saturn

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by saturn 15y ago
You're right, I shouldn't have taken the bait. Entirely deserving of the downvotes ...
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by saturn 15y ago
Unless you have some truly spectacular competing theory, with plenty of hard evidence to back it up, there is only one conceivable reason for your attempted nitpicks at evolutionary biology and that is religious conviction. I'm pretty sure
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by saturn 15y ago
> It's a system of symbiosis; the man is making a fucking choice. Ridiculous. A "choice" between working and eating, or not working and not eating, is no choice at all. Hey, how about you choose to give me all your money and live, or yo
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by saturn 15y ago
I gave up arguing with creationists long ago, but on the off chance you actually do want to improve your understanding: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macroevolution#Misuse
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by saturn 15y ago
Your example, though "dumbed down", makes no sense to me at all. What is a pet? It's a subordinate part of a larger whole. I would submit that the vast majority of men meet this description, where society is the larger group. Society demand
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by saturn 15y ago
A meaningless platitude.
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by saturn 15y ago
sliverstorm's point is valuable and it is annoying to see it ignored. Dogs and other pets routinely overcome instinct to win favour by their human masters. And what are humans but pets of society? It pisses me off when people don't conced
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by saturn 15y ago
Attacking Dawkins (of whom I am not even a reader) by citing some other guy's fall into religion, depression, and eventual suicide is not only tasteless but utterly irrelevant. > The problem with this essay is that is paints us as slave
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by saturn 15y ago
If you have to write this, it means your previous comment needs editing. No-one "labor[s] under the impression that [you] don't know how taxes work", they simply dismiss your comment, or downvote it, as someone who doesn't know what they ar
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by saturn 15y ago
nice, except there's more than 365 days in a year : ) You have: 3 lightyears / 365.25 / 24 / 60 / 60 / 1000 You want: miles * 558.83525 / 0.0017894361
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by saturn 15y ago
That was unwarranted. IMO it's good to have reminders of what the real world is like outside of our enlightened little tech bubble. I know that whenever I read something like this it gets me thinking about what I could do to help solve the
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by saturn 15y ago
What do you mean by "well-dressed"? A suit? Sports jacket, shirt and slacks? Polo shirt and jeans? I think I am pretty familiar with what it means to be badly dressed, but well dressed such that it might induce the opening of doors is hard
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by saturn 15y ago
> programming is a great way to have the zest for life sucked straight out of you If that's what you really think then maybe you should go become an ESL teacher in Japan, or at least try a new position that may fit you better. I find
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by saturn 15y ago
Last party I went to there were literally no non-techies present. That kind of fact would definitely have gotten you some points. Good or bad? I'm not sure. At least you know some non-techies. In my social circle, being a windows user marks
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by saturn 15y ago
> sounds like a Culture handgun Which springs from memory matter disguised as a false tooth!
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by saturn 15y ago
Based on the rest of the post, I wouldn't want to be anywhere on the ship - in fact I'd like to be quite some distance away. Trillion megaton nuclear device equivalent? Riiight (requisitions shuttle)
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by saturn 15y ago
Wish I could vote for this to be in 1.9.3 as easily as I can vote for it on HN.
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by saturn 15y ago
Nice work. And there's other implementations too on the project web page: https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/dev/spdy . Seems all google sites are using SPDY for ssl now; that is evidently the lowest hanging fruit for speed gains. You
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by saturn 15y ago
> Really? Gawker has not had web analytics for the last two months, after a major redesign? That is hard to believe. That also struck me as highly doubtful. Many people here work on big web apps; the idea that something as critical as a
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by saturn 16y ago
> There is less air friction if your tunnel is maintained at vacuum. Indeed there is zero! Realistically speaking of course, a hard vacuum will be difficult. Even a 0.10 atmosphere would be a huge improvement. Or the intriguing possibil
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by saturn 16y ago
Well, once the thing was built you'd expect that particular task to be quite easy. An airtight tunnel surrounded by kilometres of rock - not much air down there in the first place, and you'd just need some effective airlocks on the ends. No
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by saturn 16y ago
The whole problem is friction. Give me the robots to build an evacuated tunnel from Australia to the US with a maglev train in it and I'll show you what "speed" means.
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by saturn 16y ago
Well I think you're misjudging the character of these guys. Corporate execs are characterised by an intense self-interest and aversion to anything that will impact them personally. Decisions are not about what is right, they're about what m
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by saturn 16y ago
Well, I disagree. I think that while in a grey area ethically it brings the question home in a very personal way; that's why they're doing it. Corporate execs are humans who have to come home to their wife and kids like anyone else. Perhaps
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by saturn 16y ago
> This is a truly disgusting suggestion. Yeah I know. That's why I tried to qualify it. But speaking honestly, would it work? Yeah. > become far, far more strident against you it's not me OK? I was just trying to dispassionately spe
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by saturn 16y ago
> Corporate executives don't scare easily Hm, I deal/have dealt regularly with a number of HNWI in executive roles and I reckon they'd scare easily enough. Acting all tough in the conference room is one thing, getting phone calls at hom
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by saturn 16y ago
It is a ridiculous analogy anyway. Fukushima failed, yes, but only after a magnitude 9 earthquake, followed by a devastating tsunami, overwhelmed its myriad safety systems. I don't know how any right-minded person could ever form the impres
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by saturn 16y ago
I'm not doubting your story but maybe it's to do with intentions? A slimy salesperson who fakes warmth and friendliness in an attempt to ingratiate himself would rub me up the wrong way as well, but when done sincerely I really appreciate i
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by saturn 16y ago
Money quote: > We all know that Mechanical Turk challenges the whole “Junk-in, Junk-out” dilemma and makes it more like “Always junk-out, regardless of the input process” Couldn't be more true IMO, mturk is basically useless except for
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by saturn 16y ago
Only 70%? In my social circle it would be 100%, and has been for years. Ironically I still spend more on media than anyone else I know, piracy or no ..

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