Steko

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by Steko 11y ago
Given the propensity of island based logic puzzles to define certain classes of people as always/sometimes lying or telling the truth, it's always bothered me that this puzzle never states that the foreigner never lies or is alway
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by Steko 11y ago
I lost it at: > Out of an abundance of love for the mobile web, Google has volunteered to run the infrastructure, especially the user tracking parts of it.
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by Steko 11y ago
Average american watches 5 hours of tv a day. How long does it take to read a 200 pg book even if you're interrupted by meals and things?
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by Steko 11y ago
> directed at natural philosophy Beetles are also big in Japan as the kids say. Bigger than moss even.
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by Steko 11y ago
In Japan even the national anthem can't resist the charms of moss. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kimigayo#Lyrics
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by Steko 11y ago
A short summary of the author's award winning book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Swerve:_How_the_World_Beca... Great reading but ultimately the underlying thesis that rediscovery of Lucretius in some large wa
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by Steko 11y ago
Sand Won't Save You This Time (the prequel to Chlorine Trifluoride: Some Empirical Findings) is also worth the read. Quoting John Drury Clark: It is, of course, extremely toxic, but that’s the least of the problem. It is hypergolic wi
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by Steko 11y ago
Another recent thread that touched on same subject: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10218029
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by Steko 11y ago
It has nothing to do with getting rid of sins, it's about counteracting systemic racism, you stop doing it when the need is gone.
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by Steko 11y ago
Yes it's racist to hold one race down for centuries and then claim the system is entirely meritocratic.
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by Steko 11y ago
I see this topic discussed all the time, not rarely.
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by Steko 11y ago
I'd be interested in seeing the underlying data because there's a lot of noise you introduce by just equally weighing all colleges as data pts and then teasing out a weak trend. You could boil down the entire ban and non-ban popul
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by Steko 11y ago
A plausible explanation is that he was part of a 'Satoshi partnership' with Kleiman and, with Kleiman's passing, began trying to retroactively make himself look like a bigger part of it.
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by Steko 11y ago
The telescopes are actually built here on earth and that money goes to people's jobs just like building anything else. A billion dollars sounds like a lot but if you were to make a list of wasteful billion dollar projects I doubt these
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by Steko 11y ago
If I write the paper alone, I don’t think there would be any problem stating that ‘The author received no financial compensation for this essay,’ - William Happer In none of these cases is the sponsor identified. All my work is published
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by Steko 11y ago
First not all things are equally bad for you and if something is more dangerous than people realize, labels are one way of informing them. Second, the reason smoking is increasingly banned everywhere is not because we don't allow adult
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by Steko 11y ago
It's being flagged down by the 'oh no they're going to kill satoshi' crowd; based on pts and time it should be the #1 post atm.
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by Steko 11y ago
Same 'forecasters' that had WP over 20% in 2015, lol. http://cdn.geekwire.com/wp-content/uploads/idc21.jpg
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by Steko 11y ago
Every Firefox OS article on HN seems to have gotten 50 comments from excited people. These are apparently the 50 phones they sold worldwide.
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by Steko 11y ago
Does anyone really remember what kid-them thought of when they read these passages about Turkish delight a decade plus earlier? I certainly don't and I read the Narnia books at least twice.
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by Steko 11y ago
Kottke serves up a number of lists: http://kottke.org/15/11/best-fiction-of-2015 Among those not already linked upthread or sibling: Tyler Cowen, fiction and non-fiction: http://marginalrevolution.com&#
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by Steko 11y ago
That quote isn't the smoking gun people hold it up to be, did he really believe this or was he just a salesman trash talking the competition? Steve Jobs crap talked a lot of products (e.g. tablets & then smaller tablets) right up
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by Steko 11y ago
The article's conceit is that apparently she should have bought Netflix in 2012 which suggests some future article ideas for the author that practically write themself: maybe Wang Labs could have been turned around by buying out Micros
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by Steko 11y ago
Following that logic we'd all be running around illiterate if we had to wait for Northern Europeans to invent writing. Something tells me you are not going to embrace the idea that your ancestors are just free riding off the great acco
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by Steko 11y ago
Your argument takes the form, 'culture x does a, culture y doesn't do a, a is good therefore culture x is better than culture y' The argument is clearly ridiculous on it's face and as I said above trivially disproved by
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by Steko 11y ago
I'm not sure what the disconnect is, this seems like fairly minor language. If you build roads and buildings where there's nothing it's going to have some impact, that's all I read from that.
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by Steko 11y ago
> In my book, that makes the native Hawaiian culture inferior to my own. I'm sure if you took honest stock of your culture there would be no shortage of episodes many times more egregious than this forced permit reevaluation and b
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by Steko 11y ago
Maybe because of sunk costs and inherent advantages, maybe because 'the natives' are not a monolith (I live in Hawaii and I have heard overwhelmingly pro-telescope views from people I know), and maybe there are similar interests a
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by Steko 11y ago
Yes they had the permit but it was issued in violation of apparent rules. Appeals to lost investment and appeals to how great science is don't automatically trump this or do you want to live in a world where one government bureaucrat&#
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by Steko 11y ago
Just because 'science is good' doesn't mean it gets to trump the normal permitting procedures and rule of law.

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