RickHull

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by RickHull 15y ago
Ship spinning is an incredibly trivial feature that corresponds to an utter lack of motivation to actually do things in Eve. Veteran players have a somewhat love/hate relationship with the game, warning new players that "Eve is a terribl
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Intellectual Ventures Files Patent Suit Against Motorola(news.cnet.com)
2 points by RickHull 15y ago|0 comments
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by RickHull 15y ago
Is that a bug or a feature? ;)
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by RickHull 15y ago
> Seems like an utter waste of effort. In a sense, isn't your entire social life a waste of effort? Even if you think the ultimate goal is to construct the ultimate hivemind, massive cultural flip flops can still represent progress.
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by RickHull 15y ago
> The delay between the time that the atom absorbs the photon and the excited atom releases as photon causes it to appear that light is slowing down. If the photon is traveling less D over the same amount of T, I am ok with saying the v
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by RickHull 15y ago
Same. And the "print" link seems designed to defeat a full page load as well. I got around it by middle-clicking the print link to open in a new tab.
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by RickHull 15y ago
> Who are you playing monopoly with? Last time I checked you don't have to pay in real cash to get your funny money. I'm not sure what distinction you are making. To play Eve, you need a monthly subscription. After that, you can gener
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by RickHull 15y ago
> Which is another way of saying, messing with people is a respectable interview tactic I don't think so. Rather it's that technology jobs (and others, surely) often confront frustrating, confounding, and even downright impossible task
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by RickHull 15y ago
The page loaded completely empty for me, even after enabling every prompted script domain via NoScript. Curious, I checked the source, and it looks like the page essentially consists of script elements within an unclosed head tag: http://
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by RickHull 15y ago
Arguably the dollar price of gold reflects the dollar's instability. You see run-ups in the dollar price of gold after the inflation / stagflation of the seventies and with whatever the Fed has been doing the last few years.
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by RickHull 15y ago
Oh, you mean small or huge among indie developers. I'm not sure that's an important distinction. My understanding is the universe of discourse is all game developers , and that small and indie were independent qualifications.
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by RickHull 15y ago
Note that this criticism does not apply to the Austrian school of thought. In Human Action , Ludwig von Mises establishes that humans reveal their preferences through action. There are no hangups about whether these preferences are "rati
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by RickHull 15y ago
The effect does not go away if you only have (or use) one eye.
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by RickHull 15y ago
I think it's more like: we've got 1 ton of wood. Should we make one really big arrow, or a million smaller ones?
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by RickHull 15y ago
> The Chinese govt gave the money to local authorities to spend. I believe that is a overly-simplistic, "net" explanation. I think it goes more like: 1. China's central bank grants credit (i.e. cheap loans) to big "national" ban
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by RickHull 15y ago
> Even at a tiny venue if you get 200 people to show up and you make $10 a head on average that's $2,000 revenue a show, if you do 4 shows a week This is completely unrealistic. 4 shows a week @ 40 weeks a year means you are touring.
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by RickHull 15y ago
That page links to the national laws defining central banks. No one is claiming Mt Gox is a central bank.
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by RickHull 15y ago
Bloomberg terminal is a classic example of the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_effect
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by RickHull 15y ago
Ancient desert interior climate control: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windcatcher http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakhchal
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by RickHull 15y ago
http://www.onlive.com/ Your TV+microconsole (or your computer) becomes a gaming thin client. The game runs in the cloud, and only the sound, display, and controller actions are transmitted between the thin client and gaming server. i.e.
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by RickHull 15y ago
> If so, then why work? Most people need to pay the bills. Room, board, that sort of thing. > Isn't that a waste of Energy, time and resources? Work for work's sake -- perhaps. If you rather receive something desirable in prop
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by RickHull 15y ago
http://robinhanson.typepad.com/files/three-worlds-collide.pd...
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by RickHull 15y ago
Yep, that's where I found it. I figured it was worth its own submission.
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by RickHull 15y ago
> If majority of market participants were value investors you simply would not have bubbles to the degree that we have seen historically. There is an argument that bubbles are the result of overexpansion of credit. Granting systematic
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by RickHull 15y ago
It's a good point, with recursion bonus!
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Guy makes a knife from scratch. He has to make a smelter first.(arscives.com)
278 points by RickHull 15y ago|132 comments
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by RickHull 15y ago
> With people like Lenin, Stalin and Jeltsin as your predecessors you don't really start off good. At the same time, they did set the stage for a dramatic recovery.
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by RickHull 15y ago
> If there is a rigid/semirigid rotor head like on [sic] models Like on what models?
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by RickHull 15y ago
Under hyperinflation, each monetary unit is worth less and less. Your complaint about bitcoin is that each unit is worth more and more. Your analogy makes no sense.
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by RickHull 15y ago
An IPO is the act of selling your business to the public. You are definitely not the only one who may prefer to stay private. It's a business decision the each individual business faces.

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