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by phaemon 9y ago
Well rather than attempting sarcasm, why don't you tell us what you think retired means? Presumably you're banned from ever doing any task that might even possibly net you any money?
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by phaemon 9y ago
>when he made the claim at first I felt he was overselling it. In what way? His passive investments were bringing in far more than his spending, so in what sense was he "overselling" it?
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by phaemon 9y ago
> You're leveling the criticism No, I'm not. I'm offering a suggestion. You're being absurdly thin-skinned on someone else's behalf. > Redefining all of these things in every post would get annoying very fa
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by phaemon 9y ago
> He didn't submit it to HN, someone else did. What difference does that make? It's still here, right? So people are still reading it from here, right? >It's totally reasonable to expect that if people are reading hi
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by phaemon 9y ago
Yes, it's a "court shoe": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Court_shoe The piece is called "Scarpa" if you want to search for it. :)
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by phaemon 9y ago
> "What is Pandas" is assumed to be known, for good reason What good reason? Why on earth would every single person on HN who happened to click on that link know what `pandas` is? How would they even know whose blog it is on?
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by phaemon 9y ago
I think in English it probably refers to unseasoned wood, which people in the past would have been familiar with.
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by phaemon 9y ago
In that case, surely the professor should be commenting on the original assessment, not any paper that accepts the published literature? I still reckon it's a misunderstanding. I don't know what the "political implications&qu
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by phaemon 9y ago
I'm sorry but your analogy obscures your point rather than illuminating it. Are you saying that the person being female casts doubt on the initial analysis of the person as a warrior? If you are, is this assessment based on knowledge o
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by phaemon 9y ago
I think there is a misunderstanding here that is causing people to talk past each other (and I think the Professor had the same misunderstanding). There seems to be the idea that paper is making the claims that the person in the grave was a
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by phaemon 9y ago
The advice today is pretty much the same as it was 5 years ago: buy into a low cost fund. Since you're in the UK, through a Stocks & Shares ISA. I recall the same complaints about low interest rates back in 2012, but the returns fr
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by phaemon 9y ago
It is fairly outdated. It says it was last updated in December 2014, but I'm not sure it's had much added. (this is on Ubuntu, but anything with systemd should be similar) You're correct about systemctl. If you do: ls -lh
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by phaemon 9y ago
A good and interesting explanation. Though, since it doesn't mention transactions at all, it might leave folk thinking, "So great, I've got a chain of hashes. How is that in any way a `coin`"? A Part 2 with that concept
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by phaemon 9y ago
There are a couple of dead comments that, essentially, made the same argument that I've heard here in Scotland when there was talk of a Space Port being set up: why are you wasting money on this when there are problems with poverty etc
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by phaemon 9y ago
It isn't `apt`. See how they mentioned that `mysql` packages were installing? Well, in the `preinst` shell script, in the .deb, there is the line: `if LC_ALL=C BLOCKSIZE= df --portability $DATADIR/. | tail -n 1 | awk '{ exit
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by phaemon 9y ago
> Cancer death rates in the UK are 255 per 100,000 No they're not. Cancer mortality rates (per 100,000) are: UK: 109.97, USA: 105.78, Spain: 98.06, Australia: 96.36 > It’s not so black and white that “single payer is better.”
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by phaemon 9y ago
> Your mom is an outlier. That comment is funnier when you haven't read the parent comment. I imagine it as a statistician's snub.
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by phaemon 9y ago
> And yet we don't have have an AI which could tell us if a photo is a bird and win at checkers (or tic-tac-toe). Google can. I did search by image and it identified my picture as a dog. And if you search for "tic-tac-toe"
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by phaemon 9y ago
There is "Pyed Piper" aka `pyp` https://code.google.com/archive/p/pyp/ "Pyp is a linux command line text manipulation tool similar to awk or sed, but which uses standard python string and list
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by phaemon 9y ago
This seems an appropriate place for an Iain Banks quote: " "Well," he says, "if you are going to write what a friend of a friend once called 'Made up space shit', then if it's going to have any ring of tru
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by phaemon 9y ago
From the Newsweek link: "Editor's note: The author of this piece, Randy Simmons, is the Charles G. Koch professor of political economy at Utah State University. He's also a senior fellow at the Koch- and ExxonMobil-funded Pro
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by phaemon 9y ago
More than just the UK. See: https://global.vanguard.com/portal/site/home for a list of countries.
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by phaemon 9y ago
Hah, you were too quick for me! Must type faster!
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by phaemon 9y ago
Yes, exactly that. I had to follow a few links, but Ars Technica has a better story. To quote: "It also massively increases the granularity of object time-stamping: APFS supports nanosecond time stamp granularity rather than the 1-seco
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by phaemon 9y ago
I guess CDs are outdated now, but perhaps they could go retro and do a vinyl release?
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by phaemon 9y ago
It's really not a rare phrase. If you Google: site:businessesforsale.com "going concern" you get 16,400 hits. Just on that one site . I can understand that one person might not have come across it, but when it's so many
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by phaemon 9y ago
Maybe it's a call to arms? "Creators! Update!" Or maybe it's just a bug... ;)
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by phaemon 9y ago
> the same place What's the place?
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by phaemon 10y ago
Maybe they could check if you have an ad blocker and only show the site if you do :)
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by phaemon 10y ago
I didn't mean that I'd expect a physicist to understand every part of Climatology. I meant that I'd expect any competent physicist to understand the basic principles of the greenhouse effect, because that part is physics.

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