helveticaman
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Comment · 14 years ago
Maybe someone was slightly too clever, too clever by half, or not clever at all.
Comment · 14 years ago
> part of why
Comment · 14 years ago
No, the electronics involved are more efficient at lower temperatures, which is part of why you see more solar power in places like Germany.
Comment · 14 years ago
"However, while MIT's diode puts out more than twice as much energy in photons as it's fed in electrons, it doesn't violate the conservation of energy because it appears to draw in heat energy from its surroundings instead."
This actually sounds legit. Keep in mind, 69 picowatts is next to nothing, so it's anybody's guess whether this will scale.
Comment · 14 years ago
Ritalin taker here. The other day I was on vitamin R and noticed for a twentieth of a second that someone started a vacuum cleaner while I was focussing on something boring. Ten minutes later I was still going strong and notice that so is the vacuum cleaner.
It's strong stuff.
Comment · 14 years ago
Sacrilege!
Comment · 14 years ago
(particularly in the “refine” and “access” methods, where utilizing the popcnt SSE4.2 instruction would no doubt have a massive impact on performance.
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Comment · 14 years ago
23, ADD, coder here.
Two things: first, by all means put in the work to find an ADD regimen that works. It makes a huge difference. I now take Strattera (60 mg) and Ritalin (80 mg), but had to slough through a lot of duds (maybe 5 different ones) to get there. I experienced a huge difference between amphetamine and non-amphetamine stimulants.
More pertin made a gigantic difference for me was fish oil (the kind you buy in softgels). I talked to my psych about using a lot of fish oil (10+ pills a day) and he said, sure. I started learning all kinds of skills much, much faster. Like 5x faster.
So, one really easy thing you can do is talk about different stimulant and fish oil with your psychiatrist.
Comment · 15 years ago
You're presenting a false dichotomy between staying completely silent and putting something on the internet. A victim can limit him/herself to talking to the police, his/her community, HR, the principal, his/her friends, his/her acquaintances, etc. The victim can also blog about it once the accused party is found guilty. Until then, putting something like this in writing is considered "bad" (if it's false), broadly speaking, by society, which is the reason behind libel laws.
> As to your "shit like this shouldn't be blogged about" comment,
He didn't write what you quoted.
> Are you SERIOUSLY suggesting that victims of sexual discrimination stay silent?
No, he's not.
Comment · 16 years ago
I'd add the only caveat is that bouncing around too much (like never holding a job down for more than a year, doesn't sound like you) can turn people off.
Comment · 16 years ago
You can probably subsidize the travel with part of the savings.
Comment · 16 years ago
But everyone can afford a computer that is very powerful by historic standards.
Comment · 16 years ago
> We value opportunity. San Francisco’s first boom was when gold was discovered. Its next was the web. We find new opportunities and embrace them with gusto. That’s why most of the sites you visit every day started within 100 miles of here.
No booms between the 1850s and the 1990s? Bullshit.
Comment · 16 years ago
Seed funds didn't exist in the 50s.
Comment · 16 years ago
But that's just like buying a woman dinner. It's arguably about sharing a gift and having an experience. Money is a (perhaps small) step further.