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by nohat 15y ago
Yes, I appreciate a title that conveys the author's actual point.
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by nohat 15y ago
To make the Higgs detectable means making a sufficiently high concentration of energy to make a Higgs particle. That concentration of energy is dependent on the mass of the particle (and hence energy by e=mc^2). The Higgs boson is theorized
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by nohat 15y ago
That seems almost intentionally damning. Why would he put that in writing? This is disappointing because I really like grooveshark's service.
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by nohat 15y ago
The big question is whether it is actually unreasonable for them to have 2.4 or 4.8 million in inventory. As he points out 700k isn't that much - not really enough to compensate for the proposed difference between reasonable and unreasonabl
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by nohat 15y ago
I am not aware of an attempt to scientifically approach software engineering generally (though it seems like the type of thing that would have been tried). I have seen some pretty scientific approaches to performance and efficiency. What do
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by nohat 15y ago
It is interesting how long it has taken for forensics (even just some small aspects) to be approached in a scientific way. It is very disappointing when you consider how many people's lives and livelyhoods depend on forensics. I wonder what
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by nohat 15y ago
That's not what he said.
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by nohat 15y ago
This is a good example of hilarious EULA terms. I imagine start2cloud would win, but I don't blame them for not wanting the enormous hassle.
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by nohat 15y ago
RMS and Jobs seem very similar to me. Both were monomaniacal perfectionists. Both were undiplomatic and unwilling to compromise or cater to unbelievers.
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by nohat 15y ago
Was that the ips display? IPS is used by graphic designers because it has higher contrast and better color fidelity (and viewing angle). Not sure about screen brightness though, and the response time is less.
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by nohat 15y ago
Ah, thanks for pointing that out. The sale price is still is an important point that the article doesn't mention, and the discount was active when the article was published. Maybe I've gotten jaded, but when I see a 'limited time major disc
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by nohat 15y ago
The problem with the article he quotes is that it is wrong about the price of the x220. The x220 with default specs on everything except the bluetooth, webcam, ips screen (much nicer than an air btw), 128 GB ssd, and most expensive wifi (in
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by nohat 15y ago
Hmm, in that case they seem to be making a reasonable move: remove to some extent the overhead of Conde Nast. If that's the primary motivation, then I am impressed that Conde Nast can recognize it's limitations, and give reddit a chance to
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by nohat 15y ago
Sounds like they may be making it more attractive as an aquisition target.
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by nohat 15y ago
Another possible motivation for google suspending the app was that it abused the google plus invitation system. That probably isn't explicitly against the rules of the android market place, but it probably is against the rules or at least i
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by nohat 15y ago
The actual fundraising bribe is a 6/5/4/3 day release schedule for $0/50000/750000/125000 SIAI donation challenge. Not holding chapters hostage or anything, as I was first afraid of.
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by nohat 15y ago
Yes, I mixed them up. Thanks for the correction.
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by nohat 15y ago
Ah, yes I was confusing them - thanks.
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by nohat 15y ago
200 times GNP? Unlikely. Jared Diamond's book by the same name? That's not very specific if you don't know the name of the book. Is it "Iceland’s ninth century agrarian collapse?" Also she uses million where she probably meant billion (the
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by nohat 15y ago
The research determined that single photons could not move faster than the speed of light (sounds obvious, but quantum scale objects don't necessarily behave). This does not disprove time travel, just one hypothetical phenomena that could h
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by nohat 15y ago
...to come out of South Africa.
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by nohat 15y ago
The post seems to be down. Here's the google cache: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:zlciYW...
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by nohat 15y ago
I assume the smaller data rate is for after the data is filtered.
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by nohat 15y ago
1GB over a few months? In text? That's ~500000 pages of text. I doubt that the reporters actually received that much email. There's probably something else draining space that they didn't realize (hence Gate's surprise).
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by nohat 15y ago
It's from Salon, and claims to be a transcript of a speech, so I doubt they could have been easily deceived regarding its authorship.
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by nohat 16y ago
>My answer to his challenge is: Yes, larger populations mean we have more of our greatest resource -- ourselves. Our creativity and ingenuity has developed solutions to our greatest problems, but we need true and accurate information so
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by nohat 16y ago
True, but if they did ship something tainted, then that could be a very large count.
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by nohat 16y ago
Requiring insurance is a significant negative. I have difficulty understanding what liability a competitor in an algorithm design contest could have. Shows how much the medical profession is handtied by excessive liability.
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by nohat 16y ago
So he was going to subpoena their isps? Only the people who used lab computers needed to worry.
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by nohat 16y ago
At least RapLeaf is open enough to show this chart. You can edit your data, and opt out. Far from a perfect system, but let's be practical: nearly every other advertising system is doing exactly the same thing, just without telling you what

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