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by wmnwmn 6y ago
I've perpetrated one which I felt crummy about. To set the background, I was a sophomore at college in 1986, and the campus is close to some bad neighborhoods. I had had a very scary incident involving several black people while I was
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by wmnwmn 6y ago
Well, regular intelligence isn't but so useful in business either. There are so many factors in business success, intelligence is just one, and usually not a very big one.
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by wmnwmn 6y ago
Record number of investors means dumb money, just like 2000. If you don't know who the greater fool is...it's you
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by wmnwmn 6y ago
Maybe what we need is a return to the very beginning, namely human curated web catalogs, aka Yahoo
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by wmnwmn 6y ago
Garageband.com Silicon Investor Groovetech And let's not forget how exciting it was to explore around in the original Yahoo! Although the web doesn't seem to be thing we all dreamed about anymore, it's still amazing. Remember
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by wmnwmn 7y ago
Commentator appears to have a layman's understanding of quantum mechanics.
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by wmnwmn 7y ago
Loved this book when I was college age
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by wmnwmn 7y ago
I've felt that way for years. OO perhaps makes sense for certain things, mainly things that someone else writes and you use as a library. Using OO more widely leads to very inflexible code, and since specs are not inflexible, the resul
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by wmnwmn 8y ago
Haha wrong
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by wmnwmn 8y ago
Yes! How much time have I wasted chasing some stupid error that "just worked" in perl which C or Java would have blocked at the get go. Just say NO to languages that try to guess what you were probably trying to do.
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by wmnwmn 8y ago
Changed my mind on OO after seeing how difficult it is for ordinary humans to design objects that can withstand the spec changes that are inevitable in any real project. Bad procedural code is a mess but bad object code can be completely ir
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by wmnwmn 8y ago
I find the opposite - many websites still don't seem to test properly on chrome.
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by wmnwmn 8y ago
Well, it was fun while it lasted.
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by wmnwmn 8y ago
I signed up but I see they're using credit card payment...can this work?
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by wmnwmn 8y ago
E&M is far from "simple". It contains special relativity, for starters. Also it is incompatible with thermodynamics: solving this problem is why Planck invented quantum mechanics. Also point charges have infinite energy: this
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by wmnwmn 8y ago
So, the driving force behind facebook is the newsfeed, which enables people to see everyone's updates without going one by one to each page. It's going to be hard to replicate this with personal sites, but maybe we don't want
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by wmnwmn 8y ago
It's funny how nonphysicists (this author) and non-productive physicists (Hossenfelder) beat this drum most loudly. How about we do this: let the people who are obviously smartest make their own decision about what is most promising to
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by wmnwmn 8y ago
The market already doesn't allocate capital. Companies almost never issue new shares, indeed they buy them back. Given that dividends are also trifling, the market is mainly a large scale gambling scheme. Not entirely, but mainly.
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by wmnwmn 8y ago
You are right that it was a special and exciting feeling learning these things when these machines were brand new. When my friend's family bought a TRS-80 in 1978, it was like some kind of alien artifact that fell from space; we were u
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by wmnwmn 8y ago
Guess what, we don't need an internet of things. It's not going to happen and you can tell that because it's been hyped for a decade now and has not produced any product that anyone buys.
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by wmnwmn 8y ago
Every major advance in physics has arrived with a new paradigm of mathematics, usually more than one new paradigm. Beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, but I doubt quantum gravity is going to be solved without the invention of major ne
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by wmnwmn 8y ago
Very simple question that the article completely failed to address: does the process output more energy in the form of gasoline than it takes in? I am quite certain that the answer is, NO, which means that the factory ends up putting more C
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by wmnwmn 8y ago
2 solutions: a) stop doing experiments that just look for correlation without any attempt to get at mechanism. Of course sometimes you can't avoid this and then 2) use lower p values. Don't waste thousands or millions (more) dolla
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by wmnwmn 9y ago
Totally wrong from the get go. Cells do not use thermal energy to "ratchet" order out of chaos. That would violate the 2nd law of thermodynamics. Cells create order by using energy from an already-ordered source, namely the food
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by wmnwmn 9y ago
This is so true and I'm certain it's related to the noticeable downgrade in web performance and usability over the past five years. So many sites are flabby and slow now because they're retrieving countless packages from CDN&
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by wmnwmn 9y ago
Because there is no biological law of aging. There is only a collection of biological accidents.
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by wmnwmn 9y ago
Sure, I can buy some btc and go buy something with it in some places. But where is my incentive to do that, rather than just go use my credit card or an ACH transfer? Btc is not more convenient, it's not cheaper, and whatever gain in p
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by wmnwmn 9y ago
Indeed I don't. Nor do most other people. That's one of the reasons why, to first approximation, zero people are using them. And even if lots more people suddenly begin needing to transfer non-reserve currencies internationally, t
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by wmnwmn 9y ago
Not only is BTC epicly badly designed (energy consumption=Denmark) but it doesn't solve a problem that anyone actually has (and neither do any of the other cryptos). Nobody uses them to pay for things, and nobody has any incentive to s
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by wmnwmn 9y ago
I read it as saying they've passed some development milestones on 50 which is certainly all one could expect before the release of the 20.

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