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by paradoxparalax 8y ago
that's saddening. I remember when there was no Internet, and you never hear about it will possibly exist (where I was back then) and then when it some day became something I just hear about and had the dream to use someday and see work
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by paradoxparalax 8y ago
What can make us less sad is that quality of people who notes the Professor is also important, not only quantity. There was a fun story I can't find here on HN right now (Algolia is pretty good to search now , but Im out of coffee), O
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by paradoxparalax 8y ago
"My understanding is that it's possible (albeit staggeringly unlikely) for any possible structure, including living beings, to spontaneously form via quantum fluctuation, and given infinite time and space every possible structure
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by paradoxparalax 8y ago
Wow, now That is some complex sounding stuff!!! Wikipedia say's it's from a Man called David Kellogg Lewis (September 28, 1941 – October 14, 2001); an American philosopher, so...From Plato and Socrates until you get to 2001 there
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by paradoxparalax 8y ago
Eureka!!! Thank You nyc111, you are the Genius One! what you said is obviously true, but in our Mental Experiment we assume priorly that we are talking about a imagined perfectly Random 50/50 % chances of Heads or Tails. Reality is mor
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by paradoxparalax 8y ago
I had never thought He would reach the Tortoise, even when I was a kid and heard this Zenon's Paradox for the first time. But that is interesting and funny and you made me smile.
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by paradoxparalax 8y ago
Yes, thats what I thought...but also the chances of getting a head in 10 shots is bigger then getting a head in 2 shots, otherwise playing only once in your life at lottery would be the same as playing everyday, but the financial cost is me
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by paradoxparalax 8y ago
Yes , sure, thanks for adding this point too. It will be infinite only inside the limitations that were set when formulating the problem. It can not extrapolate out of the limitations only because something inside it is infinite. But this I
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by paradoxparalax 8y ago
Good catch. I have never thought of this. Thanks. the "common misconception" you mention is common probably because it is normally one's first intuition. So, if I understand well, (sorry to say that but the number 3 analogy d
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by paradoxparalax 8y ago
The worst would be a small leak of CO (not CO2) , even in very small quantities, daily miligrams of CO coming from a leaky(small leak) Gas burning heating system. This will most probably get students scores down, among other extremmely ba
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by paradoxparalax 8y ago
Move out of Beijing right now. Or out of Hebei province, or faraway from North Henan Province. Just move as sson as possible to a place with good air. It does't not worth the money to live in Beijing, no matter how rich you can get the
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by paradoxparalax 8y ago
Don't know if above is getting downvoted by the the rightists or by the leftists here, what is fun. But probably getting d.v. because of being too caustic, too snarky and too ironic, what is not fun and I confess I deserve. And, most i
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by paradoxparalax 8y ago
That depends if are an an Ianomami[1] born in Brazil or an Inuit[2] born in Denmark. 1- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yanomami 2- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inuit : There is a risk, not for th
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by paradoxparalax 8y ago
Could see the windows from outside the building, probably, without needing to wake the players up, if that was his wish at a certain point of the night.
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by paradoxparalax 8y ago
"Men's sperm counts have gone down by half in the last 30 years in industrialized countries" The bad is that this probably extends to other health problems too, besides sperm count. Otherwise, as this fun comic/charge[1]
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by paradoxparalax 8y ago
There was an NBA coach who use to obligate his players to sleep with at list some inches/centimeters of air access in their windows hotel rooms the night before playing an important game/match. Don't remember what Team.
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by paradoxparalax 8y ago
I am a fan of giving new nicknames to things when I do any noticeable, even collateral, in extremely early stage, improving. Financially wise, must be a good thing to do, too, but it is not the main point. The main point is Not that I sound
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by paradoxparalax 8y ago
Finally, The Future. I wondered that the Future was going to start in Iceland. Still long way, Probably not starting in our lifetime. But is a hope. Humans like to abuse nice things, but I still have hope, as WuZeTian pointed, history is lo
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by paradoxparalax 8y ago
That he was said or he said or someone said that because he could be Hindu(!) It has surely nothing to do with not being an Atheist. You speak like you were his good friend. Have you read all ""his"" writings? : (!) &qu
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by paradoxparalax 8y ago
Wow! I don't know how to start to thank you for this, I am as happy as a child : D sincerely, honestly, Thank you. Whooa, I see she was born in 1868, and thought: How? I really had the perception that she was a contemporary of our life
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by paradoxparalax 8y ago
Is a pity that we have lost "his" library by human stupidity. There could have been a lot more to know about the state-of-art of astrography at his time.
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by paradoxparalax 8y ago
Those fairy tales, I would bet that , if let's say for example Jesus, existed in reality as a person(not clear) He maybe didn't speak any of those fairy tales. They are inventions made by distorting and contorting what was originn
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by paradoxparalax 8y ago
Carl Sagan was a Master at detecting malicious manure. Should be read with maximum attention. Specially the juicy chapter: "the art of detecting baloney" or something like this.
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by paradoxparalax 8y ago
I make a daily effort to point out to elderly people in my family to be extremely aware of the electronic "fishing" for LandMoonDeniers, using "fishing hook/bait" headlines mixed in the middle of "serious/
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by paradoxparalax 8y ago
I use to be taught this game with different kinds/colors of rice/porridge beans, by my mother's youngest sister, that year's later I came to find was actually my older sister. It was similar to what later I came to disc
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by paradoxparalax 8y ago
So what explains that the ratio has absurdly dropped after the Police crackdown? Manufacturing is still going on here, actually, manufacturing there is growing stronger as ever, with the workforce Surplus, now, salaries of factory girl work
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by paradoxparalax 8y ago
I saw by the other comments this is not related to wechat pay. wechat pay have been a hassle to use for at foreigner fields for some years now. Life without wechat in China is ok, but wechatPay helps a lot. In Zhejiang province and other in
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by paradoxparalax 8y ago
If the milk is good,almost probably good milk can find in Australia,, if that is your wish ate certain point, you can heat it until is hard(it kind of start to feel burn), to stay more than 10 seconds or around with finger immerse in milk.
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by paradoxparalax 8y ago
I see, sorry for that, Is too late to edit now, but I will keep that in mind. I think you mean that the lack of line breaks is not to make the comment shorter in vertical space. More line breaks, or at least one single line break, please, I
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by paradoxparalax 8y ago
Didn't succeed in making the comment take a shorter vertical space. You don't want to see me using the return key.

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