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Re:The Free Software Foundation is even more relevant now than before
on Monday September 23, 2013 @10:00AM (#6430915)
If Firefox is supposed to be Google's serf, why aren't they supporting NaCl and Dart?
Re:Artillery is building a hardcore RTS with HTML5 and WebGL
on Friday September 20, 2013 @10:57AM (#6418088)
Is it worth replacing a proprietary plugin (which the owner may stop supporting at any time) with an open standard (which has guaranteed continued development)? Yes, I believe it is.
Re:The Engineer Who converted 12,100 Cups Of Pudding to 1.25 Million A...
on Wednesday September 18, 2013 @11:13AM (#6405750)
If it was indeed sarcasm then it was too subtle for HN. I mean if you had posted that on 4chan then it would be blatant sarcasm, but people on HN take themselves a little to seriously so it's a lot harder to tell.
Re:The Engineer Who converted 12,100 Cups Of Pudding to 1.25 Million A...
on Wednesday September 18, 2013 @11:00AM (#6405669)
You must be fun to hang around with.
Re:The Engineer Who converted 12,100 Cups Of Pudding to 1.25 Million A...
on Wednesday September 18, 2013 @10:56AM (#6405638)
You're missing out, it's hilarious. Oh, and get adblock.
Re:Duck Duck Go is blowing up again
on Friday September 13, 2013 @12:10AM (#6378552)
I want to like it too but I don't think DDG results will ever be as good as Google because of the no tracking thing. Google just has more context to figure out what I actually mean with my query, and the more I use it the smarter it'll become.
Re:Companies lay off thousands, then demand immigration reform for new...
on Wednesday September 11, 2013 @10:37PM (#6371718)
Yeah, the hypocrisy is astounding.
Re:Companies lay off thousands, then demand immigration reform for new...
on Wednesday September 11, 2013 @06:45PM (#6370658)
Why would you want to prevent the rest of the world from catching up to America?
Re:Free Software Foundation issues statement on new iPhone models from...
on Tuesday September 10, 2013 @09:52PM (#6364974)
Not to mention all the patent trolling and hardware restrictions.
Re:HDMI 2.0 officially announced
on Wednesday September 04, 2013 @11:32AM (#6328241)
I'm not sure I understand the need for 8k. If you want to watch your TV at an optimal viewing angle of 20%~40% then 4k is more than enough to achieve "retina display" at the required viewing distance.
Re:Soylent: Operations Update
on Tuesday August 27, 2013 @10:48AM (#6283735)
The stuff that goes in Soylent and their quantities come from FDA recommendations.
Re:Soylent: Operations Update
on Tuesday August 27, 2013 @10:13AM (#6283506)
Didn't know about Ensure Complete and it seems that you are right, it looks pretty complete. The problem though is the variance in the DV% of different nutrients. For instance, if I wanted to get 100% of sodium from Ensure then I would have to intake 3500 calories and 260% protein, and I haven't heard too many great things about having too much protein. The DV% of most micros is not listed so there may be a lot of problems like this.
Re:Soylent: Operations Update
on Tuesday August 27, 2013 @09:58AM (#6283426)
No, but it sounds logical to me that it would be a lot more efficient to get, say, X tons of calcium from calcium carbonate than from milk, or protein from a high yielding source instead of one that needs to be tasty.
Re:Soylent: Operations Update
on Tuesday August 27, 2013 @09:44AM (#6283350)
Older products like Ensure weren't good enough to go "all in" on liquid food because they don't have 100% of everything we know we need.
Re:Soylent: Operations Update
on Tuesday August 27, 2013 @09:33AM (#6283272)
>>the idea of chugging multiple cups of gray, sludgy drink daily sounds like an enormous burden that would grow tiring really quickly. It sounds like something that would make you dread the passing of the day, as another cup of slurry draws ever closer.
I guess some people just don't care about taste as much as they care about superior nutrition that uses less resources to produce and transport, and less time to prepare, consume and clean up.
Re:An Animation About Quantum Computers
on Friday August 23, 2013 @10:23AM (#6263755)
Probably a dumb question, but how can we know for sure that it's intrinsic randomness? Maybe we just haven't figured how it really works?
Re:Open source as a civic duty
on Saturday August 17, 2013 @03:33PM (#6230073)
Life is more than just climbing the food chain and making money.
Also open source projects are not "somebody else's", they belong to everyone. When you contribute to open source all of mankind is benefited.
Re:“People simply empty out”
on Saturday August 17, 2013 @12:49PM (#6229566)
Surely it's been said more often than "I should have stayed home and watched more sitcoms".
Re:Why I Left Medium
on Thursday August 01, 2013 @09:13AM (#6140020)
If it's not about personal brand or profit then why would the writers care that the platform is making money out of their content?
Re:Why I Left Medium
on Thursday August 01, 2013 @12:11AM (#6138587)
Is it so hard to believe that some people just want to share their thoughts with the world and don't care about profit or building their personal brand?
Re:Samsung overtakes Apple as world's most profitable mobile phone maker
on Saturday July 27, 2013 @07:12PM (#6114835)
Android fans care about open source, not Google or Samsung. There's a big difference between that and Apple fanboyism.
Re:The Forbidden Island
on Saturday July 20, 2013 @12:29PM (#6075633)
The adults are saying "no", the children just have to go along with that choice that was made for them. This is arguably a form of coercion because the children are being denied the opportunity to a better life.
Re:The Forbidden Island
on Saturday July 20, 2013 @12:18PM (#6075585)
What about their grandchildren? They could get a good education, integrate into modern society and have the opportunity to live a way happier life than if they had stayed in the island.
Re:Ultimate Tic Tac Toe
on Wednesday June 19, 2013 @01:39AM (#5903884)
Gomoku has already been solved actually, maybe you were thinking of Go? There's a revised version called Connect6 though, in case you are interested.
Re:Soylent: Gruel today, gruel tomorrow
on Monday May 27, 2013 @11:17PM (#5777822)
Totally man, we should go back to traveling by horse while we are at it.
Re:Soylent Campaign
on Tuesday May 21, 2013 @07:05PM (#5747659)
I agree that it should stand up to scientific scrutiny before being able to claim that it is safe, but the argument he was making before he deleted all his posts was that Soylent was most definitely unsafe solely because it was made by "some computer kids".
Re:Soylent Campaign
on Tuesday May 21, 2013 @06:32PM (#5747456)
He has posted blood test results corroborating his claim of improved health. His blog is down right now unfortunately.
Re:Soylent Campaign
on Tuesday May 21, 2013 @06:25PM (#5747399)
Your only argument is an argument from authority. Sorry, I'm just not impressed at all.
Re:Soylent Campaign
on Tuesday May 21, 2013 @06:22PM (#5747378)
Very eloquent arguments, you've thoroughly convinced me.
Re:Soylent Campaign
on Tuesday May 21, 2013 @06:18PM (#5747336)
It is not a "substance". This is basically a multivitamin mixed in with some fluor, some whey protein and some olive oil. You only need common sense to validate the safety.