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by hugh 18y ago
Ahh, thanks for that. I haven't listened to any of them yet, but I am surprised by how few there are. There's only one Chopin-like piece, for instance. This causes me to worry: how many bad Chopin-like pieces did this thing spit out before
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by hugh 18y ago
To put that "billion dollars" in perspective, General Motors' current burn rate is apparently $6.9 billion a month. Ouch!
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by hugh 18y ago
I don't really see anyone "egging him on". All I see is a bunch of people not taking him seriously.
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by hugh 18y ago
That's why I specified cellulosic or algae-based ethanol.
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by hugh 18y ago
Sure, a Tesla Roadster can do 0-60 mph in four seconds, but it doesn't _sound_ as cool as a Lamborghini when it does so. Seriously though, I would be very sad if internal combustion engine powered cars vanished. I personally suspect that th
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by hugh 18y ago
Apparently not included in the plan: building new power stations, or even any discussion of it. Anyone got any good numbers on questions like: if half of California's cars were switched to electrical over the next ten years, how many more p
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by hugh 18y ago
I don't agree with your premise, here. You need to show any study that would demonstrate that women (a) really get fatter as they get older and (b) they get so much fatter that they would increase their BMI to the point of jumping up in th
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by hugh 18y ago
Thanks for pointing that out. The response was better than the original article, except for this one bit: Because sexuality is so entangled with power in American culture, it's hard to talk about sex without getting political. The two are
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by hugh 18y ago
Ummm, yeah, I get the feeling the author might be trying to justify something to himself, here.
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by hugh 18y ago
OK, first things first: ew. Now we've got that out of the way, why is it that every writeup of some social science research must have at least one glaring factor that's been ignored? In this case it's: There is a significant difference, ho
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by hugh 18y ago
Did I? Sorry, what was the point?
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by hugh 18y ago
Flagged for politics, but in the meantime you'll excuse me if I, as it were, stick my dick in the mashed potatoes. I think it's a rather silly analysis. Firstly, for the whole premise: This might be the key passage of my interview with Joh
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by hugh 18y ago
But they won against the Czars.
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by hugh 18y ago
Romney has a proven record of turning around sinking ships. Was that a deliberately mixed metaphor? Turn around a sinking ship and all you get is a wreck which faces in the other direction.
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by hugh 18y ago
A plurality of anecdotes sampled without bias? That's the problem: interesting data points become anecdotes while uninteresting data points don't, which is why you can't reconstruct the data from the anecdotes.
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by hugh 18y ago
Ummm, yes. Drat.
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by hugh 18y ago
Y'know, that gives me an idea. Why not a foot-controlled mouse? That way I'd never have to take my hands off the keyboard. (quick googling) Oh, they already exist. Has anyone ever used one? They're three hundred bucks, so I'm not gonna buy
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by hugh 18y ago
I'm still not convinced that it's possible to make the kind of super-long, defect-free nanotube cables that are going to be required. I'll be very happy if I'm proven wrong, but I certainly wouldn't say it was inevitable.
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by hugh 18y ago
Well, that's going straight into my top eight top nine top ten lists lists list.
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by hugh 18y ago
More of a quantum chemist, though I realize this is a distinction most people who aren't theoretical solid-state physicists are unlikely to care about. Margaret Thatcher also had a chemistry background (though only a Bachelors, unlike Merke
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by hugh 18y ago
Interesting, I had indeed not heard of it. And before you get all confused like I did, I should point out that this article is from 2003. Recent data: http://www.investmenttools.com/futures/bdi_baltic_dry_index....
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by hugh 18y ago
I'm sure it's not necessary . You haven't said why you want to learn statistics. Is it just for fun, or do you have some eventual practical application in mind? Personally, I just learn the bits I need, as I need them.
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by hugh 18y ago
Oh, so that's what it was. I read the entire article to try and figure out what NLP meant, and still didn't figure it out.
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by hugh 18y ago
Interestingly, the only country I can think of off the top of my head with an engineer "in charge" is Iran. I don't think Dr Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is a great example of how a country should be run.
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by hugh 18y ago
If numerati were a word, it'd be a plural. I'm reasonably sure the correct singular forms would be literatus (male) and literata (female). Oh, as for your actual question? I can't think of anything.
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by hugh 18y ago
Who wrote this title? Is there some guide out there to getting attention on social news sites which states that every submission needs to contain the word "amazing" or "secret"? What's the "secret"? That Mirror's Edge will make you vomit? T
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by hugh 18y ago
True. Though it seems like there's a fine line between "being better at your competitor's core competency", which is a great business plan, and "being just like X except with an extra Y", which isn't.
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by hugh 18y ago
I'm talking in a worldwide context, not a US one.
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by hugh 18y ago
OK, now I suspect you're a troll, and that tsetse-fly is some kind of sock-puppet, and that you really need to think of something better to do with your time than this. update: No, now I come to look at it, tsetse-fly has been around for a
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by hugh 18y ago
In that case the term "neocon" is sufficiently broad to be meaningless. We should probably make up new labels if nobody can agree on what this one means.

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