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by rflrob 18y ago
More comments here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=299061
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by rflrob 18y ago
In this case, it would destroy that myth by saying that expensive diesel cars are also a way to get fuel efficiency. An imported version of their car would cost slightly more than a Prius (arguably the iconic hybrid) in direct outlays.
813.
by rflrob 18y ago
I agree... As anecdotal evidence, there's the fact that "to google" is becoming a more and more common verb, while "to live search" isn't.
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by rflrob 18y ago
There's lots of other speculation about why PC gaming is on the way out. Shamus Young ( http://shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/ ) generally has the view that PC gaming was killed by a) Excessive focus on graphics (which he has termed "blin
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by rflrob 18y ago
Why do you want a 454? I mean, as awesome as it would be to know your own genetic code, it would be of no practical use to you, even if you had a full featured tool to explore it. And don't even get me started on personal epigenome or miRNA
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by rflrob 18y ago
After my (university) freshman physics class, we were all presented with a copy of Einstein's original papers on Brownian Motion. It's incredible how much he says things to the effect of, "well, I think this effect is the same thing that p
817.
by rflrob 18y ago
I don't know that it's intended to be advertising, per se . If anything, maybe a web-design tip. That said, it's cool, but it's not uber-cool . The main idea seems to be that the live map is really awesome, but to me, it just looks lik
818.
by rflrob 18y ago
Yesterday I did, quite fast, some nice figures using, basically, grep, awk and gnuplot, and a little bit of dc to do some calculations. But it is true that this figure could have been done with python, IDL or anything else. True that you
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by rflrob 18y ago
"invest time and money" is important because it's the behavior that the patent system is looking to reward. Otherwise, for the vast majority of things that are patented, people might just say, "eh, why should I research it? If I do, som
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by rflrob 18y ago
This article seems to suffer from even more than the usual level of "The author has no clue about the science" Syndrome, especially the bits about gravitational lensing. Now, I thought that galaxies were so sparse that most of the interacti
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Another Voice Warns of an Innovation Slowdown (nytimes.com)
3 points by rflrob 18y ago|1 comments
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by rflrob 18y ago
I'd be curious to see how they did this. Some of the early ones could be somebody spending way too much time in Illustrator, but by time they get to the impossible ferns and mushrooms, you know they're using some programming.
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by rflrob 18y ago
Why would Lenovo ask for an NDA? Are they trying to avoid retribution from Microsoft? Is it their attempt to minimize the profile of people who ask for Windows Tax refunds? The first sounds paranoid, so I suppose it's probably the second