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by mixmax 13y ago
Paul Graham wrote an essay that fits the peadophilia scare quite well - http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html
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by mixmax 13y ago
I have a personal theory, that I haven't really been able to confirm or deny. Here it is. After Hiroshima and during the cold war nuclear energy was associated with death and destruction. Hiroshima for obvious reasons, and the cold war beca
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by mixmax 13y ago
A good friend of mine had an amazing experience showing what blind people are capable of. He overheard a middle aged man who had obviously been blind for a long time schooling a young girl who had recently gone blind on how to get around. T
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by mixmax 13y ago
Reading an article, and immediately setting out to recreate the results based on the paper. Science needs people like you.
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Trolling Right Along: An Interview with Joe ‘Big Cock’ Johnson(uni-watch.com)
3 points by mixmax 13y ago|1 comments
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by mixmax 13y ago
should definitely be doable - but using it to defraud me would be hard. Here social security numbers are used as an identifier, you can't really get to anything interesting with it. For that you'll need my passport, drivers license, digital
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by mixmax 13y ago
In my country social security numbers consist of two numbers, and mine consists of two twin primes. Probably the only one in the country. This is something I can only brag about on HN :-)
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by mixmax 13y ago
No they are not - and a lot of people misunderstand why. It's true that in any normal year more people die from known diseases, and that pandemics are a rare occurrence. But when they happen they kill a lot of people. The 1918 flu pandemi
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by mixmax 13y ago
In Denmark we have "denmarks Radio" which is basically a state owned tv, web and radio media outlet whose purpose it is to educate the populace. This changes the incentives, because the income is from the state whose goal is to have educate
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by mixmax 13y ago
Yes, sorry about the redundancy - the downside of having lots of tabs open for a while is that you don't see all the new comments. But you know what they say - great minds think alike :-)
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by mixmax 13y ago
The premise of the article is flawed - it's not about where the old programmers have gone, but whether they were there to begin with. If you think a bit about it it's fairly obvious. Programming is a relatively new profession that has been
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by mixmax 13y ago
I think it is, based on the fact that (as I mentioned in the GP) wealth follows a powerlaw distribution. I don't see why options wouldn't follow this trend, particularly because market cap of companies in an economy also follows a powerlaw.
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by mixmax 13y ago
I think someone's skewing the poll. Personal wealth follows a powerlaw distribution, and there's good reason to believe that income from stock options is somewhat similar. If you look at the numbers above they make reasonably sense except f
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by mixmax 13y ago
HN is the best tech news aggregator on the net. Where do you think Larry, Sergey, Eric, and Tim get their news from? There are probably a lot more household tech names on HN than you'd initially expect.
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by mixmax 13y ago
ahh, dry ice, water and closed containers. It's a classic. I blew up stuff using this method less than a year ago.
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by mixmax 13y ago
Thanks - I didn't notice that. After having mistakenly sent a few embarrassing half e-mails I've stopped using tab altogether in gmail for fear of doing it again. When I indent text it's spaces instead of tab - unlike anywhere else. This pr
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by mixmax 13y ago
Here's another total usability fail: Tab sends the e-mail you're currently writing instead of indenting text. Everywhere else tab indents text, and when you write an e-mail in gmail you'd expect it to act consistently with how it's used eve
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by mixmax 13y ago
changing it was a bad decision IMO. Without the context this submission makes no sense at all.
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by mixmax 13y ago
It's a bad way of dealing with terrorism. It's in the name - it's all about terrorising, and the Boston bombers have certainly succeded in that. With this whole spectacle you've let two guys with very little resources put the whole nation i
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How a true statesman would deal with a terror attack(maximise.dk)
6 points by mixmax 13y ago|0 comments
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by mixmax 13y ago
Some of the most interesting, candid and thought provoking posts and comments are from anonymous users. I can easily see why the OP wants to remain anonymous, and I think we should respect that. Here's an example: https://news.ycombinator.
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by mixmax 14y ago
Almost as witty as the article headline announcing British politician Michael Foot being placed in charge of a committee on decommissioning nuclear weapons "Foot heads arms body"
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by mixmax 14y ago
Well it seems that this option now has one vote :-) On a sidenote, it skews the poll quite badly when you add options this late. Nothing against you personally - just something to note.
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by mixmax 14y ago
You missed one, which I know a few people that have used: Live on social security for a year until you get your startup off the ground. If you don't you go get a normal job. This, of course, requires that you live in one of the Nordic coun
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How Globalization Went Pop and What It Means for Workers(theatlantic.com)
3 points by mixmax 14y ago|0 comments
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Management/Success/Leadership: Mostly Bullshit(dilbert.com)
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by mixmax 14y ago
"After five years of bailouts financed largely by austerity-weary European taxpayers, wealthy nations like Germany and the Netherlands have decreed that from now on when a bank or country fails, it will be bond investors and perhaps even b
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by mixmax 14y ago
I had no idea it was a cake - it's just a silly name I thought up 2024 days ago when making an account for some strange newfangled startup site I'd found through reddit. :-)
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by mixmax 14y ago
It's a good point, so I did a quick google search and it appears that in most countries the insurance is paid out by a seperate insurance fund that all banks pay in to over time. Presumably the fund is reinsured with lloyds, Berkshire Hatha
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by mixmax 14y ago
There are pan-European laws that if a bank goes under you get the funds up to €100.000 you had in the bank reimbursed by the state. The reason for this is that is that banks are the financial glue of society, and for better or worse we can'

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