GeneTraylor

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by GeneTraylor 15y ago
>>> Also, putting your first number in scientific notation helps put this in perspective: 2.2 x 10^12 . Seven orders of magnitude. Close to 15 000 0000 times as much. <<< Hm, I made a big mistake in that comment. I s
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by GeneTraylor 15y ago
Hm. I don't think that's going to be a problem, it might take me a while to read his work, but that's okay. That said, I'm used to such books and a world rife with war, famine, disease and horrible death.
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by GeneTraylor 15y ago
I've actually thought about this a bit, and I think that a really interesting design for a launch gun would be to encase the payload in a cover composed of diamagnetic material and then pump liquid nitrogen through channels made inside the
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by GeneTraylor 15y ago
>>> Why? We have a whole solar system right on on our front porch <<< This is an honest question, not a rebuttal. How would you get those resources here, or us over there? >>> Water doesn't just get used
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by GeneTraylor 15y ago
Yeah, I'm thinking about buying the book as soon as I have the spare cash.
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by GeneTraylor 15y ago
Now I certainly plan to. Thank you.
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by GeneTraylor 15y ago
I might be wrong, but I'm sure I read a detailed discussion somewhere about how they analyzed burial pits and found large amounts of cuts as if the flesh had been flayed and so on. Apparently they did detailed DNA analysis and even found hu
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by GeneTraylor 15y ago
Sorry I have dyslexia, I tend to get muddled up like that sometimes.
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by GeneTraylor 15y ago
>>> nice prose of your <<< Thank you, but my prose is far from being nice. You should see my boss with a red pen around my prose. :-) >>>but the tiny blue ball thing is bullshit<<< Carl Sagan
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by GeneTraylor 15y ago
Whenever I see an easter island head, I can't help but draw parallels between our global civilization and theirs. The eastern islanders consisted of around a dozen tribes, each competing for resources with others. It's thought that all of t
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Google To Train 100k Teachers Within 10 Years(googleblog.blogspot.com)
1 points by GeneTraylor 15y ago|0 comments
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by GeneTraylor 15y ago
The problem lies in how will you define the other parameters over here. First up is the question of defining that 1 KG itself and the configuration; how will we define the parameters of the copper wire? (edit: to clarify after reemrevnivek'
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by GeneTraylor 15y ago
I think that you could get a lot of mileage by selling unique trinkets. Imagine taking a Escher style moebius ring and creating an actual ring or a necklace out of it (imagine doing it with flat links to form the necklace, and they all have
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by GeneTraylor 15y ago
They keep pounding the same misconceptions again and again in endless repetition, and I can't help but wonder, who hired these guns? (that's not to say that some of their arguments don't hold water, but they are going to incredible lengths
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by GeneTraylor 15y ago
What if the child has a learning disability? What happens then?
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The Tiger-Resistant Laptop(forbes.com)
9 points by GeneTraylor 15y ago|2 comments
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by GeneTraylor 15y ago
I disagree, look at the options given to Skype employees [1], being in the valley doesn't magically mean that your safe from the dark side of the force. [1] http://techcrunch.com/2011/06/26/skypes-worthless-employee-s...
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by GeneTraylor 15y ago
It's not about the attribute itself, but affirmation along that attribute. It's the same conundrum facing parents of gifted kids, praising innate ability vs. hard work backfires in a spectacular way sooner or later and the child stops takin
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by GeneTraylor 15y ago
I think that the hardest lesson to internalize over here is, "every no gets you closer to a yes". Most hackers thrive on finding, solving problems and getting the solution just right. Intractable problems are apparent at the surface and the
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by GeneTraylor 15y ago
I love what you're trying to do, but how will you monetize this? Will you pursue amazon based referrals for songs? (I'm guessing it won't add up unless you have scale) Or will you try to launch a "premium" service?
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by GeneTraylor 15y ago
(note: I don't mean to be rude, but this comment has barely been up for 1 minute and I'm already being down-voted. Surely no one can read something this long this fast and down-vote even faster. I've tried to write a reasoned critique of th
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by GeneTraylor 15y ago
>>> MrMan 14 minutes ago | link | parent | flag HN members' opinions of themselves are inflated and entertaining. I really enjoy the stream of sometimes-interesting links posted on the front page. I also get a kick out of the na
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by GeneTraylor 15y ago
There actually might be a precedent over here. Heinlein came up with a "waterbed" for a few of his books (it was mentioned quite prominently in Stranger in a strange land) Later on a man called Charles Hall tried to patent his design, and h
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by GeneTraylor 15y ago
I work in a distributed office, and over the past few days I've been trying to find a "concept mapper", which helps us to make projects more concrete through flowcharts etc. The problem that I keep on facing is that the web apps which domin
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by GeneTraylor 15y ago
This is tangential, but if you overlook the issue, then you'll find that this is how you do PR. Gaming even the serious things out is the perfect stage for myth making. Asking a giant to battle you in a game over a trademark is the stuff
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by GeneTraylor 15y ago
I remember watching Spirit and Opportunity land on mars, sitting next to my uncle,the day he was diagnosed with lung cancer, and I still remember the prediction that the rovers would die in 3 months due to buildup of dust. I couldn't help b