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by tjic 17y ago
What's so wrong with saying the same thing in two different conversations?
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by tjic 17y ago
Reading between the lines, that's exactly what I saw.
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by tjic 17y ago
> We have decided we are no longer willing to continue censoring our results on Google.cn Kudos to Google! Amazing. You work for a great company, Googlers!
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by tjic 17y ago
People have been talking about "augmented reality" for years. I'm usually a cynic about "a big thing is going to happen soon" puff pieces ... but I'm convinced. This time it's for real. Exciting times!
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by tjic 17y ago
Indeed. My comment was intended 80% just for humor!
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by tjic 17y ago
... and by news.yc ! ;-)
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by tjic 17y ago
> People say "I wish I could do that" about everything. Playing a musical instrument, for instance. Among my resolutions for 2010: learn guitar. Step 1: signed up for weekly lessons every Thursday, as of ... 20 minutes ago. Onward!
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by tjic 17y ago
She's not a woman - "her" word choice was totally male. That detail is just a really poor attempt at anonymization, IMO.
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by tjic 17y ago
> you're subtly begging the question. You are the first person to correctly use the phrase "beg the question" in something I've read in the last three weeks. Congratulations!
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by tjic 17y ago
Not all at once, but yes.
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by tjic 17y ago
I own and run two smallish ( ~ $1 mill/yr ; ~ $0.5 mill/yr revenue) ecommerce stores ( http://smartflix.com and http://heavyink.com ) and I bought a few textbooks books on warehouse layout and design. There really wasn't a lot in there
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by tjic 17y ago
As much as I think poorly of much of the "soft science", there's no reason that there can't be such a thing as management science. I think that we in the news.yc culture all agree that the following is a good approach to take to assertions
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by tjic 17y ago
> The mere title (but the article as well) begs the question I don't think that that phrase means what you think it means http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begging_the_question
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by tjic 17y ago
I'm constantly amazed that France's economy is as good as it is, given how much they love shooting themselves in the foot.
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by tjic 17y ago
> 3¢ for every 1,000 tweets. I wonder what Twitter's IT cost is (servers, electricity, etc.) for Google to crawl these 1k tweets. Close to zero, yes, but not exactly zero. Does selling indexing rights have a 85% profit margin, or a 99%
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by tjic 17y ago
> The iTouch/iSlate is going to kill this thing on all these features. {{This article does not cite any references or sources.}}
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by tjic 17y ago
Google has been doing this for years. How is it interesting to add pre-existing Google functionality into a Firefox plugin that just duplicates what's already happening? Sounds like a perfect example of "often 6 months in the lab can save y
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by tjic 17y ago
> Quickly, the blog garnered a captive audience of over 20,000 RSS subscribers No, it gathered an audience of 20,000 subscribers. You have a captive audience when you're telling a story in a warm house in the middle of a massive s
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by tjic 17y ago
http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html What to Submit On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting.
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by tjic 17y ago
> If other people are interested, your story will make it to the front page on merit. > > If other people aren't interested Just a point of information: this is basically the "efficient market hypothesis" in another form. I agr
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by tjic 17y ago
"You can use your phone to shift gears". I'm looking at the calendar, and it doesn't appear to be April 1st... Who wants this? I've got $100 that says that this is just more grad student wankery that will never amount to anything, because i
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by tjic 17y ago
I'm amused by the fact that it says "Draft copy - please do not circulate" ... and we're all reading it.
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by tjic 17y ago
The title of the image says "who owns America's debt" (the total amount of bonds we've sold), but the caption, and the dollar amount, suggest that it's actually about the deficit (the total amount - in a given year - by which government exp
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by tjic 17y ago
"many of his policy efforts have yet to bear fruit, or are only just beginning to do so." That sounds like the word "premature" to me.
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by tjic 17y ago
If it was just the right of center websites saying this, I'd write it off as partisanism. ...but Slate ( http://www.slate.com/id/2231909/ ), the NYT ( http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/10/world/10nobel.html?_r=1&#3... ) the Telegraph ( ht
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by tjic 17y ago
Good info. Any pointers to details?
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by tjic 17y ago
> 4) They're using their monopsony position to fuck over their suppliers (i.e. the publishers) in a manner that threatens a catastrophic crash in author royalties in the medium term (up to 5 years). NB: as a reader, you may enjoy the sh
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by tjic 17y ago
> 2. Probability of a transaction resulting in value v is uniform from [0,99]. Totally false: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benford%27s_law Benford's law, also called the first-digit law, states that in lists of numbers from many (but
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by tjic 17y ago
Why do we "still" use binary / hex for computers? The answer is that a decimal system of notation isn't a pure win in every endeavor. As a woodworker, there's a lot that I like about Imperial (I like doing metalworking in metric, though, an

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