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by smeyer 11y ago
>if we can build a new probe within the next year and a half The amount of cost and level of precision and robustness required tends to mean that these probes take years to plan, design, build, and test. It's also far from clear tha
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by smeyer 11y ago
Do you happen to know that that is the particular definition mrkmcknz means? It's not clear to me, and it looks like you've just chosen a common dictionary definition and used that to indicate they aren't calling it a good co
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by smeyer 11y ago
The whole point of CAPTCHAs is to be difficult to automate. Or are you suggesting automating farming out the CAPTCHA solutions to cheap workers?
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by smeyer 11y ago
Did those minority stakeholders get disproportionate representation on the board as part of the investment? Edit to add: Also, Advance Publications may also be pushing for big gains.
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by smeyer 11y ago
I can't speak to the insurance side, but I know that in Boston, the sort of times when a surge goes over 2x are the same sort of times that it's very difficult to hail a cab, let alone expect dispatch to send one if you call. If t
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by smeyer 11y ago
Of course they're less effective once they've become mainstream. As you mentioned, many slurs gradually lose any hateful meaning, and I'm sure the term "faggotry" might be becoming a bit less offensive over time, bu
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by smeyer 11y ago
>Is this about the vocabulary or the concept? It's almost certainly a complaint about the use of a slur, not about the underlying complaint about the buttons.
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by smeyer 11y ago
User brudgers here on hacker news sometimes comments in these sorts of threads, and their advice may be applicable. The crux of their point seems to be to be careful, because picking names seems like fun but it's not the sort of real w
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by smeyer 11y ago
I'm not sure what you're referring to. I don't think the theoretical problems around antimatter are any worse for dark matter than they are for baryonic matter.
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by smeyer 11y ago
What about the parent comment validates your theory? The commenter gave another example of a skilled single backhand player but that doesn't really validate a theory that it's better or worse than the double backhand.
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by smeyer 11y ago
>Can you imagine a NFL player ever doing something like that? Absolutely. Sure, there are many NFL players I couldn't imagine doing that, but there are tons of NFL players and many of them are class acts. I could easily imagine hear
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by smeyer 11y ago
There isn't a ton of value add in having daily updates to street views (things don't change that frequently), but there would be a huge increase in expense. I don't know the exact number of google street view cars, but there
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by smeyer 11y ago
No, dark matter is definitely not the inverse of regular matter. Dark matter is spread unevenly through the universe, and it's spread in a pretty similar (but still notably different) way to the spread of regular matter. For example, w
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by smeyer 11y ago
http://epa.gov/epawaste/conserve/tools/warm/pdfs/BackDocFore... Exhibit 4 has some numbers you'd probably find useful, such as the benefit or recycling in terms of tonnes of Carbon per ton of p
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by smeyer 11y ago
>It's quite possible that using the Microsoft software to bypass a captive portal without agreeing to the terms will land you in jail for a felony. How do you define "quite possible"? I'd estimate that this is exceedi
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by smeyer 11y ago
But won't the players have moved roughly as much as the ball from photo to photo (since they're moving at about the same speed)? I suppose as long as the players haven't moved into the space where the ball used to be you coul
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by smeyer 11y ago
The distinction is not whether a preposition is involved or not, it is whether the "who/whom" word is operating as an object ("whom") or a subject ("who"). That's why delinka's mnemonic also work
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by smeyer 11y ago
I've gotten offers before where my answers to at least one of the whiteboard problems looked roughly like "I don't really know how to do this, but I'll see what progress I can make towards a solution" and either did
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by smeyer 11y ago
People don't need to check his LinkedIn. He's a well-known entity on HN and a cofounder of Stripe. LinkedIn aside, try checking https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stripe_(company)
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by smeyer 11y ago
I disagree. I don't care about a difference of a few days one way or the other, because I keep enough cash in my checking account that I'm never in danger of bouncing a check or not having money for a big purchase. However, I do c
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by smeyer 11y ago
>I imagine that news.ycombinator.com is a more common Referer than news.google.com in the development community Really? I'd suspect it to be the other way around. For reference, here are some HN stats: https://news.ycombi
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by smeyer 11y ago
>I agree with judah it really comes down to let these developers pay... I think you're making a subtly different point than judah. They seem to be claiming that apple lags because it enables them to make more off of consumers via iO
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by smeyer 11y ago
>An incubator/accelerator that isn't as good as YC should have a better deal than that to make up for the difference Only from the perspective of someone being recruited by both YC and the alternative. If YC isn't an optio
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by smeyer 11y ago
Interesting, thanks for the perspective. I wonder if the term is more common in any other countries or just uncommon in general. I can find a few examples googling but that doesn't really answer if it's common or not.
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by smeyer 11y ago
Are you in the US and/or consuming primarily American media sources? I'd imagine the term might be more common in articles written in India and the term Indian programmer more common in articles written in the US.
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by smeyer 11y ago
>I'd rather let in 500 crappy posts than turn away a single valuable newcomer to HN I'm not sure exactly what ratio I'd tolerate, but I think that's a bit extreme.
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by smeyer 11y ago
I still hear lots of people of all sort say "google it", young and old alike. I do see a bit more variety than recently, though, in terms of people using Yahoo and Bing. As a side note, out of curiosity, are you a native English s
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by smeyer 11y ago
I'm not sure if you are being rhetorical, but in case you aren't, such people most definitely exist.
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by smeyer 11y ago
Either that or this is quite the coincidence: https://clarity.fm/kentf
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by smeyer 11y ago
Patent fees in the US already depend on the size of the entity applying. Also, I believe most of the cost comes in the attorneys one typically hires to assist in the application, not the patent office fees themselves, particularly if you wa

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