hudibras

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by hudibras 11y ago
It's a little hard to tease out from this particular article, but the amazing thing is that the canvassing actually happened: dozens of volunteers talked with hundreds of people at 22 minutes for each conversation. Easily thousands of
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Ford Makes Backing Up a Trailer as Easy as Turning a Knob(wired.com)
2 points by hudibras 11y ago|0 comments
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No Longer Wanting to Die(opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com)
181 points by hudibras 11y ago|100 comments
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by hudibras 11y ago
shhh, you'll queer the deal!
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by hudibras 12y ago
Levine is being sarcastic about the "fundamental human right" part, by the way.
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by hudibras 12y ago
It's good to see all the Japan-based HNers goofing off at work today. HN usually starts dying this time of day (1445 JST) as the West Coast heads to bed...
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by hudibras 12y ago
To begin with, you'll have to explain to the physicists that there are other disciplines besides physics.
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by hudibras 12y ago
I always assumed the electrical short happened the first time they stirred the oxygen tank, not the fifth time. I makes me nauseous to think about what would have happened if the short didn't happen until the tenth time the button was
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by hudibras 12y ago
> I wonder if it's something in how the headline numbers are calculated. This is correct. NYC is basically sui generis for American cities. As examples, there's essentially no county government and the school system is part o
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by hudibras 12y ago
The $78B budget for the city doesn't include the transit system. MTA's budget is $14B/year, with $7B of that going to NYCTA (the part of MTA which runs the subways and the city's buses). http://web.mta.info&#x
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by hudibras 12y ago
Goes right along with expressing costs in Really Big Numbers! without giving context. For example, the $200M/year spent on pension fees is 0.2% of NYC's annual budget of $78B.
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by hudibras 12y ago
While shopping around for statistics PhD programs to apply for, I found it strange that MIT seemed like the only "name" school that didn't have a program. So n=1, but seems to me that they recognize that they are losing out b
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by hudibras 12y ago
>It's also hugely successful economically compared to most other US industries. Just keep telling yourself that and everything will be okay. For what it's worth, everybody working in the US health care, defense, energy, finance
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New Audi A8(audi.jp)
3 points by hudibras 12y ago|0 comments
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by hudibras 12y ago
O dear. If my calculations are correct, those guys in the street have around eight tenths of a second to get out of the way.
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by hudibras 12y ago
>exploding popularity (hundreds thousands of people lining the stages without the protection of normal circuit racing) and a series of deadly accidents, eventually leading to the end of the Group B category I know next-to-nothing about r
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by hudibras 12y ago
The book sounds great; can you give any more details?
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by hudibras 12y ago
Just guessing here, but he assumes that the thermal energy of that gramme traveling at 7 miles/second needs to be applied instantaneously or nearly-instantaneously, when it can instead be given to that gramme over the course of several
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by hudibras 12y ago
Whoa. And a picture of an astronaut on a space walk, taken from the ground.
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by hudibras 12y ago
You know that you don't have to read all the comments, right?
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by hudibras 12y ago
Well, he's also being criticized for lying about his marriage being over so that Pao would sleep with him.
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by hudibras 12y ago
No argument here; I work in HR myself. But people dread a lot of things that the law requires them to do, like fill out income tax forms or stand in line at the DMV for a drivers license. That's just part of being an adult.
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by hudibras 12y ago
Because there may be some confusion here about what HR does, I'll pick one of the less-salacious episodes, the RPX board seat issue, to illustrate how it would play out at an organization which had a competent HR department. First off,
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by hudibras 12y ago
"If I am an employer with 100 male employees, how do I ensure that none of those 100 guys is a dickhead once?" Shaking my head here...It's very simple: have a competent HR department. a. The alleged dickhead does something. b
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by hudibras 12y ago
"What alternate planet are these guys living on?" And do they think that they're going to have a meeting with the former Vice President of the United States and he's not going to notice that there's no women in the
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by hudibras 12y ago
One mystery to me is that I'm sure KPC has a general counsel, so I don't know why their on-staff lawyers weren't sounding the alarm bell about the lack of a competent HR department.
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by hudibras 12y ago
Also, would you mind showing me evidence of any negative thing any sea lion has ever done to you?
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by hudibras 12y ago
I understand your point, but you actually picked the fragment that was undeniably better than the human-written version. http://deadspin.com/5787397/we-heard-from-the-robot-and-it-w... But all that really means is that
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by hudibras 12y ago
It's gonna be fun watching all the HN libertarian-types clutching their pearls at an American exercising her First Amendment right to free speech.
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by hudibras 12y ago
I'm pretty sure the prostate checks are done in the same location throughout the world.

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