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Comment · 9 years ago
So if I ask my ISP if they are selling my data do they have to admit it? Or can they now do it in secret?
Comment · 10 years ago
You have to love pop sci headlines with phrases like "...promises possible..."

I promise you, BBC's Roland Pease, that it's possible the sun won't rise tomorrow and Linus Torvalds with announce that he will be Microsoft's next CEO.

Comment · 10 years ago
So CKs brilliant talent for comedy had not so much to do with his ticket sales, eh?

That sounds like a sales pitch. Oh wait, scroll to the bottom, this is a sales pitch. Classic tactic of making the incredible sound easy, just pay a small fee!

Comment · 10 years ago
Changing the zoom on this page is trippy.
Comment · 10 years ago
This is a very nice argument!

Our senses are still only tuned in to detect portions of "reality" that are relevant to life on earth. For example, our eyes detect the band of EM radiation most useful during daytime on Earth. But even though are eyes are narrow band and highly non-linear sensors, they (+our other equally flawed senses) have served us pretty well as far as understanding the true nature of EM waves.

I guess my point is that our senses still aren't evolving to detect reality in some sort of true pure mathematical sense.

Comment · 10 years ago
"You're a fucking moron if you use default browser styles." - Eleanor Roosevelt
Comment · 10 years ago
So the Sell/Check/Recycle model only requires 33% of the labor compared to the Check only model. The author suggests that this means tripling production would be possible, but that depends on QA being the factories bottleneck. If QA isn't the bottleneck, than you might as well fire 2/3 of Quinn's QA workers. Hooray, the computer didn't take my job, but it took the jobs of the guy to my right and the gal to my left.
Comment · 10 years ago
Here in the US we stand with you on the issue of BMW drivers.
Comment · 10 years ago
Physics experiments have ruled theories like this out. They can put a very very small upper bound on how much the constants can change over a volume the size of the universe, and over the lifetime of the universe.
Comment · 10 years ago
You don't, it's just that h-bar = h/2pi is the variety of planck's constant that is more useful in quantum mechanics.
Comment · 10 years ago
The first name to show up when I search 'evil man' is 'Mr Rogers'...what the hell, reddit.

(first name, not first word, had to scroll down a bit, past words like 'Nazi soldier' and 'evildoer')

Comment · 10 years ago
So that's wayyyyyyy outside our galaxy? Any idea how many galaxies fit into a 1 billion ly sphere around the milky way? I'm guessing a shit ton, which makes the detection of a bh merger seem more realistic to me.

That's some serious range!

Comment · 10 years ago
What would us change about the letter? Commenter djcapelis above disagrees.
Comment · 10 years ago
I'm turning 25 in two weeks. So this is it? 2015 was my last year of music? Damn...it went by so fast!
Comment · 10 years ago
> It's turtles all the way up.

That's just perfect

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