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901.
by powera 16y ago
It's "don't be evil", not "do no evil". Also, I hate to be mean, but evidence and logical argument are completely absent from the blog post.
902.
by powera 16y ago
The solstice is unremarkable, or the coincidence is? I would think the shortest day of the year is relatively noteworthy to other species, even if they can't detect the specific date; certainly more interesting than a lunar eclipse (I'd as
903.
by powera 16y ago
I seem to recall reading that at least in Atlantic City, casinos are required to have an entirely separate set (or maybe even 2 other sets) of high-value checks, that can be swapped in case of suspected counterfeiting. I would assume that
904.
by powera 16y ago
"Labour used to be much cheaper." - with 10% unemployment in the US (that's higher if you use more accurate measures), I'm not quite sure why the reason for this would be a lack of available labor.
905.
by powera 16y ago
"Learnings"? Seriously? And the summary of the points seems to be "Work all the time and send lots of spam". And apparently foursquare cost millions of dollars to start.
906.
by powera 16y ago
Considering that most of these studies are by people with an interest in getting a certain result, it's likely experimental errors/not publishing some results will bias the published numbers in a certain direction. The scientific method has
907.
by powera 16y ago
I was giving my neighbors tech support for their computer when I was 2 and a half. Is that because of all the pre-natal time I spend in front of an Apple IIe? Just because this guy doesn't think he has a talent doesn't mean that nobody doe
908.
by powera 16y ago
I think Heroku's pricing contains both the RAM and CPU cost for the instances. The Google price only includes the RAM cost of the servers, the CPU is still charged per request.
909.
by powera 16y ago
A few of these points are just ridiculous: 1) If you want "SQL and Joins", use SQL. This is like complaining that you can't play Halo on Linux. 1A) There isn't full text search. If you need full text search, use a system with full text se
910.
by powera 16y ago
Well, with their diet requirements that's not really a huge surprise. They seem ridiculously overconstrained. "The ideal diet requires meeting four of five key components based on a 2,000-calories-a-day meal plan: 4 1/2 cups of fruits and
911.
by powera 16y ago
Facebook has never been good at explaining their products. Remember "Once every 100 years media changes"? That doesn't mean their products don't work. I've never had the impression that Facebook was overflowing with incredible technical
912.
by powera 16y ago
Does this really matter? Has anyone waited 7 years to listen to the Beatles and not, you know, used a CD to add it to iTunes?
913.
by powera 16y ago
I guess the solution is more to combat computational finance, but if there is time for prices everywhere to propagate between trades, the opportunities for geographical arbitrage diminish greatly. I think it's a bug in the system that this
914.
by powera 16y ago
How is it less efficient? What knowledge is conveyed in 10 seconds?
915.
by powera 16y ago
IMO, the obvious solution to this madness is to quantize stock trades; i.e. to only allow stock prices to change once every 10 seconds. As long as transactions weren't announced until the end of the period, there wouldn't be any benefit fro
916.
by powera 16y ago
I thought Harvard professors were above trolling in paper titles.
917.
by powera 16y ago
I thought of it as more of a parody, almost; things that were major plot points only because they were hidden from the reader are presented up front (Harry's invisibility cloak being special, or the time turner, or the DADA instructor curse
918.
by powera 16y ago
I think the most important point that the article leaves out is that 99% of people don't want to put in those 10000 hours anyhow. Most people can get really good at most things if they really want it enough. That said, it's ridiculous to s
919.
by powera 16y ago
It's amazing how the "deliberate ambiguity" policy that seems to surround most border disputes breaks down when there are online maps that most people tend to accept. Even saying areas are disputed tends to cause outrage.
920.
by powera 16y ago
I'm sorry, two "scientific" studies in 17 years don't make prior expectation.
921.
by powera 16y ago
It's ridiculous that such an article could get published in the first place, though it seems the magazine is "new-age". They admit that all the evidence doesn't support the point they are arguing for: "But the long history of parapsycholog
922.
by powera 16y ago
From a quick test, the search engine is pretty bland and unexciting for normal queries, but it motivates you to make different types of queries, where it does have interesting results. For instance, just searching for "china" isn't anything