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New comment by yakiv in "We Should All Have Something To Hide"

yakiv — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 23:16:26 +0000

> some futuristic chip implant in your head to prevent you from committing it

Just curious, are you thinking of The Alliance?

New comment by yakiv in "Teacher under fire for informing kids of their Fifth Amendment rights"

yakiv — Tue, 28 May 2013 06:01:28 +0000

> Never blame on malice what can be blamed on incompetence.

So, does the early bird get the worm or do good things come to those who wait? We're maybe too inclined to just assert these sorts of things as fact. (This includes me.)

New comment by yakiv in "Turing Drawings"

yakiv — Wed, 15 May 2013 05:22:12 +0000

Would every drawing have to loop? Pi doesn't. I personally don't actually know if there's something about this specifically that would force every drawing to loop, though.

New comment by yakiv in "Upside risk"

yakiv — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 20:23:22 +0000

Or you could consider both.

New comment by yakiv in "If you're busy, you're doing something wrong"

yakiv — Sat, 16 Mar 2013 04:02:01 +0000

Even if you can't measure someone's creative thinking ability very well, that doesn't mean that it can't improve with practice.

New comment by yakiv in "If you're busy, you're doing something wrong"

yakiv — Sat, 16 Mar 2013 03:50:07 +0000

I think strait is right. "Elite achiever" only (directly, anyway) has to do with performance, not intelligence.

New comment by yakiv in "Physicists Say They Have Found A Higgs Boson"

yakiv — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 19:29:23 +0000

I was hoping that the neutrinos were actually going faster than light. Confirming established theories is boring, but breaking them is exciting.

New comment by yakiv in "Physicists Say They Have Found A Higgs Boson"

yakiv — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 19:17:32 +0000

Do you know any specifics of how the standard model breaks down at high enough energies?

New comment by yakiv in "Bitcoin blockchain issue - Mt Gox Bitcoin deposits temporarily suspended"

yakiv — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 04:52:24 +0000

This (probably) won't discuss the technical problem, but http://www.bitcoinity.org/markets will let you track Bitcoin prices.

New comment by yakiv in "Bitcoin blockchain issue - Mt Gox Bitcoin deposits temporarily suspended"

yakiv — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 03:26:28 +0000

Bitcoin seems to be picking up again. From Mt. Gox:

    > Last price:$45.00000
    > High:$48.46900
    > Low:$36.65000

Edit: It could go back down a lot. We'll see what happens.

New comment by yakiv in "Bitspend - Buy Anything Using Bitcoins"

yakiv — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 19:28:10 +0000

I'm no expert on bitcoin, but I've read that you can have as many addresses as you want. You could generate a new address for each time you order through bitspend and never give them your "main" address. Overall it may or may not be a better option than just buying directly from a merchant because of other considerations.

New comment by yakiv in "Days since last known Java 0-day exploit"

yakiv — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 20:29:01 +0000

Can't be. Has to say "0" sometimes.

New comment by yakiv in "Soviet College Admission — My Dad's Story (1970)"

yakiv — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 02:27:28 +0000

This is just speculation.

California has this:

    > California’s Master Plan for higher education, adopted in
    > 1960, guarantees a place in college for every state
    > resident who can benefit. The historic blueprint produced
    > systems and programs that have served as models for other
    > states and for countries across the globe.

Stanford is a private university, and MIT isn't in California. The UCs sound like they're public universities. Perhaps the Asian students in California who are blocked out of other universities end up going to UCs instead.

This one might be incorrect, but California being on the west coast might mean that there are more Asians per person in California than in many other parts of the US, too.

New comment by yakiv in "Teaching Square Roots to a Five Year Old"

yakiv — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 09:29:56 +0000

> I thought it was basic enough to be studied at about that age in the rest of the world.

Where do you think GP went to school? Neither the post nor the profile indicates a location.

Edit: I should say that I don't know for sure that you don't know from some other post GP made.

New comment by yakiv in "Gravitational Lensing to Observe Ancient Earth"

yakiv — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 05:01:23 +0000

Does anyone here know why the Einstein cross has 4 of the repeated image instead of being a continuous repetition around the lens object? It seems to me like you should see the magnified image as a sort of circle instead of having a finite number of repetitions.

Is this related to the lines forming a cross you see in pictures of stars?

New comment by yakiv in "Uncopyright"

yakiv — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 16:02:47 +0000

Or to not give an individual power in the first place.

New comment by yakiv in "First Picture of an Atom's Shadow"

yakiv — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 11:58:21 +0000

Actually, if you're curious, there's matter that isn't made of atoms, such as neutrinos.

White House Petition: Eliminate price floors on agricultural products.

yakiv — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 02:09:08 +0000

Article URL: http://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/eliminate-price-floors-agricultural-products/HY9rNDnM

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5290064

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by yakiv in "We Aren’t the World"

yakiv — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 05:44:01 +0000

    > Human beings are irrational and sometimes do things that
    > aren't in their economic best interest out of principle
    > or ethics.

Humans might be irrational sometimes, but this isn't one of those times. "Rationality" has no meaning outside of the context of a goal . . . the sentence I quoted makes it seem like you're saying people should only care about their economic (do you mean financial/material?) interests.

You also said

    > Think about it: if I murder somebody, then offer you $100
    > not to tell anyone, would you take the money? I certainly
    > hope not.

so it does seem you aren't actually suggesting that.

New comment by yakiv in "Ruby 2.0.0 Released"

yakiv — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 10:22:58 +0000

I use Ruby some, but I'm not sure I'd describe it as clean exactly. I've used Python a bit recently and was struck by just how clean it seemed. (I'm not sure Python has anything that quite replaces blocks, though. I don't claim Python's all better than Ruby.)