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Ah, Hm. So you did get what i was suggesting, though? The idea was that maybe you could think of particles exactly the same way as you do orbiting planets that eventually return to…

I don't know much about entanglement, but does this now explain why it happens? If we think of the universe eventually returning to some kind of steady state (i'm not sure precisel…

I think it works out fine here. You have one path through all lives, you can't be adam and eve at the same time but you can interact with yourself as either of them at some point i…

Yes, discussing yesterday, exactly. I missed that discussion when it was gone. The point is the same whether you were joking about addiction or not. Preemptive forced action based …

Sounds like a possible psychological issue. This might lead to a problem for society. We might want to get you some preventive treatment for that before you have a chance of harmin…

Going out on a limb here because this does not make sense to me either. But maybe this has something to do with the fact that the valley built all of the software used to support t…

The NSA story is pinned to the second page of news results right now. Why? 31. Java Virtual Machine in pure Node.js (github.com) 266 points by binarymax 1 day ago | flag | 133 comm…

Why is this on the second page of news right now? Older stories with way fewer points are currently ranked higher. This story is 22 hours old with 1495 points. There are stories wi…

Stop "Stop Xing" everything

Does anyone know what is causing the odor outside today in the valley? I noticed it all the way from san jose to mountain view. It's not a garbage smell, it smells almost like pean…

It's also possible (more likely?) that life on any nearby planet discovered would just be a failed attempt of our own. If this is the case, then its discovery would actually be goo…

Yes, which 'rock' (point of origin) did the first human-scale single-celled organism on earth launch from? In this line of thought, the fact that we got off of that rock, grew into…

Aww no parallax on iPad

There is about a 750ms delay for scrolling on my lastgen macbook air. I am going to upgrade my machine for this site. edit: Actually it's more like a 50ms delay followed by some mo…

But ignoring all of the ways RFCs could be better, this site is significantly better than the alternatives (the ietf site, plain text on some random domain, or that shitty purple o…

It seems a little noisy, but it does filter out forks and the dates are nice. Is the user language percentage also a new creation here?

I think it's cool to come out and say this. I have also had extremely positive experiences with drugs as a geek.

I get a bad gut feeling when i read posts like this. It is the same feeling i get when i watch MTV or elimidate or something. The MTVification of Entrepreneurship! That sums up the…

Everyone stop ruining April fools by expecting it

Callbacks are nasty! This is objectively true (ahee!). Callbacks make sense for UI widgets. In this case, the programmer is not the one generating the event, the user is. But when …

Sorry, i meant to deliver that last line with a superfluous emoticon. =).

My two cents as an American: fake smiling and fake tone of voice are equally annoying, apparent, and dishonest. It creates a really unpleasant feeling to see people expressing them…