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by nebula 18y ago
And the companies that do have the cash in the bank, cross your fingers and pray that your bank doesn't go bankrupt.
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by nebula 18y ago
It's nice to know that you are working towards change; It's alright if your circle of influence is small right now. All the best in your efforts. Do you write about your thoughts on the problems, possible solutions and your own experiences?
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by nebula 18y ago
Gravity has always been the odd one out and hard to explain What do you mean by this? can you please elaborate. Einstein has already explained gravity as curvature of space caused by the presence of mass. And this is a well tested theory.
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by nebula 18y ago
Jyothi, I have been reading your comments on HN for quite a while. I have noticed that you jump ahead and nag about India at the slightest opportunity. Here's John F. Kennedy for you: In the long history of the world, only a few generation
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by nebula 18y ago
To all those who are linking culture and corruption: The reason that some societies seem to accept corruption is not because of their culture; It's because of social behavior resulting from "learned helplessness" ( http://en.wikipedia.org/w
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by nebula 18y ago
I noticed a couple of utility providers making the "rounding errors" in their favor. I sensed evil intent on their part. I never thought it would have been a genuine software bug.
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by nebula 18y ago
A site that is designed to serve a fresh card everyday, keeps serving the same card. How is that unimportant? small and trivial technically, yes; but unimportant?
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by nebula 18y ago
"Bezos: We are responding to customer needs. SM: No one asked for the Kindle." What's wrong with this guy (the interviewer)? Imagine Bezos answering that question with the following quote: If I had asked people what they wanted, they would
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by nebula 18y ago
While going through some of the recent controversial threads on HN, I felt that something like this would be a nice thing: When people mindlessly downmod some controversial but valid comment, some people who stand for free speech and connec
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by nebula 18y ago
With a transfer cost of course :) Otherwise you could misuse your karma to move your comments up all the while.
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by nebula 18y ago
When I first saw the article on reddit, I tried to see if I could figure it out myself, by trying to imagine motion of moon and Earth. But I couldn't. Then I went to the article and was skimming through it. Just gave up when I hit this imag
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The Silver Lining: Selfishness and Greed are Not Cool These Days(bobsutton.typepad.com)
1 points by nebula 18y ago|0 comments
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by nebula 18y ago
But then if they have a large user base that really cares for the service, it should not be that hard to monetize it. People might even be willing to pay for the service than to see it shut down.
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by nebula 18y ago
may be army should take over I know what's wrong with this line of thinking. Look at the history; and see if there is anything that can be learnt from nations that went in that route.
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The Incredible IDEO Global Chain Reaction Experience(labs.ideo.com)
4 points by nebula 18y ago|1 comments
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by nebula 18y ago
I have been wanting this functionality for my mailbox since quite sometime. I managed to get a very small fraction of it done in Thunderbird through tagging and filters. I pretty much generate a Todo list out of the messages by tagging. But
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by nebula 18y ago
That's an interesting possibility. But the fact that the article specifically mentions about drive failures and that they use some of RAID to cope with this makes me wonder if they were using old disks. It's probably easier to get all new d
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by nebula 18y ago
Actually, I did this math before I posted my comment. What I don't understand is this: With x% annual failure rate, are the failures uniformly distributed over time? I would expect that it's probably a normal distribution over time. (i.e.,
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by nebula 18y ago
Thanks for the pointer; it's interesting.
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by nebula 18y ago
We were writing it to 48,000 hard drives (we did not use the full capacity of these disks, though), and every time we ran our sort, at least one of our disks managed to break (this is not surprising at all given the duration of the test, t
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by nebula 18y ago
May be the author derived the title from this last sentence: What if exotic forms of life could thrive where there is no liquid water at all - swimming around in lakes of liquid methane on Saturn's frigid moon, Titan, for example? But the
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by nebula 18y ago
From what I hear the biggest chunk of cost per GB in a datacenter is already operational costs (most of it salaries). Even though, acquisition cost for infrastructure may drastically come down further, operational costs may not. And AWS sti
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by nebula 18y ago
the article is about why the theory has been so difficult to prove. You mean the theoretical proof?
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by nebula 18y ago
Is it just me or there is really something amiss with this article? Physicists have now confirmed that the apparently substantial stuff is actually no more than fluctuations in the quantum vacuum. So, if they have NOW confirmed this, wh
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by nebula 18y ago
There is no incentive for Google to take cases all the way through the court system just so they could set a precedent that helps the rest of us. The article says that the proposed settlement over book indexing is for $125M. I have no ide
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by nebula 18y ago
It reminds me of Feynman's talk titled "Value of Science": Another value of science is the fun called intellectual enjoyment ......... Is this mere personal enjoyment of value to society as a whole? No! But it is also a responsibility to
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by nebula 18y ago
Or for example because length contracts based on speed it's possible for something to look like a black hole if you are moving fast, but not be a black hole if you are moving slow. How does length contraction make something "look" like a
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by nebula 18y ago
plus they can not be reconciled with relativity. What do you mean? black holes indeed were a prediction of general relativity.
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by nebula 18y ago
I thought about death and information in the cloud a few times earlier. There were two problems with handing over the information to the next of kin: 1. How will the family members prove that the claimed account indeed belongs to the deceas
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by nebula 18y ago
Wondering how the family proved that the claimed Yahoo account was indeed their son's.

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