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crabappleon Science's Alternative to an Intelligent Creator: the Multiverse Theory

The universe has to be based of a very simple concept

why?

crabappleon Science's Alternative to an Intelligent Creator: the Multiverse Theory

there's a lot of talk of probabilities in the article but it seems hackneyed

the universe has almost countless variables that can result in near-infinite states, but there is a 100% chance that one state must emerge (i.e. a 100% chance that reality exists), and it isn't clear if the alternative scenarios they describe (particles of different masses, stronger gravitational impact on stellar mass) are more probable than our own. the scientists see our state as optimal because we live in it, but why couldn't our state be suboptimal? maybe there was a potential state (never realized) that resulted in us all being omnipotent. there seems to be a bias from the researchers regarding our own state, but they haven't demonstrated that its any more or less likely than any other outcome

crabappleon Coming Soon To Chrome: Google Bookmarks?

does anyone care? does anyone use chrome as their full-time browser? this thing has turned out to be a huge flop for google, and a big waste of time. as long as firefox and safari keep IE dominance in check and as a result keep the standards-based web viable, i wonder what google really stands to gain.

crabappleon Let's End Adolescence

If high STD and drug use rates tell us anything

it tells newt nothing, because stats actually run contrary to his assumption. drug use and teen pregnancy are not rising, they are falling

crabappleon Let's End Adolescence

not the ability to quote Chomsky.

if you had a real education you would know that chomsky's initial ground-breaking work was in language structure, and his work is used widely in compsci texts on automaton theory

so you basically just got fucked by your own defense of ignorance

crabappleon Let's End Adolescence

they take away a quarter of my life (av age of death 75) holding me back and forcing me to learn for tests things that i dont want to know.

then drop the fuck out! go work at ford. see you in twenty years.

crabappleon Let's End Adolescence

you are a fucking idiot

crabappleon Let's End Adolescence

yeah nice example...and how long did he stay in college?

crabappleon Let's End Adolescence

pure claptrap. if newt was less career-minded like he is proposing, he could have taken a history class and looked at mortality rates in the eighteenth century to realize why benjamin franklin was working at 13.

oh and aren't these alvin-tofler-acolytes the ones telling us we will change careers three times? that flexibility requires intellectual flexibility...you aren't going to have that if you mainline people into one job at 13. so what is it newt?

and his "stats" on rising teen pregnancy, drug use, stds??? not only bogus but 100% wrong.

newt is just a gruff dick who never smoked a bowl in college, never got a drunk grope from a gorgeous girl way out of his league, never woke up on the front lawn of the dorm still half wasted...and he wants to make sure you never have fun too! college was the time of my life! i got a degree and learned a lot...but also had more FUN with booze and women than i did before or since? WHY IS THIS TO BE AVOIDED????

crabappleon Yahoo Live gets the axe

yup, only two ways to approach this market:

- skype - 1-1, no moderation needed

- anywebcam - we want you to beat off

crabappleon Gnip Says XMPP Ecosytem Too Half-Baked, Pulls the Plug

gnip is one of those cool services that is so fringe that it may have more developers than users. its another sharecropping deal, just like facebook app builders...get too popular, present a threat to unseat the core services...you get unplugged. it would be a triviality to simply block their ip ranges should they ever get traction against the core services' own webservice strategies

crabappleon Why the Japanese stock market has done so badly

japan has simply been in a secular bear market. we are now in one too.

the distinguishing difference will be why their bear has been more mild than ours will be...because they started theirs as the world's largest creditor...we have started ours as history's greatest debtor

crabappleon VCs Put the Brakes on Early-Stage Startups

investors were unwilling to fund entrepreneurial activity for nearly twenty years of risk-aversion following the depression. vcs think this will be just a four-year hiccup. in ten years most of them will be gone, along with everyone else who thinks that the beginning of a secular bear market is the right time to take risk.