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by shiven 10y ago
This, this and so much this. This is why the majority of my electronics and parts come from Amazon. All other vendors are a morass of justificational cowdung compared to Amazon. Dear vendor: You can take your RMAs, your restocking fees and
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by shiven 10y ago
Analogous to the top ranked thread in this post about glorifying Rockefeller; Ed Catmull was implicated in artificial wage suppression practices and non-poaching agreements across his industry. So, every silver lining has a cloud, it seems.
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by shiven 10y ago
This. What happened to if you have nothing positive to say then keep shut? Positive praise, if rare, with neutral (or no) feedback otherwise, can have a similar effect.
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by shiven 10y ago
This. Only if the product is "Shipped from and Sold by Amazon.com" is there a good chance I will buy it. Even at 1.5-2x the lowest price from other vendors (FBA, direct shippers etc.). I'd rather trust Amazon directly than an
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by shiven 10y ago
You mean like this? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1933_double_eagle
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by shiven 10y ago
If you like reading up on such topics, I strongly recommend S. Chandrasekhar's "Truth and Beauty: Aesthetics and Motivation in Science".
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by shiven 10y ago
Not really "Show HN" stuff. Poster did not code it, mercenary programming shop did.
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by shiven 10y ago
So, by its very nature, investing based on access to privileged opportunities. Who's to say it is not based on leveraging privileged information too? In other words, a type of insider trading. Or market pre-loading . Guess public se
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by shiven 10y ago
For example, there are US based asset managers with private funds that generate 20-30-40% per annum, for over 20 years. Pure Horseshit. Plain and simple. Or, in other words: "Pics. Or it didn't happen."
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by shiven 10y ago
So why the collective censorship? There is no such censoring of "murder" news.
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by shiven 10y ago
Haven't read the paper yet. But I expect to see a control where they plate the same starter culture directly on each log scale antibiotic concentration (1,10,100,1000) to see if it contained resistant bacteria from the get go. Thus t
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by shiven 10y ago
Why is it confusing? I did not find it confusing. I like such excruciatingly detailed postmortem analyses, they make for great reading and my respect for the company that does this is increased by reading these.
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by shiven 10y ago
Yes. As a strong opinion holder in the copyleft philosophy of any and all content, I feel such sites have a right to exist and profit from content as much as the copyright holders (who are not necessarily the creators of said content). But
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by shiven 10y ago
Anyone trusting Tor for anything anymore is asking for trouble. Their new branding and associated bravado is just weak-sauce attempts at projecting technical soundness in the face of getting their tech butt-torn by the CMU hack. You can goo
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by shiven 10y ago
I don't know what your definition of USA is, but here in eastern Massachusetts I have had spin outs on regular roads while driving FWD cars in snow. Ever since I started driving an AWD vehicle, I had zero skids/spin outs in simila
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by shiven 10y ago
It's the same darn argument as was used against the automobile when it started replacing horse drawn carriages (buggies) as the dominant mode of transport. "Oh, but think of the poor buggy horsewhip-makers! They will be deprived o
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by shiven 10y ago
Part of the problem with winter is the availability of sunlight. "Seasonal Affective Disorder" is real and some people feel it more than others. For me, living in the Northeast US, this is a sore point. Even more important than th
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by shiven 10y ago
Is anyone _really_ losing their shirt at this point? This. This is what I'd like to know before I can give a crap about crytocurrencies. Otherwise, it is all tulip bulbs in a land far, far away.
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by shiven 10y ago
I can't stand video content unless the visual component is absolutely critical to transmission of the idea that is being communicated. I'd take a podcast/audiobook (with playback speed control) over 99% of videos that are sha
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by shiven 10y ago
Good luck and Godspeed! Academia totally sucks in this deeply ingrained ivory-tower mindset that metes out rewards/tenure/grants based on outdated performance metrics. (Excuse the vitriol, former academic here.)
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by shiven 10y ago
So, he basically created a very safe airbag inflator (tetrazole) and later screwed everything up by going with ammonium nitrate? WTF!
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by shiven 10y ago
Sorry to say, but your take on the article reeks of your bias. Where and how did this become a race/class issue? If the "strangling of inherent wildness" is also a class restricted issue, then I am at a loss to understand wha
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by shiven 10y ago
The future lies in "biologics", which unlike small-molecule compounds, cannot be (that) easily copied/manufactured. Initial and continuous capital costs prevent easy "piracy" and that is where the majority of large-
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by shiven 10y ago
Where should the bar be set for scientists to exceed? In the current funding climate and the well known publish(fast and crazy)-or-perish 'incentives', I find it hard to find fault with the bar set for scientists. (Disclosure: I&#
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by shiven 10y ago
Yoo.Ess.Ae! Yoo.Ess.Ae! Yoo.Ess.Aeh! There. See. No harm, no foul. Anyways, as a non-American living in the US since 2001, I fail to see an issue with chanting USA, one way or another. It is an American company, with majority US employees,
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by shiven 11y ago
This. This and more this. Compared to Android and Windows, iOS and OSX is pure nirvana. Sure, accuse me of drinking the Kool-Aid all you want, but is my life simpler or what. Never wanna go back to fiddly-hell, ever.
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by shiven 11y ago
Wow! Eerie photographs. Reminded me of the game Zork, circa late '90s.
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by shiven 11y ago
the computers important guys use at home Hillary's email-gate? So, no, important guys should not be using home computers that control/decide life or death situations.
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by shiven 11y ago
Way too trusting of government, are we?
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by shiven 11y ago
Why care about "stuff" once you are dead?

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