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811.
by hugh3 15y ago
Good thing we have a debt ceiling crisis going on, then!
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by hugh3 15y ago
It seems counterproductive. Surely the number of people getting pissed off and unfollowing the account would be quite large compared to the amount of good it would actually do. I guess the world is still learning the answers to questions li
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by hugh3 15y ago
I think we're over-estimating how big and widespread this story is, because it's all over the HN front page. Sure, plenty of people are going to hear about it and it's gonna be damaging for airbnb. But a whole lot of people aren't going t
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by hugh3 15y ago
For all that has been said about gaming on the iPod/Android, the state of the art in games there is still pretty low-rent, low-budget. I mean, what's the big hit? Angry Birds, which looks like it was written by one guy in two weeks. Sure, p
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by hugh3 15y ago
Y'know what it reminds me of? The "Virtual Reality" craze of the early 90s. Everybody went on about how awesome it was that in a few years time, once the graphics hardware caught up, we'd all be putting on virtual reality helmets, not just
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by hugh3 15y ago
I wasn't really aware that it existed until Zero Punctuation reviewed Zelda for it the other day. Maybe I'm in a rather atypical demographic here in the intersection between "people with only a vague awareness of video games" and "people wh
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by hugh3 15y ago
By the time my kids are old enough to be trusted with portable electronic devices, they'll be old enough to have their own allowances and make their own damn decision about what do buy.
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by hugh3 15y ago
Are casual gamers the ones who buy devices in the first 60 days after launch, though? Most "casual" gamers probably still aren't really sure exactly what a Kinect is or what it does. (I know I'm not...)
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by hugh3 15y ago
The government can easily increase their operating cash balance simply by incurring more debt. Except, and this is the whole reason that we currently have big problems, the Government currently can't legally incur more debt, unless Cong
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by hugh3 15y ago
As a partial solution, how about adding a polite note on the "submit" page, asking people nicely to check the past few days' worth of front pages before submitting, to see whether there has already been a discussion on the same subject. I'v
821.
by hugh3 15y ago
Yet another version of the same story.
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by hugh3 15y ago
Duplicate of a story from yesterday, and it wasn't a very good story then either.
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by hugh3 15y ago
I've never heard of Vina del Mar, but based on the name it sounds like exactly where I'd wanna go.
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by hugh3 15y ago
Not really. One thing we can be grateful for is that neither party really wants a default, because neither party is confident that it would be the electoral beneficiary. It might seem that Republicans would get the benefit, but this fact
825.
by hugh3 15y ago
A compulsive gambler, already hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt, goes to a loan shark to borrow another five hundred bucks. He now has an operating cash balance of five hundred dollars, while still having a net worth of minus six fig
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by hugh3 15y ago
depriving the government of the tax revenue that money transfer should have brought in. I'm not sure about the "should have" part here. That money was earned in another country. It has already had tax paid on it, in another country. It's
827.
by hugh3 15y ago
In US geography, "The South" means something very different to the southern half of the country. Likewise, "The Midwest" is concentrated entirely in the eastern half of the country. "The South" is really the south-east corner of the country
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by hugh3 15y ago
This is true, though the CPI is a fairly lousy way of adjusting for inflation, especially over long time periods, and when talking about things which aren't consumer prices. For instance, the Empire State Building cost $40 million to build.
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by hugh3 15y ago
* If I were serious about figuring out whether the cost figures for natural disasters were attributable primarily to increased costs or primarily to increased severity of natural disasters, I'd use earthquakes as a comparison -- if it's an
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by hugh3 15y ago
Wolfram's one example. Most of the founders of Intel. Genentech. The vast majority of biotech or nanotech startups. You won't find too many PhDs starting companies that make web apps and iPhone games, though. They're starting companies in t
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by hugh3 15y ago
Does this graph take interest into account? For instance, if the deficit was one trillion dollars at the end of President Smith's administration and two trillion dollars at the end of President Jones' administration eight years later, how i
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by hugh3 15y ago
Indeed. And it's not even a discussion of any actual utility, it's just finger-pointing. The question of precisely how we should dole out blame for the debt problem (actual answer: a big ol' helping of blame for everybody, including politic
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by hugh3 15y ago
Wow, now I wish I'd thought of having a notexactly account. Maybe I'll have to settle for yesbut
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by hugh3 15y ago
At least circuses have low potential for fraud -- nobody gets eaten by a lion just for the cash. If airbnb started insuring (directly or indirectly) against damage caused by renters then there's quite a few ways for unscrupulous folks to tr
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by hugh3 15y ago
What about non-Santiago parts of Chile? If I were going to spend six months in Chile I might be tempted to forego the metropolis and find a nice town by the seaside or the mountains (both of which seem to be pretty easy to find in Chile). B
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by hugh3 15y ago
NB Not strictly speaking true, but ask me again next week. (Also, my net worth is positive, whereas theirs is negative to the tune of thirteen figures.)
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by hugh3 15y ago
Dude, I have more cash on hand than the US Government.
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by hugh3 15y ago
I'm still not sure what the value proposition is supposed to be for me, as a consumer. In one pocket I have my credit and debit cards. In the other pocket I have my mobile phone. Unlike my phone, my credit and debit cards never run out of b
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by hugh3 15y ago
Aw crud, and now the headline has gone and changed, so my comment no longer makes sense.
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by hugh3 15y ago
Wow. Canada's Green Party is even more scientifically illiterate than most others.

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