biohacker42

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by biohacker42 17y ago
This is interesting, but I'm struck by the sheer amount of serious analysis on this topic. It always struck me as very simple requiring no deep understanding. There's an old saying on wall street, the harder it is to understand the deal the
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by biohacker42 17y ago
2) That's called "cramming" and you should report it to the FCC so that (hopefully, someday) they can put those guys out of business. Already done it, apparently the (scam) company was started by an ex-high level At&t insider. But yea
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by biohacker42 17y ago
The cost of filling out my cc or paypal info exceeds my personal cost of spending $20 dollars. I would literately pay $20 just to avoid the hassle. On a related subject matter, recently I spotted something a bit off on my Verizon bill. I ge
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by biohacker42 17y ago
The fact that they can absorb 100% of microwave radiation is interesting, it would be very interesting if the could turn it into electrical current instead of heat.
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by biohacker42 17y ago
How does a fundamentally shy person succeed in business? Most people don't percieve me as shy, but I started out being introverted. I get along pretty well with people at work, and I'm fine in one-on-one situations. But I don't say much at
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by biohacker42 17y ago
I'm guessing you're going to get bit of traffic from people who meant to go to QwanTz.com
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by biohacker42 17y ago
Take this thought experiment to its extreme and the unlucky should have gone extinct. The fact that both lucky and unlucky personality types persist, suggest both have advantages.
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by biohacker42 17y ago
It's a (perhaps undo) attempt to purge non-HN type stories from HN. It's a kind of not very useful or productive hobby.
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by biohacker42 17y ago
DVD John's DeDRMS written in C#. It was beautiful, but I can't seem to find the source code right now. If anyone can please share. --EDIT--- Found it: http://web.archive.org/web/20050315135351/http://nanocrew.ne...
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by biohacker42 17y ago
I won't be able to sleep until I know what the fox was up to.
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by biohacker42 17y ago
I did read the article, but already knew the meme is stupid and wrong and thought the same of the HN readership, thus I'm surprised to see it in any form, pro or against. And I comment when I disapprove of a thread because the flag and shu
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by biohacker42 17y ago
This reminds me of a recent study in bird personalities. It turns out there are very big differences from bird to bird in terms of curiosity and risk taking and other things. And there is a huge body of scientific work about bird behavior E
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by biohacker42 17y ago
I suppose you can sort 50 blogs in some way. But I doubt there are a total of 50 biotech blogs worth reading. 50 is a large number if you're looking for intelligent writing.
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by biohacker42 17y ago
I expect the MSM to try and keep their audience entertained with this inane charging your electronic crap is killing the earth meme. But I would think HN is the one place this meme would not be able to infect. Am I wrong?
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by biohacker42 17y ago
Or maybe popular music is simplistic and this is impressive compared to it?
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by biohacker42 17y ago
When I was a kid, during one particular summer, I read two books a day. And one book a day does not sound like a quest to me, but like a wonderful hobby for anyone who has the time. Also this article is pure fluff.
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by biohacker42 17y ago
I just realized why I like Steve Blank's writing so much. It's because he writes about sales and marketing as if it were engineering. And I have a feeling it's not just how he writes about it, but also how he approaches it.
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by biohacker42 17y ago
According to Penn and Teller, there's not nearly as much power as advertised. I don't want to link to copyrighted material, so here's a link to a google search: http://video.google.com/videosearch?hl=en&safe=off&q...
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by biohacker42 17y ago
"At the expense of" is an interesting way of putting it, aren't we all here specifically because HN is more exclusive with a more select group of users? Aren't exclusivity and selectivity the very goals we seek? And isn't HN becoming truly
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by biohacker42 17y ago
It's not so bad if you subscribe to a small number of narrow focus sub-reddits, like hard science, C++, Math, etc.
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by biohacker42 17y ago
Osama is still making videos, but thank God we got Gary McKinnon, now our government networks are safe from aspies looking for UFO evidence!
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by biohacker42 17y ago
Ignoring for a moment how impractical this currently is, just because you have a ton of data doesn't mean you can search it effectively. In fact, the more data, the harder it will be to find the relevant bits.
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by biohacker42 17y ago
There's plenty of C/C++ work. A lot of legacy but a good chunk of new stuff too.
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by biohacker42 17y ago
This isn't surprising, the simplicity of the problem does not exceed the overhead of parallelism. A task like that is actually quite rare in practice, but easy to stumble upon when doing demo or example code. Even with Erlang I don't expect
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by biohacker42 17y ago
DRM, sure you could copy a book who's copyright has expired, but there have been DRM issues with those too. Also many people, me included, prefer the feel of paper.
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by biohacker42 17y ago
Word of mouth has always been considered among the best and most valuable forms of advertising. Thus it is no wonder that if you're used to finding new web services from word of mouth, then seeing an anonymous advertisement will not be near
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by biohacker42 17y ago
I remember reading it somewhere, the economist maybe, but google fails me.
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by biohacker42 17y ago
Can we all agree that oversimplification in jokes and comics can be very funny, but it can not be taken seriously? And it can not be taken seriously in essays or essay-like blog posts? That's the sort of overgeneralization that drives peop
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by biohacker42 17y ago
What is it with this unicycle from Honda, it's popping up all over the net, over and over and over again, several times here too. It's just plain silly, it's not going to be very popular and it's not a technological or scientific breakthrou
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by biohacker42 17y ago
Dupe.

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