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by nessus42 14y ago
And these job vacancies are gender-specific? If the 50 job vacancies must then be filled by 50 single women, then yes we now have a lot more single women in the Big Apple. If they can be filled by 25 single women and 25 single men, then the
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by nessus42 14y ago
I sometimes solve problems while asleep. I.e., I wake up just knowing the answer.
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by nessus42 14y ago
I'm not sure I understand your logic. Let's say 100 men and 100 women move to the Big Apple for their careers. Now let's say 50 of the men and 50 of the women hook up, get married, and move to Scarsdale. Let's say all of the women who have
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by nessus42 14y ago
I agree. In the Boston area I've had great luck with online dating. (And personal ads before there was online dating). Well, I haven't yet met the love of my life, I suppose, but I've gone on what must be a few dozen dates over the decades
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by nessus42 14y ago
I've found the exact quote for the first one. It wasn't exact, but close enough. It was in a personal letter from Jefferson to William Giles in 1825: > a vast accession of strength from their younger recruits, who, having nothing in th
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by nessus42 14y ago
Yes, if that's really true one has to wonder about the common sense of the scientists who did that research!
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Scala: Rising Threat to Java?(slashdot.org)
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I think it took me about a weekend to edit using iMovie, but I'm not very fluent with iMovie. And, of course, there was the effort of my friend, who discretely filmed the whole thing with a steady hand. The newer one that I'm almost finishe
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by nessus42 14y ago
I was having mysterious chronic pain in my legs, and it mostly went away after starting Vitamin D supplements. (Blood work had shown my Vitamin D levels to be low.) I've been suffering from chronic dizziness the past few years, and it sucks
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by nessus42 14y ago
Gah! I didn't come to Hacker News to read nitpicks about grammar.
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by nessus42 14y ago
What I find distracting is the 7 foot tall guy who always decides to stand right in front of me. People recording bits with their cell phones don't bother me. Generally, I don't hold the camera over my head, so that if your view is not bloc
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by nessus42 14y ago
Well, my friend and I video recorded a Marina & the Diamonds concert and have 19,131 views at the moment: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evG3fGJrwRE And I'm working on another one that we did with multiple cameras and some crowd
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by nessus42 14y ago
I agree with all that, but I still shoot a lot of video--mostly of concerts. In fact, I just shot about 20 minutes of a Kate Nash concert last night in Boston with my iPhone. (She was great, by the way. She's gone punk!)
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by nessus42 14y ago
> In summary: anyone who has a pressing need for this product has their priorities wrong. That's just silly. Both Git and Mercurial take a fair amount of effort to learn to use fluently, and if someone is already an expert in one, the
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by nessus42 14y ago
Excellent! I love it! Now when is there going to be a version for Safari?
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by nessus42 14y ago
> That is the difference between a hacker then and one today- they didn't bitch and complain about bugs, they just made it work. Since I personally heard Sussman & Ableson bitch about how awful Basic was, I'll have to say that you
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by nessus42 14y ago
It's also interesting to quiz so-called Libertarians on who they think might have said this: "[Our country has become] a pristine aristocracy of the wealthy, vested in large corporations, moneyed by the banks, and ruling over the plundered
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by nessus42 14y ago
I remember writing my own adventure game in Basic, but with only 8KB of RAM on my PET computer, I ran out of space after only 6 rooms. Personally, I don't have a lot of nostalgia for those days. I have no idea how I ever persisted with such
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by nessus42 14y ago
Adam Smith himself was highly critical of corporations. I've read that the idea of granting corporations the rights of immortal people had been bandied about in his time, and his opinion of this was that it would be "barbarism". I can't fin
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by nessus42 14y ago
> What? Ruby and Java aren't even comparable -- not to say one is "better", only to say that they aren't on the same gradient or even the same dimension. This assertion is false. One could, with enough resources, for instance, perform
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by nessus42 14y ago
> Nonsense -- perfect nonsense that the history of science repeatedly falsifies. You are completely incorrect in this and everything else you said above. Well, it is true that science is empirical, but it seem that you have profound
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by nessus42 14y ago
Another way in which MWI is falsifiable is that it would be proven wrong if those Chinese physicists were able to show a speed limit on the spooky action at a distance. MWI says that there is no such speed limit, since there is no spooky ac
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by nessus42 14y ago
You can set up complicated and impractical experiments (for us, but perhaps not for inconceivably advanced aliens) that can experimentally distinguish between MWI and other interpretations of QM. (With the exception of Bohm.) Do you really
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by nessus42 14y ago
MWI certainly does make falsifiable claims. It's just that different interpretations of QM are extremely difficult to experimentally distinguish with any technology we are likely to have in the foreseeable future. The only well-known in
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by nessus42 14y ago
Yes, they shouldn't get their hopes up too much. Since the Many Worlds Interpretation is the simplest one, it is also the most likely one. With MWI there is no spooky action at a distance, and nothing is actually transmitted faster than the
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by nessus42 14y ago
This is just untrue. When presented with a hugely precise and successful theory that has never been demonstrated wrong in even the slightest degree, that is certainly evidence (not proof, but evidence ) towards whatever claims that theory
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by nessus42 14y ago
> Quote: "Weird space-time geometry distortion within general relativity can result in causality violation, but there is no evidence that they are physically possible." And there's no evidence that they are not possible. With no evide
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> Causality is certainly a problem. FTL is impossible in the same way that dividing a number by zero is impossible or taking the square root of a negative number is impossible. This assertion is false. GR, even without FTL, allows for
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by nessus42 14y ago
I have to echo to some degree the opinion of those who say that this essay is presenting a false dichotomy. I went to MIT, but all throughout my grade school education and high school education, I was required to study English, which was la
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by nessus42 14y ago
> I can't believe there are people who haven't learned this elementary lesson now, over 30 years later Why would you let something like this bother you? There are many popular text editors and IDEs in the world, and of all these myria

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