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by sdurkin 18y ago
I'm not sure where the chaos part comes in. Aren't the functions of the logic gates determined by control signals? Very cool though. Any processor that can reconfigure itself on the fly is probably going to be very useful.
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by sdurkin 18y ago
Don't feed the trolls. Flagged.
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by sdurkin 18y ago
The reason politicians worry so much about using email is accountability. They use the phone so the lawyers can't prove anything. There needs to be some sort of legal exception made for email. It shouldn't carry the same weight as regular c
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by sdurkin 18y ago
There are virtually no totally original ideas. Its one of the reasons for the "ideas are worthless" mantra around here. Execution is the key. You will never think of something totally unique. Just do it first, better, or cheaper.
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by sdurkin 18y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=160218 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=340482 I'm going to do this every time one of these absurd stories is posted.
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by sdurkin 18y ago
The best reason to vote is not that your vote will change the election, its that the process of voting will change you. It causes you to consider the problems in your society and be aware of proposed solutions. Sounding your voice is just a
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by sdurkin 18y ago
Congrats, guys. Your product is excellent.
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by sdurkin 18y ago
We ought to equip all students with the basic level of education necessary to know about The Choice (work hard or clean toilets), and let them buy, beg, borrow, or steal the rest.
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by sdurkin 18y ago
I find it interesting that the best model we have for how the brain operates is a Bayesian inference engine, but most people can't even apply proper Bayesian reasoning.
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by sdurkin 18y ago
Outdated site scrape. Flagged.
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by sdurkin 18y ago
You've missed the best part: They now have a million email addresses.
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by sdurkin 18y ago
...What is this? It's illogical, offers no evidence to support its thesis, and is more pretentious than anything I've read in a long time.
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by sdurkin 18y ago
Flawed tests.
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by sdurkin 18y ago
I don't understand the "creature of Congress" slight. China and India both have government-controlled space programs, and they use far less subcontracting than we do.
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by sdurkin 18y ago
If NASA were allowed to keep the profits from its patents, it would more than pay for itself. Space exploration is a good investment, and I hope we start turning our eyes upward again.
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by sdurkin 18y ago
Understandable, but I don't want to deprive you of your portrait keyboard, I just want the option to use landscape. More choice > less choice.
167.
by sdurkin 18y ago
I'm more interested in microblogging as a battlefield awareness tool. Anyone know if someone's working on it?
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by sdurkin 18y ago
WSJ makes decent money from paid online subscriptions.
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by sdurkin 18y ago
Its unfathomable that they haven't added the landscape keyboard for email and SMS. IMHO, every default application ought to operate in both portrait and landscape.
170.
by sdurkin 18y ago
Alright, time to strap on some plums. Dump the print division entirely, get rid of registration for the front page articles, and start charging for premium content.
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by sdurkin 18y ago
Another old people complain about young people story. Its bull. Never in my life have I had the luxury of feeling entitled, and my parents are well off. Its older than Christ, "Times change and men decay." Or at least thats what the old pe
172.
by sdurkin 18y ago
No, no, no. I was going of the headline, which is misleading.
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by sdurkin 18y ago
Catholic Church?
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by sdurkin 18y ago
Oh, I love Prof. Krugman. Saw him at his press conference yesterday, and hoping to congratulate him today.
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by sdurkin 18y ago
Quants had almost nothing to do with this crisis. The problem wasn't that the computers knew too much, it was that they knew too little. They were fed best-case-scenario risk analyses. Of course the loans looked good if you assumed the hous
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by sdurkin 18y ago
Build nuclear power plants, and fund fusion research. Permanently end our addiction to oil.
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by sdurkin 18y ago
Jesus, guys, hire a design firm. This thing looks literally painful to use.
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by sdurkin 18y ago
Equally stupid. People can buy products for whatever reason they want. Why is beauty any less of a valid criterion than any other? I must have been born without the desire to dictate to people why they should want things.
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by sdurkin 18y ago
Tradeoffs. Pretty has costs, in one form or another, and each of these firms takes these costs into account. The original walkman was ugly as sin, but it was cheap and reliable. Had it been beautiful, it would have been even better, but it
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by sdurkin 18y ago
Google is pretty, downright beautiful in fact. Notice I said that pretty is good, but not the only good. Myspace and Craigslist 'can't' make beautiful products, Myspace because that would detract from user personalization, and Craigslist be

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