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by jmharvey 13y ago
The article doesn't even mention the most egregious offender on display in their examples: the tilted/3-D pie chart. In the Romney/Palin/Huckabee graphic, Palin's wedge has the smallest area, despite having the larg
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by jmharvey 13y ago
The "dealers have political clout because they generate so much sales tax revenue" logic seems lacking. Wouldn't people buying cars pay the sales taxes regardless of whether the cars are sold through dealers or direct to con
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by jmharvey 13y ago
I wonder how many problems like his would also exist in a deployment in Ethiopia. Many problems seem much more complicated when you've encountered them firsthand.
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This seems like an "avoid the appearance of impropriety" situation. The HN mods don't want it to devolve into a political board, but killing a controversial story about the model YC company would certainly generate accusat
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by jmharvey 13y ago
I wouldn't let the atmosphere on HN deter you from applying to YC. YC is far from perfect, but it's a heck of a lot better than a semi-anonymous internet forum. I had a female (technical) cofounder, and her general take on YC was
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Boosted delivers first boards to Kickstarter backers(boostedboards.posthaven.com)
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by jmharvey 13y ago
When I saw the headline, I cringed. At this point, whenever I see a Google article titled, "The future of [google product]," I assume it's an announcement that the product is being phased out. Needless to say, I'm glad
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by jmharvey 13y ago
Flip's compelling niche was that it was easy to get the pictures off the camera. But as easy as an integrated USB plug is to use, wireless is even easier.
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by jmharvey 13y ago
The NSA didn't break the law. People at the NSA broke the law. They need to be held to account.
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It seems like only a matter of time before Google starts informing people where, along the pipe between the Youtube servers and their computer, their traffic is being throttled.
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by jmharvey 13y ago
I don't buy it. Commuting by company bus rather than private car or public transit doesn't somehow make a person unaware of the world around them. If anything, I'd wager that the average Google Bus passenger is more attuned
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by jmharvey 13y ago
No, anyone with an email address can be on a ZeroMailer list. For now, we're requiring a Google sign-in to create lists, in large part to curtail spam.
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Show HN: An easy way to make mailing lists(zeromailer.com)
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by jmharvey 13y ago
Sony will also make money on hardware accessories. Most PS4 owners will buy an additional controller ($59 retail, $18 teardown) and many will buy a PS4 camera ($59 retail, no teardown price listed here, but I've seen sub-$20 estimates
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by jmharvey 13y ago
It would be nice if the norm for these "X in N lines of Y" posts didn't count comments toward the line count. (I also wish people would use more descriptive variable names, but I suppose that would make the code longer.) Com
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by jmharvey 13y ago
Well, yeah. Of course you can save a bunch of money by just refusing to pay for stuff, and finding illegal ways to get it for free. You can also save money by sneaking in the back door of a movie theater. The point of this article is tha
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by jmharvey 13y ago
Poorly designed smoke detectors are a real problem. They can be overly sensitive to some kinds of fire and completely miss out on other kinds. Tests are extremely irritating and difficult to perform, so people don't perform the tests.
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by jmharvey 13y ago
> Movies spread out their sales over an extremely long time compared to games. Is that true? It seems like most hundred-million-dollar movies make most of their money on opening weekend, and after a couple of weeks their (domestic) box
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by jmharvey 13y ago
People frequently get themselves into serious financial trouble by borrowing money to "invest in themselves" or "start a business." On a case-by-case basis, these may actually be sound financial moves, but there are who
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by jmharvey 13y ago
> The problem is that we all have so much to lose The Silicon Valley mythology is largely based around the idea of founders/early employees who do what they do because they have nothing to lose. I don't know whether that was e
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by jmharvey 13y ago
I wouldn't be quite so skeptical. For accelerators with a particular focus, their expertise and organization could be just as helpful to nonprofit organizations as to for-profit companies.
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by jmharvey 13y ago
Yes, that seems to be what it means. In general, heavy users get better marginal prices, but there's a "free sample" amount for very light users.
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by jmharvey 13y ago
Picking some high numbers is good, but you have to be careful about picking all high numbers, since many other lottery players have also heard of this strategy. In a 6/46 game, of the 9.3 million combinations, only 5005 consist en
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by jmharvey 13y ago
Of course, 1111111 has as good a chance of winning as any other number, but since most lotteries are parimutuel (i.e. the prize is divided evenly among all winners), it makes sense to try and pick a number that no one else is going to pick.
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by jmharvey 13y ago
I was under the impression that FX gave showrunners more freedom, but a tighter budget.
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I think the parent comment meant that it was a very low price, relative to how much money AMC makes off of their cable viewers.
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by jmharvey 13y ago
It was nice of you to pixellate the image, but you might want to remove the link, too. "Here's a web site with a bunch of people's private information on it" isn't the kind of thing you generally want to post to a
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by jmharvey 13y ago
> but never more at the expense of those that came before This is the standard anti-bike, pro-car argument in most American cities. That cars are already here, and adding bike infrastructure takes away from space for cars. The fact is,
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by jmharvey 13y ago
Does anyone have statistics on what percentage of "medical marijuana" is actually used for the treatment of medical conditions? The de facto medical marijuana regime in California seems to be that anyone who wants marijuana goes
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by jmharvey 13y ago
Interesting, I'll have to give that paper a deeper look. I have noticed seemingly skewed lottery results in the past, but I've never found a case where the skewness of the results made a material difference to the optimal strateg

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