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841.
by hugh 18y ago
What about the top deck on a 747? Or an A380, but I'm sure there aren't any stats for that just yet.
842.
by hugh 18y ago
I don't think it's implying causation where there's only correlation. It seems to be implying non-causation due to non-correlation. I'd say the bigger flaw is that it only looks at the very top tax rate without looking at the point at which
843.
by hugh 18y ago
Y'know, as much as I wish this edw519 person well (at least in that I don't actually wish him any specific harm...) I really don't think that submitting and/or upvoting this was a good move on the part of the people who did it.
844.
by hugh 18y ago
You're being downmodded for making assertions which are either false or meaningless. I can't quite figure out which just yet. In case you're still under the impression that the US is a particularly high-crime country, check out http://rech
845.
by hugh 18y ago
I disagree, but unfortunately I don't have a blog to blog about it in.
846.
by hugh 18y ago
What is relative to what, precisely?
847.
by hugh 18y ago
Safest City in US < Most violent anywhere else. Johannesburg? Rio? Manila? Bogota? London? Honiara?
848.
by hugh 18y ago
Just because it's in international waters doesn't mean it has to be in the middle of the ocean. If they're willing to accept being outside the territorial waters of any country but still in the Exclusive Economic Zone of one, then they can
849.
by hugh 18y ago
Perhaps, but I regret the tens of hours I've spent watching, (say) Frasier or How I Met Your Mother significantly less than the minute and a half I spent reading that article.
850.
by hugh 18y ago
Usually I hate these one-word unjustified responses, but today I'm gonna have to go with: No. I wish I could provide some kind of rebuttal of the points made in the article, but unfortunately the article really doesn't seem to make any poin
851.
by hugh 18y ago
I agree, Paris is a great place to walk around. But in practical terms, what's it like to try and raise three children in a place where only the super-rich can afford to have a back yard? If the folks in Clichy-sous-Bois lived in ugly low-d
852.
by hugh 18y ago
Has anyone ever actually had this happen, or is this just plain ol' Guardian-style anti-American paranoia? I've carried computers through US customs as a noncitizen many times, and they've never shown any interest in searching 'em. Of cours
853.
by hugh 18y ago
I agree completely. I get so bored with the over-the-top standard-issue whine about suburbs which you nowadays hear from just about anyone who doesn't live in one. Blah blah ugly blah blah McMansions blah blah Wal-Mart blah-blah soul-destro
854.
by hugh 18y ago
I've been programming for well over ten years. I found it hard at first, but now I find it really really hard. By the time I retire, hopefully it will be damn near impossible.
855.
by hugh 18y ago
Sure, but they're sketchy because they're sketchy, not because they're targeting the poor. They're sketchy because they're bait-and-switch -- fooling people into signing a pretty onerous contract without reading it properly.
856.
by hugh 18y ago
I think it's an interesting idea only in that it seems to be a case of throwing a whole bunch of stuff at the wall and seeing if any of it sticks. It allows you to do a whole bunch of things, none of which I want to do. You can sell/buy stu
857.
by hugh 18y ago
OK, I accept that if we're going to be pedantic (and honestly, being pedantic is one of my favourite hobbies too) then the question would really be "if a typical person thought aerodynamics was important for a lunar lander, why would they b
858.
by hugh 18y ago
Except the companies don't see any of the money once the IPO is finished. Of course, the only reason the IPO can proceed is because people who buy shares know that they can sell them to other people later. So I suppose in that sense they he
859.
by hugh 18y ago
Has the word "hacker" really become so devalued around here that it's now considered something you can "become" from a standing start, by following a six-to-nine-month course of study?
860.
by hugh 18y ago
It says he's "lucky if he can press 200 pounds" unassisted, which means he presses 200 lbs on a good day. Which, as you say, is pretty normal. I'm not sure what you're surprised about, unless you're misinterpreting the phrase "lucky if".
861.
by hugh 18y ago
I agree that "why is Boston not in Oklahoma?" is a question without a sensible answer, but that has nothing to do with the fact that it is of the form "why does X not have property Y?" You will notice that "Why is Boston in Massachussetts
862.
by hugh 18y ago
I disagree. First of all, Gatsby contains no animal characters. The Great Gatsby contains two dogs and a cat. While none are given names, one of the dogs (an Airedale bought by Myrtle Wilson) appears several times and has some identifiabl
863.
by hugh 18y ago
Surely whether speed is important depends on what corner of program space you happen to be exploring?
864.
by hugh 18y ago
Not really. I decided to read the comments, to see whether the article was worth reading. Thanks to the "zero content" comment, I've decided not to bother. Time saved!
865.
by hugh 18y ago
My favourite bit is the bit about the "coming age of shortages". This was written in 1978. I think I'll stick to doing stuff I enjoy and earning money for it, and then spending that money on stuff I want.
866.
by hugh 18y ago
What will you do after 10-20 years in a dome?
867.
by hugh 18y ago
Oh, I don't know about that. Many of the details seem different -- for instance, instead of the partners trying to advise everybody at once they'll assign you a "guru". They distinguish between "innovators" and "strategists" as two types of
868.
by hugh 18y ago
Do you ever read a book and find it so good you want to tell the whole world about it, yet when you try to tell people all you get are blank stares? Yep. And then a few years later, when I re-read that same book, I realized that it just w
869.
by hugh 18y ago
I'd argue that the phenomenon is a bad thing only to the extent that it encourages people to write articles like this. It's a mostly-unrelated, fairly uninsightful way for some guy to whore for his own belief system (everybody buy some gu
870.
by hugh 18y ago
I suspect that the "brilliant failure" model is a bit of a Barnum profile ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forer_effect ). I suspect most reasonably smart university students feel that way at some point in their careers.

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