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by borism 16y ago
interesting. I'm not quite sure right now that this is true. Theoretically you can make infinitely long wing that will not induce any drag: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lift-induced_drag#Reducing_indu...
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by borism 16y ago
Now, all they need to do is make the horizontal plane wider, add rudder and ailerons and propeller and they are good to fly (without wasting all that energy to overcome roll friction)!
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by borism 16y ago
yes, but you don't need a missile to build a dam :) sure, it will be less expensive to kill a lot of people with this. those are not cost savings I had in mind.
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by borism 16y ago
so does "Don't be Evil" company (for Apps for Business product at least)... so does Apple (for Me.com)... etc. etc.
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by borism 16y ago
that just means there is a market for ultra-low-power battery-assisted magnetic-to-true-north converters!
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by borism 16y ago
That's not something any revolution I have ever heard about has been started over Because revolutions of the future will be nothing like revolutions of the past.
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by borism 16y ago
they constantly eat because the food they're eating is not feeding them? true, they don't starve. they die of heart disease.
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by borism 16y ago
interesting! what kind of materials need to be used so that crowbar doesn't burn-up on reentry? isn't it a little bit more expensive than using traditional explosives?
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by borism 16y ago
not every document which doesn't have SECRET stamp on it is intended for public eye...
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by borism 16y ago
it makes even more business sense for them not necessarily. MSFT doesn't make PCs, unlike AAPL.
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by borism 16y ago
even poor people have too much to eat (look at obesity rates) oh, this argument again. consider for a second why they become obese in the first place?
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by borism 16y ago
umm, so subcontractors to the government/academia? sure there were a lot of those. Still, for more than 20 years during 1970-90s private sector largely discarded ARPANet mutating into Internet as an academic toy. All while TCP/IP was invent
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by borism 16y ago
because iTunes is the most hideous part of Apple experience. luckily it's only needed for music... ...oh wait
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by borism 16y ago
not that those references are true, but the guy was part of the friggin Ayn Rand Collective. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarianism_and_Objectivism
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by borism 16y ago
can you name private organizations that were involved in ARPANET build-up?
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by borism 16y ago
well, if true, then that is a problem of HN, not DJB or Kaminsky's. but I think you have wrong metrics for "attention" or "relevance" in the first place.
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by borism 16y ago
so?
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by borism 16y ago
<a href="callto://911">911</a> ?
439.
by borism 16y ago
You're assuming that someone standing with a sign and someone hurrying to get on a plane are equally interested in playing the game. Then again, OP assumes that there are no ceilings to payout, which I'm almost certain isn't true. And then
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by borism 16y ago
I would have bought OSX iPad and many in tech circles hoped that there will at least be choice between iOS and OSX. Granted, we're totally irrelevant market for AAPL...
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by borism 16y ago
don't forget the stock options
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by borism 16y ago
OK, so the costs of running Facebook from a pure employee point of view are smaller than Yahoo. I wouldn't be so sure...
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by borism 16y ago
So if you could buy $50 billion of GS shares at the current price, you'd own about 57% of the company. could you? I think you'd have to offer a hefty premium over market price for GS...
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by borism 16y ago
absolutely - most people might not be aware what devices run Android, but they surely heard the name.
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by borism 16y ago
What's silly or mean about evaluating one(selve)s performance?
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by borism 16y ago
Yup, let's judge people by their former employers, not by their actions. I mean, Hank Paulson's decision not to bail out Lehman would have been totally OK, have he not been former Goldman CEO...
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by borism 16y ago
this is a good point on efficiency of the market, however it is not correct conclusion that you cannot find companies in that market that are not better performers than others - obviously there are companies in S&P500 or any other index
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by borism 16y ago
bond yields rise with inflation http://www.hussmanfunds.com/rsi/yieldsinflation.htm
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by borism 16y ago
the goodness of that strategy revolves around its consistency in returning 10% over ten to twenty years and why would that be "the goodness" of index fund strategy? who told you that? "the goodness" of index funds is that they're low cost
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by borism 16y ago
How many officials in any administration are former Goldman Sachs employees? What does that have to do with anything anyway?

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