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Beijing Property Market Plunges(imarketnews.com)
32 points by gamble 16y ago|53 comments
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by gamble 16y ago
I wonder how many people on HN have WoW subscriptions they never log into...
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by gamble 16y ago
Acer's shipments really fell 42% year-over-year? No wonder their CEO was forced out... The netbook as we know it would seem to be dead.
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Gawker Traffic Drops Significantly After Redesign(businessinsider.com)
4 points by gamble 16y ago|3 comments
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by gamble 16y ago
HN was seeded with a group who had personal connections to YC or were hoping to be selected, largely using their own public identities. With the expansion of the community, the fraction of HN that has a personal stake in appearing intellige
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by gamble 16y ago
Yeah, I cringed at that part too. The trick with desoldering is that sometimes you need to add more solder before you can remove it. If a joint won't desolder, the easiest solution is to add a bit more solder until it balls up, then suck it
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by gamble 16y ago
Great little guide. One thing that's rarely mentioned in soldering tutorials is temperature. With good temperature-controlled soldering stations like the Weller WES51 available for <$100, I'd be hard-pressed to recommend skimping on a c
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by gamble 16y ago
I have degrees in CS and EE as well, and I was actually talking with one of our lab instructors on this topic yesterday. It's obviously going to depend on the school, but my experience was also that EE does a better job of balancing theory
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by gamble 16y ago
"At least 10% of Chernobyl's radiation release, and perhaps more if we can't stop it" to me sounds very comparable to Chernobyl.
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by gamble 16y ago
I carry a $20 Casio that's light and small enough to go unnoticed in my bag, while providing better tactile response than a smartphone calculator. For anything more substantial I break out MATLAB. The problem with graphing calculators is th
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by gamble 16y ago
I'm not sure I'd laud startups for 'career security'. Outside the valley echo-chamber, few companies have any respect for startup experience. ('startup' sounds a lot like 'small company' if you aren't a hacker...) Also, for every startup wh
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by gamble 16y ago
The reason they do this is because dropouts hurt their ranking, while indefinite leaves of absence don't.
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by gamble 16y ago
I would be curious to know if anyone here has had a good experience with Dyson. The marketing woo, high price, and the flimsy, plasticky look of their vacuums has always turned me off.
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Acer creates a PC for the iPad generation(bloomberg.com)
2 points by gamble 16y ago|0 comments
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by gamble 16y ago
> One result of Ikea’s rat-maze design: 60% of the things people buy there were not on their original shopping list. Another result is that I avoid shopping at IKEA whenever possible.
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by gamble 16y ago
It's not about the amount of knowledge, but changes in society that allow vastly more people to become specialists than in 1800. At that point the modern research university had not been invented yet, and science was still effectively restr
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by gamble 16y ago
Very true. I worked for a startup some years back where the technical cofounder had a nasty habit of reserving all the interesting problems for himself and fobbing the scutwork off on employees. It was intensely frustrating. Yet somehow the
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by gamble 16y ago
Even in Canada, liberal arts students don't have to declare a major until they're a couple of years in. However, for STEM degrees you've generally got to know where you want to go by the end of high school, or by the end of freshman year at
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by gamble 16y ago
There are a lot of Canadian resources owned by American companies. Should we swap?
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by gamble 16y ago
The plant is built like that so spent fuel can be lifted out of the reactor and placed directly in the pool using one crane. A more secure spent-fuel pool would have required more elaborate fuel handling, thus a more expensive design. Also,
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by gamble 16y ago
It may depend on the area, but becoming a firefighter is unbelievably difficult these days. The competition is very intense. My brother spent close to ten years applying to every firefighting job he could find. He has a four-year degree, a
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by gamble 16y ago
How did they apportion scholarships or determine who received a spot in programs with a limited number of openings? Institutions assess for many reasons, but primarily because educational opportunities are rationed and they need some method
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by gamble 16y ago
Did they file in the UK? British libel laws are so bad that the BBC is doomed, if they did.
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by gamble 16y ago
From the end: > There is not one example of a Government-sponsored tech cluster—anywhere in the world—that has worked. Yet our leaders talks about clusters as if they are the secret sauce for entrepreneurship. Because startups are not r
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by gamble 16y ago
Not sham degrees, exactly. They require the absolute minimum level of educational achievement necessary to edge over the fuzzy line between a diploma mill and legitimate education. Students go to UoP to get a piece of paper that helps their
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by gamble 16y ago
You need a neutron source to start the transmutation of thorium into uranium. AFAIK, in every thorium reactor built to date that source is uranium mixed into the fuel.
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by gamble 16y ago
> If a town of 1,000 bought a 1-megawatt thorium reactor for $250,000, using 20 kilograms of thorium a year with almost no oversight, every family could pay as little as $0.40 a year for all their electricity... Are they really arguing
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by gamble 16y ago
Exactly right. It's in practice impossible for politicians to draft legislation themselves and still have the time and political capital to pass it. In modern politics it's a mistake to see 'Senator Smith' as an independent entity; he is mo
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by gamble 16y ago
The last anti-margarine law in North America was only struck down in the last couple of years. The province of Ontario lasted until 1995, while Quebec's law was only repealed in 2008 .
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by gamble 16y ago
Is there even an equivalent to liberal arts education in Asian universities? I honestly don't know, but it would be strange as liberal arts originally developed in Western universities as a kind of finishing school for upper-class gentlemen

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