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by borism 16y ago
But messing with various points at different facilities in the same way can still be catastrophic.
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by borism 16y ago
My comment, and especially the "while it's easy to laugh at" intro, was prompted by the original submission title, which had a sarcastic "your tax dollars at work" comment. wow, it's amazing how people with certain political belief are wi
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by borism 16y ago
I don't think Warren Buffet or other Berkshire people do a lot of meetings after a buyout. Sure, they bring him over to show to an average worker, but they're not there to manage. If they don't believe in firm or management they won't inves
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by borism 16y ago
Yeah, what's the pattern? Never heard that Ireland had a large grey economy, yet it seems to me to be the most troubled of the bunch.
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by borism 16y ago
H-bombs are sitting on tops of 30-year old space rockets right now. Sending them to defeat asteroid might be even more devastating than not sending them though.
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by borism 16y ago
why are you inverting his argument to the most extreme opposite?
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by borism 16y ago
official updates are not provided by carrier but manufacturer. and you can get many android phones unsubsidized and unlocked.
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by borism 16y ago
the problem is that aliens who would be able to reach Earth to threaten it will be so much more technologically advanced that any resistance will be quite futile. what I think should unite us is the understanding that this tiny blue dot in
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by borism 16y ago
http://royal.pingdom.com/2010/04/09/the-money-made-by-micros...
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by borism 16y ago
why, if you can simply hotlink to facebook cdn?
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by borism 16y ago
Multi-user?
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by borism 16y ago
> What's wrong with social Darwinism? Apparently there's nothing wrong with it. It's alive and well as your upvotes prove.
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by borism 16y ago
it's not only purely automatic The Medallion Fund has its own internal trading desk, staffed by approximately 20 traders, and trades from Monday opening bell in Australia through Friday closing bell in the US. http://en.wikipedia.org/wik
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by borism 16y ago
Peter J. Weinberger (W in AWK) worked at RenTec before moving to Google. I would not invest in anything from them however. Medallion has been closed for new money for many years now and all other offerings performed poorly to say it politel
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Ask HN: is there a wealth gene?
2 points by borism 16y ago|2 comments
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by borism 16y ago
What the author thinks about his study: While those with above-average IQs were three times more likely to have a high income as those with below-average IQs, they were only 1.2 times more likely to have a high net worth. "Simply put, ther
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by borism 16y ago
It seems to me that you and previous commenter accept only binary outcomes: 0) either there is 100% inequality (which is where America seems to be headed now) 1) or there is 100% equality (that previous commenter likens to nuclear war) That
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by borism 16y ago
because of larger number of counterparties whose contracts to enforce?
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by borism 16y ago
The idea of the American Dream is rooted in the second sentence of the United States Declaration of Independence which states that "all men are created equal" and that they are "endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable Rights" inc
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by borism 16y ago
But you were wrong about basically everything in this thread. You seem to have some weird theory that wealth is somehow correlated with genetics - a theory that you cannot support with any evidence, but continue to reintroduce. And then you
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by borism 16y ago
except costs of protecting more wealth grow exponentially, not linearly.
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by borism 16y ago
you totally miss the point of why having egalitarian society is important and one of the building blocks of America. maybe you heard about "American Dream" and stuff...
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by borism 16y ago
Rich people tend to be smart, smart people tend to have smart children, smart children tend to grow up to be rich, and so rich people wind up having rich children. Rich people would have rich children even in a society where all children w
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by borism 16y ago
> I'm sure you could find plenty of fifth-quintile people in 1915 who'd be happy to switch life with first quintile people anno 2010. first of all, THAT is a giant strawman. and second, so that's your justification for less equality -
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by borism 16y ago
is there any evidence that top 1% have higher IQ than bottom 99%?
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by borism 16y ago
sure, if you gave him second life he might consider it.
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by borism 16y ago
of course not, it's just something to whine about on the internet forums, that's all.
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by borism 16y ago
wow, huge success!
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by borism 16y ago
was Apple making more profit on Macs than IBM did on PCs? I bet they did. But that didn't stop them from going almost bankrupt when that war was happening.
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by borism 16y ago
How do you imagine they would find that out? Probably the problem was that during approach pilots had the usual GSM buzz in their headphones while trying to communicate with ATC. Do you really want your pilots not to hear ATC instructions o

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