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by goialoq 9y ago
Ha, this is the same story as the pre-Depression-era farmers who mortgaged their farms. Our food providers are burying themselves in debt to create our food, and banks are laughing all the way to themselves.
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by goialoq 9y ago
Besides Facebook denial and the complete lack of empirical evidence, what are you looking for? Why do people keep talking about "this one time it maybe happened", when it should be happening to everyone all the time, if it's
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by goialoq 9y ago
You think they need microphone access for that? Froot Loops is in the middle of a massive co-branding campaign with Burger King, and you are surprised that you'd get an ad for Froot Loops while at a Burger King? Occam's razor says
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by goialoq 9y ago
family/friends are also causing traffic. Why do they deserve priority access?
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by goialoq 9y ago
It's a quarter-mile, but yeah it's awful.
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by goialoq 9y ago
People seem to forget this all the time, even though it's obvious. The Constitution is an atrociously written document, by modern standards of technical writing. The 18th Century predates the modern notion of technically precise writin
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by goialoq 9y ago
> I went to school for it, but decided that wasn't what I want to do with my life. Interesting, because most police officers don't need to go to school for it to get the job, right?
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by goialoq 9y ago
And of course it doesn't matter whether the story is true or false, just the the police officer coerces the person of interest to tell as story the police officer likes.
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by goialoq 9y ago
Taser also operates a legal-defense-aid operation for police officers who use Tasers to break the law.
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by goialoq 9y ago
When you're in a hole, stop digging.
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by goialoq 9y ago
Someone leaves their computer unlocked when they walk away -> network access. door locks: locks are bad, and doors are awful https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YYvBLAF4T8
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by goialoq 9y ago
Many facilities have valuable physical objects, paper documents, and material that could be vandalized and become dangerous.
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by goialoq 9y ago
Stillwell is a great author. Naive Lie Theory is a great read, with a big section on quaternions.
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by goialoq 9y ago
this problem can be easily solved by removing the absurdity of a multi-million dollar lottery.
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by goialoq 9y ago
better, with graphics: http://myreckonings.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/Journal...
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by goialoq 9y ago
One of the most common articles posted to HN: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=nomography&sort=byPopularity&p...
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by goialoq 9y ago
What part of the world are you in?
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by goialoq 9y ago
For the first time? https://genius.com/Bill-hicks-on-advertisers-and-marketing-a... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tvp97SMZc6M
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by goialoq 9y ago
Life, uh, finds a way. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture
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by goialoq 9y ago
So if a murderer shouldn't be incarcerated or pay restitution, then what?
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by goialoq 9y ago
They could transfer the cache data from one (old) server instance to another (new) one.
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by goialoq 9y ago
JVM hotswapping is ages old, but it's usually used only in testing, not production.
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by goialoq 9y ago
I agree, but the intro is all about how this magical gyroscope is pointing at Kiev, even making a point about how the gyro is doing it after being separated from the rest of the rocket.
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by goialoq 9y ago
> If it is spinning extremely rapidly, the gyroscope remains rigidly locked in the direction it has been set, its sights fixed on...Kiev—hence the term inertial guidance systems. This is clearly false... right? If you translate the gyros
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by goialoq 9y ago
If a failure mode has never been reported in the wild, why is it so important to tell a juicy story about it, at the expense of attention to empirically observed failure modes?
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by goialoq 9y ago
horizontal velocity has nothing to do with it. It's because they gain a bit of lift before increasing angle
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by goialoq 9y ago
How so? "Trying to find a function" is editing a handful of parameters to a polynomial+exponential model -- the same thing
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by goialoq 9y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Piketty is the most mainstream modern option.
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by goialoq 9y ago
What does "emotional dependency" mean here? What's wrong with throttling matches? that seems like an anti-spam feature.
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by goialoq 9y ago
> I live in the countryside Mass transit isn't for you. That's fine.

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