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by retube 15y ago
> Photons have no ticking time at all, which means, as far as they are concerned, they are absorbed the instant they are emitted, even if the distance traveled is across the universe itself Yes. Or another way of looking at it, from a p
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by retube 15y ago
RTGs have been powering deep space probes since the beginning of our travels into space. It's really the only technology that will keep a craft powered for many years/decades. Without them you simply can't do these kinds of missions. And th
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by retube 15y ago
There's basically two ways: 1) You go short the underlying market(s), that is you sell them. Individuals don't (as far as I know) have access to the repo (repurchase) markets. What you do here is borrow a stock, sell it, then buy it back la
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by retube 15y ago
Top of hacker news: a dot that.... pulses. And doesn't even work in most browsers. I mean I know it's the weekend and maybe a slow news day, but really?
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by retube 15y ago
> I want to eliminate dependencies completely and go back to a simpler time Exactly. I just want to do pure html/js/css and edit in vim or emacs. For my personal and/or blog I don't want (or need) a db to power it. Just a simple static
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by retube 15y ago
Cool, thanks for the tip, I'll check it out.
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by retube 15y ago
I have to say I'm not really a fan of wordpress either. Granted I am not a power user, in fact my knowledge of wordpress is crap, but that's partly because it's always taken me so damn long to figure out how to do anything. Yes there are mi
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by retube 15y ago
That's a nice little bit of history there. Not sure how much apocryphal and how much true though. As I understood it one of the reasons js really took off was Microsoft's addition of XHR requests. Is that right?
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by retube 15y ago
OK Fortune1000 and 115k is not a huge amount of info, but it's fairly definitive nonetheless. Of course it _could_ be fishing, but that's kind of my point: because it's a recruiter everyone assumes the worst. > I'm not downvoting your p
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by retube 15y ago
They're not universally hated. I don't hate them for a start, and i've used recruiters as employee and employer. Like estate agents, you're SUPPOSED to hate them, and sadly it seems, most people won't think for themselves or draw their own
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by retube 15y ago
I was making no reference, good or bad, to recruiters in general. I was referring to this particular example in isolation. To me that mailing list post seemed inoffensive and relevant. Assuming it's occasional, what's the problem? What the
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by retube 15y ago
Urgh the whole recruiter-hate thing is so boring. Get off your high horse and realise that some people are just trying to make a living - posting a relevant ad to a mailing list occasionally is hardly the crime of the century. Re his 3 poin
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by retube 15y ago
Thoughtful responses. I am looking at this from a very UK perspective, so much of what I've said maybe (and indeed sounds like it is) not relevant to the US. Over here UK supermarkets have matured their online businesses very well. It's no
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by retube 15y ago
From the sounds of things US supermarkets do not have the online and delivery presence that they do in the UK. I reckon the 4 major supermarkets here deliver to 98% of the population, same price as in-store with free delivery (hourly delive
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by retube 15y ago
> You could make more efficient use of space if you don't have to arrange the store to be customer-friendly. I didn't mean physically particularly, I was thinking more about the range of inventory required. Let's imagine 80% of people w
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by retube 15y ago
This is an interesting concept. But I see a couple of issues: - You need physical stores. These take a lot of money and expertise to set up and run. And to expand/scale in any meaningful way will take a LOT of money. Plus of course you've g
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by retube 15y ago
Are you seriously trying to tell me that the banks are the only industry which either a) has been bailed out at some point or b) receives government subsidies?
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by retube 15y ago
Oh give me a f king break. > That $5 trillion dollars is not money invested in building roads, schools, and other long-term projects, but is directly transferred from the American economy to the personal accounts of bank executives and
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by retube 15y ago
ha I'm a particle physicist by training :) I was going to add to my comment that in my (ex-) field I'm pretty sure that papers were/are freely available on the CERN websites, as well as arXiv.org.
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by retube 15y ago
Yes this is a problem. Occasionally I have to to resort to emailing authors directly and asking for a copy of the paper - in most cases they have been obliging. As far as I am concerned publicly funded research papers should (must) be freel
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by retube 15y ago
Reliable opening times are the holy grail of any business or directory listing. But in practice it's really hard to do reliably. The best you can do really is just list normal opening times + include the "closed on xmas day, bnk holidays" c
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by retube 15y ago
> Twitter has, to my knowledge, only ever stated the number of accounts, rather than the 7 or 30 day actives. I can't believe a VC sticking $100m into a social network like twitter doesn't demand very detailed breakdowns on user metrics
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by retube 15y ago
No. what i mean is the total cost of contract should be specified. If you're paying £30 / month for 2 years, they should have to say: this will cost you £720.
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by retube 15y ago
In the UK smartphones have been "free" for a while. You can get a "free" iphone4 or ipad2 on a 24 month contract, or not quite "free", but an iphone4 + ipad2 for just £99 !!!!!! <rant>The Advertising Standards Authority should ban t
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by retube 15y ago
Hang on, in defence of UK beef: you can buy incredible beef here, you just got to know where to buy it (probably not tescos). I actually thought all US beef was pumped full of growth hormones and other nasties? Your cows are about 50% bigge
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by retube 15y ago
wow. ties.com & scarves.com. Impressed - the domains alone must be worth a bomb. In the UK I see a number of large e-tail brands fighting to take the fashion/clothing market, e.g asos, net-a-porter + of course all the big b-n-m retailer
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by retube 15y ago
a 24 ounce steak?? Only in the US of A :) That's literally 3 times heavier than a large steak in the UK.
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by retube 15y ago
Depends what you mean by "profits are great". When Goldman or Lloyds report profits of $10bn they get slated for massive profiteering. But a profit figure alone is meaningless. The number you're after is profit divided by market cap. Invest
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by retube 15y ago
> Given that many banks are reporting record profits What??? UK banks, including RBS which is the biggest in Scotland - the source of this report - are having a disastrous time. They're still reeling from the 2008 meltdown, are facing h
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by retube 15y ago
Yeah, agreed. It's all very well pontificating about the unjustness of having a crappy job, being "under-paid", not doing anything "worthwhile" or apparently bettering mankind. But I know from personal experience that having any job, any jo

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