TriinT

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Communication with submarines(en.wikipedia.org)
19 points by TriinT 17y ago|5 comments
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by TriinT 17y ago
Please note that YC is a company, not a cult. I don't see the need to "spread the message". WTF is the "message"? Whoever has the "right stuff", will find YC or similar companies. It's that simple. PG's essays are all the marketing that YC
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by TriinT 17y ago
I suppose it emits both in radio and sonar, right? What if the airplane crashes over land?
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by TriinT 17y ago
To make things even worse, sea water strongly attenuates electromagnetic radiation at radio frequencies...
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by TriinT 17y ago
For starters, I speculate that Peterson's 1 billion are mostly marked to Blackstone's stock. I doubt he has 1 billion in dollar bills under his mattress. Moreover, the guy is going to donate most of it. Sure, he's going to spend it in what
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by TriinT 17y ago
It could also be argued that people needing work are everywhere and, hence, are an abundant resource. If people working at companies already pay tax, why should companies pay tax too? Companies provide work, society provides workers. If soc
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by TriinT 17y ago
"How much money does the federal government drive to Microsoft?" If they really got into it Obama could make a very public push for "Greater Opennness and transparency in government through the use of Open Source Software". Good point. Th
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by TriinT 17y ago
The point I am trying to make is simple: bombing a country is an act of war. If you start a war, you must be ready to face the consequences, including using ground forces to supplement the air raids. NK can't send bombers to attack the U.S.
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by TriinT 17y ago
USAF pilots have it easy. Until they're shot down over enemy territory, that is... I know nothing about NK's nuclear capabilities, but I doubt a few well-place JDAMS would do the job. Bombing nuclear facilities is not trivial. Israel did it
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by TriinT 17y ago
What will Obama do? Kill Microsoft in response? Ballmer has to serve the Microsoft shareholders, not the American people. Obama has to serve the American people, not the shareholders. Let us face it, the president and other members of gover
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by TriinT 17y ago
To show how committed you are, why don't you volunteer for that attack!? If you talk the talk, you must be willing to walk the walk...
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by TriinT 17y ago
Yeah, we all know how effective the bombing of Serbia in 1999 was. The USAF cannot blow up hardened bunkers deep underground. You need boots on the ground to get the job done. And U.S. soldiers and marines would be brutally punished by the
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by TriinT 17y ago
"Companies should pay tax in their home country on the profits of overseas subsidiaries." That creates an incentive for companies to move their headquarters to the most low-tax, business-friendly country. Moreover, companies already benef
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by TriinT 17y ago
"Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal
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by TriinT 17y ago
Some are red...
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by TriinT 17y ago
Too bad the cowardly U.S. government does not do anything but "negotiate". Grab an M-16 and go get 'em! Easier said than done, right?
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by TriinT 17y ago
"Except for the extraordinary fact that a single person can accumulate 1 billion" Are you jealous? Bill Gates accumulated a whole lot more. So did Buffett. What's extraordinary about 1 billion? The guy is not even among the world's top 10
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by TriinT 17y ago
If you look at many tech startups, you will notice that the age of the founders is closely related to the nature of their business. For instance, YC startups do mostly web software, so the founders should be young because the barriers of en
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by TriinT 17y ago
This is old stuff, but it cracks me up every time I (re)read it. My favorite one is: #define TRUE 0 #define FALSE 1
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Abstract Nonsense for Functional Programmers(cs.tcd.ie)
2 points by TriinT 17y ago|0 comments
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Tax me if you can(pbs.org)
1 points by TriinT 17y ago|0 comments
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by TriinT 17y ago
The speed at which you can change the rules is lower than the speed at which smart people can come up with ways of gaming them...
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by TriinT 17y ago
Of course we are more than our genes. We can rise above our primitiveness, hopefully. I didn't mean to defend the gene-centric theory of evolution because I am not an expert on it. And yes, I have read Dawkins' "The Selfish Gene" too, so I
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I want to set up my own bank(nuclearphynance.com)
1 points by TriinT 17y ago|0 comments
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by TriinT 17y ago
"If you accept evolution, then you accept that it is the species that is important -- not an individual organism. We are fighting for the very existence of intelligence in the universe. We are fighting to preserve the most unique thing we
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Regulatory Capital Arbitrage for Beginners(baselinescenario.com)
1 points by TriinT 17y ago|0 comments
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by TriinT 17y ago
The problem with regulation is that for every set of rules there's a corresponding nonempty set of loopholes that can be exploited. Finance is now so complex that coming up with rules that can't be gamed is not as trivial as one might think
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by TriinT 17y ago
The Sokal affair happened because the so-called Social Sciences (an oximoron) tend to have zero standards...
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by TriinT 17y ago
This is old news: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=436299
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The Challenge of Mobile Energy Storage(terraverde.wordpress.com)
1 points by TriinT 17y ago|0 comments

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