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Re:A little secret that will make the world fall apart by SapphireSun on Thursday January 29, 2009 @04:28AM (#456104)
Actually, the real bottom line is work transfer, which can be measured in energy. Energy can produce material goods. If I give you 1MJ in exchange for work, you could do something with it.

  The only law money needs to follow is conservation, which energy fits. OTOH, the US government does screw around with the conservation law a lot, but it does apply to normal people.
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Re:A little secret that will make the world fall apart by gravitycop on Thursday January 29, 2009 @06:16AM (#456193)
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=424877 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=426142

12 points by demallien 20 days ago | link

Hey! Put some carriage returns in there! You're screwing up the page rendering...

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Re:A little secret that will make the world fall apart by DLWormwood on Thursday January 29, 2009 @08:41AM (#456315)
I know this is off-topic, but every time I see a post like this, I feel like I'm back on /. during the 90's, why does this site feel the need to make the page wider than screen whenever pre-formatted text has long lines. (Other sites solve this by inserting scroll bars or forcing line wraps, but not this one.)
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Re:A little secret that will make the world fall apart by Xichekolas on Thursday January 29, 2009 @12:54PM (#456776)
Depends on your browser. From what I remember, the pre's do properly size and have scrollbars in FF2, but not in FF3. The problem has to do with td cells expanding to fit their content I think.

There is a GM script that fixes this in FF3: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/25039

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Re:A little secret that will make the world fall apart by eru on Thursday January 29, 2009 @05:40AM (#456171)
Energy comes in a lot of grades. Low-entropy energy is useful (e.g. electricity). High-entropy energy is useless (e.g. the oceans at their normal temperature).
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Re:A little secret that will make the world fall apart by SapphireSun on Friday January 30, 2009 @01:14AM (#457773)
Sorry about that guys!

Thanks for telling me how to not do that in the future. In this case, for some reason the edit button has disappeared... possibly because it was posted a while ago.

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Re:A little secret that will make the world fall apart by TweedHeads on Thursday January 29, 2009 @09:42AM (#456381)
Fix the bug!
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