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by olympus 13y ago
Sure, people would pay more to get better treatment but most people don't fly enough to know the difference. Ask a few people around which airlines give you the entire can of coke and which only give you half the can in a tiny plastic cup.
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by olympus 13y ago
Let me start by saying that I don't dislike Tim Cook, but to me he's just another rich guy running a company, not a tech visionary [1]. I certainly don't offer anything more than the average HNer but the difference is that I don't auction o
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by olympus 13y ago
>I assume that Tim Cook is probably an extraordinarily interesting man with many great insights. He probably won't say anything more than you could get from an MBA at University of Phoenix (which costs a smidgen less than $610,000).
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by olympus 13y ago
From this 2010 article [1] it says charity buzz takes 20% off to cover operating expenses. So this winning bidder just wasted $122,000 that could have gone to charity. I would rather donate directly and have all the money go to the charit
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by olympus 13y ago
It looks like the Mozilla team is doing such great stuff nowadays. I converted to Chrome a few years back and it seemed like Firefox was stagnant. But I think the competition has been good for them, they've been doing lots of neat stuff r
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by olympus 13y ago
Yeah, most of the internet hasn't heard of a hosts file or AdBlock. It's a good thing though, because if there wasn't money in the advertising we would have to pay for access to YouTube.
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by olympus 13y ago
Agree with you, but it saddens me that people will listen to her just because she's "attractive." She's not that good looking, she just wears a lot of makeup. I'd have a conversation with her in a bar, but since she's hundreds of miles
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by olympus 13y ago
In addition to the author's points about how the videos are constructed (thumbnail tricks, headline bait) to gain views, you also have to consider the basic mechanism involved in getting views: accessibility to a large population of people.
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by olympus 13y ago
While the code could use streamlining by only drawing one randint and comparing it to a static number, the probability of orangethirty's way of doing it still gives the correct probability of 1/6. Think of it as two dice, the chance of rol
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by olympus 13y ago
< and you're no better than the software guys. > This is a huge point that many HNers probably don't get(but they think that they get). Releasing patches/bugfixes doesn't work so well on physical stuff. If Amazon AWS goes down, a
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by olympus 13y ago
Yeah, If you have any experience with creating your own 3D CAD files for printing it would be trivial to go into files yourself and fill in the void for the metal. I doubt it would have a significant impact on the gun's performance. While
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by olympus 13y ago
Thanks for filling me in, jlgreco. However, I still don't think any part of ITAR or AECA is going down because of this.
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by olympus 13y ago
Yup, barrel is printed as well. Entire gun is ABS plastic, which sounds absurd until you realize that it's only a .22 being fired through it, and it's only intended to be used for one shot. This round is so weak that it's explosive charge
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by olympus 13y ago
The law's main reason for existing isn't really about handguns, but that doesn't stop it for being applied to them. I don't think the U.S. government is really all that concerned about a single shot pistol, but someone got all in a tizzy a
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by olympus 13y ago
Oh, wow. With numbers that high it never crossed my mind that you were talking about loan interest. Normally the interest you pay to short a stock is single digits, and if you have enough money it can be <1%. I was thinking of this:
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by olympus 13y ago
Not sure if you're joking or not, but I'll offer a quick explanation. Interest in this context does not mean interest on a loan, but rather how many people are interested in shorting the stock. The 46% short interest meant that almost hal
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by olympus 13y ago
The article mentions that it has a 6-ounce chunk of metal in it so it is detectable. The guys at DD seem to be on top of their legal game.
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by olympus 14y ago
One problem of particular concern for many budding statisticians is the difference in the way Student's t-distribution and the Normal distribution are handled. The Excel functions for the t-distribution split the probability into two tails
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by olympus 14y ago
You're probably right, but I'm applying anyway. It's not like a better possibility for me to get to Mars is opening up anytime soon. I'll balance the small amount of wasted money with the (extremely remote) possibility that I'd get to be
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by olympus 14y ago
I don't think the author was wrong (which seems to be the underlying implication of this article popping up seven years later). Sure, the housing bubble burst, but that was over a year after he wrote this article. A lot can change with th
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by olympus 14y ago
There are plenty of people/organizations that are researching cool new technologies that don't have the publicity of Elon Musk, either from them actively avoiding the spotlight or the media has just decided that they aren't "cool" enough to
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by olympus 14y ago
No, your math is right. The $500 per month figure is for the 85 kWh car, which is more expensive. Tesla's "calculator" gives roughly the same figure as you for the 60kWh car. That doesn't mean it's comparable to a car payment of $351/mon
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by olympus 14y ago
When someone who truly revolutionized online money with PayPal says they have a revolutionary new deal, they had better not come at me with smoke and mirrors like this. When Elon Musk sat in front of a camera and talked about a revolutiona
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by olympus 14y ago
I wonder what will happen when Gnome 4 rolls out in the future. Will users jump to it like what happened from Windows Vista -> Windows 7? Will they still yearn for the days of Gnome 2, like some people still wish for Windows XP even t
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by olympus 14y ago
Frequentist here. This paper makes me hate Bayesians a little less. The reason is because a general thrust of the paper (since I have only had time to give it a once-over) seems to be that just because you are a Bayesian it doesn't mean t
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by olympus 14y ago
This should have been saved for 1 April. It's good advertising though, and since it hit the front page of HN it's probably driving a ton of traffic to their site.
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by olympus 14y ago
I think the real answer is that users like choices and freedom. You will gain the maximum amount of users if you allow them to use social logins if they so desire, or allow them to create a stand alone username/password for your site. By
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by olympus 14y ago
Documents are classified at the highest classification of any single piece inside the document. In the cryptolog you linked to, there are two large redacted sections. It's not that the book review was classified, it was just published nex
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by olympus 14y ago
The 5th Amendment is great, but that doesn't mean that Congress can't pass something clarifying how drone strikes fit into that framework and settling the issue before someone gets blown up by a Hellfire missile. I don't see how anything l
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by olympus 14y ago
Filibustering is great and all, but how about introducing some legislation clarifying the issue that US citizens are off limits to drones? It would be too easy for Holder or Obama to say, "okay, we won't do it" and then go back on their wo

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