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joeycfan

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Just another ruby geek
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joeycfan··on Hexaflexagons
I had these things in my pencilcase in highschool in the seventies.

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joeycfan··on What do you think? "Prepare For The Hyperinflationary Great Depression"
Correct. The dollar is finished - the USA will undergo at LEAST 100 % price increases realsoonnow.

The country might break apart. The sign is, when the Mexicans seize California, as they have been saying they will do for a while, America is through.

And when I say Mexicans, I don't mean the ones in Mexico - I mean the ones in the USA illegally right now.

The price of oil will go through the ceiling - in terms of USD - and America will stop.

Then - there's gonna be a war.

Not one of the TV wars like Vietnam, but one of those everyone-is-invited wars like WWII. After that, who knows whats gonna happen.

History will record three 'Inexplicable American Madnesses' that caused all this.

1 - The USA removed it's trade barriers to China thereby destroying it's own industrial base even though they knew it would happen.

2 - America bankrupted itself fighting Israel's enemies for it just when it needed everything it had to fend off the results of the first mistake.

3 - America permitted 20 million illegal immigrants into it's territory, even though they said they'd seize California - and they did.

We are living in interesting times.

joeycfan··on BuildAfrica.org
Give it up. Africa is hopeless.

Whitey's great weakness is this weird urge to help other races. We need to help ourselves first. God knows everyone else does - by feeding on us.

joeycfan··on Craigslist on eBay: "Untrustworthy"; eBay on Craigslist: "Amateurish"
Ebay has been high handed and mean in the last couple of years.

Go, CL!

joeycfan··on The man who smuggled himself into Auschwitz
Two things.

First, this is irrelevant here. The is about geekdom, remember? And since Holocaust Remembrance Day in the media is yesterday, today and tomorrow, we don't need any more reminding.

Second, the reason they didn't bomb the camps is that they knew full well that right in the middle of a life-and-death struggle, the Nazis were actually diverting who-know-how-many SS soldiers and their immense support systems to running these camps.

The war, which tettered on a tipping point several times. might have been way different if those soldiers has been allowed to actually soldier. The camps held them down as effectively as several armored divisions.

joeycfan··on How Can We Help the World’s Poor?
1 - see them good stuff for fair prices. cell phones especially

2 - hire assassins to kill their incredible corrupt crap leaders.

joeycfan··on "Big Bang" machine set to yield surprises
I'll say. I keep seeing the intro to Half-Life again...
joeycfan··on The market has rejected Linux desktops. Get over it.
I don't believe linux desktops have hit their stride yet.

A few more years.

joeycfan··on Visualizing the decline of empires
Needs more than four empires. I want to see Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union bloat and disappear, and the growth of America.
joeycfan··on New Dating Sites Match People Through DNA Tests
Anyone tried matching people through scent? It's well known there are scent preferences that map directly to genetic diversity.
joeycfan··on Do you think the whole email me at XXXXXX[at]XXXXXX[dot]com fools the spammers?
I think they coded for that way back.
joeycfan··on Forth compiler in one literate x86 assembly file
Awesome. Forth is a great language!
joeycfan··on Facebook is the new Google
Um no, because there is no University of Facebook, that is the ability to learn anything by Facebooking it.
joeycfan··on Things Worth Knowing About Coffee
I read that that is because the longer the roast the more caffeine gets destroyed.

So stronger coffees are actually less buzzy.

joeycfan··on Ask HN: What tool makes you most productitive?
Yes actually.

Also, after getting my laptop bricked by the Ubuntu 9.10 upgrade I recovered my entire project from it.

joeycfan··on How Much Linux Is in Android?
A lot, I hope.

Why did they even bother? Just port OpenBSD or somesuch to the hardware.

joeycfan··on Warren Buffet Bets $26B on Railroad Business
Despite all the net stuff, people still need to move lotsa atoms from place to place cheap and the trains are good at that.
joeycfan··on Fighter Pilots Face A Dismal Future
Also there is no way a program would have pulled off that 'land in the hudson river' thing that guy did a while back.

Everyone would have died on a computer plane.

joeycfan··on Fighter Pilots Face A Dismal Future
I think the Korean War will turn out to have been the golden age of the fighter pilot.
joeycfan··on Are Too Many Students Going to College?
Yes. University should be intrinsically leet. Top 10% only.
joeycfan··on Soviet-style mathematics
I remember buying those excellent Mir of Moscow math books at the USSR exhibit at the CNE in Toronto every year.

I really miss them - anyone know if they still exist?

joeycfan··on Zynga To Remove All In Game Offers
These people are typical of the ethicless parasites that infest everything creative smart people make.
joeycfan··on You're An Idiot For Not Using Heroku
When Heroku was new I tried to move my site to it and it refused to do a migration that required a helper.

I checked carefully and it worked fine on my computer.

I wrote them about it and never got an answer.

I waited and they never fixed it so I went with a host.

Appertainly they've fixed it but I'm happy where I am.

www.jgsbws.com

joeycfan··on Japanese Lisp Manga
I have always regretted not taking lisp. I hope this is translated one day.
joeycfan··on Will Our Universe Collide With a Neighboring One?
No..... I'm pretty sure we don't have a neighboring one.

Wait, are you talking about the one where everyone wears cowboy hats?

I pretty sure we won't hit that one.

joeycfan··on Claude Lévi-Strauss Dies at 100
This guy did us a disservice in many ways. He is one of the instigators of the politically correct Our Evil Religion school of thought that our culture is no better then anyone else's (thus chipping away at Western Civilization, the hidden agenda)

Whereas the truth is everyone in those 'equal' civilizations is pissing through concrete trying to get the the West. The know damn well the equality thing is not so.

On the whole, an intellectual idiot.

joeycfan··on Why does Microsoft say Zoho is the Fake Office?
Arrogance. They think they own the business business.
joeycfan··on Ask HN:What are the lessons of the Demonoid downtime?
I agree. I really miss the books and comics.
joeycfan··on Lessons from Rackspace's downtime
Ok, but what is the lesson from DEMONOID's downtime?

Apparently the whole thing is is dependent on one guy who is nowhere to be found. Whats up with that?

joeycfan··on Ask HN: Should I generate passwords for new users instead of asking for one?
Use OpenId
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