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by pj 17y ago
Yeah, I used my cdrom drive on my macbook pro about 3 times. Now I need it and it's broken. But I have .ISO's and I can just mount those as a drive, so really the drives are obsolete already. I'd rather see that space dedicated to horsepow
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by pj 17y ago
That's right. They did an experiment. Control group rats were allowed to sleep. Test group were on a wheel that would start spinning of the rat fell asleep. It would crash them into a wall that would wake them up. After 40 days, the contro
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by pj 17y ago
It could be impossible to build autonomous machine intelligence. Depending on how you definie intelligence. Perhaps the intelligence of machines is a tangent curve approaching human intelligence. It is something in the future. We don't
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by pj 17y ago
It feels cultish, but it's not. It's the real deal. It's the real deal because there will come a time in the future when computers are "smarter" than people. Computer analytical skills will progress faster than human analytical skills.
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by pj 17y ago
Ooohh... It just dawned on me right now, why all the higher education hatin lately. Lots of young kids just graduated from college and they can't get jobs, so they're thinking, "Aw crap... I just went $100,000 in debt and I can't get a job.
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by pj 17y ago
Those who accomplish the most fail the most as well. Travel around the world and people love to mock the crappy movies that come out of America. They say with disgust, "America makes terrible movies." I say, "America makes the most movie
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by pj 17y ago
Oh yeah, I absolutely think that there is room for alternative learning. I think alternative learning is much better than the mainstream stuff most kids get. My personal bias, I came from a small rural community where education wasn't real
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by pj 17y ago
Maybe it took him dancing to all those other songs to get his first follower... Surely he had been noticed by many at the festival before he was unstoppable.
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by pj 17y ago
I'd never heard this song. I can't help but wonder if the lyrics were part of the motivation behind the followers. The guy himself was "unstoppable" and he had to be unstoppable! Full song, better quality: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
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by pj 17y ago
there was a video on the news the other day that some kids with cell phones had recorded of this one kid beating the crap out of another kid and it was the kid getting beat up who was punished by the school.
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by pj 17y ago
I can't disagree with you more. I have spent time around other parents' children. Many of the kids are better behaved than their parents. Many of them are dismayed that the world treats them poorly because of their parents' bad behavior.
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by pj 17y ago
There's been a lot of hating on higher education around here lately, so I'll take the contrarian position. Before I get started, I will say that higher education costs way too much. Our students should not be $100,000 in debt when they
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by pj 17y ago
Children come into this world innocent. They don't know what to admire or even what inspiration is. If our society valued education and encouraged reading books and learning and building the mind, then that's what children would do. More t
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by pj 17y ago
In all fields, there are soloists and there are teams. There are team sports and individual sports. Michael Phelps is a soloist. S. Wolfram is a soloist... he has a backup band though...
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by pj 17y ago
Linux was a copy of Minux.
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by pj 17y ago
I'm using the .net HTTP libraries. Not a specific feed reader, rather I'm pulling in the XML and parsing it out. Here's a thread from somewhere else about the issue. http://channel9.msdn.com/forums/TechOff/257803-HttpWebReques... When I a
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Ask HN: Bug in Hacker News ResponseStatusLine
3 points by pj 17y ago|6 comments
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by pj 17y ago
It doesn't matter which entity signs the check, it all comes from the tax payers. If the feds weren't paying for the roads, the municipalities would. It's all the same.
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by pj 17y ago
perhaps the federal government should fund commercial endeavors in space like they fund commercial endeavors in sports. Lots of people would pay to go to space if they could afford it. Make it affordable.
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by pj 17y ago
Wow... I'd never heard of it. It's like nothing ever changes... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bread_and_circuses Of course we have heard of the comparison between gladiators and football players, but I never realized people back then wer
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by pj 17y ago
don't forget velcro and memory foam
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by pj 17y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manifest_Destiny In the old days, it was the quest to expand the U.S. from the atlantic to the pacific, but the pacific wasn't quite far enough. Now we must expand into the farthest reaches of space.
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by pj 17y ago
According to The Brookings Institution, "a new sports facility has an extremely small (perhaps even negative) effect on overall economic activity and employment. No recent facility appears to have earned anything approaching a reasonable r
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by pj 17y ago
I think the goal would be to find a way to bring similar joy to millions that has a lasting positive effect, rather than two hours of entertainment. I'm not denying that millions are entertained by sports, but it isn't "work" in the sense t
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by pj 17y ago
I noticed that too a while back.
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Tickled apes yield laughter clue(news.bbc.co.uk)
1 points by pj 17y ago|0 comments
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by pj 17y ago
it's the same as what happened as reported here, same image as well http://www.joycebabu.com/blog/google-being-reported-as-fraud...
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by pj 17y ago
I go to sleep between 1 to 2AM and get to my computer about 10-10:30AM. But I usually lay in bed for a little while as I regain consciousness.
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by pj 17y ago
Wow, when I click this link I get opera:fraud-warning: The page you are trying to open has been reported as fraudulent. It will likely attempt to trick you into sharing personal or financial information. Opera Software strongly discourages
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by pj 17y ago
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