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   by nohat 16y ago

   What's unethical? Depends quite a bit on your definition of ethics, even if ground rules like 'killing or hurting people is a bad thing' is agreed upon. The problem is one of balancing the risk and reward. The acceptable ratio varies from p
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   by nohat 16y ago

   It's amazing to watch the increasing habitability of newly discovered extra-solar planets. Remember a few years ago when a super jovian was an exciting discovery? Sure it was an easy assumption: planets ought to be common, if our system had
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   by nohat 16y ago

   I have heard the claim that the "hockey stick" is an artifact of bad methodology repeated a lot, but this is the first time I've seen the actual explanation. I am curious. I feel like the climate scientists who have been defending Mann and
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   by nohat 16y ago

   There is a specific exception to this in the gpl. Actually I'm pretty sure he's even being too lax in his explanation of what gpl requires. If you distribute the theme (or any gpl connected code) you must make the source available, and anyo
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   by nohat 17y ago

   That doesn't really matter. the important thing is the information from others, which the people on hacker news are likely to be good at gathering. Of course more fun might be preventing everyone else from getting it...