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by kevinpet 13y ago
> you're probably going to be working 50 hour weeks. Except that they aren't. http://stateimpact.npr.org/ohio/2011/10/05/teachers-work-few...
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> 1) Does a homosexual couple with no knowledge of US marriage law not have a valid opinion on whether they should be allowed to marry? Does a redneck from the south with no knowledge of US marriage law have a valid opinion on whether ga
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by kevinpet 13y ago
Offensive jokes occur in real life. The level of censorship should be a tuneable parameter of the NPC in question. Who's going to be able to suspend disbelief when the unsavory thug restricts himself to inoffensive jokes?
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"Norman John Harman Sr." By your reasoning, there is no such person. If there can be a "Norman John Harman Sr." then there can also be a "Norman John Harman Jr." who does not have it listed on official document
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by kevinpet 13y ago
Right then. I'll just go and build a business without any capital. Maybe my fairy godmother will just handle salaries and expenses. What's the alternative? Funding solves the problem of "entrepreneur needs money to build busi
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The key number is 40-60,000 Gs. Wikipedia helpfully informs me that this is 3-4 times the rating of the electronics used in artillery fuzes.
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by kevinpet 13y ago
I can only extrapolate how criminals are treated from how we dealt with "detainees" in Iraq. The biggest difference is that at ECP2 in Fallujah, we only stuck our hands down the pants of people who we were detaining.
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by kevinpet 13y ago
If you've committed to an ideological position that bootstrapping is the only valid way to start a business, you have nothing useful to offer on the topic of how to raise money well and what to look out for. It's the same way that
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by kevinpet 13y ago
The purpose of the kickstarter is to raise money to finish it up, including getting 240 pieces of high quality art.
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If you're in middle school, you aren't the target market for languages designed for children.
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I do not fly, and I have no intention of flying until I can do so without getting treated like a criminal. You may have a different opinion. It gets brought up because not all of the world shares your opinion.
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They definitely do not do a good job of checking what formats they're getting. If you watch Star Trek or The Twilight Zone on a 16x9 TV, you'll actually see bars on left and right because it's encoded for 16x9 even though the
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Force them on other people how? You mean like when the police decide to occupy your house to spy on your neighbors? Totally reasonable for them to shoot your dogs. If you wanted the dogs to live, you shouldn't have gotten in the way of
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You don't understand economics if you think that's what would happen. If women actually make 18% less purely because they're women, companies who realize this will be able to hire well by paying women only 15% less. More peop
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by kevinpet 13y ago
No, this is "an American of no Scottish descent who has never visited Scotland is not a Scotsman merely because he owns a plaid shirt."
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His complaint is that crypto is to hard to use . This is a valid complaint and "don't do it" isn't a valid solution. Too many "libraries" consist only of implementations of the crypto algorithms, but don'
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by kevinpet 13y ago
This is a good example of why I don't have the enthusiasm most of this community has for Lessig. His single issue lately is money in politics, to the extent that he seems to be blind to anything else. The criticism which he linked to p
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by kevinpet 13y ago
If these numbers are true, I think it points to an academic rip off far larger than the US student loan problem. If the coaching industry is $3.4B annually, and there are only 10,000 slots at the IITs, that's $340,000 per spot. It effe
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by kevinpet 13y ago
"If anything, GPS technology may have had the opposite effect." They're clearly drawing the wrong conclusion. GPS makes being a cabbie easier, which makes it less valuable for people to put the time into becoming a skilled pr
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by kevinpet 13y ago
It's the supreme luxury to be able to reject society. It's a luxury that's only available to those who are either born to wealth or put a lot of effort into obtaining it. There are also the "I just don't use money,
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by kevinpet 13y ago
A thin margin is a little like being highly leveraged. Spacely Sprockets buys sprockets at about $9.50 and sells them at $10. Cogswell Cogs makes cogs from scratch for $5 and sells them at $10. If these companies are "the same size&quo
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by kevinpet 13y ago
"It doesn't matter if it's widespread or wholesale, it matters that they can do it when they want to." That is precisely what matters. The 4th amendment requires a warrant that some specific person or location (or in our
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by kevinpet 13y ago
This is less objectionable on a procedural basis than many of our current problems. WikiLeaks received classified information, which means someone in the US committed a crime. They went to a judge and got a search warrant based on a an affi
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Homelessness is a problem for the homeless. Homeless people sleeping on the buses are a problem for commuters. Sometimes you're just looking to get to work without having to put on a show of saving the world.
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I commute by bike on roads shared with cars every day and wear a helmet. When I ride in the whole way to work, I tend to average about 15mph, which is probably about 18mph if I count only time actually moving. Some cyclists can ride far fas
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by kevinpet 13y ago
"Bike helmets solve the cyclist protection problem for a small subset of crashes." Bike helmets reduce the risk of injury in virtually all crashes that an improved helmet would reduce it. They simply don't reduce it as much a
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by kevinpet 13y ago
The call to action lands me on a sign up form. Apparently I can get only very limited information before I sign up.
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by kevinpet 13y ago
Do you really think HN readers are so uninformed that they are not aware of the tradeoffs in Apple hardware? They are tradeoffs , not evil conspiracies.
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I think that the whole notion of "it's nice to know I could upgrade" is primarily a consequence of what's currently in the system. Consider the next upgrade. You buy this thing in 2013. For bulk storage, you hook up a
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by kevinpet 13y ago
I think it's hard to understand what the point is without a result that differs from the naive solution. That is, my naive "who's an important terrorist" is "who belongs to the most terrorist groups".

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