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by vwcx 10y ago
Sometimes you have to spend $200 million to get a 2000 word "news story" about your product.
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by vwcx 10y ago
Soon to be the last generation that receives these benefits, if they aren't already. And a city without a workable budget to boot.
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by vwcx 10y ago
This is the coolest historical fact I've learned in the last 365 days. Thank you.
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by vwcx 10y ago
I am a professional photo editor for a major magazine. Despite what the title sounds like, I spend much of my day sending photographers on assignment and sourcing images rather than manipulating files. I often wonder how my career will evol
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What sort of unlikely coincidences have you experienced on the internet?
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by vwcx 10y ago
I remember reading this in 1999 when it first circulated!
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by vwcx 10y ago
Exactly. Other than the moral-environmental issue of the subsidy encouraging me to take more short trips, thus increasing my footprint...
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by vwcx 10y ago
You mean, you're already going to get your phone out to kill yourself while pumping anyway. Static fires are real.
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by vwcx 10y ago
A pen being wielded by a man with no desire, or knowledge, or forethought, to do so.
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by vwcx 10y ago
Why do the shareholders deserve to be immune from the company's reputation, however fairly or unfairly this reputation is earned?
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by vwcx 10y ago
Yeah, seriously. Oman? It's like Middle East-Lite.
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by vwcx 10y ago
> "There's almost 4 billion people who don't participate in this important aspect of human life." And yet there are almost 4 billion people who don't know the mental clarity of spending a day with someone they ca
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by vwcx 10y ago
In certain large US cities, posting on Freecycle and Craigslist have gotten people to my apartment to pick up free things within a few hours.
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by vwcx 10y ago
I'm in DC and am catching planes with stamps from all over. Cairo, Copenhagen, Tokyo.
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Ask HN: East African tech incubators?
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by vwcx 10y ago
The word "sustainable" in your reply is a joke when you consider the unsustainability of the automobile for single rider transit. Electric or not, it's a tough sell compared to mass transit.
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by vwcx 10y ago
I am more interested in seeing how Pokemon Go can encourage voter turnout come November.
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Holocaust Museum in Washington DC asks visitors to stop catching Pokemon inside(washingtonpost.com)
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by vwcx 10y ago
Your comment suggests that Vanguard is low-cost, which it is for the consumer in the form of low expense-ratios. But how do Vanguard's administrative costs stack up for the employer?
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Virtual Reality Aimed at the Elderly Finds New Fans(npr.org)
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by vwcx 10y ago
Sounds like the trend of slow television: http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB100014241278873249040045785391...
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by vwcx 10y ago
Yeah, and in some ways, the new study is a complete return to 150+ years ago. In the American Civil War, a theory of "windage" was put forward, that the concussion from a projectile's blast was responsible for "soldier&#
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by vwcx 10y ago
I've never installed Facebook Messenger and only access facebook through a mobile browser. What functionality am I missing out on?
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Brain study links PTSD in soldiers to blast trauma from battlefield explosives(news.nationalgeographic.com)
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by vwcx 11y ago
Hint: writing about photography is as subjective as photography itself. Sontag is the lowest hanging fruit a writer on photography can grab to prop up their writing. I mean, look at the recent discussions Teju Cole sparked when he trashed S
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by vwcx 11y ago
Is it really this hard to understand the issue here? How long have we spent collectively explaining very basic functionality of systems to the elderly, to our parents, friends, etc? Not hard to see why something like this would create unint
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Where have you seen the dignity of others being promoted and protected online?
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"The CDC estimates that 48 million Americans get sick from contaminated food every year."
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by vwcx 11y ago
For me, the state and sub-agency control of information about their own parks is what makes it valuable to me. While planning a recent week camping in CO and WY, I learned that most of the aggregated information I was finding from general h
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by vwcx 11y ago
But in a lot of cases, isn't this the same as the people who film themselves climbing tall buildings, bridges, etc? For many people, drones will always have the exhibitionist grandeur attached to them. Sure, they know they aren't

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