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Hmm. Like the idea but the name... I get it, but if you say it fast, it sounds like famine.

I just discovered where Luke Holder lives.

What I found more interesting than Pachter's analysis of the specific failings of the Barzel-Barabási paper is the more general implications for our scientific process. I have two …

I believe you are thinking of the retarded potential http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retarded_potential

I'd amend this to "tell me about an academic publication that you've been a major contributing author". Depending on the field and circumstances first author doesn't mean the same …

Which part exactly are you contesting?

The basic technology for this has been around for years (e.g., the logitech digipen), though I think this latest iteration is the first to add pressure sensitivity. I've always wan…

I suppose it's easy to assert that a site is immune to ES when it's in its infancy-- the argument made here is that HN's niche hardcore basis protects it, but the same argument cou…

As oft-cited as it is and as much as I hate to resort to it, I think Robert Frost said it better: "Two paths diverged in a yellow wood..."

Sorry, so the argument is: other research costs are expensive in some fields, thereby high spending is prestigious, thereby access to publications ought to be expensive so that fie…

may be minor compared to other use, but I bet it accounts for a fair proportion of the time to page render.

Sure the relative lost efficiency from that extra 20kb may be

The advantages and disadvantages the author cites seem more pertinent to his own idiosyncratic preferences than to more general features one might look for when doing interactive d…

Topological properties of an individual (such as network degree or betweeness centrality) are not necessarily predictive of influence. The author acknowledge this and suggests obse…

Beyond managing your identity/s, the most compelling notion this brings to my mind is that sites should reduce transmission of redundant data: You specify the structure once then o…