chuckkir

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by chuckkir 7y ago
Old smooth-bore dueling pistols aren't terribly accurate, and a kill shot was unlikely. However, wounds and infection were more likely to kill you than they would be today. More accurate pistols may be one of the reasons the duel died
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by chuckkir 8y ago
Actually, I think it is. It sounds like they're clawing back the investment profit, but it is likely those profits were invested in something else which also earned a profit. That additional profit is yours to keep as far as I can tell
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by chuckkir 8y ago
It's javascript. I think this article does a fine job explaining it: https://medium.com/s/silicon-satire/i-peeked-into-my-node-mo...
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by chuckkir 8y ago
Actually, according to the original plan, the House of Representatives should have grown so that each member represents a roughly equal number of constituents (excepting very small population states which still get one). At some point it wa
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by chuckkir 8y ago
In general a professor is an entrepreneur. They are running a small business where they sell their product ("knowledge") to customers (business and industry) by means of sales and marketing (conferences and papers). Grad students
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by chuckkir 8y ago
The flip side of this is that they charge $50 more than Apple for an iPhone. Why make all your customers demand a price match for something so widely known? It seems like it would irk most people in the hopes of extracting a few bucks from
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by chuckkir 8y ago
There are people storing up closets full of the old full-copper pennies waiting for the day that the penny is discontinued and they can get scrap value that is higher than the face value. For now they aren't allowed to deface money so
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by chuckkir 8y ago
It's so easy to become jaded when so many things are "too good to be true" and in fact aren't true. Theranos, Madoff, etc.
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by chuckkir 8y ago
The phrase is still valid, but it is unclear that it applies to the current company. Companies do not have minds and are not people. They do have inertia, but if you change enough of the people then it's fundamentally a different comp
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by chuckkir 8y ago
While I think the parent was referring to how much a company would need to spend to buy off enough reps for their legislation, it is a valid point that increasing the current $100M or so we currently spend on these guys by 2 orders of magni
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by chuckkir 8y ago
So it's sort of like the vinyl record thing then? I suspect the difference in photographs that you see is more in the difference between using an enlarger and photo paper vs. a color printer, and in this case I assume he's printin
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by chuckkir 8y ago
I was talking to a friend who recently got into 35mm film cameras. He develops the color film himself, but then immediately scans it in and uses digital tools to work on the images. I left a bit confused; what is he gaining by using film as
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by chuckkir 8y ago
In the WP case there was essentially a monopoly (Luxotica). As a monopoly they had built in additional profit and limitations that gave WP more room to work. It was definitely a broken market. Traditional competitors like Oakley were killed
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by chuckkir 8y ago
A distinction without a difference.
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by chuckkir 9y ago
You can't argue the genius that came up with "chocolate diamonds." You have a diamond that looks brown and ugly and can somehow make it desirable and even rare. While I swore off natural diamonds a long time ago, somehow I fe
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by chuckkir 9y ago
But maintaining this inventory of partial parts that maybe one person might request for perhaps long after production has stopped is cost (and space) prohibitive. Sure you could do it, but then it probably wouldn't make sense to build
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by chuckkir 9y ago
He sees Apple as a services company now.
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by chuckkir 9y ago
That sounds silly. "Pen and paper" worked for many, many years and I guarantee that it can still work. What you're implying is that people couldn't add up the numbers?
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by chuckkir 9y ago
I think it's fairly accurate. If you have a couple dozen (or 100) friends scattered around the world, it's a lot easier to see pictures of their kids or new kitchen on a Social Media platform than to try to call them every day.
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by chuckkir 9y ago
It's likely the only option unless you live in a large metropolitan area or can drive a couple hours. I guess there aren't enough clients to support both so we get the one that can do everything.
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by chuckkir 9y ago
As a PA resident I always thought of it as spending more if you want the lottery ticket. Obviously if you never get into an accident you'll be much richer with lower-priced limited tort, but you can pay extra if you want to bet that yo
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by chuckkir 9y ago
It is possible that if the AMA or others is intentionally restricting the supply then any hospital that started its own residency could have trouble hiring regular doctors. I am not claiming this is the case, but it is one reason that hospi
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by chuckkir 9y ago
Madoff didn't have a daughter.
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by chuckkir 9y ago
http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/22/luxury/car-boot-sale-diamond-s...
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by chuckkir 9y ago
I like Iceland's solution for this. They import bauxite and export aluminum to use their geothermal electricity as a resource. Perhaps there are other electricity-intensive operations that could be used to consume surpluses?
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by chuckkir 10y ago
You may be confusing "because of" with "in spite of". If your phone breaks and you need a new one, you buy one that has new features. If the only choice is thinner than you buy it and grumble on HN. I've never been
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by chuckkir 10y ago
It is slower for me as well, but the debugger is excellent.
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by chuckkir 11y ago
It can be quite large too. However, you can recover that money a few $k at a time over the next several years if you are not subject to AMT (and don't sell the shares). Granted you will have to pay the taxes again when you sell the sha
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by chuckkir 12y ago
The Western Digital Velociraptor is pretty tough to beat. Near SSD performance (depending on what you are doing) and reliable. For compiling code it's definitely the best choice.
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by chuckkir 12y ago
I was hopeful, but it doesn't explain why gold has value. It just starts with the assumption that it does. I'm afraid that sooner or later folks will realize it's just a shiny metal with little intrinsic value, much more ab

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