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by yannis 17y ago
John, congratulations for the friendly email! (wondering actually who you emailing next:) Glad to see a .pl making headlines! You obviously spent some time with the data and I would appreciate it, if you can shed some light on the 'average
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Worth a read in conjunction with this Wikipedia entry http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Baptiste_Botul
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There is one more danger of groupthink and that is, it inevitably leads to an 'us' vs 'them' situation. Irving Janis (who coined the term) proposed groupthink as a small group dynamic. Yet the collective shifts in perceptions towards target
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Antipodean? :)
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Certainly one of the most impressive TED talks and one of the very few that the speaker got a standing ovation at the end.
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Excellent is an understatement! thanks for the link.
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To anyone interested in such events I would highly recommend "The Black Swan" The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. It never amazes me what you can experience, if you are living in a large City or get involved with
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The title is a bit sensational (they are actually working on it). The idea of micro-sensors has been around for quite a while and is probably at least 10 years before any large scale deployment. What escapes me is how are they going to use
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Just for those interested emails and code were on wikileaks which is now unavailable. You can download from http://www.eastangliaemails.com/
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Your labeling everyone as denialist certainly does you disservice, if what you after is real and substantive debate . I submitted this study http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1124236 yesterday and which did not attract much attention
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When I started out in Computers over 25 years ago, I got very interested in TeX and LaTeX and read a lot of the literature. One item that impressed me at the time - and still remember it, was that someone wrote a PhD thesis on hyphenation
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Besides the actual use of gold being minimal - most of the gold dug up since Roman times is still around in one form or other.
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TEDTalks in a spreadsheet(spreadsheets.google.com)
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Surface temperature records: Policy driven deception?(scienceandpublicpolicy.org)
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British astronaut in space answers Twitter questions (telegraph.co.uk)
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I am not surprised that there is going to be little familiarity with Computers and even Windows. I would definitely - not start with Ubuntu and forget about Mac's. Training will be the hard part. Focus on that and maintenability of equipmen
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>I'll be training them on Python/Django/etc and it just doesn't ... If you are going to provide the training the hardware does not matter. You can just extend the training to cover the OS. My preference - having worked in the Continent
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You can easily see one millionth of an inch. During my training as a Mechanical Engineer we did some work at a metrology lab. We used what in the US is called a Gauge block http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gauge_block . If you set two gauge b
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Agreed and to measure productivity over a year is more difficult. The authors present some data in their report, but some of the examples are difficult to accept (like Utah public servants). However, if you make a thought experiment in has
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All 'wealth' is created by labor, either directly or indirectly. (Think of an economy with no money). The more people work - subject to efficiency, the more wealth being generated. However, people do not produce wealth equally. Suppose ther
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Agreed. There was a link here at HN sometimes to an article about a ship with wind turbines going to see and returning with stored hydrogen as an Energy source which I thought was a good idea, if the economics eventually make it viable.
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Interesting and well written. However, being an agnostic I offer this: From A Scientific Rationale for Belief in God http://www.vexen.co.uk/religion/God_AI.html >I present here a concise rationale for the existence of God. The wor
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At times you are extroverted, affable, sociable, while at other times you are introverted, wary, reserved. Some of your aspirations tend to be pretty unrealistic. Security is one of your major goals in life Can apply to almost anyone read
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>But how many milliseconds does it take the user's computer to parse and load your code once it's arrived? Aristus my guess is that the tests need a bit more thought to investigate the time it takes also to manipulate the dom + doc.
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Satellites just aren't big enough or powerful enough or reliable enough to be effective platforms.... and we'd need /a lot/ of satellites. Think space mirrors!
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I know that the English language evolves fast, but 'Softwares' should be Software .
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Can we please get some compression here?
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If you dealing with maths in your webpages the newest additions include TeX. My life just got simpler.
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From http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/f90bca10-1679-11df-bf44-00144feab4... On reflection, it is appropriate that the fiscal crisis of the west has begun in Greece, the birthplace of western civilization. Soon it will cross the channel to Brita
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Got plenty over the last couple of days.

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