thenmar

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by thenmar 12y ago
Why would a socialized healthcare system have fewer resources?
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by thenmar 12y ago
Really? We're "decelerating our technological progress"? That's a bold enough claim that I think the onus is on you to provide evidence for it beyond, "someone made a dumb iPhone app instead of curing cancer".
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by thenmar 12y ago
I assume the book goes into more detail about the actual economics behind the ideas. It would be silly to turn discussion about this hype piece into a pseudo-intellectual argument over methodology we haven't read.
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by thenmar 12y ago
It's hard to break this down because there are so many different problems going on here, but let's pretend for a minute that the moral issues related to privacy and dignity are irrelevant, and that the arbitrary credit score thres
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by thenmar 12y ago
If anyone is curious, it looks like it was the fault of Lockheed. NASA's contract specified SI units: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Climate_Orbiter
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by thenmar 12y ago
Very interesting, considering the existence of this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalimotxo which sounds a little weird but actually tastes pretty good.
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by thenmar 12y ago
Would you mind elaborating on what you mean by "the politically correct crowd"?
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by thenmar 12y ago
I don't think customers are always informed of that risk though, especially when a company is simply ignoring regulations that the customer assumes are being followed.
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by thenmar 12y ago
Lots of criticism in the comments so far. Maybe Ticketmaster is acquiring them in order to resurrect their bad reputation and improve their services. Or maybe that's just what they wrote on the checks to Eventjoy...
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by thenmar 12y ago
One easy change you can make is to give up meat at restaurants, which rarely use meat raised through sustainable practices.
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by thenmar 12y ago
Would you mind sharing some of that evidence? I certainly understand the desire to be cryopreserved, but given the lack of proof of concept (I'd love to be contradicted here!) and how little we know about the brain, it seems like a des
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by thenmar 12y ago
So would you disagree with the general sentiment in the west that most Russian media is state controlled and relatively unfree compared to most western media?
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by thenmar 12y ago
Would you mind elaborating on what you mean by "capable"?
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by thenmar 12y ago
Did you miss the part where they cancel the rides?
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by thenmar 12y ago
Mind linking to the first hand source, or at least something with a better reputation than Daily Mail?
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by thenmar 12y ago
What about the civil rights movement?
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by thenmar 12y ago
FYI Manning identifies as a woman.
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by thenmar 12y ago
How would that work though? Would the government hand out smart phones to everyone, and offer classes on how to prevent accidentally deleting your life savings?
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by thenmar 12y ago
But we aren't seeing anywhere near the same number of tech IPOs today as we were in 1998-2000. As I understand it, the "bubble" came from companies too easily selling their shares to ignorant, every day consumers who assumed
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by thenmar 12y ago
Sounds pretty encouraging. I hope Facebook's financial backing can turn this into a mass market product in a few years. Also interesting that the development kits cost only $350. I wonder if that could drop lower with a bigger producti
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by thenmar 12y ago
I think it's that we just enjoy the spectacle of companies that seem like terrible ideas or based around an ethically questionable action. Nobody gets excited about "tech startup grows revenue to $100k on niche, hard to understand
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by thenmar 12y ago
I felt like towards the end it started reading like one of those old style email chain letters with bulleted lists of fake statistics that support some kind of "kids these days"-tinted conclusion.
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by thenmar 12y ago
Please don't politicize civil liberties. If progressives and libertarians can come together on anything, it's this.
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by thenmar 12y ago
Do you think equal time should be given to all opinions on scientific issues that are not backed by evidence? Should we teach Christian creationism next to evolution? Should we teach about the balance of humors next to germ theory?
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Ask HN: Why are there so many Show HN posts on the front page
10 points by thenmar 12y ago|5 comments
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by thenmar 12y ago
I think it's worth mentioning. Propagandistic terms such as "entitlements" frustrate discussion and make it even more difficult to communicate. It belittles and trivializes the opinion that poor people are entitled to things
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by thenmar 12y ago
Do you really think that the authors missed such a completely obvious flaw, something so simple that a random internet commenter could use it to invalidate the entire work in one sentence? It's hard to take this type of criticism serio
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by thenmar 12y ago
I think people probably said that about cruise control when it was introduced, and that turned out okay.
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by thenmar 12y ago
How do you go about getting a landlord to enforce a lease agreement? As long as the landlord is getting paid on time and the place isn't destroyed, he probably doesn't care. This seems like a textbook example of an externality tha
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by thenmar 12y ago
Can you elaborate on who is normal and who is not? Thank you for clarification.

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