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by marze 13y ago
Would you say you are catching 20%, 80%, or an unknown number of PR/shill type accounts on HN? Given the size of the PR industry and the relatively low cost of posting on forums where influential people hang out I would think HN would
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Feedback: allow users to rate/upvote the title itself, and if it gets bad ratings, look to change it. Also, users could get karma bonus for well up voted title.
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Well, it appears to be for sale here: http://www.virginmobileusa.com/shop/cell-phones/iPhone4-8GB-... And, I've heard it remains for sale in China.
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Very well put. It will be the first or second best selling phone in history and will have great margins for Apple. From their point of view, an excellent move. The best indicator of the excellence of the Apple phone products, in my view,
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It is simply speculation and was stated as such. However, the IQ question has been studied and you can find discussion of it elsewhere in this thread. The relatively hard data says that Jewish people are about 100 times more likely to win
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by marze 13y ago
The Jewish culture has valued certain types of intelligence for centuries, and probably as a result their average IQ is measurably higher due to selection effects. If you assume it is outliers on the IQ spectrum that will win the prize, th
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by marze 13y ago
There is significant press attention given to the appearance of the Apple's products and market share stats, but Apple's real focus is on the software inside the devices, and on the developer base and applications available. The m
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But has half as many syllables thus takes half as long to say/type. Who likes wasting time?
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Interesting strategy, to prosecute, as the publicity will only raise awareness of lie detector beating techniques. Better to research new mind reading style lie detection systems.
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I'm not arguing for Soylent, but arguing that people should personally test out low-risk dietary changes and see for themselves if they help. Many argue against Soylent by arguing that we need some careful studies before anyone should
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"recommending we throw out any pretensions of objectivity or science or knowledge in favor of "do what you feel"." Not so. Mental agility, weight, blood pressure are all easy and inexpensive to track. A person's pe
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No doubt people can misjudge things. With health changes, I think it is often easier to see changes in the negative direction, like the author when he stopped the soylent trial. If the changes are great enough in magnitude to be obvious, t
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"Self experimentation might be useful, but only if you understand the metrics you measure and whether its stochastic noise or meaningful results." I feel you miss the whole point of self experimentation. If your aim is for improv
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Nice job missing the forest but spotting a few trees. I see some promising initial signs given the short duration of the trial. Imagine if there was a new drug that gave the mental benefits the guy reported after two weeks of use and saved
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Those are minor issues compared to the issue of the bored farm-kid with a hunting rifle.
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Nicely ranted.
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It is all PR at this point. Snowden really should study the art of PR in depth. I'm not thinking he is doing a terrible job with his limited contact with the press so far, but more education in the PR area wouldn't hurt. To do
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by marze 13y ago
$6B buys a lot. If your day job is getting people to Mars, a system like this is a relaxing side project.
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Yeah. Adult diapers! Problem solved.
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Yeah. A breath of fresh air, as they say.
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Other countries have buildings with roofs.
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I think average Americans do care, especially older ones who have a better understanding of the thinking led to America's founding. That understanding is that those in power always try to get more power, so our system of government
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Those are some awesome calculations. Since we are talking Japan's food supply and the Pacific Ocean, it would be nice to have some independent measurements taken on site, in addition to your nice back-of-the-envelope calculations. Kee
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Surprisingly, that's not so right now, wind is more cost effective. The price of a new coal plant in the US has gone up dramatically due to the increases in energy and metals.
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Probably at least as well as the Fukushima reactors did.
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Electric demand has been dropping for the last five or so years in the US. Not increasing exponentially. You could cover 1/4 of the roof area in the US with solar panels and have enough power to close all other power plants. Add pane
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Hmm, if it is so outdated, should we close all 45 of the identical General Electric-design reactors operating in US cities soon? Or, we could extend their operating license each for 20 years and see if they can handle it.
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Ask the 80000 people made homeless by the Fukushima meltdowns how much the government or power company gave them. It was a laughably small amount. I wouldn't expect any other 1st world country to much better.
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In deciding what to build next, you would compare nuclear with the other future options, which do not include coal. No one argues that solar or wind will kill anyone. And, the real problem with nuclear is that it isn't cost effective.
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Worse case accident for solar: Ow. I dropped the solar panel on my foot. For nuclear: Oops, we destroyed $270B of real estate.

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