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by 001sky 12y ago
HBS is a profit center. Plain and simple. No need to give away a product which people are happy paying for. Just street smarts 101.
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by 001sky 12y ago
Reading these stories it seems the rationale is "lazy bureaucrats". Clearly where this ends up is putting all poor people into a "system" which ultimate serves the blind will of the faceless bureaucrats running it. The
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Full Screed Ahead(nytimes.com)
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by 001sky 12y ago
This explains the math. 140 cal/28g. Prep time <5min. http://andrewskurka.com/adventures/alaska-yukon-expedition/f... Also, on general Considerations in Food Items: http://andrewskurka.com/
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by 001sky 12y ago
They rarely think about what they are doing as long as at the end of the day their answer is “correct”. Agree. These kids are just playin "THE GAME". I don't know why this is bad. It shows the kids are smart. At the end of
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Just Like Taco Trucks, Art Takes to the Road(nytimes.com)
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'MFA vs. NYC': Both, Probably(newyorker.com)
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by 001sky 12y ago
Props to whoever modded the headline.
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How Google got states to legalize driverless cars (hosted.ap.org)
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by 001sky 12y ago
These are good points for discussion. But the counter-arguments is that they add cost, complexity, and time. I can readily buy 2000 calories of food that are shelf-stable for under the $9/day price of solent. That are equal in weight (
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by 001sky 12y ago
Hey, some people want take the elevator to the gym and work out on a stairmaster...or put their bike on their car to drive to the place where they can ride their bike...away from all the other cars...=D
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by 001sky 12y ago
"a full diet replacement that eventually won't need to leverage crops, for areas with no arable land." How will they make soylent? there are plenty of foods with 100kcal per/0z. that are shelf stable and natural (and hea
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by 001sky 12y ago
Your second sentence makes the first meaningless.
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by 001sky 12y ago
Thanks! As a datapoint, the order of magnitude [10km -100km] range seems like the focus of his recommendation: More and more States are developing their own domestic space launch capability. Few of these new space powers will be able to f
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by 001sky 12y ago
Yes- Modern baby names are status symbols and are treated like a branding exercise by many helicopter-parents. Its both topical and relevant to the world we live in. As is the analytic exercise of extrapolation from incomplete but meaningul
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by 001sky 12y ago
Physics and weather forecasting are not similar endeavours. Nor is the relationship with fed interest rates and inflation transparent. FYI "people in politics" describes every economist. their businesss model relies on someone li
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by 001sky 12y ago
And even then most people don't have a choice--they have to use what data they are "stuck with" and often times that data is provided by people with their own agenda. Public-disclosure requirements is highly politicised and f
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by 001sky 12y ago
Most data is released to the public in ways to make the data as use-less as possible. This is particularly true with economic data and SEC financial information. So, none of this type of "noise" or its analogue "noise cancel
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by 001sky 12y ago
Random Question: What is the altitude of "enemy airspace"? Is there some cutoff or threshold recognized by the UN or some other int'l protocol? (Presumably one isn't infringing on enemy airspace in actual earth orbit.)
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by 001sky 12y ago
53. We Can Do Better – Visualisation of gender disparity in engineering teams (do-better.herokuapp.com) 7 points by Peroni 9 hours ago | flag | 2 comments 54. Reflectionless data binding for Go's net/http (mholt.github.io) 4
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by 001sky 12y ago
52. Broaden the way people interact with handheld devices (fuffr.com) 9 points by klintcho 2 days ago | 2 comments 53. Google Wallet scrapes transaction memos for "Bitcoin", states violation of ToS 10 points by synaesthesisx
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Ask HN: What's wrong with HN's Sorting Algo on p2?
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NY Times: Soylent Taste Test [video](admin.brightcove.com)
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by 001sky 12y ago
It is clear than only a fraction of people who are exposed to trauma develop the full syndrome of PTSD. Thus despite the high prevalence of trauma exposure around the world, the lifetime prevalence of PTSD is no more than 7%. At any given
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by 001sky 12y ago
Not sure I follow. Who said anything about buying out the record labels? Apple can just <become> a label-replacement. There is still a need for a distribution/production/promotion service layer in music biz.
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by 001sky 12y ago
Pandora and spotify are structurally unprofitable because of their licensing problems/payments. Apple is %500Bn company-- big enough to become a label--has the marketing expertise (iTunes) and Capital ($X0Bns cash) to be a next-generat
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Inferring Status and Competence from Signals of Nonconformity (2013) [pdf](hbs.edu)
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by 001sky 12y ago
yes, something got cut-off. I'll re-submit it. this is the actual pdf: http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/The%20Red%20S... [edit] now > https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=78133
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by 001sky 12y ago
Earlier estimates were as low as $80, but that did no include manufacturing costs. This adds about $50 to that estimate and includes another $20 for estimating production expenses. This is almost exactly 10% of its retail price. While this
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by 001sky 12y ago
The carbon economy really post-dates the Adam Smith and the Steam Engine, ca 1776-1781, respectively. The article is quite interesting, but the ending is simply a predictable rant against climate change/global warming. Which is not rea

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