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by freddie_mercury 8y ago
> I was even surprised to see a Vietnamese tour group at Suvarnabhumi today (interesting to see Vietnamese with the disposal income to travel and the interest to travel to their next door neighbor). I live in Vietnam. Virtually every mi
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by freddie_mercury 8y ago
I didn't downvote you but my guess: because your "opinion" included facts that were so obviously incorrect that they could only be the result of tremendous amounts of bias that make you unable to correctly judge reality. Whic
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by freddie_mercury 8y ago
They already do use drones for shark detection.
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by freddie_mercury 8y ago
I just read a story about Obama and Arethra Franklin yet you think Carter is the most visible ex-president?
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by freddie_mercury 8y ago
> So what's the solution? [...] the loss of hundreds (or thousands) of jobs is always going to be devastating anywhere outside of a big city. It seems like the seeds of the solution are contained in your own post: don't live an
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by freddie_mercury 8y ago
Echoing the other comment about Sweden: The last Australian election had 91% turnout, which was the lowest since 1926. It is possible to have high turnout without computers. You could, for instance, not have elections on a weekday as a star
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by freddie_mercury 8y ago
The linked article includes a chart showing the vessels movements mapped down to every few minutes. Looking at that picture it is hard to imagine its path is caused by drifting. It is clearly moving in a circle. You can't tell from the
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by freddie_mercury 8y ago
The ship has already docked & been unloaded: http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1114855.shtml (It is already Saturday in China.)
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by freddie_mercury 8y ago
The article says it is the ecological fallacy. Google "ecological fallacy example" and you'll find lots. A simple example: take a group of 3 people. One has an IQ of 200. The other 2 have an IQ of 50. The average IQ is 100. S
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by freddie_mercury 8y ago
Lots of anecdotes without reading the article (which is par for the course in 99% of HN threads). Anyway, here's a quick summary: * Culture level effects do not necessarily translate to the individual. That is, Japanese culture may be
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by freddie_mercury 8y ago
Moving slowly enough for whom to step off? The 90 year old lady with a walker? The toddler? Stephen Hawking in his wheelchair? How slow is it going to accommodate every single person's movement capacity? How small is the gradient betwe
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by freddie_mercury 8y ago
Birth rates decline because of female education. This is such an established fact that your pet theory sounds like a crazy conspiracy theory "the moon landings were faked".
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by freddie_mercury 8y ago
> I wonder if, faced with this choice, most people would not simply become vegetarians. I expect that most people would quickly find that killing animals isn't that hard, that billions of people still do it today, and that natural d
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by freddie_mercury 8y ago
Why is 160 guests a First World Problem? I don't understand. I live in the Third World (well, we call it "the developing world" nowadays). 160 guests is totally normal. The last wedding I was at had 500 guests.
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by freddie_mercury 8y ago
I live in a developing country. People regularly kill animals to eat. They will have chickens, ducks, rats, fish, turtles, dogs, and pigs that they raise and eat. There is no "communing with nature". There is no "paying the b
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by freddie_mercury 8y ago
Similarly, I read Pachinko a novel about Koreans in Japan in the period 1910-1940 (mostly). Koreans were all lazy, unintelligent, untrustworthy thieves. A stereotype that few would still hold today.....
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by freddie_mercury 8y ago
It doesn't demonstrate that at all. For all we know, hundreds of people inside Apple knew about each of those. I've worked on popular software (>10 million users) that had Easter eggs. Dozens of people in the company knew about
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by freddie_mercury 8y ago
Here in Vietnam the maternity leave law is also quite generous. I forget the exact details? Six months of pay? Anyway, the result is that most companies require women to sign a contract saying they won't get pregnant in the first year
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by freddie_mercury 8y ago
Where's the secret back door in that list? A list of easter eggs wouldn't appear to tell us anything about how easy or hard it would be get a secret back door in.
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by freddie_mercury 8y ago
> By definition you can not declare war on something not another country So the American Civil War wasn't a war, since the south wasn't another country? The Chinese civil war wasn't a war? The Iruqois Wars weren't war
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by freddie_mercury 8y ago
"Is X really worth it if it isn't perfect and doesn't cover every edge case?" I kinda feel like humanity has repeatedly decided the answer to this question is "yes". "Being valuable" isn't binary
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by freddie_mercury 8y ago
I imagine it looks like this: JOINT RESOLUTION Resolved by the Senate and the House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled: Declaring that a state of war exists between the armed militant groups of Jundalla
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by freddie_mercury 8y ago
JBL just launched a new (non smart) loudspeaker line at CES in January. Their Arena line was just launched in 2015. A new product line every three years seems like a pretty thriving business. JBL and Bose aren't really any cheaper than
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by freddie_mercury 8y ago
I don't see any void. I see Dali, Q Acoustics, Fyne, KEF, Monitor Audio, ATC, Spendor, Acoustic Energy, Roth, Mission, Dynaudio, and Ruark. Every one of those companies had won at least one award for their speakers. The speaker market
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by freddie_mercury 8y ago
No. You didn't read the article. “We can’t make any causal inferences” from these studies, cautions Maria Carrillo, the chief scientific officer of the Alzheimer’s Association. “Their findings don’t prove the viruses lead to Alzheimer’
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by freddie_mercury 8y ago
Bizarre as in "couldn't be bothered to google a summary to see that is about a Korean family in Japan"?
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by freddie_mercury 8y ago
My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Otessa Moshfegh -- "a novel about a young woman's efforts to duck the ills of the world by embarking on an extended hibernation with the help of one of the worst psychiatrists" Treating Peopl
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by freddie_mercury 8y ago
> this must only really work in small communities as most larger cities are pretty much immune to monitoring except corruption You are wrong, didn't read the link, don't make any arguments about its findings, and don't off
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by freddie_mercury 8y ago
> Snake oil is actually very useful You don't appear to actually understand what the phrase "snake oil" means in English. It doesn't mean "snake oil isn't useful". It means: during in the 1800s Chinese
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by freddie_mercury 8y ago
To add to that...in the country I live in (a developing country in Asia), 5-2 is NOT the standard. If you work for a western company or have a skilled white collar type job you work either 5-2 or 5½-1½. That is, you work a half day every Sa

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