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by sobbybutter 10y ago
I'm curious--which do you find good (and bad!)?
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by sobbybutter 10y ago
Eschewing religion and promoting "rational thinking" gives us, perhaps, the most dangerous outcome of all: nationalism.
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by sobbybutter 10y ago
Weaver did excellent translations for much of Calvino's work, too.
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by sobbybutter 10y ago
Which company?
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by sobbybutter 11y ago
The statistics are always misinterpreted; they can't be considered in the same domain. Terrorists fall in the risk domain that is subject to tail events. Toddlers with guns don't. In plain English, you're not going to see a 1
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by sobbybutter 11y ago
Nope, you can have two equal lines extending from a non-central point. Connecting the points would give you an isosceles triangle.
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by sobbybutter 11y ago
Why do you say that?
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by sobbybutter 11y ago
tip: call apple and tell them you have a cord that looks like it's a serious fire hazard. Each time I've said "fire hazard," they've replaced it without question.
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The Education of a Reluctant Businessman with Yvon Chouinard(youtube.com)
1 points by sobbybutter 11y ago|0 comments
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by sobbybutter 11y ago
I have the rechargeable variant of the Philips Golite, which looks like the same model that Costco sells. I like it overall, but the big problem I have with it is that the battery doesn't hold a charge if you keep it in its case for an
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by sobbybutter 11y ago
Here's a good paper discussing risk w.r.t. GMOs: http://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/pp2.pdf
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by sobbybutter 11y ago
This is so cool!
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An Analysis of Nespresso(jimseven.com)
210 points by sobbybutter 11y ago|213 comments
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by sobbybutter 11y ago
I wonder why so many people love midcentury design. It's uncomfortable, angular, fragile, cold, expensive, inhuman...you name it. Perhaps the items are just social vectors into the design world, conferring a status of "social elit
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by sobbybutter 13y ago
Antifragile by Nassim Taleb Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino Il deserto dei tartari (The Tartar Steppe) by Dino Buzzati How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
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by sobbybutter 13y ago
Nonlinearities like this are pretty interesting. You can see similar effects in systems like traffic grids (where the addition of a small number of vehicles can make congestion much, much worse) and commodity prices (e.g. small shortage of
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by sobbybutter 14y ago
Just because there is risk in the current state doesn't make it okay to add more risk. This gives small upside to the customer with potentially large downside. And the effect of these risks may not be linear. For instance, imagine two event
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by sobbybutter 14y ago
I think this is really foolish. Yes, there is a benefit to the consumer but it brings with it a very large liability risk for Tesla. I would much rather purchase a large-ticket item such as an automobile from a company that is robust enough
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by sobbybutter 14y ago
Thanks for making this! I'm making travel plans right now and it's quite handy.
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by sobbybutter 14y ago
Good read. I especially enjoy the part about smart people having an "idiot mode". I've found that some of my best ideas were derived from silly ones, and the silly ones only came about because I was with friends I could trust.
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by sobbybutter 14y ago
Please stop this. It doesn't belong on HN.
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by sobbybutter 14y ago
If anyone is interested, I've found Eugene Mallove's "Fire from Ice" to be a fantastic read in documenting cold fusion and its troubled past. http://www.amazon.com/Fire-Ice-Searching-Behind-Fusion/dp/18...
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by sobbybutter 15y ago
I put in a vote for the easyDNS public DNS service (205.210.42.205 and 64.68.200.20). No NXDOMAIN monkeying or anything of that nature.
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An Open Letter to Greg Mankiw(hpronline.org)
3 points by sobbybutter 15y ago|1 comments
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by sobbybutter 15y ago
I don't know if others feel this way, but I don't find Google's UI outside of search very appealing. And that includes Gmail, which is where a good chunk of GTalk conversations happen. Couple that with email in general not being a pleasant
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Faith in UBS Goes Rogue(online.wsj.com)
1 points by sobbybutter 15y ago|0 comments
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by sobbybutter 15y ago
Keep in mind that if you prepay for 2 years, use the server, and cancel before the 2 years ends, you're refunded the amount paid minus the normal monthly charge times the number of months you used the service. The discount gets wiped away,
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by sobbybutter 15y ago
and the app itself...underexposed
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by sobbybutter 15y ago
Wouldn't that be a ~152% speedup? Regardless, this is good to hear.
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by sobbybutter 15y ago
Ah, I see. I'm not an EC2 customer, but how often do instances disappear? This seems kind of odd on Amazon's end. What's the reason for instances disappearing?

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