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by gohrt 10y ago
That's not how nuclear weapons work.
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by gohrt 10y ago
Economic profit is not inefficiency, it doesn't matter regardless of whether the consumer or producer gets the surplus. Inefficiency is excess work that people do in service of their goals. The high cost that is not profit, is ineffi
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by gohrt 10y ago
You can steer a light motorcycle by leaning, without touching the handlebars. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countersteering#Countersteerin...
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by gohrt 10y ago
Those who don't study Voltaire are condemned to repeat it: https://slice.mit.edu/2012/08/14/winning-the-lottery/
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by gohrt 10y ago
What was the brokenness? The article was written in a confusing fashion, skimming over bond discounts and pot sweeteners.
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by gohrt 10y ago
holding a dead crow, standing near a dead hawk, or doing both at once.
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by gohrt 10y ago
No, there is absolutely nothing illegal about trashy tabloid "journalism". Only the particular form of privacy invasion was at issue here.
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by gohrt 10y ago
Is this some sort of gamergate leakage, that makes Gawker "left" because they are united with Kotaku, who gamergate hates, and social-justice fighers hate gamergate, and social-justic fighters are "left", so Gawker is &q
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by gohrt 10y ago
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/19/business/media/gawker-hulk... > The damages awarded to Mr. Bollea on Friday were compensatory: $55 million for economic harm and $60 million for emotional distre
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by gohrt 10y ago
In CA, "Starter homes" are $800K
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by gohrt 10y ago
Every reputable teacher does this.
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by gohrt 10y ago
Which step in the proof succeeds on the integers, but fails when applied to the ring of {a + b*sqrt(-5)} ?
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by gohrt 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_coal Amazing. Intentional, premeditated, assault and battery and vandalism carries a penalty of just $5,000.
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by gohrt 10y ago
No, to Alexander I of Macedon. Alexander II was Alexander (III) the Great's uncle.
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by gohrt 10y ago
Is Unity Web Player ever going to work in Chrome again?
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by gohrt 10y ago
Where's the fraud? It seems that your complaint is that health insurance is surprisingly expensive when it includes too many people who might need it. Catastrophic health care protection costs $4K/yr, about as much as transportati
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by gohrt 10y ago
JASNH is cool, but it's not about falsifiability. JASNH, as it says right in the name, is about not falsifying the null hypothesis. The other journals are full of articles falsifying (null) hypotheses.
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by gohrt 10y ago
Why post this draft to HN instead of letting the other make it more refined and readable?
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by gohrt 10y ago
What does that mean? How is that clever?
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by gohrt 10y ago
Who are the supporters who are getting food, and opponent who are not? The starving public aren't meaningfully pro or anti any faction in government, they are civilians trying to scratch by.
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by gohrt 10y ago
Every morning you wake up a different person, and yesterday's person is gone. The you of tomorrow is like the babies born tomorrow, and if you are not here tomorrow, it is like the absence of a baby birth.
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by gohrt 10y ago
Don't title your article "How" if the body doesn't explain how.
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by gohrt 10y ago
You are overly harsh. In all of testing, proving a negative is futile. But if this tool can create bugs that your bug-finder cannot find, and your real dev process is at all correlated to the bugs this tool creates, then this tool is a usef
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by gohrt 10y ago
Take a few-weeks vacation is grounds for despisal now?
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by gohrt 10y ago
> this is also why I never like modifying a working system unless it's absolutely necessary. this is safe, but it paints you into a corner over time, where you become paralyzed and can't improve anything. Needs better testing,
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by gohrt 10y ago
It's a simple density in the integers. Either globally: Proposition P is true for n of the numbers from 1:N -> p(P,N) = n/N or locally: Proposition P is true for n of the numbers from N-k to N+k -> p(P, N, k) = n/k an
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by gohrt 10y ago
It long time, and a lot of Wiles
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by gohrt 10y ago
> Was travelling a little under 45 mph. There was some rain, but roads were pretty dry. I was watching stopped traffic to my right. > I had an Uber passenger inattentive faux-professional driver, chatting up a client (gotta get tha
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by gohrt 10y ago
> The high ride height of the trailer Is non-standard ride-height a safety failure? Should trailers have crash panels to avoid drive-unders?
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by gohrt 10y ago
What if you get into a collision while you are reading all the text in that acknowledgement box?

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