Vivtek

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931.
by Vivtek 14y ago
The really bizarre aspect of this is that Carreon, in his non-lawyer private life, has a blog. So you can't say he doesn't know what the Internet is.
932.
by Vivtek 14y ago
I guess that's a lot less funny if she's actually mentally ill.
933.
by Vivtek 14y ago
Carreon's wife sounds even crazier than Carreon himself, apparently saying that there is a conspiracy of actual grammar Nazis killing Americans and that the Oatmeal is part of it. You can't make this stuff up, folks.
934.
by Vivtek 14y ago
"Negatived"? Is "negative" a verb in legal language?
935.
by Vivtek 14y ago
That means the 7-year-old laptop I just replaced has been a fantastic investment!
936.
by Vivtek 14y ago
30% of 900 million users, 600 million of which are spam accounts? What a conveniently impossible number of votes to obtain.
937.
by Vivtek 14y ago
Sailing across the Atlantic is still an achievement.
938.
by Vivtek 14y ago
Or... next launch window.
939.
by Vivtek 14y ago
Because Elon Musk is a true believer with all the money he needs. We're going to Mars.
940.
by Vivtek 15y ago
I'm not complaining if this generation's robber barons give us asteroid mining...
941.
by Vivtek 15y ago
When I hear this, my only response is simply WHY THE GENTLY CARESS IS THE POWER GRID ON THE INTERNET?
942.
by Vivtek 15y ago
Oh, come on, it's like a brainstorming session in tweet format (140 characters and everything). The idea is to take very little time from the complainer, and let him/her just say what's most irritating about his/her day. Make it as easy a
943.
by Vivtek 15y ago
Wow! I personally find it fantastic! Where is this data coming from? How do you get industry people to complain there?
944.
by Vivtek 15y ago
I've heard this before. Do you think that Germans or the French end users care about the price? No - they're insured far better than any American without a (D) or (R) after their name. They just _go to the doctor when they're sick_. Per
945.
by Vivtek 15y ago
That's ... not open source. I think information wants to be free, too, but this is unethical and is not what open source is about. You can't share somebody else's knowledge - just your own.
946.
by Vivtek 15y ago
I've off-and-on dreamed about that as a revitalization for the old millionaire's neighborhood I live in. Lots of huge 1880's brick houses (including mine) chopped up into squalid little apartments for drunks and dumpster divers, when they'
947.
by Vivtek 15y ago
Oh, that's a nice idea. I have to admit that the boxes don't do much for me, but symbols would make it easier to see what's where.
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by Vivtek 15y ago
I eagerly await all the Sharia law trials of anyone who's posted a bit.ly link to a pornographic picture, then. And they're not being tried in those courts. Their domain has simply been seized because that's easier than winning in court.
949.
by Vivtek 15y ago
They weren't doing anything illegal - where they were . Do you think you should be punished for doing something that's illegal anywhere in the world?
950.
by Vivtek 15y ago
Didn't their open letter just say that they support open access? Because this press release says they "still oppose government mandates".
951.
by Vivtek 15y ago
Ah. They're related historically. 1930's. Note that I did specifically mention that I was only talking about this one way of streamlining the immigration process and that I agree with you on the whole. But I think perception of your po
952.
by Vivtek 15y ago
Which things? IQ and eugenics? Or low IQ scores and not having English as a first language (as IQ was measured in the 30's)? Or IQ and immigration quotas that favored Northern Europe over Southern Europe?
953.
by Vivtek 15y ago
IQ's above 130 That's been tried and it's not the best part of our history. I know you mean well with this point and I agree with your larger argument, but there's a sad backstory about the rather fundamentally flawed IQ system and the
954.
by Vivtek 15y ago
I'd say the wording of Rumblefish's reply implies that there are Rumblefish humans involved in the review process.
955.
by Vivtek 15y ago
Unfortunately, I don't see any timetable for release of the entire corpus; if they're going to release 167 emails per day, that's going to take 82 years.
956.
by Vivtek 15y ago
I like the way the open letter says that Elsevier supports open access to public research when Elsevier is actually lobbying against open access to public research. (e.g. http://www.michaeleisen.org/blog/?p=807 )
957.
by Vivtek 15y ago
people think I'm some big company selling this software I'm convinced this is a significant insight. Most consumers are trained to assume that they're always buying from Megacorp and that cheating and complaining is perfectly valid beh
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by Vivtek 15y ago
Jacques, it sounds like wallflower already knows all that. The issue is the emotional impact it had (which is in the past), not that wallflower still resents the neighbor. And that money is weird, on an emotional level. Which it is . (No
959.
by Vivtek 15y ago
Cognitive bias is arguably more germane to HN than international energy politics.
960.
by Vivtek 15y ago
Yeah, I'll bet a mass-produced high-rise in China costs way less than $5000 per one-room unit, and at practically zero land cost, too, given its vastly smaller footprint. That's a damn good point.

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