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by jeffwass 11y ago
"Once again: the worst that an insurance salesperson can do is sell you bad insurance. They're not actually involved in medical procedures, so any harm they can do is financial." Sorry, there are very clear knock-on health ef
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by jeffwass 11y ago
Perhaps a specific Zenefits example of employee incompetence is of use here. The lady in this example is clearly not competent, and should not be selling products that people depend on for their health. Not sure why you feel having gone thr
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by jeffwass 11y ago
Because this is people's health you're talking about. Do you feel drivers should have to get a drivers licenses? I hope you don't think Uber should just hire people off the street and put them in cars without proper licenses
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by jeffwass 11y ago
FYI, that page renders strangely on Safari on my iPhone. The text runs past the white rectangle background on the left half of the screen.
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by jeffwass 11y ago
Nice logo!
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by jeffwass 11y ago
Even amongst boroughs, all are not equal. Eg, it's the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_place_names_with_roy...
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by jeffwass 11y ago
Greater London consists of many boroughs or 'cities', way more than three. Each is its own municipality, just like Westminster. The City of London happens to be one of the smallest, and least populous. Edit - on rereading this, I
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by jeffwass 11y ago
London itself, as in the City of London, is still only a square mile, it's even called 'The Square Mile'. And the City of London is more-or-less based on the borders of the old Roman city of Londinium. Parts of the Roman cit
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by jeffwass 11y ago
China's already warned Soros just a few days ago not to short the renminbi. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/ebabbebe-c40d-11e5-993a-d18bf68267... Edit - didn't see that the original WSJ article includes
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by jeffwass 11y ago
Yeah, strange thresholds for success. They mention just 1% have won Nobel Prizes, and then in the next sentence say "For every Lisa Randall who revolutionizes theoretical physics, there are many dozens who fall far short of their poten
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by jeffwass 11y ago
Here's another MS Paint masterpiece by artist Stanley William Moore II. http://www.swmoore.com/2009/53
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by jeffwass 11y ago
Here's another quote. Take from it what you will. "I can safely say that the fraction of people on Internet forums who understand as much quantum mechanics as they think they do is a non-negative number much smaller than one.&quot
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by jeffwass 11y ago
Are you disputing it's not true now? Btw, I can safely tell you that having studied QM in some depth, I usually avoid these types of HN threads. Ie, quite often they're dominated by people who think they know what they're t
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by jeffwass 11y ago
Feynman is not talking about just "turning the crank" as it were, but actual deep intuitive understanding of the 'why'. I agree with you that after you know how to setup the system you want to analyse, turning the mathem
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by jeffwass 11y ago
FYI, I have a PhD in physics and spent many a late night hour solving theoretical quantum mechanics problems, as well as those applied to statistical mechanics and solid state physics. And yet I'm still inclined to agree with Feynman.
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by jeffwass 11y ago
The parent comment is now deleted, so I don't know what was said. But as per your comment, a spin-1/2 particle in a magnetic field has only two available states when measuring the component of angular momentum in the direction of
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by jeffwass 11y ago
You're not alone : "I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics." Richard Feynman, The Character of Physical Law (1965)
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by jeffwass 11y ago
"What I will be remembered for are the Foundation Trilogy and the Three Laws of Robotics. What I want to be remembered for is no one book, or no dozen books. Any single thing I have written can be paralleled or even surpassed by someth
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by jeffwass 11y ago
What if the investors were also mentors that helped guide the startup to a particular potentially-successful pivot?
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by jeffwass 11y ago
So you're advocating screwing over the investors from the first accelerator? Especially after they guided the startup to a potentially successful pivot?
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by jeffwass 11y ago
So if the rate was zero, and they increased it by 0.01%, your claim would be that it was an infinite rate increase, and big institutions would have zero money to roll around?
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by jeffwass 11y ago
"I walked through the much quieter 'No Exit' corridor (against the flow of traffic) to avoid/alleviate the congestion in the actual designated exit corridor." You guys who do that piss me off. I often do the opposit
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by jeffwass 11y ago
Your dad was on the right track though, but for a different reason. 1,2,3,4,5,6 is a (relatively) common choice of numbers people buy in lotteries, so if those numbers win you're more likely to have to split the pot.
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by jeffwass 11y ago
I'm curious why you have policeman at the bottom of your hierarchy.
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"Why would you want a vehicle that sits idle 90% of the day?" Some reasons I want my own car (note - I don't currently own one but rent occasionally) : - My kids' car seats are already installed and ready to go - My phon
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by jeffwass 11y ago
You mean the TRS-80 Model 100? I knew a guy who used one regularly, at least up through the year 2000, primarily for testing serial port hardware he was hacking up.
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by jeffwass 11y ago
Do you mean "why is there resistance"? In 1900, 3 years after JJ Thomson discovered the electron, physicist P. Drude came up with a simple approach for modelling metals. He assumed electrons would scatter off the atomic ions, all
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by jeffwass 11y ago
Ha, I am surprised to see that page on HN. I remember finding this way back in 2002, after making my own "Quick and Dirty Preview of Solid State Physics". I had to make this site for a seminar class. Basically each student had to
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by jeffwass 11y ago
Except that superconductor required a pressure of 1.6 million atmospheres! Dunking a high-Tc superconductor in a dewar of liquid nitrogen is pretty easy and relatively low cost, and I believe far more practical. I don't know that much
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by jeffwass 11y ago
The UK does something like this, they call it "means adjusted" fines. Usually it's done if you challenge a ticket and they still find you guilty. Then they may adjust the fine relative to your financial condition. (I'm n

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