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by akamaka 10y ago
Thanks for sharing this graph! I've often wondered about tire vs. engine noise, and this answers all my questions in one succinct graph. From my point of view, this data makes me optimistic, because I'm most bothered by noise whe
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by akamaka 10y ago
That's a strong argument, and much better than any of the other replies. It's not entirely convincing to me, since vitamin A deficiency is spread very widely, including in many countries that don't eat much rice. That said, t
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by akamaka 10y ago
I wasn't very clear in that I was referring to developing new technologies. Undeveloped parts of the world don't have access to even the most basic agricultural technology, like mechanization and efficient irrigation. Of course it
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by akamaka 10y ago
That's my point: if it's not lack of food production that is causing malnutrition, then arguing for increased food production to solve malnutrition is not very convincing.
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by akamaka 10y ago
Is there any legitmacy left to the argument that we need technology to solve malnutrition? According to some sources, the world has recently crossed a threshold where there are more overweight people in the world than there are malnourished
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by akamaka 10y ago
I don't buy this argument. The author is trying to fit the Brexit vote into his broader thesis about economic inequality, but it doesn't quite fit the facts. Does the author really consider the heavily pro-EU residents of Liverpo
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by akamaka 10y ago
The average American commute by car is about 12 miles. In the Washington DC area mentioned in the article, it's 9.1 miles. As this particular moment, a bike ride from Takoma Park to downtown DC is 41 minutes, versus 35 minutes by car.
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by akamaka 10y ago
I also read the book, and what he describes is pretty much classic, straightforward bribery of foreign officials. There's a lot of embellishment by the author for the sake of hinting at broader conspiracies he didn't personally w
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by akamaka 10y ago
If I were to refactor this code, I'd first make a good set of automated tests, by recording the input and output of a series of games. If you go through many stages of refactoring, these tests will save you a lot of time.
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by akamaka 10y ago
Does anyone else find most programming fonts to be overly heavyweight? I end up sticking with Courier New because of its light, thin lines, even though it's not a perfect font. Are there any other monospace fonts with light weights?
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by akamaka 10y ago
To me, it was crystal clear from the beginning that there was not any well-defined rules about how this would work. The message I got was that the purpose of this experiment was to get ideas from the community about interesting startup idea
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by akamaka 11y ago
Your comments are usually good, but this one reads like something from the fanboys on MacRumors. It might not be right for you, but I haven't seen any evidence of the single port being a failure in the market.
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by akamaka 11y ago
You're entirely correct, though I want to emphasize that while I understand that my own experiences are limited, I haven't found arguments that there is widespread sexism to be more convincing than my own experience. I'm quit
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by akamaka 11y ago
As a guy, I experienced the same feelings of not being good enough to make it as a programmer, throughout school and my early career. Of my programmer friends and classmates who quickly landed good jobs, only one ever took the initiative to
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by akamaka 11y ago
My first boss was a woman who had started her career in the computer field in the mid-1970s, and nothing seemed unusual about it at the time. As years have gone by, I read an increasing amount of talk about women having a different experie
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by akamaka 11y ago
One article claims there is $20 trillion hidden in tax havens.[1] That sounds like a lot, but considering that this is money that has accumulated over the course of decades (say 30 years), and only a portion of it would be taxable (say 20%)
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by akamaka 11y ago
I was responding to what the OP said about how he has lots of olympiad experience but didn't like demonstrating coding in interviews, which sounds bogus to me. I'll be honest, I did rate coding interviews as very important, but I
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by akamaka 11y ago
Spot on! Every good competition coder I've met loves the whiteboard part of the interview and would happily crack away at problems for hours.
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by akamaka 11y ago
That sounds like a good idea to me. I find it damn near impossible to tell when a comment thread has ended, because the only indicator of a new top-level comment is the number of blank pixels to the left of it!
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by akamaka 11y ago
So yeah, I agree with you in principle that the navigation problem is easier to address, but I'm not really happy with reddit's solution of collapsing threads. It kind of stinks, because you might be halfway into a thread when you
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by akamaka 11y ago
I'd prefer to see a higher quality of conversation and fewer pointless comments. The longest comment threads on HN are often the least interesting. The type of thread that comes to mind is one that starts with a comment that's n
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by akamaka 11y ago
I looked at your comment history, and I don't think you got downvoted because of your opinions. It's more likely a matter of writing style. The folks here like efficient communication and concise, well thought-out arguments. So
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by akamaka 11y ago
I'd be curious to see the exact wording of the non-compete agreement. Is it limited to specific industries? With Amazon involved in so many different sectors, it's hard to imagine any employee leaving and going to a company that
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by akamaka 11y ago
No idea about the refresh rate of eInk displays, but terminals were always designed to work over slow connections. So long as your configuration is pretty traditional (e.g. your text editor scrolling half a page at a time instead of line b
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by akamaka 11y ago
Wow, cool, thanks for sharing this!
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by akamaka 11y ago
For those who are interested in knowing more about Andy Grove and the early days of Intel, I highly recommend Tedlow's biography. Of all the biographies or business histories I've read, I can't think of one which does a bett
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by akamaka 11y ago
Oh, that's a good point. I was just imagining a fan taking a poster home for personal use, but that sort of thing could easily fall under campaign laws.
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by akamaka 11y ago
It's not comparable at all. Posters on the street are seen as being disposable in most parts of the world, and it's hard to imagine being arrested for, say, pulling down an Obama campaign poster and taking it home. Drug traffick
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by akamaka 11y ago
I agree with everything you say, and to me the goalposts shifted because he was purposely ambiguous in the way he announced autopilot at the same time as promising a fully self-driving car soon. So now a self-driving car isn't going t
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by akamaka 11y ago
When you put it that way, it's really interesting to think of it as a language shift rather than just a question of marketing honesty. If the average person describes the car he already owns as "self-driving", perhaps that w

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