rthomas6

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by rthomas6 12y ago
2 kinds of knowledge: 1. The kind that you can use to make testable predictions. 2. The kind that you can't use to make testable predictions. Kind 1 is easy to verify. Just test the testable prediction. Done. That's really all sci
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by rthomas6 12y ago
I don't buy the "this time it's different" argument. The reason to automate things is to make more money, right? If you believe the video, nobody will be able to afford the stuff that is being made cheaper through automa
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by rthomas6 12y ago
No, you can start by investing $100.
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by rthomas6 12y ago
I'm an electrical/computer engineer. Coding/CS is only an auxiliary interest for me.
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by rthomas6 12y ago
Yes yes yes. I could rant forever about this-- it seems like nobody gets why this is bad. It's like everyone forgot what insurance is supposed to be for. You don't get your brakes fixed with car insurance. You don't re-shingl
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by rthomas6 12y ago
Upon reflection you're 100% correct. You're right, there are some awesome folk traditions to be found in US rural areas. The only rural culture I was exposed to was hunting and fishing, which I enjoy greatly, but it's not exa
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by rthomas6 12y ago
In terms of investing (buying Tesla stock), is Tesla's probable-seeming big success with their next two cars already built in to the price? In other words, how overvalued is Tesla stock? Would it be worth making it a significant fracti
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by rthomas6 12y ago
From someone who has been blessed with having close relatives that live in a very rural environment, I've found that most of the benefits of suburban living are mere imitations of the benefits of rural living. The only one you really l
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by rthomas6 12y ago
I'm not as certain. They don't mention measuring thrust from when they replace the test article with an RF load (whatever that means), or when they reverse the test article. Then they end on this note: "Test results indicate
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Ask HN: What passive income attempts have lost you money?
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by rthomas6 12y ago
Actually per the article: >According to the Counterfeit Detection Act of 1992, a reproduced bill must be: a.) either less than 75% or more than 150% the size of a real bill, b.) one-sided, and c.) made with only one color (so as to disco
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by rthomas6 12y ago
I think part of the point of the article is to point out how a potential Bob Jones could also consider himself lucky. He may have failed to get that acting part, but he has met so many interesting people and had a wonderful opportunity to g
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by rthomas6 12y ago
So how can I know whether or not a light produces some blue light? Alternatively, do you have any recommendations for blue-blocking goggles?
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by rthomas6 12y ago
Chrome OS runs on a Linux kernel. Linux is the core OS for Chromebooks. Similarly, an "Emacs OS" would need a real OS underneath it.
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by rthomas6 12y ago
>the corporation owners By "corporation owners" you can only mean "shareholders" for publicly traded companies. My retirement is invested mostly in the stock market, as is most people's. I would benefit, and so w
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by rthomas6 12y ago
Something like this: sudo aptitude purge emacs sudo apt-get install vim gvim gvim Edit: Clearly I'm joking. If you wanted a serious answer, Emacs is just a large, easily extensible program. It's not really an OS. That&#
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by rthomas6 12y ago
I don't know, I think a ~35% boost in profits for all profitable American businesses is pretty huge.
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by rthomas6 12y ago
I'm no expert, but I'd imagine a corporation could argue that reinvesting capital for the purpose of expansion, at the expense of immediate profit, is maximizing shareholder value over a longer period of time. Isn't this what
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by rthomas6 12y ago
What's wrong with flute players?
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by rthomas6 12y ago
Well, yes. That's what makes Unix OSes so great. Programs all the way down to the command line are separate from the OS. Modules and drivers are also semantically separate from the core.
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by rthomas6 12y ago
Sleep cycles don't all take exactly 90 minutes. The first one takes about 90 minutes, and each subsequent sleep cycle decreases in duration throughout the night. The last sleep cycle before you wake up will take significantly less than
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by rthomas6 12y ago
Not every product has to be an earth-shattering revelation to be useful. You made a neat task planner. I hope a lot of people use it. In the grand scheme of things, it's not that important and neither are you. What I'm trying to s
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by rthomas6 12y ago
I implemented Minecraft in Bash in 2 lines. yaourt -S minecraft minecraft
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by rthomas6 12y ago
3 16 oz mugs of drip coffee, which equates to 6 standard 8 oz cups. I was assuming 150 mg/cup, which is about average for drip coffee.
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by rthomas6 12y ago
I had quite a caffeine addiction but I recently kicked it. I was up to 900 mg/day at my peak. I think caffeine counts as an addiction. I had a strong dependency on it and couldn't function physically or mentally without it.
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by rthomas6 12y ago
Like I said, that much wealth inequality is not ideal. I just think that considering what maximizes the mean/median of world prosperity is as important, if not somewhat more important, than considering how wide the standard deviation o
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by rthomas6 12y ago
When a competitive industry cuts a large expense out of their manufacturing process, they increase profit and make cheaper goods. That's why Amazon is so successful, because they used technology to trim costs. Amazon also has small p
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by rthomas6 12y ago
>It seems likely that, considered as a whole, Extremistan is far more creative and productive than Mediocristan. But while its economic pie may be much larger, it is also much more unequally distributed. Consider what would happen if the
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by rthomas6 12y ago
They have a long way to go. I'm not sure they're going to make $5m. They only have $1.1m raised now, and only 2 weeks left.
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by rthomas6 12y ago
I recommend Digilent for cheap boards. Much cheaper than dev boards directly from Altera or Xilinx. http://www.digilentinc.com/Products/Catalog.cfm?NavPath=2,40...

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