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by hugh3 15y ago
Why? So they'll right themselves if they're capsized? If a ship (not a boat) capsizes you've got pretty serious problems already. Besides, self-righting is a very different sort of problem when you're floating.
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by hugh3 15y ago
The way I was taught history (in Australia), it could have used a whole lot more lists of facts and dates. Case in point: World War One. We spent weeks on that war. But we didn't learn how it started, or how it ended, or exactly who were th
963.
by hugh3 15y ago
History is a relatively easy subject to teach and learn, once everybody agrees on what bits are important and should be taught. A hundred years ago we had this all figured out --we might have had an excessively narrow perspective on histo
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by hugh3 15y ago
That'd be ret-ARD, rather than RE-tard. Or do Americans put the stress on the first syllable even in the verb? Stressing first syllables is a pretty common feature of American English.
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by hugh3 15y ago
Of course not, there's a media blackout! On the other hand, http://www.ketv.com/r/28281114/detail.html Ockham's Razor, plus the fact that it would be pretty freaking coincidental to get two very similar nuclear disasters within the spac
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by hugh3 15y ago
Really? Well in that case, why are we even having this discussion? Damn you, internet!
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by hugh3 15y ago
Think of it from their point of view. They want to be known for brilliant talks, not crap ones. If it really was an awful talk, it devalues their brand to publish it.
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by hugh3 15y ago
The great thing about HN is that it provides an opportunity to do the opposite.
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by hugh3 15y ago
Oh, I'm just trying to visualise a bubble whose skin is made of filters. It doesn't make sense, all the air would leak out.
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by hugh3 15y ago
I don't know about you, but a filter-bubble is for me a very difficult-to-visualise mixed metaphor.
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by hugh3 15y ago
I'm really not sure at whom this is aimed. Are there really people out there who think they've never made a bad decision? I've probably made at least sixteen bad decisions already today, and it's not even sunset.
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by hugh3 15y ago
Oh great, now I have another item for my To Do list.
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by hugh3 15y ago
Maybe it isn't sensible. But it's more sensible. Are there other details which still haven't been revealed? Was the dude a well-known organized crime figure? Was his home bristling with weapons? Had they already tried the sensible "knock
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by hugh3 15y ago
Sigh. I'm tired of the internet, and its nonstop flow of stories which sound outrageous when you read the summary but rapidly sound a bit more sensible when you find out the details.
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by hugh3 15y ago
Possible? Sure! Cheap enough to make it worthwhile? Hells no. Maybe you could get the cost per invitation down to ten bucks if you really had economies of scale and the cooperation of the cell phone networks. But who wants to pay ten bucks
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by hugh3 15y ago
One thing that facebook has taught us is that people hate RSVPing for things even when it's completely painless. Pretty much any event you'll find ten confirmed yeses, twenty confirmed nos, fifty confirmed maybes and about four hundred invi
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by hugh3 15y ago
How would they know? (Serious question)
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by hugh3 15y ago
IANAL either, but I'm not so sure if it's wrong. The fact that the market is "unregulated" in the sense that it doesn't have special regulations written about it the way that regular financial markets do doesn't mean that no laws apply. On
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by hugh3 15y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor
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by hugh3 15y ago
Well, I don't know whether this is real or not, but they sure do look like I imagined 'em to.
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by hugh3 15y ago
Neat, but seems a bit behind the times in a sense. There's nothing 'first class' about a tablet - an ipad is $500 - less than the cost of many flights Sure, it's only valuable if it's loaded with good content. Stick a decent movie/TV show
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by hugh3 15y ago
I'm surprised not to see D. E. Shaw here. Unlike, say, Bain, which actually needs to hire people, D. E. Shaw seems to hire about three people a year but actively collect thousands of CVs just so they can brag about how many people they reje
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by hugh3 15y ago
Plenty of folks are making money by creating and serving content online.
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by hugh3 15y ago
The Motley Fool also uses automatically-generated articles. For instance if you google the phrase "Being able to retire rich, or at least comfortable, is the goal of almost any investor" you'll find hundreds of articles from fool.com, eac
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by hugh3 15y ago
While I doubt this would actually explain pi to anyone who didn't already understand it, it is nonetheless kinda neat.
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by hugh3 15y ago
can someone really file a lawsuit on your behalf without your consent? Apparently so. Is there some central registry of which Americans are deaf/hard of hearing? I doubt it. Will they be paid out from the proceeds if NAD wins? If they
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by hugh3 15y ago
Not to commit thought-crime This kind of rhetoric doesn't really advance the discussion.
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by hugh3 15y ago
OK, how would you choose to rewrite the law, in order to only target the things that the law is actually trying to target? Many arguments about intellectual property get confusing, because the folks making arguments like "this law is ai
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by hugh3 15y ago
Question: why is this modded down into near-invisibility? It seems to be sensible and well-argued.
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by hugh3 15y ago
I really don't like the idea of the government playing cop for the media companies This seems like a silly argument. It's the Government's job to "play cop". I mean, that's why, as you may have noticed, actual cops are government employ

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