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by avn2109 11y ago
I didn't downvote you, but I think other people are because the article's central thesis is that this social phenomenon is at its core neither radical politics nor anti-school protests. Rather, the article claims that it's me
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by avn2109 11y ago
I am not new at all to HN and never knew this, cool :)
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Intuitively this seems very true to me, but can you recommend somewhere to read more about this? The residential real estate market definitely feels rigged, but I don't know where to find the case for this claim layed out in a cogent w
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by avn2109 11y ago
>> "...random points in theorem-space..." Question: Given an arbitrary powerful computer, is the nature of mathematics such that in principle we could exhaust the points in theorem space by brute force? E.g. is there in prin
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Because we are not going to call a universal basic income "welfare." Rather, we are going to call it "The America Permanent Fund" and loudly brag about how it's just a copy of the wildly-popular Alaska Permanent fun
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by avn2109 11y ago
Agreed. Luda also has > 100 karma and a public key in his profile link.
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by avn2109 11y ago
I recently persuaded my company to let me write job postings loudly bragging about the fact that we will buy you whatever fancy hardware you want. Our best hire explicitly mentioned in his cover letter that this caused him to apply.
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There are several better failbacks than "most popular store in the US." Starting with "Store closest to the centroid of past N addresses that I have clicked."
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by avn2109 11y ago
Undoubtedly true in one sense of the word. But "social issues" for today's Yale undergrad probably pertain more to The Patriarchy and racist microaggressions than to the things that most self-professed communists discuss.
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>> "New? How does this differ from the Old McCarthyism?" I'm not the OP, but I think the OP's claim is that this McCarthyism pretends to be about social issues instead of pretending to be about communism.
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by avn2109 11y ago
It's 10 bits per each of the RGB channels, 3 x 10 = 30 bits total.
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by avn2109 11y ago
Unclear why this is getting downvoted, I googled and found reputable sources verifying the OP's claim. [0] [0] http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/feb/24/chicago-polic...
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by avn2109 11y ago
>> "...with intention and belief the other side would not notice them and sign contract whose terms they were not fully aware of." This is a complete and accurate description of every contract I've ever been asked to si
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Suvorov is worth reading at length - you can learn a lot about Soviet/Russian strategy, tactics, and military culture from him.
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by avn2109 11y ago
I dislike that this is getting downvoted. While the claim is certainly debatable, the comment itself is civil, grammatical, links to a non-crank source which is indisputably relevant to the claim, and appears to be made in good faith.
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by avn2109 11y ago
OP1: >> "...the enormous good it did to the whole of south-east Asia." OP2: >> "...saved a lot of allied lives..." The atomic bombings of Japan had nothing to do with the military campaign in the Pacific thea
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by avn2109 11y ago
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but the first applications of VR will be porn and cat videos, in that order.
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by avn2109 11y ago
Fair points. The lack of affordances is bothersome indeed, but presumably the UX design fashion will swing back in the other direction at some point in the near-ish future.
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Note that NSA HQ is literally a windowless black cube.
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>> "...and the economy currently runs on asset bubbles." @eli_gottleib: Where can we read more about this? It feels true but I'd like to see more details.
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Good point, at most elevations/latitudes there isn't enough snowpack to really ski or snowshoe comfortably till December, so you might end up having to settle for taking one last hike.
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by avn2109 11y ago
Do you count Agilent products as HP? Probably not, but if so they make a bunch of pretty solid instruments. And arguably the name "HP" should be associated with the entity that today we call "Agilent."
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by avn2109 11y ago
An experienced packer would take them in on a mule train, with the cameraman on horseback.
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by avn2109 11y ago
Preach. My gym teacher Mr. Burns, bless his heart, would famously settle any hint of a dispute by _requiring_ both parties to box three rounds. "Settle it in the ring, it's a civilized sport." This was genius because if you w
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Vimeo?
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by avn2109 11y ago
Agreed. I am a millenial and I was super pissed when I discovered my new landlord required me to pay by check. Mostly because this required me to figure out how to get checks from the bank.
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That's odd. Literally 95% of my friends are on Venmo, with the only holdouts being the people who refuse to grant account withdrawal permissions to a third party.
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In fairness, plenty of "real engineering" project have similar outcomes. See for example Boston's Big Dig or the DoD's Joint Strike Fighter.
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Maybe that's because the recreational drug doesn't come with an MSDS/safe use documentation, because it was bought on the street.
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I've spent a fair amount of time now trying to reproduce this on iOS 9.02 on a 5s, and I can't make it work. I can easily get to the clock by asking Siri and then tapping the clock in her results, or by swiping up from the bottom

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