CrankyPants

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by CrankyPants 13y ago
She really isn't. Her efforts at Google, especially as time went on, were increasingly mediocre, and at Yahoo she's proven to be little different. What she has going in her favor is that Yahoo was mismanaged to an utterly stunning
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by CrankyPants 13y ago
Perhaps better than mainstream, ad-supported commercial counter, but that's hardly the gold standard. "Not as terrible as those who go whoring for ad dollars" isn't a ringing endorsement. State-funded is not terribly far
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by CrankyPants 13y ago
Google literally has one product that keeps nearly all of their lights on. They're far more vulnerable than most people think.
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by CrankyPants 13y ago
Sorry if I wasn't clear: my comment wasn't intended to be seen as a commentary on serious journalism, nor was it a commentary on the quality of journalism practiced by the subjects of the article, etc. It was a commentary on Ameri
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by CrankyPants 13y ago
Will it come in black? 700c?
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by CrankyPants 13y ago
There was virtually no possibility of default. It was theater, and the more people bought into the idea of default, the more it fed into the narrative.
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by CrankyPants 13y ago
It improved both mechanical and aero grip at the same time, but the primary purpose, as per Toyota's senior chassis engineer, was to be able to stabilize the aero platform, specifically around pitch. Which makes sense: same reason acti
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by CrankyPants 13y ago
It's been two to three years away for about ten to fifteen years now. You're right, but just don't expect it to be there in two to three years.
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by CrankyPants 13y ago
I know it'll sound like I'm just coming at the same thing from the other side, but the purpose of the mass damper was not to allow for more compliant suspension, but to stabilize the aero platform. And the way the regs were writte
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by CrankyPants 13y ago
Eh, it's been covered by the BBC (by the astute and experienced Gary Anderson), by Racecar Engineering, a highly respected publication, among others. Hardly forums and low-end 'blogs. The Wired article, while to be commended for b
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by CrankyPants 13y ago
Organized crime has anything but "all but mysteriously disappeared". Not sure what your point is.
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by CrankyPants 13y ago
Jobs created in third-world countries by globalization are sometimes preferable to the local alternatives. It isn't a given that they're inherently worse. Having lived as a volunteer in some pretty poor places, I've seen it f
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by CrankyPants 13y ago
I've never understood why it's totally noble for an individual to take pride in his own ability to craft something nice by virtue of his skill and experience, yet when the US (not so much other nations) does this on a business, in
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by CrankyPants 13y ago
This seems to be his point: > More consenting adults being arrested for consenting. The "consenting adults" argument is tough to make when hits are being put out.
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by CrankyPants 13y ago
You do realize he (allegedly) paid to have someone killed, right?
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by CrankyPants 13y ago
Relative to the air it's flying through, yes. Relative to the ground? Not so much. And that's what matters most when transitioning from or to being a ground vehicle (takeoff/landing).
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by CrankyPants 13y ago
That a story is about one political topic doesn't really seem to justify bringing up a fairly tangential political topic, and certainly not in that fashion.
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by CrankyPants 13y ago
Yeah, the basic income is tough because it doesn't address all of the elements that discourage self-improvement, but it does address some. I'd be curious to see what the net decrease/increase in costs would be if the US wiped
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by CrankyPants 13y ago
The existence of controls doesn't necessarily equate to effectiveness. Pair ineffective cost controls with a massive, complex, bloated, ineffective framework, and it doesn't seem to follow that the result is by inspection necessar
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by CrankyPants 13y ago
Which sounds awfully different from saying that poor people shouldn't get subsidies. But, since you bring it up, why should or shouldn't healthcare be coupled to employment? One could argue it's the cause for much of the trou
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by CrankyPants 13y ago
Its cost controls are weak, at best. There's no way the country will come out the other side of this with cheaper healthcare. There will be, of course, (truly) great stories about people who were suffering because of the evil practice
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by CrankyPants 13y ago
It's a post heavily implying that motives for opposing the PPACA–also known as Obamacare–have to do with wanting to harm poor people. That's highly political, quite partisan, and well-beneath the standard to which we should hold e
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by CrankyPants 13y ago
Meh, it's your view. There are plenty of people who oppose PPACA for reasons besides trying to stop poor people from receiving subsidies on their health insurance.
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by CrankyPants 13y ago
I think he's being ironic.
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by CrankyPants 13y ago
SAR wasn't dispatched.
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by CrankyPants 13y ago
Right, so: like he said. Blue-sky concepts which even the inventor himself doesn't want a piece of aside, I don't think the scramjet qualifies as air transportation, unless transporting an unmanned aircraft counts.
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by CrankyPants 13y ago
You know, he's not being entirely unreasonable. When one considers that publications have people whose job it is to try to write link-baity titles, it doesn't always make sense for HN submissions to use the article's title. C
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by CrankyPants 13y ago
Well, that Myriam dude's going to be upset.
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by CrankyPants 13y ago
Agreed, but there's a way to do it and there's a way to do it. There's a world of difference between: "Don't leave your equipment unattended, boys and girls" and "heads-up: we've had stuff go missing
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by CrankyPants 13y ago
Because this is HN and we're all expected to apologize for being anything but categorically dismissive of religion.

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