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by Steko 11y ago
So umm, the engineers behind the Fire phone are now going to waltz in and fix Google Glass? That's like making a Rock supergroup out of the members of Krokus and Winger.
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by Steko 11y ago
They have the same policy everyone does: don't take them too seriously. As a mostly happy iphone user I can say there's some decent trolling in here, have a laugh and enjoy, I think the sky will still be there tomorrow!
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by Steko 11y ago
I claim no special skill or insight into economics, I'm just tagging these posts so people don't mistakenly think that what is presented is mainstream economic theory. Based on our experience in the last decade, as a first order a
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by Steko 11y ago
Any mention of the Fed on HN seems to come with a generous helping of heterodox complaints about QE. I'll just point out that despite throwing everything at the wall for 6+ years they are all still batting zero.
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by Steko 11y ago
I believe "rape!" is nearly as bad as it's still just charged invective. A more neutral construction would be something like, 'leading to an increase in <crimes>' and I would have no objection to that.
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by Steko 11y ago
'Rape town!' is not normal level headed discussion on the subject. If you want serious debate I'd suggest you can start by not defending the comment that's clearly overstepped the boundary on what constitutes serious deb
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by Steko 11y ago
No one is saying don't talk about the issue. People are pointing out that "rape town!" poisons the well on serious debate. Come on.
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by Steko 11y ago
Shouting 'rape town!' helps though, gotcha!
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by Steko 11y ago
Every time it seems like HN is making a little bit of progress you click on a link and find out they've upvoted something like 'Rape Town!' to the top of a thread.
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by Steko 11y ago
Look if you want to move the goalposts ("killed zero" -> "rounding error") and admit your earlier claims overreached and were wrong I'm fine with that. I'm very much pro-nuclear power and while I don't
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by Steko 11y ago
First, "found no evidence" is in no way a conclusion that no one will die from aftereffects of Fukushima. If you actually click through to wiki's citation you'll see that the study repeatedly cops out and says "more
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by Steko 11y ago
While the larger conclusion about safety being made here are correct, the blanket claims about Fukushima's death toll <5 years after the event strike me as disingenuous.
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by Steko 11y ago
May not be making claims but the author surely abuses confusion of an ostentatious material and the color named after it, although Apple has done the same by introducing a watch made of the material and a phone of the color on the same day.
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by Steko 11y ago
Idlewild scores 72 which is pretty solid but makes the 'top 20 disappointing' because the previous two Outkast albums averaged 90+ and a straight arithmetic difference is used (with percentage of previous two it would rank somew
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by Steko 11y ago
Sure they look similar but that doesn't imply one stole from the other, for all we know Google created this internally as part of their zillions of a/b tests years before. Google is also extremely rich and their logo is one of the
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by Steko 11y ago
I wonder which camera app will implement first.
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by Steko 11y ago
One reaction people might have to this is 'ugh China'. Another one might be 'ugh rich people'. Article reminded me of the Brazilian banker who ran over a bunch of cyclists a few years ago.
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by Steko 11y ago
< since so much of Hawaii's electricity production feeds air conditioners I'd question how accurate this premise is. There's a comment above that makes this claim but without citation and it certainly isn't my experie
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by Steko 11y ago
> Old link was for announcing the original pilot and they've built that one, You seem confused about something, that link is announcing a 5-10 MW system they didn't build. Or rather what they built is the system that you'r
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by Steko 11y ago
Your own link explains why it's not 'pointless': There is no data on maintenance costs, possible environmental impacts on the marine environment or potential engineering problems that could arise with a full-scale model — no
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by Steko 11y ago
Surprisingly, ctrl+f 'cubicle' gives no matches on NYT or here but it seems like an obvious reason. I can't speak for most of the rest of the world but today's Japanese office for rank and file still tends to look someth
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by Steko 11y ago
CAD has a very high correlation with oil prices, according to [1] it's 0.78. [1] http://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/021315/how-wh...
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by Steko 11y ago
I dunno, the whole thing seems straight out of The Art of War , best is to win without fighting ... worst to besiege his cities.
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by Steko 11y ago
> Maybe I wouldn't pick Ice-T, but perhaps a scam artist who pretended to know about science? Seems like a silly objection, you could also vote for a scam artist for office under the status quo and that would be much worse than del
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by Steko 11y ago
Zero meat in that link, sorry.
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by Steko 11y ago
A bit more background on how Venezuela got here: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/07/opinion/francisco-toro-dor... In 2003, a beleaguered President Hugo Chávez imposed currency controls to try to hold dow
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by Steko 11y ago
> I had never heard of Heritage before I read the article I posted, Well I have and they're hacks and frankly they make you look bad by citing their one note analysis of QE. Brad Delong just this morning on Stephen Moore (coauthor o
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by Steko 11y ago
> Can you provide an argument that explains why we would want more QE at this point? http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/8a5cb030-4b38-11e5-9b5d-89a026fda5... Larry Summers and Ray Dalio flag return of quantitative
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by Steko 11y ago
I highly recommend ignoring any comment from the Heritage Foundation about QE. As Paul Krugman says: You should always remember: 1. Don’t believe anything Heritage says. 2. If you find what Heritage is saying plausible, remember rule 1.
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by Steko 11y ago
If interstitial ads were superior to the freemium model the market would already reflect that but it doesn't. The freemium model has just become a silly bogeyman in these discussions. Yes it can be abusive, yes it can be implemented ho

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