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by 205guy 12y ago
So much contradiction here. So you know that people want jobs and a growing economy, and when they actually vote for something else, it is "crafty populism." Demagogues and uneducated voters are real but separate problems. But the
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by 205guy 12y ago
I had exactly the same history: started with the Microsoft trackball (guided by the fingers), and when that died, switched to the wired Logitech trackman (ball is under the thumb), and now that's unavailable so have the wireless one. B
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by 205guy 12y ago
Anyone with a kid knows that the body's first addiction is sugar.
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by 205guy 12y ago
To summarize, two babies were switched at birth with plausible explanation as to why neither mother acted on her suspicions. Each mother bonded with her non-biological child, and raised her as her own (just like millions of adoptions the wo
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by 205guy 12y ago
For those who want a peek into the maritime industries (shipping, offshore extraction, navies, tourism, etc) and their concerns (commodity prices, shipwrecks, arctic warming, big engine tech): gcaptain.com
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by 205guy 12y ago
Great, just what Mexico needs is a zero-down solar clone as a carpetbagger. The issue with zero down solar is this: solar panels (and equipment and installation) now cost about 5-10 years worth of electricity (it all depends on electric rat
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by 205guy 12y ago
Nice introductory article to Polynesian navigation, too bad the title is so misleading (dragons?) and the quip at the end is wrong. Polynesian navigation did almost die out, but the Polynesian Voyaging Society, a child of the Hawaiian Renai
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by 205guy 12y ago
Ugh, pop-journalism. Did anyone even wonder where the word Joachimthal came from that gave the dollar it's name? From my rudimentary German, I would guess [Saint] Joachim valley, in other words the location of the silver mine.
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by 205guy 12y ago
Expatriation and taxes are complex issues with many facets, and I feel the author of the article is naively or deceitfully ignoring them to only focus on the unrealistic solution that would benefit him. First, let's get the taxation-wi
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by 205guy 12y ago
I hadn't thought of this when I first saw the comic: the moon is 1.3 light seconds away, so that is some improbably fast dialog (or some improbably slow light-based weapon).
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by 205guy 12y ago
Fair enough, I was thinking I was being a bit harsh. And I applaud someone who wants to delve in to a realistic analysis of history. Yet... I just couldn't help notice a disconnect. It would be like me asking on HN why, if tech salarie
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by 205guy 12y ago
This. At first, I wondered why the NTSB was getting all the design data from the company, much of which must be proprietary and, as a one-off custom design craft, not useful to the NTSB. I mean, wouldn't the company want to do its own
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by 205guy 12y ago
I am both surprised as how successful he was at remaining obscure, and yet how many on HN were familiar with his work and writings. I was briefly a math major at the university, I studied at a technical school in France, I read a lot on tec
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by 205guy 12y ago
iPad reader here as well. I couldn't get beyond the first page either. Another example of low quality product (or perhaps outright malicious business model) breaking the Internet.
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by 205guy 12y ago
I find codezero's lack of historical perspective rather uninformed and somewhat naïve. "how can you afford..." People at the time didn't always have the money (or trade goods) and some lived in squalor (not all food&#x2F
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by 205guy 12y ago
bane wrote: "I looked around for a little bit on the web but there's really pitifully little we know about this kind of day-to-day minutia." I would call that myopic; the Internet does not yet contain all of human knowledge e
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by 205guy 12y ago
Note that runway 22L is the same as 4R, just with the opposite approach (from the other end, thus 180 degrees around). The 2 names appear at the corresponding ends of the runway.
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by 205guy 12y ago
Not turbo because the exhaust energy is lost. The comments above mention the F1 solution: put an electric motor/dynamo on the turbo so you can drive the intake earlier and regenerate from the exhaust side.
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by 205guy 12y ago
Good god, how about "don't break anything!" Is that too much to ask for? As in "don't break scrolling, don't break forward and back navigation, don't break link highlighting, don't break resizing (des
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by 205guy 12y ago
My brain always stumbles on the loose-lose pair. I don't usually substitute them for each other, but I always have to think about which one to write. I believe it is because of the odd spelling and pronunciation of the pair. The extra
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by 205guy 12y ago
I once did a weekend trip from the Bay Area to Reno (on Saturday and back on Sunday), which was my first Amtrak experience. The schedule works out so you can take the California Zephyr both ways in the daylight. I figured I didn't want
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by 205guy 12y ago
While I really like the non-tech topics (I remember one about raising chickens as well), and I love reading all the HN comments (more detailed how-to experiences, startup metaphors, and beehive monitoring devices), I really did not like the
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by 205guy 12y ago
There is this thing called public transit. It's where government takes tax money from all companies and their workers and subsidizes a train or bus to go into most neighborhoods and commercial areas... Some companies even provide trans
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by 205guy 12y ago
Forget about Egyptian Blue and its techno-wonders, did you see the link to Mummy Brown? http://www.artinsociety.com/the-life-and-death-of-mummy-brow... Far more fascinating. tl;dr: for several hundred years, Europeans trade
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by 205guy 12y ago
I wanted to say the same thing as Taniwha. My understanding of mana in Hawaiian pre-contact usage was a combination of the qualities we would call leadership, charisma, and popularity. People with mana made good chiefs, led their warriors i
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by 205guy 12y ago
What is depth of field in a UI? Is that something like I describe in my other comment ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7881182 )?
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by 205guy 12y ago
Am I the only one who can't stand transparent windows of any sort? It really distracts me from the contents of the window, and the blur makes my eyes try to focus it, and then my brain tries to process the image. I'm still waiting
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by 205guy 12y ago
Of course your own hand-wavy numbers will support your argument, it doesn't mean they are correct, nor that your socioeconomic assumptions are correct. And the topic of this article has nothing to do with athletics or the shady academi
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by 205guy 12y ago
Finally someone calling out thaumasiotes for his dubious anti-affirmative action screeds. And what a surprise to find he links to racist websites. Not.
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by 205guy 12y ago
I gotta chase thaumasiotes all over this thread and stand up to his elitism. He wrote: "What's wrong with describing the students who can't succeed outside of the bottom tier as "substandard"?" The article tell

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