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by tjic 18y ago
> The RepRap Darwin has already successfully manufactured all of its custom parts except for the extruder nozzle and circuit boards, leaving only a few hundred dollars' worth of common off-the-shelf "vitamin" parts So it can extrude pla
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by tjic 18y ago
Down-vote it if you want, but we've gotten over 100 different posts on RepRap, even though there has been no new news or development in quite a while. http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Anews.ycombinator.com+r... I'm all for posts if th
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by tjic 18y ago
Also, can we PLEASE stop posting all these articles about RepRap. As cheap-ass CNC systems go, it's OK, but (a) no, it CAN'T reproduce itself (it has tons of precision components that you have to buy separately, and (b) it has nothing to d
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by tjic 18y ago
This is blatantly false, for reasons I'll explain below. Also, you're conflating NPR (NPR, Inc.) with member stations. These are different entities. The topic is NPR. The numbers that you cite are not numbers for NPR. They are not even num
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by tjic 18y ago
> They're supported by tasteful sponsorships and donations They get 50% of their budget from taxes, and most of the "tasteful sponsorships" are large companies that either get large subsidies from the overnment, or work under lots of g
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by tjic 18y ago
Yes, but the objects themselves are antiques, never antiquarians. A person can be an antiquarian. A magazine, auction house, magnifying glass, price guide, etc. can be antiquarian. Unless you're asserting that the old equipment RELATES TO o
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by tjic 18y ago
> Reasonable people can differ only if their prior information is different. Disagree entirely. When evaluating complex choices in a chaotic world, we humans use tons of heuristics. There are a lot of things that aren't quantifiable inf
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by tjic 18y ago
Site isn't responding for me. Google cache: http://74.125.93.132/search?q=cache:jnMtyv9i7LUJ:www.worthle...
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by tjic 18y ago
I second "The Atlantic". Harpers has moments of brilliance, but there's less there that I would consider compelling reading. The New Yorker is too insufferably Upper East Side Manhattan Pretentious Intellectual for me - it's more, IMO, abou
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by tjic 18y ago
This is a poorly written / passive-voiced comment, but the core thought is good. Restating: "Don't leap to assume the worst of others". or "People can come to different conclusions honestly - disagreeing with you does not mean that they are
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by tjic 18y ago
<language snob> The word you want is "antique", meaning "old thing". "Antiquarian" means "one who collects old things" </language snob>
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by tjic 18y ago
> There is no denying that the current system is, in effect, affirmative action for white people. I deny it. Are you asserting that entrance to state schools disproportionately helps whites? Affirmative action standards work to boost u
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by tjic 18y ago
My favorite audiophile insanity: Mpingo Disks. http://www.shunmook.com/text1.htm
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by tjic 18y ago
Downvoted for irrelevant flame-baiting. Please keep your religious biases out of HN.
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by tjic 18y ago
> you can't stop members of Congress from associating with each other. Actually, many states have open meeting laws where, if it becomes clear that politicians met and discussed certain topics, it is a crime, and it's punishable.
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by tjic 18y ago
> without risking someone else stealing it? There are tons of good ideas out there. What there's a shortage of is risk takers willing to work their balls off to make a good idea into a good company. Just go ahead and post your idea here
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by tjic 18y ago
> the village ... now directly or indirectly employs a fifth of all working islanders. Most of the rest are engaged in fishing, also government-subsidized. Dollars to donuts, we're looking at a case of massive subsidy from the national
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by tjic 18y ago
Godaddy has had automatic renewal (as long as your credit card is still valid, of course!) for at least 4-5 years, I believe.
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by tjic 18y ago
> Difficulty of implementation should never be a deciding factor in whether or not to address the needs of the users. Really? Never ? I've got to disagree with this. All possible changes that one might make to a codebase should be eva
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by tjic 18y ago
I've collected maybe 90% of the time.
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by tjic 18y ago
> this led to the United States strongly favoring universal education. I'm all in favor of folks getting as much education as they want. I question, though, whether the current system of universal education is really doing all that muc
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by tjic 18y ago
> BoingBoing is doing the same thing, from what I can tell, with its idiotic disemvowelling. Apparently I didn't do a good enough job obscuring the identity of the group blog and moderator I was referencing... ;-)
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by tjic 18y ago
I think that the thesis here is true, but the statement "communities that X cease to have X when any old person is allowed in" applies not just for values of X == "intelligent discourse", but also for X == "group-think leftism", "group-thin
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by tjic 18y ago
> Turns out Bill and childhood buddy Paul Allen had startup ideas well before Microsoft. The pair came up with something they called "Traf-O-Data." I dislike the use of "turns out" here, as if new data is being revealed. I read a biog
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by tjic 18y ago
> Apparently you never pull things out of your ass in message board debates. I've done it enough not to be insulted when I get called on it. So you both lie and call names. Delightful.
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by tjic 18y ago
> Have you ever taken someone to court successfully? Yes, I've been to small claims court 15-20 times. I won every time. Folks who force you to go to SCC in the first place tend to be flakes, therefore they tend to not even show up. 7
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by tjic 18y ago
Debt collectors are a reasonable approach, but take one more step before you do that. 1) find a lawyer who you can hire for an hour or two for $200-$400. You're paying for his letterhead, not his skills. 2) Get him to write a letter sayin
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by tjic 18y ago
> Instead you have an opportunity to solidify a relationship Who wants a solid relationship with a sleezebag who tries to get out of debts by claiming "yeah, it may be the same corporate entity, but I'm the new CEO, so I'm not paying?"
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by tjic 18y ago
Most small claims courts cap suite sizes at $2-3k. Thus, I disagree with this statement.
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by tjic 18y ago
I entirely support your point that folks shouldn't dump waste in Somali waters. However, I'm not prepared - without evidence - to accept the assertion that the acts of piracy are explicitly aimed at ships that dump waste. In fact, all the e

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