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by zeteo 16y ago
"If someone told you there was a way you could [do amazing things at a cost comparable to the Moon landings], why wouldn't you do it?" Because such large and complex projects are bound to seriously overrun initial budget and time estimates,
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by zeteo 16y ago
This article is rather crappy. Quick summary: 1. Ten years ago, some people committed egregious accounting fraud. 2. Let's imagine what would happen if everyone committed accounting fraud. (Where we re-define accounting fraud in a very libe
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by zeteo 16y ago
"The Ada Initiative—named for Countess Ada Lovelace, the world's first woman open source programmer..." Or rather, the world's first programmer, who was also a woman and open sourced her programs.
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by zeteo 16y ago
"We can pop a magazine in the post to subscribers for significantly less than that." To paraphrase Tannenbaum, do not underestimate the bandwidth of a truck full of magazines, speeding on the highway.
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by zeteo 16y ago
So basically no story can be criticized for lack of content, as soon as n people have upvoted it?
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by zeteo 16y ago
Frightening if true, but the story is not exactly corroborated. Fisk himself (a rather controversial, and politically active reporter) only devotes one phrase to the allegation, with no support whatsoever ("it is now clear ..."). Repetition
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by zeteo 16y ago
"as the business potential became obvious to corporate warlords, they struck, [...] getting willing governments to enact rules, regulations and laws to protect corporate interests" Aye, there's the rub. Corporate welfare programs are the ro
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by zeteo 16y ago
"To people from a hundred years ago we'd be the most outlandish science fiction story ever told." You'd be surprised: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_in_the_Twentieth_Century#...
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by zeteo 16y ago
"...scientists have been warning for at least two decades that global warming could make snowstorms more severe." Names? Papers? Dates and predictions?
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by zeteo 16y ago
Making the spot stand out in a spectacular way is pretty much guaranteed to attract visitors. Why not just make it as plain as possible above the ground? Then you can bury warnings at various depths, just in case someone decides to dig ther
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by zeteo 16y ago
40% - 60% here (CS classes, HW + projects).
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by zeteo 16y ago
There's quite a bit of a difference between "French in the USA", "Spanish in the USA" and "virtually everyone speaks it". Does anyone have any hard data? It does seem to dominate Twitter.
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by zeteo 16y ago
Having worked extensively as a TA in an Ivy League school, I must concur with this analysis. It's very easy, even in the hard sciences, to get by without doing any real work and by actually learning very little in the class. If you're reall
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by zeteo 16y ago
Any info on the total number of English speakers in Egypt?
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by zeteo 16y ago
That's not what I said.
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by zeteo 16y ago
Technology and the Internet play a vital role in pretty much everything these days. What will HN cover next - a Tea Party rally, if it was announced on Twitter?
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by zeteo 16y ago
>>The OP is Al Jazeera. That means it's not on American TV, at least. Really? Because it's on Al Jazeera it means it's not on top of CNN, MSNBC and Fox News right now? A prime example of how logic flies out (even in the smallest det
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by zeteo 16y ago
Political activity != hacking. Nokia and Microsoft are tech companies.
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by zeteo 16y ago
About the only comment thread on this story that has a claim of belonging on HN.
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by zeteo 16y ago
No, it probably means the userbase has grown too much and HN needs a bit more policing in order to stay on topic.
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by zeteo 16y ago
The general story has nothing to do with hacking or startups, it's not intellectually interesting, and is currently being covered in the smallest detail and speculation on countless TV channels, not to mention Reddit and Digg. If you have s
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by zeteo 16y ago
I was a regular on Reddit until the fall of '08, when the politics started in earnest. Then the whole thing tumbled downwards. There's no faster way to turn a group of otherwise intelligent and reasonable people into a band of monkeys fling
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by zeteo 16y ago
It's loaded because it sets up and destroys a straw man. The great-great-great-grandparent never argued that the community doesn't want this, only that it's not supposed to.
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Tell PG: Thank you for removing the political stories
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by zeteo 16y ago
My bad, but I think the study would have actually been less flawed with the Fortune 500. S&P are subjectively chosen "market leaders"; thus you not only get the bias towards companies with large revenues, but also an opaque bias related
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by zeteo 16y ago
Evidence? Yes, some of the protesters have been using Facebook and Twitter, but were they a large proportion of the total, and how could this have been significant when the Internet itself was shut down over there? Don't confuse the fact th
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by zeteo 16y ago
As years go by, we discover that even Nicholas II had his good sides, and his regime was certainly better than its replacement. And the last czar was much more of an autocrat than Mubarak ever hoped for. In any case, what I'm taking issue w
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by zeteo 16y ago
Have you stopped beating your wife?
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by zeteo 16y ago
This community is not supposed to be "well rounded". I think you're looking for Digg and Reddit.
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by zeteo 16y ago
I have no sympathy for Mubarak, but the way the mass-media has been covering this has been totally one-sided. There are a few interesting technical sides of the story (Internet getting shut down), but overall the whole thing smacks too much

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