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by swombat 13y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1978295 But I thought it could use a repost, 3 years later, as many ma not have seen it, and it was quite interesting.
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Everest is littered with dead, exposed bodies [2010](godheadv.blogspot.co.uk)
55 points by swombat 13y ago|69 comments
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by swombat 13y ago
I agree with Gruber that the "missed expectations" expression is misleading. Analysts' expectations were not in line with reality. The iPhone numbers are what they are, irrespective of incompetent analysis. A fairer way to st
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by swombat 13y ago
To be contrasted with Android, where they only need to wait a couple of weeks for their brand new phone to be "old". Apple buyers really have a raw deal, getting to enjoy having the latest phone for a whole year.
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by swombat 13y ago
Are you seriously comparing pop music to heroin and slaves???
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by swombat 13y ago
"Every major pop song" seems like a bit of an overstatement. He's clearly very good at finding the sound that sells - but there are many successful songs (even just in the genre of "pop") not written by him...
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by swombat 13y ago
I really want to like Netflix, but in the UK I've now switched most of my movie-viewing to Now TV. Now TV seems to operate on the same model, except they have much fewer of the "movies that hardly anyone wants to see" categor
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by swombat 13y ago
Flagged for shitty attention-grabbing title attempt.
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by swombat 13y ago
> "Okay guys, last quarter had a decrease in people put in jail. We need to increase our profits this coming quarter so what can we do to put more people in jail? Also, there's talk about losing our cash-cow. Weed might be leg
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by swombat 13y ago
Having only two minutes on the clock and an opponent who plays really quickly would unnerve any inexperienced player and turn them quite easily into a horrendous player, IMHO.
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by swombat 13y ago
No worries, it just puzzled me, particularly since it was repeated across multiple comments!
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by swombat 13y ago
Where does this "swombat3" come from? My username is swombat, not swombat3.
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by swombat 13y ago
Yes, when you have only 6 things to look at you might take an educated guess based on what might have happened to the first 5. It's the sort of contextual, gut-driven judgement people call a hunch. That's fine for a conversation a
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Sugar-powered batteries could overtake chemical batteries(technology.canoe.ca)
1 points by swombat 13y ago|0 comments
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Expedia hit by 25% drop in search visibility(techradar.com)
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by swombat 13y ago
I wasn't communicating with the authors of the article, just with the commenters here. I was not even insulting the authors (only the "forecast"). You, on the other hand, are throwing insults at people (me in particular) - an
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by swombat 13y ago
Why do I believe it will? Seems like a pretty extraordinary claim. There are plenty of other tech businesses that saw meteoritic growth, and they didn't all peter out like diseases. Many forces that are at play with diseases (immunity
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by swombat 13y ago
The level of discourse was brought down to below zero by the article. I'm actually raising it, if anything. This is an appallingly bad "forecast" and I'm slightly ashamed on behalf of Princeton for allowing their name to
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by swombat 13y ago
So the argument is: - Facebook's growth curve looks like that of an infectious disease and - "Ideas, like diseases, have been shown to spread infectiously between people before eventually dying out, and have been successfully desc
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by swombat 13y ago
... coming to a united kingdom or state near you soon! Edited: so soon that it's already happened: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/12/massive-domestic-mo...
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by swombat 13y ago
There have been plenty of studies on nicotine itself, in isolation...
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by swombat 13y ago
From wikipedia: ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicotine ) > According to the American Heart Association, nicotine addiction has historically been one of the hardest addictions to break, while the pharmacological an
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by swombat 13y ago
To give an example of this... When answering the first question, I found myself thinking only of things which are pure white almost all the time. So I thought of snow, clouds, white sails - and even with those I felt they were arguable (sno
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by swombat 13y ago
Weed is just as bad to smoke as tobacco, especially since it's often (though not always) mixed with tobacco. One big difference, though, is that weed itself is only very mildly physically addictive, and in a small percentage of the pop
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by swombat 13y ago
This is definitely not work. However, it's a great example of nerd sniping[1]. [1]: http://xkcd.com/356/
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by swombat 13y ago
Conversely my business of 10+ people uses Dropbox for its file sharing! costing us well over $1k a year. That's clearly the market they're making their butter from...
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by swombat 13y ago
I'm just taking a pot shot at Britain for this. Clearly, as this example shows, it's not just a British habit.
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by swombat 13y ago
All of it so far is empty and pointless doublespeak. For example: > President Obama is announcing that he wants to end the National Security Agency’s bulk call records program as it currently exists. Why, of course, "as it current
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by swombat 13y ago
@dnbl - not sure at all why your comment is dead. It's cogent and adds to the conversation.
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by swombat 13y ago
Ah, embracing innovation the British way. I recall that 6 months before one of those "date the person right next to me" sites picked up in the US, something similar was launched by some students in a UK university (a pretty high-p

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