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Look At Me!(cjr.org)
3 points by gamble 15y ago|1 comments
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The Fifty-Nine-Story Crisis (1995)(duke.edu)
111 points by gamble 15y ago|18 comments
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by gamble 15y ago
They (the police) would get nothing if gambling was legal. Gambling revenue goes into the general fund and typically offsets tax cuts or increased spending in some other area. Police departments only benefit when a crime is committed, becau
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by gamble 15y ago
It is a great book. Sadly, the hostile reaction toward the Everest climbers expressed after the disaster seems to also be present in many of the comments on this thread.
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by gamble 15y ago
Everest may be statistically less dangerous, but I suspect that's because the vast majority of climbers today (really, all except a handful of Sherpas at the start of the season) are climbing with fixed ropes on guided ascents. Everest toda
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by gamble 15y ago
From what I've read of his death, it sounds like he was killed by high-altitude cerebral edema. (Swelling caused by altitude-induced blood leakage within the brain) HACE is essentially impossible to predict. Fit, healthy, experienced climbe
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by gamble 15y ago
You're right, Bitcoin is actually more like a penny stock pump-and-dump scheme.
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by gamble 15y ago
The publishing industry is already dead. It's been dead for years. By 'dead' I mean that the number of copies any one book is expected to sell is pathetic compared to other industries. A book that sells 100k copies is doing extremely well,
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Jetlev lets you fly like Superman - for $99,500(theglobeandmail.com)
1 points by gamble 15y ago|0 comments
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What happens to all the Asian-American overachievers when the test-taking ends?(nymag.com)
321 points by gamble 15y ago|207 comments
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by gamble 15y ago
> would they be willing to publish them and face the rath of the US Government? Of course not. Wikileaks isn't solving a technical problem. They need to exist because traditional news agencies aren't willing to take the hit associated w
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by gamble 15y ago
Dropbox was as much about the market being right as good execution. If 90% of people only use one device, there's little need for synchronization. Dropbox did sync right, but also coincidentally at the same time that netbooks and smartphone
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by gamble 15y ago
Why should they? Parliamentary government is essentially a dictatorship of the prime minister. Government MPs are barely relevant, much less opposition MPs.
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by gamble 15y ago
It would be better to say that nationalism is still a force. Probably 20-25% of Quebec voters are hard-core separatists, who will vote for separatism regardless of other issues they might have with the PQ/Bloc. Another ~30% are nationalists
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by gamble 15y ago
Yes, that's quite true. Most people are by nature reactive - even many high-level engineers. I've known many great programmers who can do amazing things once they get started, but simply can't seem to get going until they're told what to do
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by gamble 15y ago
Frankly, for most people in that situation, (highly educated, working in a low-paid contract job doing menial tasks unrelated to their education or interests) their first, if not only priority is going to be finding a real job.
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by gamble 15y ago
You can tell when a cell phone provider is in desperate straits - they're forced to please customers, instead of screwing them out of every last penny. I don't expect these policies to survive a merger with AT&T.
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by gamble 15y ago
Two X25-Ms over the past two years and neither have failed. But I've been very conservative about which drive I chose due to the possibility. At the moment, Intel makes the only drives with a track record of reliability.
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Law Students Lose the Grant Game as Schools Win(nytimes.com)
3 points by gamble 15y ago|1 comments
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by gamble 15y ago
Highlighting is very easy, even superior on the iPad. I highlight extensively when I'm reading PDFs in the GoodReader app, but unlike a physical book I can export the marked-up PDF back to my PC and easily index, sort, or modify them en mas
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by gamble 15y ago
I've been trying to give it a chance, but so far it doesn't seem like hiding the vote counts has done anything to improve the quality of comments on HN. Honestly, I think it's had the opposite effect. The number of in-depth comments seems t
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by gamble 15y ago
It's more correct to say that their speed scales with the number of flash chips. The larger drives are faster because more of the controller's channels are populated. A larger drive that has fewer flash chips because it uses a new fabricati
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by gamble 15y ago
> iTunes is showing its age and over the years has become a bloated collection of functionalities ... iTunes 'bloat' is a huge competitive advantage. Apple can make changes to their digital stores and instantly release to tens of millio
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by gamble 15y ago
I think the news article exaggerates the purpose of the device described in the actual paper. It isn't intended as a competitor for opaque power generation cells. The idea is that, since you already need an anti-reflective coating to block
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by gamble 15y ago
The 12% efficiency quote seems to originate in an interview with the authors. I read the actual paper,[1] and it only mentions a projected efficiency of 2-3%. You are right that there simply isn't enough energy in the near-infrared to achie
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by gamble 15y ago
Stephens Media is essentially sharecropping their IP. They get a cut of the profits if Righthaven's lawsuits succeed, whereas if the suits fail it's Righthaven that bears the legal costs.
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IRobot Packbots take first pictures from inside Fukushima reactor buildings(theglobeandmail.com)
2 points by gamble 15y ago|1 comments
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by gamble 15y ago
Already blocked in India: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/29/xxx-domain-blocked-...
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FBI: online poker sites "bet the house" on money laundering, fraud(arstechnica.com)
3 points by gamble 15y ago|1 comments
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by gamble 15y ago
No reasonable person would require a citation for an easily verified, widely-known, uncontroversial fact like Churchill's birthday. You would need citations for every sentence if that was the standard.

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