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by blunte 6y ago
Keep in mind that TFA didn't choose that title. TFA is a reasonable look at just GDP, without consideration or judgement. It asks some questions, but they are not outside the scope of GDP. The problem is that the person who submitted
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by blunte 6y ago
It's important to remember that HN is not immune to information warfare (whether driven by corporate or political goals). TFA is just discussing one topic, GDP, without making broad statements. However, the submitter has chosen an int
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by blunte 6y ago
The title is (intentionally?) imprecise. There are so many variables of value other than GDP. The US is #40 on the list of countries by citizen lifespan. It's #15 on quality of life index (assuming you believe in the methodology of de
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by blunte 6y ago
Wow! For those of us unaccustomed to earthquakes, it is eye-opening to see how many aftershocks there are (and how big they are). No pun intended, but it must be very unsettling to be in that environment; do you remain indoors with the lik
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by blunte 6y ago
But this is HN, and a lot of us are responsible for the state of web browsing! (Plus a lot are junior and have not considered these performance topics.) Absolutely everyone's connection to the internet should be fast and unfiltered,
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NZ 8.1 Earthquake, Tsunami Advisory Issued for American Samoa(weather.com)
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by blunte 6y ago
When I see "start-up" and "50,000 jobs" in the same article, I'm a little shocked. If your company's only goal was to hire people, I still imagine you would have to graduate beyond "start-up" level t
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by blunte 6y ago
Fascinating. Within seconds of posting my parent, the negatives rolled in. I guess my post was scanned as saying "no, don't increase bandwidth". Far from it.
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by blunte 6y ago
Yes they should, but what will happen is websites and apps will get fatter and sloppier until the end result is slow, laggy performance. It's a bit like doubling your salary and increasing your spending by more than double. That seems
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by blunte 6y ago
I guess I found it more depressing than funny.
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by blunte 6y ago
They may say it was intended to be satire, but regardless of intention it is pretty accurate for some of the population.
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by blunte 6y ago
probably not; but the early adopters of that technology were probably upper class people who could survive with and deal with a financial snafu of 1000$. what really got people (and apple) worked up was the idea that someone could create a
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by blunte 6y ago
I can't speak for cargo skins specifically, but when some "asset" sells for an abnormally high price, there is usually something else going on. It's like when a condo which would normally be worth 200k sells for 380k, i
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by blunte 6y ago
cough money laundering
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by blunte 6y ago
The tulip reference is worn out and simply not fitting with the modern scenarios it is compared to. In the 1600s, if you bought anything that didn't come from your village or region, that was a big deal. Tulips were an exotic distant
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by blunte 6y ago
If someone chooses to drop 1k to buy any app, one must assume they made some consideration before buying. Conversely, there are countless free apps (Facebook-owned included) which extract far more value than 1,000usd from their users... and
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by blunte 6y ago
this bothers me far, far less than free or weekly subscription sh*tware.
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by blunte 6y ago
atlantis.edu:1984
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by blunte 6y ago
There’s so much value in this post that it’s worth reading a few times.
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by blunte 6y ago
A ton of big asset trades get initiated and agreed upon via bb chat. But if you’re just trading equities on an exchange, this is probably of no real value to you.
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by blunte 6y ago
Not always. Sometimes they get elected into positions of power and do far greater damage than could have been imagined. As it becomes normalized to make any claim with no proof, and to gather followers who believe you, we regress as a civi
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by blunte 6y ago
I wonder what the long game of this is. If an attacker does too much damage (like disabling NYC or Chicago financial centers), they cause significant financial disruptions globally - some of which will negatively affect people close to the
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by blunte 6y ago
Considering how faint some passengers have looked with my boy-racing in the past, I suspect the G limit for some people is much much lower :).
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by blunte 6y ago
Watching videos of "normal" people riding as passengers in fighter jets, you often see them pass out briefly. The pilots are have the training and strategies to push their G limits much much higher, but even so it's still a
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by blunte 6y ago
If you are on the plane, you don’t care a bit about statistics. “Most” is not your concern. You want no further risk. And by definition, losing half of your engines presents a lot of risk. There is an unfortunate famous incident in Amsterda
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by blunte 6y ago
The downvotes begin from “meh”. Many of these people reasonably thought they would die. What you so casually dismiss could have been a tragic story if only one more failure had occurred.
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by blunte 6y ago
What you get for your US tax money is absolutely not worth having that passport if you have another good passport. I would give that one up (and likely will once I get my second).
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by blunte 6y ago
I wonder what the possibilities would be if using jruby to interoperate with clojure.
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by blunte 6y ago
I don’t see how this approach is better than just using modules with pure functions that operate on arrays and hashes.
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by blunte 6y ago
(Ok, looking at your profile and your background, I must be missing something. You surely don't need 5 or 10 minute history of code to know what you are doing.) Please help me understand what I am missing from this conversation!

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