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The country breeding a generation of chess whizz kids(bbc.co.uk)
4 points by sjcsjc 9y ago|2 comments
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by sjcsjc 9y ago
Wow, good point. OK, I've pondered this for a few minutes now so as not to respond without thinking. I genuinely do find it amazing that intelligent people believe Trump is president because of the Russians, which I think is what the o
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by sjcsjc 9y ago
"the man that Russia snuck in to the White House" I find it astonishing that intelligent people actually believe this.
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by sjcsjc 9y ago
and its not it's.
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The First Few Milliseconds of an HTTPS Connection(moserware.com)
3 points by sjcsjc 9y ago|2 comments
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The Difference Between URLs and URIs(danielmiessler.com)
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by sjcsjc 9y ago
How can you have a) all the free time in the world and b) a job you hate?
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by sjcsjc 9y ago
"Stem cells are the Gary Oldman of cell types." Great analogy. I recall watching a film a few years ago with Gary Oldman in it, and not realising until the credits that it was him. Can't remember which one, unfortunately, pro
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10,000 steps a day: Might there be something better?(bbc.co.uk)
59 points by sjcsjc 9y ago|66 comments
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Silicon Valley's quest to beat ageing(bbc.co.uk)
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by sjcsjc 9y ago
"But Graham's number is different. I can't tell you how many digits it has. I also can't tell you how many digits its number of digits has, or how many digits the number of digits of its number of digits has. They'r
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Graham's Number Is Too Big to Tell How Big It Is(blogs.scientificamerican.com)
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by sjcsjc 9y ago
Thanks. Obviously I didn't read the Wikipedia entry properly. I must say I'm surprised. I had no idea that these terms were still equivocal.
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by sjcsjc 9y ago
Aside from my mother, who died 18 years ago, I know no-one else who uses billion meaning 10^12 (long scale, as you point out). I grew up, and still live, in the UK. I'd be very interested to know if anyone here uses long scale, or know
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One cigarette a day 'increases heart disease and stroke risk'(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by sjcsjc 9y ago|1 comments
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No salary for Elon Musk but a $7bn payout if Tesla reaches $650bn valuation(telegraph.co.uk)
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2018 foreign profit repatriation is a $592Bn taxpayer ripoff(cringely.com)
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by sjcsjc 9y ago
Fair enough. Thanks for clarifying.
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by sjcsjc 9y ago
What a strange reply. Assuming it's in good faith, what makes you think his reply was trolling?
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by sjcsjc 9y ago
What we need is a ... a middle-aged billionaire angel investor who is thinking clearly about his own destiny a decade or two down the road. I gather HN harbours some of them.
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Ambitious New Anti-Aging Trial in Humans(joshmitteldorf.scienceblog.com)
5 points by sjcsjc 9y ago|3 comments
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10 People Who Switched Careers After 50 (and Thrived)(mentalfloss.com)
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by sjcsjc 9y ago
"maybe people working on nuclear power need to change the name" Renaming things with bad public images is a popular trick. Windscale > Sellafield Blackwater > Xe Services > Academi Philip Morris > Altria
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Trial of a blood test that detects eight common forms of cancer(bbc.co.uk)
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Virginia city invests $500K in Bitcoin ‘mining’ facility(washingtonpost.com)
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Methionine restriction significantly inhibits prostate cancer growth(cancerres.aacrjournals.org)
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by sjcsjc 9y ago
I once saw this headline on the screen on the trading floor of a bank I was working at. "Copper prices fall on fears copper prices too high".
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by sjcsjc 9y ago
Brilliant. I played that as a kid and I remember wondering why on earth those two people were on the box cover.
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The speech that cost nearly a billion dollars(todayifoundout.com)
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Chelsea Manning to run for Senate(bbc.co.uk)
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