'm also skeptical of these "greatest"/"No.1" rankings as far as Scientists go; no matter who does the selection. You can definitely say t
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by nebula 18y ago
That helps :) Thank you.
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by nebula 18y ago
May be I'm; but you are not helping with your one liner :( [for "professions that scale" google is pointing to this page] Btw, Wikipedia seems to be more or less in agreement with my stand here: [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economies_of_
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by nebula 18y ago
PG, your use of the term "economies of scale" seems to be slightly misleading: My understanding is that to benefit from "economies of scale", you don't necessarily have to be big in size. You can be a two people startup serving a huge user
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by nebula 18y ago
I think communication and transportation technologies made "huge" corporations possible; If you can't ship your products to large distances, you can't have large manufacturing facilities. Without all these wonderful communication channels,

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