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by __ 17y ago
Calacanis says he "can't show device or say actual name", presumably due to a legal agreement. ( http://twitter.com/Jason/status/8270966356 )
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by __ 17y ago
Yes, I was being imprecise by talking about "lack of interest". It's not only lack of interest per se; there are many reasons why someone might not think deeply about a subject. Lack of mental energy due to daily responsibilities is, I'm su
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by __ 17y ago
As a kid, I said "I don't know" when I didn't know the answer to a question, or when someone asked me to make a poorly defined prediction. Or I'd give a long answer full of qualifications. I quickly learned that although these answers were
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by __ 17y ago
Welcome to Hacker News (non-sarcastically!). Comments are threaded here, so you could have replied directly to fh's post.
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Default HTTPS access for Gmail(gmailblog.blogspot.com)
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Happy 99th Birthday, Ronald Coase(thebigquestions.com)
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by __ 17y ago
Economic realism would do more than just satisfy the nitpicking nerds, too. It would have real artistic value in the form of more verisimilitude in the setting and social atmosphere. I suspect it would affect even economically illiterate re
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Ten years of .NET - did Microsoft deliver?(theregister.co.uk)
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by __ 17y ago
I second that. As I recall, it's a very enjoyable 700-page brain dump by someone who's really into his subject. The writing has a personal voice; there are lots of asides, dry wit, and typos that suggest restrained editing. The discussion i
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Investigator easily gets fake passports from State Department(foreignpolicy.com)
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by __ 17y ago
I suppose this is the academic equivalent of http://classnamer.com/ .
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CIA endorses cloud computing, but only internally(computerworld.com)
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Tax and Spend, or Face the Consequences(washingtonpost.com)
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by __ 17y ago
Also, weapons on merchant ships can be taken by the pirates and used in future attacks. So unless the weapons allow the crew to consistently prevent hijackings, they're just increasing the pirates' revenue.
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Detailed service records of medieval soldiers published online(news.bbc.co.uk)
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Google finally starts a travel guide service, sort of(hasbrouck.org)
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Following, liking and people searching(googlereader.blogspot.com)
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The Jack Welch MBA(economist.com)
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Another delay to the production of the 787 Dreamliner is a setback for Boeing(economist.com)
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Of All Time(youhaventlived.com)
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New term to describe bad programming: Biological(doubtingtommaso.blogspot.com)
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Diversity on the Supreme Court(blogs.law.harvard.edu)
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Born free: Open-source software in the recession(economist.com)
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Russian Tea HowTo(home.fazekas.hu)
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by __ 17y ago
Duplicate submission. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=612033
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Living abroad gives you a creative edge(economist.com)
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An offer you can't refuse(economist.com)
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by __ 17y ago
Sorry, I wasn't denying that Texas spends more money per capita on textbooks. As you point out, it certainly does, according to the article. I was worried that someone might read that Texas's per-capita spending is higher than California's
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by __ 17y ago
Yeah, and Wyoming spends more per capita on healthcare than New York. That doesn't necessarily mean it's better. Higher-population states can better take advantage of economies of scale. Overhead costs can be spread across a larger number o
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by __ 17y ago
"Can mathematics unlock the secrets of x?" seems to be equivalent to "does science work?"

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