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by fondue 16y ago
"Attempting to measure the performance of a political party statistically and without being influenced by the personalities involved is interesting and new." I've been presented with these exact same arguments back in High School, which was
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by fondue 16y ago
"Forgot that air supply runs out faster the deeper you are." I ran into this one on my certification dive; we were diving on the Madera in Lake Superior in December, I was having trouble keeping my bouyancy which I chalked up to inexperienc
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by fondue 16y ago
I would have chose the Galaxy S as the top; faster and feature compatible with the Nexus and longer batter life than the Evo. I own one (personal bias I guess).
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by fondue 16y ago
I think the best part of this Daily is in the comments; more time is spent criticizing the code than is in discussing the social implications of putting something that sensitive in a repository.
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by fondue 16y ago
What a terrific article! I found a video on how to play the flute, split an atom, how to construct a box girder bridge, and how to irrigate the Sahara desert and create vast areas of viable farmland, and finally how to cure all known diseas
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by fondue 16y ago
I don't know if they A/B tested their games but I do know that while I was playing the parts of the game I thought were terrible slowly disappeared and what I found appealing increased. One game mechanic I thought was terrible was the situa
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by fondue 16y ago
The entire article omits the fact that Zynga furiously iterates on their designs and improves them. I remember when I first joined Facebook and finding Mafia Wars to be just a cheap knock-off of other games with practically the same name. W
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by fondue 16y ago
What makes inequality bad? People aren't born identical in every aspect, is it bad that I was born smarter than much of the general population? Should I be dumbed down to make things more equal?
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by fondue 16y ago
I wonder how many teachers they could have hired to improve their student to teacher ratios with that money? I know of course that it was a bond that bought the new schools but with the money they are spending on the bond payments they coul
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by fondue 16y ago
As someone who came here from a reference from a friend and had no idea what HN was about, I have no idea who Jessica Livingston is. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica_Livingston Oh, okay.
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by fondue 16y ago
I know in games like Starcraft players are obsessed with their Actions Per Minute (APM); the more you click the higher your APM and the better you do in the game. Yes, you can see a whole host of problems with this logic. None the less, my
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by fondue 16y ago
There is a 'Via: Hacker News' at the bottom of the article.
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by fondue 16y ago
"The problem is that the GOP have a very long history of getting into power, then passing laws that help line their own pockets and protect their wealth from being "stolen" by the government ..." Clearly we should elect more Democrats! Oh,
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by fondue 16y ago
How many years do they need to keep it open to break even? How many years is the expected lifetime of the facilty? Or the biggest question ... how many teachers could have been kept on payroll if they hadn't built it?
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by fondue 16y ago
Read further and answered my own questions ... "Airbags were never an option for MSL, which is the size of a car and weighs 1,950 pounds, almost five times as much as Spirit and Opportunity (also known as the Mars Exploration Rovers). Airba
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by fondue 16y ago
Why use a sky crane when they've already proven they can get a great landing from one of those bouncing-ball type things? It seems like they decided to introduce additional points of failure for neat-o-ness.
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by fondue 16y ago
> I've seen no evidence that food portions are smaller. You need to pay more attention then, it's been nick-named the 'Grocery Shrink Ray' and practically all companies are doing it now. The strategy is basically either change the shape
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by fondue 16y ago
Here's a video of the ball drop test mentioned. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTX79QU-1-U Compared to regular glass http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=forSXEJIM3E
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by fondue 16y ago
I vaguely remember that after the concorde was in service a few years some engineer said that there was no way it could be repeated. He was asked, "Because of the technology?" and replied, "No, there are so many regulations now it would be
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by fondue 16y ago
Is it just me or does it seem like this is a hammer looking for a nail?
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by fondue 16y ago
Wow, they're giving everyone a free case. How much is that? I know it's about $20 retail but how much does it cost them as a write-down?
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by fondue 16y ago
No, they're pushing, "there's no conclusive proof that climate change is driven primarily by human activity." There are plenty of papers written on climate change and lots of evidence for it ... Ice Age evidence, glacier growth and receding
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by fondue 16y ago
... and prepare themselves for things to be made cheap elsewhere?
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by fondue 16y ago
Bring back random signatures!!!!
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by fondue 16y ago
I imagine it's to steer away the rubes.
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by fondue 16y ago
Well, the exclusive contract with AT&T does end in 2011 ...
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by fondue 16y ago
Must all jobs create long term value and serve a basic human need? I guess pretty much every job would serve a basic human need (to be employed) to someone who needs to be employed in order to make ends meet. I guess what I'm trying to get
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by fondue 16y ago
"Directed by Alan Smithee"
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by fondue 16y ago
What's a 'superficial job'?
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by fondue 16y ago
He lost his job because the comments lost him all credibility amongst those he would be covering. Also, are there any conservatives on Journolist? I thought it was a liberal echo-chamber?

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