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by avn2109 11y ago
Cool thanks :)
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by avn2109 11y ago
Googled that quote and can't find a source; who is it?
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by avn2109 11y ago
>> "Now Yahoo has what?" Yahoo finance is still pretty much best in class for free finance services. They should have run with it - maybe it's not too late and they still can.
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by avn2109 11y ago
GP here. Note that I personally am not comparing American propaganda to Goebbels; rather, Goebbels himself is and I am quoting him. In that light, it's perhaps less ridiculous.
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by avn2109 11y ago
"The Americans are so natural. Far superior to us,” - Joseph Goebbels [0] The Yankee propaganda machine is smooth and suave so we hardly realize it exists. It makes the Chinese look heavy handed by comparison, and our Overton window
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by avn2109 11y ago
I think what the GP is asking is this: If Jeff Dean walks through your door tomorrow, are you going to try to make him jump through hoops? Obviously he's a better hacker than statistically ~everyone you've ever met, so it might be
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by avn2109 11y ago
+1 for out-of-box mouse event support. This would be the killer feature for me. Right now, configuring pass-through mouse events in Tmux on a Mac is a huge production. StackOverflow has conflicting advice for each permutation of OSX version
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by avn2109 11y ago
You just have to transfer full legal liability onto the CC company in the event of fraud. They would build and deploy a sane crypto scheme by COB tomorrow, wherein my plaintext CC number would not be revealed during every transaction.
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by avn2109 11y ago
Great idea. This is your jailbroken old Android phone with Cyanogenmod and Python running in a Terminal.
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by avn2109 11y ago
Out of curiosity, how many thousands of dollars in programmer time did you spend to make that $29 bucks? Honest question, not being a jackass.
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by avn2109 11y ago
Sounds like this is the likely most profitable angle, similar to how DK employees use proprietary DK data to win at FD (and vice versa). Your comment should be higher up the page.
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by avn2109 11y ago
>> "...100% chance..." Roulette and slot machines.
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by avn2109 11y ago
I usually think of myself as someone with an above-average tolerance for unpleasant shlep work, but that sounds like incredibly boring work.
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by avn2109 11y ago
>> "...a Win7 alt-tab switcher..." I have been running mostly OSX on the desktop for a while, but IIRC Compiz has a couple different alt-tab switchers that you can configure.
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by avn2109 11y ago
>> "...beholden to retrograde moralizing." I wish that was the only reason for the drug war, but moralizing is probably a relatively minor factor. I claim the bigger reasons are: 1) The prison-industrial complex is large and
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by avn2109 11y ago
You presuppose that American insurance companies are not a very effective cartel, primarily functioning in the regulatory capture industry, with a side business in insurance. It would be cool if what you describe actually happened, but in t
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by avn2109 11y ago
That is equivalent to wanting to live in a world wherein local government is adequately funded through ordinary taxation, such that it doesn't resort to highway shakedowns of the people for its operating revenue.
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by avn2109 11y ago
Too late. Way too late. Bottlenecking transportation is the oldest law enforcement trick in the book. Why do you think they make you tell them all your info during registration, put identifying plates on your vehicle, compile databases of V
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by avn2109 11y ago
>> "By some estimates, the core business of Yahoo has a negative market value..." I dislike those estimates. Yahoo is the Nth highest-traffic site in the English speaking world, where N is probably < 100. It strains credu
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by avn2109 11y ago
>> "...gun powder contained in the bullet..." Don't mean to be a pedant, but this bothers firearms people to no end, and we're on a technical site. A "bullet" is just a projectile - a dumb chunk of materi
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by avn2109 11y ago
Beats me why you're getting downvoted. Hedonic adaptation is totally a thing. [0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedonic_treadmill
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by avn2109 11y ago
This is a good point. Sometimes the market has already approximated grades-of-doctors - for example, it's possible to spend a lot of time and money with a podiatrist, and still end up not solving stance/arch/ankle problems wi
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by avn2109 11y ago
>> "Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist." I am interested in hearing what people think about the claim that economic growth and growth in energy use a
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by avn2109 11y ago
Without making any claims about the truth or falsehood of @FD3SA's claims, his source is undeniably written by a reputable author, published by a non-crank publisher, and seems relevant to his claim. The source merely happens to be rep
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by avn2109 11y ago
Good point, but Amazon's drones are probably going to be propelled by ducted fans for just this reason.
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by avn2109 11y ago
I prefer this interpretation. Perhaps we can make a gentleman's agreement to let it enter the lexicon as a homophone.
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by avn2109 11y ago
Snow Leopard was pretty much the peak of the OSX's, IMHO. If for no other reason that they hadn't yet broken Expose/Spaces and called it "Mission Control."
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by avn2109 11y ago
@vegabook your ideas are interesting and I would like to hear more about them, particularly wrt asset bubbles. if you have a blog or something you should put a link in your HN profile.
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by avn2109 11y ago
From the article: "Is the world more easily “outraged” than it used to be? I don’t think so, but then again, there’s no real way to tell." Presumably one could go build google N-gram timeseries plots for various n-grams associated
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"Newtonians HATE him!"

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