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by ramchip 15y ago
He's talking about raw ore, and you're citing articles about concentrated/refined/treated metals and construction lumber.
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by ramchip 15y ago
It's called radiation hardening, there's many methods. Here's a pretty thorough paper about those used for the LHC detector: http://www-physics.lbl.gov/~spieler/radiation_effects/rad_tu... [PDF] Wiki link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ra
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by ramchip 15y ago
Exactly; just like let 2+2=5 in 2+2 amusingly returns 5.
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by ramchip 15y ago
Why is there a need for a new technological solution to this? If I want to tell a few people something secret, I'll send them an email, or, you know, talk to them. I don't see where the problem/opportunity is. There may be one situation in
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by ramchip 15y ago
I have no opinion regarding your post itself, but I'd like to point out that a comedy series is not evidence of anything. http://lesswrong.com/lw/k9/the_logical_fallacy_of_generaliza...
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by ramchip 15y ago
I've used Qwt for decent results. It may be very heavy if you're not already using Qt, though, and the way its 2D plot is implemented makes it unusable if you need to update your data many times per second (I eventually just put my data in
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by ramchip 15y ago
Same thing here (as a non-mobile Opera user). But it's understandable for such a new site.
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by ramchip 15y ago
"To conform to US Government space technology export regulations, SpaceX hires only US citizens and US Permanent Residents." Too bad...
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by ramchip 15y ago
But isn't utility pleasure? If reading a novel gives you pleasure, then you derive utility from it. Same thing for playing cards. Investing into making yourself a better person is simply investing in future utility, ie. extra pleasure that
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by ramchip 15y ago
> It appears they weren't able to design their site to scale quickly under high load. Or just that they did not optimize for that.
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by ramchip 15y ago
I know about hellbanning -- I've actually complained about this before: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1256772 But the post was killed...
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by ramchip 15y ago
Your analogy doesn't work because "mathematician" is a research position. You should compare mathematicians to computer scientists, not programmers. You could make the same analogy and prove any side of the debate depending on the job you c
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by ramchip 15y ago
I'm not an economist, but I think the top answer makes plenty of sense. Price discrimination is an important concept for many products: cinemas, bus/train tickets, computers... Instead of just proposing theories with nothing backing them up
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by ramchip 15y ago
Oelewapperke posted a long and detailed reply to this post, and yet it will go ignored because all his posts are automatically killed without him being aware of it. His posts may not be perfect, but I still find this kind of false positives
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by ramchip 15y ago
According to the OP, "You could learn the entire language, IDE, library, and debugger in a weekend." This implies that the manual covers a lot more ground than The C Programming Language , which (AFAIK) doesn't say anything about Emacs, GD
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by ramchip 15y ago
Aren't almost all rich people rich in stocks? Take the richest billionaires: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forbes_list_of_billionaires . All these people are rich through owning companies; they don't have loads of actual currency, they jus
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by ramchip 15y ago
He said a "one-off" project. Not all projects have such huge maintenance costs.
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by ramchip 15y ago
What if the guy that makes 10% on them doesn't earn more because his drives are made to last longer and he provides better working condition in his factories? Not saying that Samsung is like that, but there are plenty of reason beyond volum
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The Long Road To 64 Bits [pdf](eng.auburn.edu)
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by ramchip 15y ago
Your quote is here: http://www.eng.auburn.edu/~agrawvd/COURSE/READING/ARCH/road_... Although not without subtle problems, the hardware was generally straightforward, and not that expensive—the first commercial 64-bit micro’s 64-bit data
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by ramchip 15y ago
Where I come from in Canada, people make day trips of over two hours and a half each way to go to the shopping mall... heck, my commuting was two hours each way in Montreal, every day. But I do admit that if I were living in eg. Napoli, I w
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by ramchip 15y ago
Borland Builder? I didn't know that still existed...
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by ramchip 15y ago
That's exactly what happens at some places, from what I've heard. In some companies (the more commission-oriented ones) employees even own their "contact list" of candidates.
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by ramchip 15y ago
I'm not sure I can agree. Sometimes there is an emphasis on acquisition, but companies that sound overvalued or negative to society tend to be disliked on HN as well. Groupon, for instance, gets flak in about every thread that mentions it.
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by ramchip 15y ago
Planned economy has been attempted in several countries. Their death record isn't exactly shining.
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by ramchip 15y ago
I think we all realize it's a terrible thing, but repeating how sad it is will get us nowhere. Understanding what caused it and how it works, on the other hand, can help us prevent further people from starving. I'm personally happy that HN
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by ramchip 15y ago
I understand what you mean, but the problem is that the terminology has a precisely defined meaning, and if you ignore the convention you will be misunderstood. It would be like saying that a certain O(log n) algorithm has an exponential co
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by ramchip 15y ago
It's next to Nakameguro station.
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by ramchip 15y ago
I don't think you can call that an ad hominem attack. For one, he's not talking about the actual author of the quote (the writer), and for two... well, it's just not an attack at all. I find it very relevant that a person who does all these
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by ramchip 15y ago
I'd expect it to be more like a logarithmic increase than an exponential one. The asymptote is the point where you reach perfect integration or fine tuning of the algorithm, at which point extra feedback stops being useful. Or perhaps I'm j

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