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Comment · 12 years ago
I guess you are being downvoted, because the fact "DNA can survive (re?)entry from space" is not a proof.
Comment · 12 years ago
"The final geocentricism.". Duh. You could be in a mixed state of |life had originated on earth| + |life had originated elsewhere| + |physics doesn't actually exists, and you are just a bitstring|.

edit: downvoter ;) you are an unfriendly and uneducated bitstring ;)

Comment · 12 years ago
1M is sometimes all the memory that you have, on the embedded systems. And sometimes it is less. For example, it could be 68 bytes.

PIC 16F84A - 1K Program Memory, 68 bytes Data Memory, 64 bytes EEPROM

Comment · 12 years ago
Whenever I'm finding it appropriate to do so.

I'm a computer science researcher, I have a right to that opinion and I sincerely expect this to be the most likely outcome.

I do not see anything wrong in stating it bluntly and clearly, as often as I like. I don't see anything wrong in copy-pasting my own quote.

Comment · 12 years ago
Most likely you and your kids are gonna be wiped out by intellegent machines just in a few decades.
Comment · 12 years ago
""" Friedman, laureate of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics, said: "You want more insider trading, not less. You want to give the people most likely to have knowledge about deficiencies of the company an incentive to make the public aware of that." Friedman did not believe that the trader should be required to make his trade known to the public, because the buying or selling pressure itself is information for the market.
Comment · 12 years ago
Yes, you are correct. On an average Linux box to have a single cache line data transfer between the cores under 150ns 99% of the time is about the best that you can get. Especially if you are running stock kernel that eats this 1% and creates huge outliers ;). There is some talk though, about crazily-expensive switches with integrated FPGAs...
Comment · 12 years ago
Duh. Common. Describe me just one automated strategy for which $130k would not be a phenomenal outlier. And you were talking multiple strategies...
Comment · 12 years ago
Now you are just bullshitting. A 130k is a huge loss and a phenomental outlier. You've never had even a 100k loss on your strategies. And by current standards your strategies are not even HFT. I've seen you talking milliseconds. Nowadays people are talking sub-microseconds.
Comment · 12 years ago
""" More to the point, if you're buying drugs online you're not supporting local drug dealers and the crime and violence that typically accompany open air drug markets, particularly in inner cities. By cutting those sellers out of the equation, you're seeing a net reduction in violence overall.
Comment · 12 years ago
Let me give you a clue. Are you in the gravitational field of the Sun? How does it compare with the gravitational field of the Earth? Is it stronger or weaker? Do you feel it? What's the trajectory of the earth in the curved space-time around the sun?

When you'd say "go climb some stairs" what you feel are the stairs. And you should also feel like a bit of an idiot, in my humble opinion.

Comment · 12 years ago
Energy is conserved in any iteraction. And gravity is not a force. Gravity is the curvature of space-time.
Comment · 12 years ago
At least in C your initialization functions are first class citizens. Not like in that messed-up language, in which a constructor just should not fail...
Comment · 12 years ago
Most likely you and your kids are gonna be wiped out by intellegent machines just in a few decades.
Comment · 12 years ago
Most likely you and your kids are gonna be wiped out by intellegent machines just in a few decades.

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