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by akamaka 7y ago
It’s not a simple calculation when people in Japan are still debating what the final cost of the Fukushima disaster will eventually add up to. To do a simple calculation, you need to know the real costs of things, and right now those are un
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by akamaka 7y ago
> I'm not even sure if their detainment is for the purpose of investigate, cohesion or they're merely being made an example of to others. This is the crux of the problem. We have no idea whether they are legitimately being inv
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by akamaka 7y ago
It's interesting that the graph of taxi medallion sales seems to show a trimodal distribution: most sales are close to the market price, but many are consistently at half the market price, and others are much higher, especially during
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by akamaka 8y ago
The book you want is probably Kelly: More than My Share of It All . I haven’t read it myself but the reader reviews seem great. https://www.amazon.com/dp/0874744911/
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by akamaka 8y ago
This is suprisingly helpful. I’ve seen all these color systems before, but this site demonstrates the design possibilities they create much better than any color guide I’ve used before.
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by akamaka 8y ago
Just to clarify, there are three categories of balsamic of varying standards, the highest of which is expensive, aged in multiple barrels, and definitely not widely available in supermarkets. That being said, it’s a stretch to call the less
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by akamaka 8y ago
Which 3D Touch features do you use the most, and consider irreplaceable?
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by akamaka 8y ago
Web development has been the greatest nexus of software innovation for the last two decades, and its influence has transformed the entire landscape around it. It has fundamentally changed data storage (XML, JSON), app integration (embedded
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by akamaka 8y ago
That’s exactly how I felt about a previous book of his, The Ascent of Money , which was released at the height of the financial crisis in 2008 and then rushed into production as a TV documentary. One review accurately called it “rushed an
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by akamaka 8y ago
There’s no similarity to antivaxxers here. Natural wines are mostly consumed by wine lovers, not health nuts, and the main concern is what the heavy processing is doing to the quality and distinctive character of the wine.
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by akamaka 8y ago
I lost respect for WSJ because of their continuous anti-Tesla editorials. I’m not at all a Tesla fanboy, but the WSJ commentary on subsidies are just trashy attacks that are devoid of any logic or context, given that the help that other in
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by akamaka 8y ago
> Beginning on June 11, 2018, you’ll need to enable billing with a credit card and have a valid API key for all projects. This will give you the ability to scale easily with less downtime and fewer performance issues. In addition, we’re
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by akamaka 9y ago
Sam’s posts aren’t upvoted unconditionally. See here: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=samaltman.com
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by akamaka 9y ago
The Elliot Rodgers videos are still up on YouTube, though. On the balance, it’s probably more helpful to allow people to understand what led up to these events rather than suppressing the shooter’s words for the sake of some theoretical sa
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by akamaka 9y ago
The posted article has a link to the earlier study from the same researchers: http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2014/04/elite-violinists-fail... “The consistency of results from session to session showed that so
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by akamaka 9y ago
It seems a bit pointless to run these tests, since it’s up to each violinist to choose his or her own favourite instrument. Their own studies show that top violinists can easily detect the differences between individual violins.
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by akamaka 9y ago
Thanks for sharing these good sources. I’m eager to read them and learn more. I also recommend Empires of the Atlantic World by J.W. Elliot. Although the book is broad-ranging and not focused exclusively the causes of depopulation, it p
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by akamaka 9y ago
The police investigators have no way of knowing if a fault exists in the software. I hope the raw sensor data will be released to experts who can simulate how different versions of software would have handled the situation.
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by akamaka 9y ago
I don’t think that the opinion of the police is at all relevant here, since they have no tools for investigating how self-driving cars react in accidents. The sensors and reaction time of a self-driving car are entirely different from a hum
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by akamaka 9y ago
I work in a major city where there are many companies looking for short term contractors to work on specific projects. I've had contracts as short as a month, which have been for agencies that have a client project which is too much w
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by akamaka 9y ago
I've never lasted more than 1 year at a programming job, either. My solution is to take contract work. It helps so much to know that there is a definite end date coming up where I can step away from the company and forget about all o
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by akamaka 9y ago
I'm not a big fan of labeling things as left and right wing. In this case, the article is about homelessness, and I found it interesting to know that the institute has for decades held a fixed opinion on individual responsibility. I ha
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by akamaka 9y ago
I thought the article was poorly argued, so I looked up the authors and thought it was worth sharing the info and to let others draw their own conclusions. My own suspicion is that this "research institute" hasn't really done
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by akamaka 9y ago
I thought the article lacking in some regards, which other commentors have already noted (the general "crime is out of control" narrative without comparison to historical data; implying connection between specific robberies and ho
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by akamaka 9y ago
City Journal is published by the Manhattan Institute. > The Institute's research seeks to develop and promote free-market ideas. > [The institute] argued that the welfare state had fostered a culture and cycle of dependency that
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by akamaka 9y ago
That article is trash as well, and it fairly got flagged when it was posted here. I think HN is a place for a more enlightened discussion.
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by akamaka 9y ago
I don't think that's accurate. Nobody was trying to refute the science that was cited by the manifesto writer. There were many comments arguing that environmental factors are more important, or pointing out that the science of t
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by akamaka 9y ago
This article is trash. Who is claiming that there are no gender differences across the population? Who is she arguing against exactly? Maybe the author should have actually read the manifesto more carefully, because it is primarily an arg
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by akamaka 9y ago
I didn't immediately understand what the purpose of this was. It might be a good idea to include a photograph or visual which demonstrates a typical use case, and to craft a short, simple tagline which explains the product.
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by akamaka 9y ago
I'd have no idea what your product does from looking at the website. I'd suggest putting the app right on the homepage, so that people can set it up immediately, like this popular group scheduling app: http://doodle.com

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