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by ta12121 14y ago
You had me until fusion. As nice as fusion is on paper, there is so much cheap coal in the ground that it is economically unfeasible.
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by ta12121 14y ago
Doesn't every other person say doing a startup is a 24/7 commitment? It's hard to quit the refined-carbohydrate yo-yo in the middle of that.
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by ta12121 14y ago
Regarding the title, I assure you that the poor and the tired have a harder time immigrating to the U.S. than any entrepreneur.
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by ta12121 14y ago
Perhaps, but that does not disprove the quoted claim.
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by ta12121 14y ago
I think statistics say that you are much more likely to be killed by a gun if you have a gun Statistics from gun-control advocates, for what it's worth.
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by ta12121 14y ago
thanks!
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by ta12121 14y ago
Can you please please please put a link to your actual website on this blog? I don't want to have to edit the URL. I really don't.
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by ta12121 14y ago
Why should the Board give them rates lower than what they can get by freely negotiating with the copyright holders? The answer is in your own post: The purpose of the compulsory licensing scheme is the public goo
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by ta12121 14y ago
Maybe, but: 1. That would make them a record label, rather than a radio station 2. Most people, myself included, do want to hear established artists.
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by ta12121 14y ago
The military is a solution in search of problem? Seriously? Not 100%, but to an extent it is. The US has this giant military that's way bigger than needed just for self-defense. It's going to want to do things, whether those thi
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by ta12121 14y ago
I missed the part where you brought the argument back to the military. Yes, it makes sense for the military, as I acknowledged in my original post. The Parent, however was claiming that electric cars for general use are made moot by this
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by ta12121 14y ago
I will never understand why random articles describing well documented commonplace things make it to the front page.
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by ta12121 14y ago
The amount of energy needed to refine crude oil is much less than the energy it takes to synthesize it. Think about it: people refine the crude, transport it, and use the end product in an energy net positive manner. To synthesize hydroca
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by ta12121 14y ago
Energy scarcity is a fundamental property of technology and economics. Aside from a few countries like France, nuclear power serves a fraction of our electricity needs, and electricity is a fraction of our total energy needs. Where are all
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by ta12121 14y ago
$3 a gallon is what the fuel costs today when it comes straight out of the ground. Claiming to be able to build and run a nuclear reactor and then synthesize the fuel through multiple energy inefficient steps all for the same price is a pip
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by ta12121 14y ago
No. Electrolysing water to make H2 and extracting CO2 from the environment, and then synthesizing hydrocarbons from them, is extremely energy inefficient. Sure, theoretically, it can be done, and maybe one day it could even be done effici
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by ta12121 14y ago
I've never read about zsh on HN before. I swear it officer.
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by ta12121 14y ago
IIRC they were redacting information they judged to be dangerous to release. The unredacted dump was released due to the error of publishing the password to the backup archive they distributed on the internet for redundancy in a book.
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by ta12121 14y ago
"The one thing I learned very early in Hollywood is to never use your own money. Especially on a fucking Kevin Smith movie." Kevin Smith
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by ta12121 14y ago
If he had stayed in the US he would have been considered an international student, and thus ineligible for local tuition. If you had your way, the same would be true in Canada. Now what does OP do?
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by ta12121 14y ago
The man has a fundamental unit of physics named after him. He is not obscure. Can we please stop with the hero worship?
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by ta12121 14y ago
Swap is usually no bigger than two or three times your RAM. Disk in general is 10 to 100 times the size of your RAM.
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by ta12121 14y ago
/tmp is simply RAM that has the API of a file ...which used to behave, physically, as disk, and now behaves as RAM. If I'm doing large file manipulations that require temporary files larger than RAM where should I put them?
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by ta12121 14y ago
Did it make you congested? Could it have been sleep disordered breathing (sleep apnea)?
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by ta12121 14y ago
SSRIs are the tip of the iceberg when it comes to antidepressants.
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by ta12121 14y ago
Research into the performance of medical doctors shows that their skill follows the normal distribution: http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2004/12/06/041206fa_fact?cu...
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by ta12121 14y ago
The performance of doctors follows the normal distribution. I think that extrapolating to programmers is not a huge stretch. It used to be assumed that differences among hospitals or doctors in a particular specialty were general
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by ta12121 14y ago
The overwhelming majority of natural phenomena follow the normal distribution. Do you have any reason for assuming software development is somehow different?
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by ta12121 14y ago
There is no objective system that can deliver guarantees about subjective quality.
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by ta12121 14y ago
The distinction I was attempting to make is that there is a difference between what is true or false, and what should be enforced by law and what shouldn't. Consider the recently proposed ban on large servings of sweetened drinks. Do these

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