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by rpm4321 14y ago
It's a brown dwarf: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CFBDSIR2149-0403
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by rpm4321 14y ago
There's no way that's a photo, given that this is the best we can do of Ceres, a relatively close planetoid: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fc/Ceres_opt... UPDATE: Here's its wikipedia page. 100 light years way from earth
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by rpm4321 14y ago
But think about it - if the cost of labor plummets, and material costs plummet because the labor required to gather and refine materials plummets, the cost of pretty much every need and most wants are ridiculously low to non-existant. It's
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by rpm4321 14y ago
The main determiner of whether this is gutsy or foolish is what age he is. If he still has two or three decades of earning potential in the workforce in the event his company craters, he can recover.
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by rpm4321 14y ago
It's been reported that he moved to Belize in an attempt to shield his assets from lawsuits stemming from a death that occurred at a paragliding company he owned.
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Cray unveils Cray XC30 supercomputer, capable of scaling to 100 petaflops(kurzweilai.net)
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by rpm4321 14y ago
I think he would more than qualify on net worth, but I'm not sure that he should be classified as a tech entrepreneur compared to the other people on the list. He made his original fortune in music, and Virgin Mobile is really just him lice
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by rpm4321 14y ago
Yep, that's certainly an important company. I think you'd probably agree that it's not a household name, and other examples are few and far between, but I probably should have mentioned ARM.
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by rpm4321 14y ago
As I mentioned below, if you expanded the list from 10 to 50 or 100, the US list would be a Who's Who of start ups, and the Euro one a Who's That? Besides Skype and Spotify, unfortunately there just haven't really been very many mainstream
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by rpm4321 14y ago
Yeah, but come up with another big time Euro start up success story, other than Skype or Spotify (Spotify arguably happened in Europe only because the labels would only allow streaming in small Euro markets at first as a test case). If you
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by rpm4321 14y ago
Who knows if it's accurate, but Buzzfeed is reporting that it may have been Anonymous as part of its Stratfor attack: http://www.buzzfeed.com/zekejmiller/anonymous-may-have-hacke...
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by rpm4321 14y ago
Agreed, but HN has set a pretty high standard for sourcing, much to its credit. I wouldn't feel bad about posting ideological material from the WSJ, National Review, or NYT, but I would never post Drudge, HuffPo, Breitbart, Slate, etc. to H
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by rpm4321 14y ago
Even though the percent might not be much higher, it's really about turnout, not percent won. Twice as many blacks showed up to the polls for Obama than for Clinton. Obama was a "movement" candidate in the black community. However, I'm symp
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by rpm4321 14y ago
Mostly agree, in the same way that HuffPo isn't, but they provided direct links to the tweets, and with a little searching on twitter.com, it wasn't hard to find tons of tweets in the same vein.
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by rpm4321 14y ago
I'm reluctant to link to them because they were all Drudge Report style aggregators of the type that are frowned upon by HN. Anyone curious can just Google "Romney win riots" and see for themselves. We're talking hundreds or thousands of tw
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by rpm4321 14y ago
Agreed. It reminds me a bit of the fallacy of criminalizing "hate speech", which you are seeing in Europe lately. It actually gives the bigots a bit of a legitimate grievance, in that their freedom of speech is being eroded. Besides, person
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by rpm4321 14y ago
Yep, sorry. I thought it was obviously facetious. Probably not in the spirit of HN, but with all the victory lapping by the liberal wing of HN tonight, I guess the libertarian in me got a bit carried away.
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by rpm4321 14y ago
tl;dr: Tax it.
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by rpm4321 14y ago
No, I think Fox was the second to call it for Obama.
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by rpm4321 14y ago
Hang on to your wallet.
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by rpm4321 14y ago
What I would love is a walk through on how to get the new cable-less HBO Go, now offered in Scandinavia for $10 a month, to work in the US.
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by rpm4321 14y ago
Here's some links: http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2010-09/mars-methane-c... http://www.popsci.com/military-aviation-amp-space/article/20... I know I'm probably missing something here. UPDATE: Okay, here we go: Various campaigns
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by rpm4321 14y ago
No, I meant in such a way where a successful conversion couldn't be hidden by the advertiser. They could very easily serve up a completion page with the ad network script missing half the time.
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by rpm4321 14y ago
Didn't a NASA satellite already detect methane in the Martian atmosphere a few years ago?
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by rpm4321 14y ago
Also, you're kind of at the advertiser's mercy on how reliable they are about reporting conversions, right? I can't see how the ad network could audit conversions with certainty, unless they were also processing the payments. I would be ver
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by rpm4321 14y ago
10 happened before 2000, in 1997 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Blue_versus_Garry_Kasparov . Also, regarding 15, I believe actuaries are now expecting 100 year average lifespans for people born around 2010. Also, 17 might arguably be
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by rpm4321 14y ago
Yeah, to me it looks like you are viewing the aftermath of a dust storm in the American Southwest, or maybe Afghanistan. It's so earth-like it's hard to believe that if you magically found yourself standing next to the rover in that picture
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Surrounded by Humans, Elephant in South Korea Learns to ‘Speak’(nytimes.com)
1 points by rpm4321 14y ago|0 comments
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Theoretical Computer Science on Stack Exchange(cstheory.stackexchange.com)
1 points by rpm4321 14y ago|0 comments
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by rpm4321 14y ago
The point stands, though. There's certainly variance between the accomplishments of specific individuals, but each little innovation builds on the last. Each breakthrough is dependent on the ones that preceded it. Even an inventor working i

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