Raplh

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by Raplh 16y ago
Arno Penzias when he directed Crawford Hill Laboratory at Bell Labs is said to have sent a memo to the scientists working there. In the memo he said that a VP had visited Crawford Hill and noticed that there were cars arriving in the parki
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by Raplh 16y ago
I have a PhD from Caltech in Applied Physics/Engineering. I worked for a physics prof when I felt like it. He didn't even KNOW when I was working for the most part, and I took great vacations. You payz your money and you takez your choice
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by Raplh 17y ago
There is a rather strong and noble tradition among great physicists of being a little bit off the beaten track. Read Feynman. The bets between Stephen Hawking and Kip Thorne at Caltech. There wasn't a lot that was conventional about Eins
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by Raplh 17y ago
That nothing I believe can be proved.
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by Raplh 17y ago
I didn't have my first personal computer until I was 30. It was a Sun 3 "dickless" workstation on my desk, POS. I gave it to my grad student and got a Mac II the next year. I read a Fortran (66?) programming lesson book when I was 15, and
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by Raplh 17y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=600968 is the Chomsky link that prompted this poll. In case there are anybody besides me who would want to see the link before blessing or damning it.
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The Science of Difference (Sex Ed.)(pinker.wjh.harvard.edu)
2 points by Raplh 17y ago|1 comments
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Kurzweil on how technology will transform us(ted.com)
1 points by Raplh 17y ago|0 comments
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by Raplh 17y ago
"showdead" should allow me to follow links in killed submissions. Right now I can see the title of the dead links, but there is nothing I can click on to actually go to the page which was originally linked.
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by Raplh 17y ago
It almost certainly correlates better with how recently you leared English than with your ability to structrue thoughts.
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by Raplh 17y ago
Sure, you can't evaluate every dingdong idea. But when you find one you are going to skip, you can either do so respectfully, or you can declare to everyone around you that even in the absence of any thought on the matter, you happen to kn
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by Raplh 17y ago
You are not only ashamed of getting caught. You INTERNALIZE the shame. You BELIEVE you are no good. I was just watching a youtube video that had a clip of a "youth minister" in a charismatic church getting a room full of what looked like
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by Raplh 17y ago
Excellent observation about the larger openness of the debate in Israel. I have seen that as well. Indeed, when in Israel I have talked to people on both sides of the issue and never had it suggested to me THERE that I was anti-semetic fo
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Ask HN: Any way to see a dead thread?
4 points by Raplh 17y ago|2 comments
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by Raplh 17y ago
This discussion provides great source material for investigating the things you can't say, and what happens when you say them. You fall down a rabbit hole. Or rather I do, and I get very confused when I am down there. On the face of it, Is
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by Raplh 17y ago
I'm particularly interested in your reactions to the section describing the 8 Day Workshop.
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Radical Honesty 8 Day Workshop: "The Curse in Honesty"(radicalhonesty.com)
1 points by Raplh 17y ago|1 comments
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by Raplh 17y ago
Your post reads like a red herring (in the stock sense). A "story stock" has to have a good story, it doesn't have to have numbers behind it. Anything's reproductive "goal", in any times, is to show up a lot in later generations. Promiscu
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by Raplh 17y ago
Arrested, but not convicted, the only way to talk to my brother in law in jail was to pay a few $ per minute when he called us collect. I have read descriptions of why the jails should limit calls thusly, with contracts to providers that p
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Was Bank of America Entrapped?(dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com)
2 points by Raplh 17y ago|0 comments
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by Raplh 17y ago
I loved that even in the midst of being hassled by the police, he gives the one policeman incredible credit for his approach to other humans. There is beauty everywhere.
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by Raplh 17y ago
I would consider that this guy, being actually homeless, is at least as valuable a source on homelessness as a woman you knew who worked with them. I suspect that more generally than being alcoholics, these are people who are mentally ill t
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by Raplh 17y ago
There are hints of it, how to deal with authority, even where to be homeless (CSU campus good). Also, if you are interested you would start to explore the directory tree this doc is in and see even more details. It seems to me that homeles
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by Raplh 17y ago
The premise of this question confuses freedom with entropy. A smart person who does all sorts of stupid things to screw herself up, drinking, who knows what else, can easily live the life of a stupid person. But what can a stupid person do
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by Raplh 17y ago
"Should"? Evolution laughs at should. Lemmings follow each other because 99% or more of the time that is EXACTLY the right thing to do, and 99% is more than enough to win in evolution. And what we learn from evolution is we should laugh a
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by Raplh 17y ago
Suggestions of negative interest rates are clever in the same sense that Swift suggesting eating Irish children is clever. Its GLARINGLY wrong, but you might learn something figuring out why. And there isn't just one reason why. There ar
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by Raplh 17y ago
See http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Anews.ycombinator.com+i... as this has already been asked and answered.
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by Raplh 17y ago
It won't seem much different to me than programming your children to believe in their preferred god.
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Hacking Homelessness(well.com)
28 points by Raplh 17y ago|6 comments
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by Raplh 17y ago
I have discovered the reason. TARP requires that until it is paid back, all sorts of other optional uses of cash are ruled out, such as pre-paying off other debt. R:

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