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by hudibras 13y ago
This is huge. If your IT department is not blocking LinkedIn from importing contacts ( http://help.linkedin.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5025 ), then you're giving an outside company all your employees' details. My company's GAL contains nam
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by hudibras 13y ago
The yen falling in value is a good thing. The targeted inflation rate is 2% , not exactly Weimar Germany. I guess we're going to have to agree to disagree.
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by hudibras 13y ago
"there seems little chance of any other outcome" Except for Japan's economy to grow faster than its debt burden, causing its debt ratio to decrease. There's a denominator in that ratio, don't forget.
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by hudibras 13y ago
"If inflation happens...": that's a huge caveat you've got buried there. Let me guess: You think I should buy either gold or bitcoins, right?
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by hudibras 13y ago
"Currency devaluation doesn't make a nation wealthy. It doesn't make you more competitive. It doesn't create factories and jobs. It doesn't make your economy more productive. It doesn't spur innovation or business formation. It's a desperat
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by hudibras 13y ago
First American mission to return to Earth with a sample from an asteroid, but 13 years after the Japanese did it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayabusa
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How to Be a ‘Woman Programmer’(nytimes.com)
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How Michael Crichton’s Westworld Pioneered Modern Special Effects(newyorker.com)
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by hudibras 13y ago
Yup, Vanity Fair is a good magazine in spite of Chris Hitchens, not because of him.
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by hudibras 13y ago
Once you notice how bad The Economist is in your particular area of expertise (whatever that may be), you realize that it's just Newsweek for people who don't want to admit they read Newsweek .
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by hudibras 13y ago
DFW was a graduate student in philosophy for a time, even after he was a published writer. Reading this or watching the video about what is essentially his personal philosophy really enriches the reader's understanding of his prior work, in
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by hudibras 13y ago
One of the OP's main gripes is that many people will gleefully, happily tell you that they can't do math. Nobody will ever admit to a stranger at a cocktail party that they're illiterate but being bad at math is, for some reason, a conversa
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by hudibras 14y ago
I think it was because the system was simpler and more reliable with no moving parts besides valves, just a giant air bottle with pipes leading to each of the cylinders. No motor to worry about or lead-acid batteries to maintain. The whole
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by hudibras 14y ago
Finally, a HN thread that I can contribute to and I'm 9 hours late to the party. I was serving in the engineering department on a USN aircraft carrier (non-nuclear) when a cascading casualty led to all boilers going off line. The ship had a
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by hudibras 14y ago
I would have also accepted: "needed two reactors because it was the only USN submarine with two shafts."
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by hudibras 14y ago
Lots of comments here about how his minor "back alley" analogy, but so far nothing about his main point comparing bitcoiners to goldbugs.
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He Has Millions and a New Job at Yahoo. Soon, He’ll Be 18(nytimes.com)
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by hudibras 14y ago
It's a tricky discussion in this thread because we're mixing together the questions of "Is this allowed (constitutional)?" and "Is this a good idea?" I believe that in both the Filburn case and in your hypothetical FOSS example, that yes, C
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by hudibras 14y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_piece An opinion piece is an article, published in a newspaper or magazine, that mainly reflects the author's opinion about the subject. Opinion pieces are featured in many periodicals.
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by hudibras 14y ago
The Roosevelt administration sued farmers who attempted to grow food in violation of a law passed by Congress to regulate interstate commerce, in this case to stabilize crop prices. The Supreme Court ruled unanimously in Wickard v. Filburn
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by hudibras 14y ago
"presiding over the general decline of the US in the 1970s-1990s" Over half of the current Congress are baby boomers.
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by hudibras 14y ago
Wow, that video does exactly the opposite of what you say it does.
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by hudibras 14y ago
This is wrong in so many ways... Getting fired is not the end of the world.
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by hudibras 14y ago
Probably the best essay written in the past 30 years. Supposedly, all work gradually stopped at Harper's the afternoon DFW submitted the manuscript. Every single person in the office was reading hastily-Xeroxed copies of it.
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by hudibras 14y ago
Gene Weingarten is an astonishingly good writer. He has a weekly column in the Washington Post that's 'ha-ha, Dave Berry-level-funny' but then once a year or so he'll write a long piece that absolutely destroys you. Both "Peekaboo Paradox"
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Gender Bias Seen in Visas for Skilled Workers(nytimes.com)
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by hudibras 14y ago
Hang on, let me put my Miyamoto fanboy hat on...there. A lot of people (including me) are waiting for Pikmin 3 before buying a Wii U. I think that game will open the floodgates.
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The Book-Writing Machine(slate.com)
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by hudibras 14y ago
I love this article from 2009, especially the description of the drunks dialing the phone number on the front of the bottle to leave slurred messages of love. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/20/dining/20united.html?pagew...
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by hudibras 14y ago
Uh, they did. There were a couple paragraphs on it.

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