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Market solutions to climate change and global warming(minnesota.publicradio.org)
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by dsrguru 15y ago
"The Royal Canadian Mint ... said Bitcoin's biggest problem was that it is not backed by anything." I don't think that's why consumers would fear it being unstable. It's probably more that they're afraid most of the current users aren't us
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I wonder what the best solution is. This definitely does seem to be a trend that's increased recently, possibly as a result of points no longer being displayed for each post, and possibly as a result of an increasingly larger community who
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This is so useful. I noticed their flexibility options are the usual +/- n days, but it would be more useful for me if there was an option to only + or - but not both. For example, let's say you want to leave on the 7th, but the 8th and 9
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by dsrguru 15y ago
I actually read this before. It's a fun read for anyone who finds the psychology of persuasion and manipulation interesting. It probably helped me save over a thousand dollars on my family's last car purchase. If you just want the "what
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by dsrguru 15y ago
I totally agree. The whole point of Hacker News is to be a positive environment for techies and startup founders to share knowledge and discuss intellectually stimulating issues. Negativity and personal attacks really have no place here.
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In most hackers' idiolect, the term "string" refers to an implementation-dependent representation of characters. An octet stream or byte stream is the abstraction that UNIX files and the standard I/O streams happen to be instances of. So
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So basically the author is saying: The UNIX shell pipeline is really just a functional programming language whose functions can only operate on strings. Think how much more powerful, concise, readable, etc. it would be if other data types
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by dsrguru 15y ago
Indexing mixi makes a lot more sense than renren since there's no way a site that indexes facebook and google plus will be viewable in China.
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If allowed to continue without intervention or a bug fix, this thread will stay at the top of HN forever.
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> Who said anything about it being good for you? Neither you nor I, as far as I know. You said I gave "dangerous medical mis-advice" and someone, who I assumed was you, flagged my post. Assuming you didn't think the suggestion of not d
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My original post said nothing at all about cocaine being good for you. It said alcohol is even worse. I was not referring to coca leaves in my original post. I said "moderate recreational dose of powder cocaine." I was very clear. I re
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The they was the World Health Organization. I can't actually find the article, but http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jun/13/bad-scie... suggests it was suppressed by the U.S. government, so I must have read a leaked copy that
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by dsrguru 15y ago
I was under the impression that Christian teetotalism, at least among the predecessors of present-day social conservatives in America, became much less common after the prohibition of alcohol in the U.S. ended. I guess that's not the case.
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Alcohol is toxic to virtually every kind of tissue in your body. They say drinking enough to feel drunk is much worse for your long-term health than a moderate dose of recreational powder cocaine. But it feels good, it's legal in most cou
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As a reasonably intelligent reader with no axe to grind (and who, on the contrary, really enjoys reading your essays), I too was under the impression (and had no reason to question it until seeing your comment) that you were arguing that wr
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"We don't want these sites to be shut down, we want them to pay a license fee and flourish as a business," Saregama [one of India's largest record labels] said. "There are legitimate businesses in operation too. The scope is there, and we w
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by dsrguru 15y ago
If you tell us the general field your startup falls under, it'll be easier to attract the attention of potential cofounders interested in your kind of startup. The more specific you get the easier it will be, but it's probably not a great
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Possibly here: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=80625
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You might be right. Apparently he "would not divulge his betting strategy" ( http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/news/breaking/meet-the-bl... ), which means we won't be able to even know if he is an advantage player or just got really, re
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Yes, following the news is incredibly useful for preventing breakage on updates, and the forums are especially useful for repairing breakage since other people will often have had the same issue on a big update. Probably half the time some
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The shuffles needn't be poor. The existence of the hand-shuffled shoe just means he has the opportunity to count or shuffle track. The former is impossible if they use a continuous shuffle machine and I imagine the latter is either imposs
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by dsrguru 15y ago
He wouldn't do that. He's playing to win, not to gamble. Streaks aren't a statistical phenomenon in the sense that once you start a streak, you'd be more likely to keep winning. As far as non-card counters are concerned, and as far as al
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I must not have gotten that far in the article. But I seriously find that hard to believe. I recognize that eating a diet rich in saturated fat and very low in other calories would facilitate weight loss, but that saturated fat increasing
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Right, so people are often really bad at interpreting studies. But in the case of this article, there is an obvious causal mechanism between eating beef and increasing your risk of heart disease. In fact, we don't need a study to tell us
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But they said he won 2 million afterwards when they didn't give him the discount.
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Yeah this article is awfully written. Its portrayal of counting as even possibly unfair ("he had beaten the casinos fair and square [by not counting]") is ridiculous, and it does a horrendous job explaining his method. His method isn't ev
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I've been using Arch for about five years, and I can tell you that things break more frequently than with any other distro I've used for a suffiently long amount of time. Things break more frequently when you're tinkering with things, but
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First of all, this certainly sounds like an interesting idea, regardless of whether or not it comes to fruition. However, I don't know him personally, but everything I've ever read that was written by Peter Thiel had a really obnoxious tone
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I don't believe C++, Java, and C# do anything positive to affect the ways a programmer thinks. That's really the purpose of this list. I could add F# to the functional languages since, from what I understand, it almost exactly is to Scala

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