D-Coder

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541.
by D-Coder 9y ago
_One_ value of a second language is the pool of people it lets you communicate with. Another value is whether you can actually learn it well enough to use it.
542.
by D-Coder 9y ago
I am Spartacus!
543.
by D-Coder 9y ago
Some of us (where "us"="me") come to the HN comments first, because they load very quickly and can help us decide whether to read the article at all. Especially since many of the headlines are pretty opaque due to reuse
544.
by D-Coder 9y ago
Who bothers to sell their goods at a loss? A price increase increases sales, yes? My time is all I have to sell.
545.
by D-Coder 9y ago
It's seven percent annually, 10% for one month. (This is covered slightly better in Ars Technica.) Spring and autumn have lower energy use because less heating and cooling is needed, and wind works particularly well at those times, so
546.
by D-Coder 9y ago
Or the van has a minimum-wage person with no driving skills who just has to be able to find the right package and say, "Here you go! Thank you for using Zap Delivery!"
547.
by D-Coder 9y ago
Who knew renovating a house could be so complicated?
548.
by D-Coder 9y ago
My admiration of Musk goes up another notch. How is that even possible???
549.
by D-Coder 9y ago
It's an argument, IMHO not a very good one. It's basically the same as "but they don't cure cancer!" argument.
550.
by D-Coder 9y ago
Great little book. A friend gave me a copy... and I bought a copy for another friend.
551.
by D-Coder 9y ago
I saw on an AHC program the German calculation about unrestricted sub warfare: that they could choke Britain in six months, but it would take the US two years to ramp up a real fighting force. So it made good sense, but a miscalculation in
552.
by D-Coder 10y ago
4U solar banks (each one fits over four, or some multiple, of containers). Cuts the annoyance down a bit.
553.
by D-Coder 10y ago
And each one wants you to create an account and a password, each with different requirements for # of letters, digits, and special characters. Because, you know, people are always trying to break into these sites to post fake resumes.
554.
by D-Coder 10y ago
"All right, but apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?"
555.
by D-Coder 10y ago
"It's a weird bubble." So you imply they're doing a bubble sort on candidates?
556.
by D-Coder 10y ago
"Recently, every worker was required to sign a confidentiality policy that threatens consequences if we exercise our right to speak out about wages and working conditions." If that's true, it's outrageous.
557.
by D-Coder 10y ago
Amamart!
558.
by D-Coder 10y ago
Where do I volunteer?
559.
by D-Coder 10y ago
In some cases (and you left out marketing, which often exceeds the R&D costs). In other cases, the cost is directly related to 10% less than other treatments. Or to whatever the CEO thinks he can screw out of patients. See: Shkreli; Epi
560.
by D-Coder 10y ago
Well, this one has 176,229 signatures out of a goal of 100,000 and is still up: Immediately release Donald Trump's full tax returns, with all information needed to verify emoluments clause compliance.
561.
by D-Coder 10y ago
Been there done that bought the Great Depression.
562.
by D-Coder 10y ago
"There's a non-zero chance that a cure for cancer is impossible." A quick look at your citations indicates that a cure for cancer is unlikely (because there are many kinds of cancer), but multiple cures for multiple cancers
563.
by D-Coder 10y ago
The paper says, "Of course, high-IQ societies exist, but then most of their members appear to be rather successful and hence limited in their understanding of people who never achieved much, if anything, in life." Some people join
564.
by D-Coder 10y ago
I kind of doubt if neural nets have to be the right model. Any model that gives reasonably similar results to human thinking will be useful. Planes don't have feathers and don't eat bugs, but we say that they "fly" anywa
565.
by D-Coder 10y ago
Ignoring your real argument, but a bun is supposed to be mostly air.
566.
by D-Coder 10y ago
Yes, exactly. It does not require any Constitutional amendment (which would be difficult and time-consuming) to make the Electoral College almost identical to the popular vote.
567.
by D-Coder 10y ago
"the last items on which I keep dodging." That's why I put "Stick fork in eye" on my list. Everything else will get done first.
568.
by D-Coder 10y ago
I found the title of this article misleading — clickbaity. "Fired" suggests that Snoopy did something that cost him his job. The company changed direction, and Snoopy was no longer needed. Snoopy was laid off, or rightsized, or so
569.
by D-Coder 10y ago
"if a plastic bag or piece of cardboard rolls across the highway a human driver knows it's safe to run over without stopping." Well, usually. But frequently they don't see it at all, or freeze and hit it whatever it is,
570.
by D-Coder 10y ago
(...) Anderson: We’d like to remind the audience to stop being a piece of shit. Martha: But really, Hillary—what’s up with the emails you sneaky fuck. Clinton: It was a mistake. I wrote 33,000 emails about Chelsea’s wedding and a yoga class

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