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13 years ago
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on: Why Canada's productivity has been underestimated for decades
The article quoted the official response to the paper. Canadian government officials are routinely muzzled, the official response is all you get these days.
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14 years ago
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on: GNU Emacs 24.1 released
Callooh! Callay!
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14 years ago
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on: The iPad Is Unbeatable
but this time it's different, there's more pixels!
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14 years ago
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on: What's the meaning of "That's the exception that proves the rule?"
prove used to mean test. Hence, that's the exception which tests the rule.
in fact, that meaning survives in the phrase "proving ground"
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14 years ago
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on: Apple deletes an entire galaxy
Apple went super-nova on that galaxy!
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14 years ago
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on: HIV virus used to turn white blood cells into cancer serial killers
It's awesome to see one shitty thing in life being used to get rid of another shitty thing in life.
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14 years ago
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on: Why Isn't America Innovating Like It Used To?
examine this by economic sectors:
primary - extracting products from the earth
this sector has seen consolidation (farming) and has been chasing lower and lower returns with higher input costs (see gas fracking for example)
secondary - manufacturing
offshored
tertiary - services
offshored / massive incumbents from decades of M&A who stifle competition.
Quaternary - intellectual
massive cuts to basic science research, libraries, etc..
please read the above with all the caveats which should apply to hysterical internet posts.. :)
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14 years ago
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on: Swedish man caught trying to split atoms at home
I love how he's doing it in his apartment kitchen. Not his house located in an isolated forest, but an apartment building....
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15 years ago
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on: Take the Autism Quotient Test
scored 22
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15 years ago
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on: In battle of iPad vs. Android-based Galaxy Tab, 85% prefer Apple
I sold my ipad for a galaxy tab and have been significantly happier with it. But I'm a geek and I'm still planning on replacing my parents' laptop with an ipad.
I'd like Android to be as polished as the iOS but with all the cool functionality available for those who are interested in tinkering. I'd also like an unlimited supply of money and universal acclaim...
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15 years ago
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on: Ask HN: Are early adopters rich?
you're wrong, they all rich! rich! richer than astronauts!!!
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15 years ago
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on: Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test (Do You Have Asperger's?)
23 here, i'm off to watch jeopardy at 5 o'clock! and then it's judge Wapner...
