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by dougk16 14y ago
If you roughly break down my purchases between leisure and utility, the former is the only one for which I will always go online. Even if I don't have domain expertise (let's say a stereo system), I'll basically just sort the list for the r
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by dougk16 14y ago
Agreed. Posting those two comments was a mistake.
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Well, I could link you to a bunch of studies that say otherwise, but then you would tell me all the reasons that those studies are bogus, and then show me a bunch of studies that show there is no connection (probably sponsored by those pedd
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by dougk16 14y ago
You can cure cancer with diet, along with generally healthy living. "Cure" perhaps isn't the best word though, because bad diet (combined with other things like stress, lack of exercise, etc.) is frequently the cause of cancer in the first
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by dougk16 14y ago
That raised my eyebrows too. I can't help but see a lot of false positives from this, maybe even just from accidentally whacking the device.
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by dougk16 14y ago
I would change "human" to "biological entity"...we should not exclude extraterrestrials from the target audience...this is at the risk of offending non-biological (and probably also extra-terrestrial) entities, but they would presumably ren
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by dougk16 14y ago
With the current system, you're not even wagering that $50,000...you're throwing it out the window. Unless you believe you'll cause >= $50,000 of car-related damage over your lifetime.
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by dougk16 14y ago
The same risks exist with the system in place now (insurance fraud), and will exist with really any system. The mechanisms for mitigating these risks seem rather obvious. If someone runs their car into a ditch, you do some reasonable inve
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by dougk16 14y ago
Fair enough. I ran an orange light a few years ago and my insurance costs went up by 150%. While the $500/year price tag may be what's on paper, I find that it isn't the reality for most people. It isn't so much bringing the government in,
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by dougk16 14y ago
Awesome...didn't know that! Self-insurance seems like a reasonable compromise to what I'm talking about.
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by dougk16 14y ago
$500 * 50 years is still $25,000 over a lifetime. I feel safe in saying that that number doesn't come anywhere close to the damages that an average person actually causes. And besides, I paid about that much when living in the midwest for
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by dougk16 14y ago
I'm not sure I fully grasp your argument, but if health insurance becomes anything like car insurance, then at best it's just a slightly lesser evil. I've been paying car insurance for about 15 years, at $120 a month, which is about $21,600
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by dougk16 14y ago
For me it's not a matter of coding while high, but pot does make me a more effective programmer overall. When stuck with a hard problem, smoking allows my creative side to come out more, and attack the problem from angles that I couldn't ev
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by dougk16 14y ago
The voice interface and the forced fashion statement will probably greatly contribute to the death of this product as it stands, but I think it's the next necessary step to something truly revolutionary. I would like the next step to solve
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by dougk16 14y ago
First, a white-tower point: if you look at the client and server as a whole, doing any kind of dynamic view generation on the server is a complete violation of MVC. You shouldn't tell the view how to view. That said, server-side rendering
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by dougk16 14y ago
Can you go a little more into the problems with equals() and hashCode(), or link to something? I'm by no means a hardcore Java programmer, but I've used it for several projects, and these never stood out as particularly problematic to use
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by dougk16 14y ago
Leaving kids to nap outside a coffee shop in winter...I'd love to see the horror on people's faces in the US. Makes perfect sense to me, and I do this outside my house from time to time (secluded backyard of course), but I'm pretty sure ch
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by dougk16 14y ago
Fair enough point...it's actually more like ~$100 in a relative sense, as far as my working experience in Poland went. But even saying it's the same relative price as in America, consider that this is a foreigner, calling at 8PM for a 9PM
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by dougk16 14y ago
I live in the US and am currently in Poland with my wife and 1-year-old visiting friends and family. Shortly after arriving, my son got a bad enough fever that we sought medical care. This past Monday night, at 9PM, an hour after the call,
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by dougk16 14y ago
Ha, I just looked and it came out immediately after the last time I set up git/github on a windows machine the old-fashioned way. So it looks like my comment is probably invalid now. The next time I use git for a project I'll be sure to che
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by dougk16 14y ago
For how popular github is, it does have a surprisingly frictional client set up process, for Windows users at least (although this is partly due to git itself). I can talk a non-technical person through setting up an SVN repo using Tortoise
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by dougk16 14y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5207262 Is there a preferred way on HN to address a "duplicate" reply?
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by dougk16 14y ago
I came off too heavy-handed there. My intention was more to just say that variables shouldn't be put in constructors if they don't have to be. So, just railing more against the pattern that Java seems to have popularized where every private
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by dougk16 14y ago
I get what you're saying, but good OO for me usually suggests nullary constructors, letting a class know when something happens as opposed to setting internal state directly, and the class saying let me do something for you using my state i
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by dougk16 14y ago
Insurance doesn't work, period...for anything. It's gambling in reverse, and the house always wins, especially in the last few decades when they can crunch so much data and know the price points with great precision. What's worse is that i
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by dougk16 14y ago
Seriously...Erin Catto would be a millionare with even the most minimal of pricing structures for using Box2D, assuming another open source engine didn't come to take its place.
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by dougk16 14y ago
Some technical advice, since most of the comments here are life advice: Use higher-level languages like Java or AS3 or Haxe to flesh out new ideas wherever possible. You'll kill yourself using C++ to fully vet crazy new game engine paradigm
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by dougk16 14y ago
You should apply for the upcoming YC batch with this project...that would be so meta.
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by dougk16 14y ago
It should be a gif animation of a hand doing the bunny ears on both sides of the word/term.
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by dougk16 14y ago
Good to hear. Might I suggest linking to the HN discussion in the mean time (and/or wherever else it's discussed)? Your essay/blog is well-written and valuable, but comments can add at least as much value, and not everyone who visits your

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