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by sciguy77 11y ago
> Millions There are not millions of doomsday preppers in the US. And their obsession is not representative of public will or sentiment. The comment you're replying to said: >Not many people fear of chaos in the USA and not becau
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by sciguy77 11y ago
This is what I came here to write, I think you're spot on. There's a similar criticism of Hemingway's works[1]: that his prose is stagnant and unchanging. But the fact of the matter is, his books are phenomenal. I still think
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by sciguy77 11y ago
> the cop was in the right yet cannot prove it and then their life is ruined if the case is automatically decided in the civilian's favor. Wait, how exactly is the cop's life ruined?
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by sciguy77 11y ago
Me too! It drives professors nuts, but its just so much more fun to say.
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by sciguy77 11y ago
I see what you mean. If I own a self-driving car I can pimp it out while I'm at work, cutting out Uber. And I thought Uber was pretty weak compared to YellowCab on driver vetting?
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by sciguy77 11y ago
What's the agency? How does it work?
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by sciguy77 11y ago
This is great advice, thank you. I backpacked through Europe with my best friend and we tried to do too much in too little time. As you said, there's a lot of value in taking it slow and making decisions based on how you feel, rather t
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by sciguy77 11y ago
So... as someone who knows him what's your take on this?
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by sciguy77 12y ago
> what's the point of putting people on the no-fly list if they can take a private charter jet and get in anyways? Most people can't afford charter jets
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by sciguy77 12y ago
> On the bright side they didn't ask for sexual orientation, marital status, religious beliefs, or demand an interpretive dance portraying the quick sort algorithm, although who knows what goes on at the interview. Hah, well-put. An
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by sciguy77 12y ago
I have a Gear VR, and the recent video about Syrian refugees was eye-opening. That said, while watching 3D video I can't help but be irked by the bad stitching, judder, and overall blurriness. This technology is awesome, and the potent
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by sciguy77 12y ago
Ah now that would be interesting. It seems like in the examples provided the virtual SO is reactive, responding to what the user says (ex "I like Downton Abby") whereas when they reach out the messages are generic. I wonder if the
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by sciguy77 12y ago
I actually really like this as a reaction against Twitter. You only get one thing to say per day, so you want to make it count. And I don't want another site to visit 50 times per day, once is enough. Kudos to the creator, this is real
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Ask HN: How do you stay motivated to work on side projects?
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by sciguy77 12y ago
This is very interesting, but of course who (aside from art students) would want to do this? If you make a piece of autonomous software (a bot) that can earn its own money, why let it keep it, spend it, and live its own weird little bot lif
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by sciguy77 12y ago
I wish I had more up votes to give. This is easily the most enjoyment I've ever gotten from a HN comment.
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by sciguy77 12y ago
I've been to LoL HQ and talked to the founders. The offices were fairly dungeon-esque (to be fair I mostly saw the lower levels), but all the employees seemed to be having a blast. I asked one of the founders about LoL being considered
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by sciguy77 12y ago
How are you going to be able to sell items for less than Amazon?
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by sciguy77 12y ago
Wow, what a sweet product. And boy do they know how to market it, "feels like driving in the future."
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by sciguy77 12y ago
Make a mailing list or something!
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by sciguy77 12y ago
This reminds me of a great This American Life Episode: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/491/t... The TAL journalist offers a more personal perspective of what ASMR is like. If you find t
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by sciguy77 12y ago
It's actually the postal worker unions that are to blame for the piles of adverts you get each day. There have been a couple bills to end junk mail, but the unions fight them tooth and nail on the grounds that junk mail counts as free
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by sciguy77 12y ago
There is also a recent RadioLab episode about tCDS and its effects. A company is using them to train military snipers.
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by sciguy77 12y ago
"So-called 51 per centers, for instance, have the ability to spend the same coins twice, reject competing miners' transactions, or extort higher fees from people with large holdings." Woah, can someone please explain why this
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by sciguy77 12y ago
That's interesting. Can you tell us more about the project and its motivations?
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by sciguy77 12y ago
I don't think he's saying, "I'm not the target market, therefore ban articles that aren't relevant to me." It seems far more likely that saying he wasn't the target market was more of a disclaimer. I would
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by sciguy77 12y ago
I think he means "tolerated by the public/any reasonable readership." Several articles come to mind (particularly an op ed about gender roles from Fox News some two years ago) in which readers become outraged by something the
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by sciguy77 12y ago
I wish I could give this more up votes. I felt exactly the same way (though you put it more eloquently than I could).
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by sciguy77 12y ago
"'We’re doing shots! This will be great B-roll!' I scream into Lisa’s boob." Reading this article made me very uncomfortable.
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by sciguy77 12y ago
I have to say my Beats completely suck. I've had to get them replaced twice and I still get these annoying buzzing sounds. Forum-reading has led me to believe that this is a really common problem. I'm disappointed that Apple would

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