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by victoro 12y ago
Perhaps you should crack open that Econ 101 textbook first, because that same Econ 101 textbook would likely have water as the canonical example used to explain elasticity of demand. Demand for water is inelastic, both for agriculture and
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A History of the Most Impractical Weapons Ever Used in War(io9.com)
2 points by victoro 12y ago|0 comments
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Scientists Discover Oldest Solar System in the Milky Way(latimes.com)
1 points by victoro 12y ago|0 comments
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The Daily Routines of Famous Writers (2012)(brainpickings.org)
1 points by victoro 12y ago|0 comments
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A Chinese Man, a $50 Billion Plan and a Canal to Reshape Nicaragua(npr.org)
97 points by victoro 12y ago|56 comments
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by victoro 12y ago
Distasteful? Maybe. Ineffective? Quite probably (considering the decision makers who are buying a Social Media tool are often Social Media Managers). However, if you're going to be as uncomfortable with software eliminating certain
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'Godzilla of Earths' identified(bbc.com)
3 points by victoro 12y ago|0 comments
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Why we're committing $120 million to Bay Area schools(mercurynews.com)
1 points by victoro 12y ago|0 comments
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by victoro 12y ago
>> No business person wants to spend money to hire someone they don't have to This. Every time I hear an organization brag about how many jobs they "create" I can't help but think about how much of an oxymoron that
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by victoro 12y ago
I think the parent was commenting on the irony of this statement considering that the big US automakers were recently recipients of a large government bailout precisely because they couldn't "successfully adapt to competitive and
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by victoro 12y ago
I'm surprised that so little consideration seems to have been given to the marketing of this framework. Your landing page should be optimized for the audience you are expecting to sell to. Running a general release aimed at developers
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Seattle on the verge of unprecedented $15 minimum wage(slate.com)
3 points by victoro 12y ago|0 comments
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by victoro 13y ago
The author took 23 paragraphs (with outlandish detours that equate technologists sleeping in cars and participating in CrossFit to "fetishizing the homeless" and trying to make a connection between that and libertarianism) to basi
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by victoro 13y ago
yes also using Chrome v33
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by victoro 13y ago
Surprising that the "words that begin with n" section didn't discuss how the process works both ways. For example the word newt (as in the aquatic amphibian) used to be ewt, but because it was so often prefaced by "an&qu
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by victoro 13y ago
The OP asserting that the pg statement in question was "an astute observation" implies that pg is an impartial observer who is in no way biased by his ties to the startup ecosystem. I disagree with that assertion. The pg quote th
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by victoro 13y ago
Didn't see him complaining when the government was subsidizing Tesla's R&D with cheap loans and tax incentives [1]. The government giveth and the government taketh away. Not saying I agree with this decision by NJ, but its s
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by victoro 13y ago
This is a great starting point. Can anyone recommend any resources for how to best set up a remote scraping box on AWS or another similar provider? Pitfalls, best tools to help manage/automate scripts etc. I've found a few &quot
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by victoro 13y ago
I don't see why the majority of HN commenters assume that the article has a negative bent. All he did was list the results of the PEW study and briefly discuss political ramifications for the two major US parties. The only fault I ca
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by victoro 13y ago
Failure has always been an option in small, unproven, socially unimportant markets. It really shouldn't take 7 paragraphs to compare apples to oranges...
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by victoro 13y ago
> it's easier to cherry-pick examples Prior to the Civil Rights Movement, the US was a highly segregated country mostly because of "cherry picked" examples from the deep south. Federal law exists in part to put the entire
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by victoro 13y ago
I've been looking around for the same. The problem seems to be that there are only a few big outlets (some with exclusive contracts) doing the stats for the big sports. It seems possible to scrape a lot of what you need though, unles
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Cryoseism(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by victoro 13y ago|0 comments
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by victoro 13y ago
I think this ruling, and others it foreshadows, points to a need to amend the Constitution to ensure protections for personal property held by third parties on behalf of private citizens. At the time the 4th amendment was created, it was r
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by victoro 13y ago
He was also responsible for the New Deal, Social Security, and much of the legislation that enabled blue collar Americans to bargain with their employers among other things. But yea, he was a racist and once approved a plan to unjustly vic
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by victoro 13y ago
How did BitMit overcome the problem of trust between buyer and seller? E.g. somebody sends bitcoin to a wallet and never gets the product they wanted. Did they offer some kind of escrow service or was everything based on reputation and bu
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If a Story Is Viral, Truth May Be Taking a Beating(nytimes.com)
2 points by victoro 13y ago|0 comments
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by victoro 13y ago
Thanks for the recommendation, Netflix doesn't have it available to stream but Amazon Prime does. Awesome film so far.
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by victoro 13y ago
Yea this guy really trivializes the fact that GM got a $50 billion dollar loan on incredibly favorable terms from the USG when the banking industry was reeling. No matter how brilliant his plan was it would have all amounted to nothing had
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by victoro 13y ago
This Walmart vs Costco nonsense has got to stop. They serve completely different segments of the market. I won't bother rehashing here what others have argued much better (and with data to back it up). Just go read this and stop mak

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