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by da3da 13y ago
Yeah, you have to think that was a joke, right? Can you imagine the headlines, "Google Drone kills 7 on Somali border"
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by da3da 13y ago
And I don't get why they should use Bitcoin. You're trying to secure your data, not obfuscate your financial transactions.
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by da3da 13y ago
I think the point was that now that so much of our interactions take place through our phone it is very easy to migrate to new platforms. Think of how quickly Snapchat or Instagram spread for example. I doubt they would have been nearly as
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by da3da 13y ago
I started out using vim because when I first looked at it and emacs, vim seemed like the more elegant of the two. I tried both out one afternoon, and the commands in vim made more sense to me than those in emacs. But after taking a class wh
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by da3da 13y ago
Just a nit-picky thing, but I thought it would be nice to get a heads-up. In the third sentence of the first paragraph it should be "your senators" rather than "you're senators"
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by da3da 13y ago
The only problem I see with this is that value isn't always proportional to time. Sometimes I spend a long time reading an article because it is written in an inscrutable style and it takes a long time to see what the author is saying. Othe
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by da3da 13y ago
See how that entry says "usu. with negative or in questions"? The usage in this case is neither negative nor a question, and so many, like the gp and myself, found it confusing.
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by da3da 13y ago
A similar thing happened to me. I picked it up, read 200-300 pages and thought I could see where the book was going but found that it took such an agonizingly long time to reach its conclusion that I put it down.
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by da3da 13y ago
Ah, thanks for that info, I wasn't aware that the time from development to deployment was that low now.
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by da3da 13y ago
My guess would be this is more for capital reasons than legal ones. It is extremely expensive to form a company of either type. I think the standard drug pipeline costs somewhere between 10s of millions to billions of dollars per drug. I'd
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by da3da 14y ago
I've heard that almost the entire flight can be/is automated now, including the landing and that most commercial pilots have to land the planes by hand just so they can keep their skills up. But I doubt the salary of pilots is really such a
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by da3da 14y ago
Thanks for the awesome reply! I think you've just convinced me to check out Haskell more thoroughly at the next chance I get. Edit: It's great that you mention OCaml's module system too; my professor probably mentions the benefits of it in
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by da3da 14y ago
I'm curious what advantages you think Haskell has over ML/Ocaml. I'm pretty familiar with OCaml and like it a lot, and Haskell seems to be very similar, but I haven't used it for anything substantive. What benefits, if any, does Haskell hav
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by da3da 14y ago
I think the difference is we all come in contact with writing every day. So literacy is required if you want to get around in the world and if you want to communicate with others. Almost no non-programmers encounter code in their day to day
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by da3da 14y ago
Over the past week or so I've seen a lot of food and diet related articles make the front page, and in the comments everyone is going on about how great their favorite diet is and how the science proves that it is the most effective way to
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by da3da 14y ago
No, they are ranked by their peers.
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by da3da 14y ago
Have you tried using Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji"? I have never tried to learn Japanese, but I have heard very good things about using this book to learn the Kanji.
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by da3da 14y ago
This is why you get a lawyer. So they can explain that almost no one gets anything close to the maximum sentence. See this post for more information http://www.volokh.com/2013/01/16/the-criminal-charges-agains...
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by da3da 14y ago
You can actually still go in the cockpit on commercial airlines, just not during the flight. Before or after the flight the pilots are usually happy to show you the cockpit.
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by da3da 14y ago
I think people are willing to take criticism much better when it is phrased in a respectfully way, rather than an "I'm right you're wrong, here let me prove it" perspective. The OP may have been incorrect, but the best way to help him reali
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by da3da 14y ago
I agree. It is pretty timely that this article was posted around the same time when almost half the front page is covering the same topic.
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by da3da 14y ago
I think this would be very nice in an ebook or other long form writing where I need to backtrack to find some earlier reference. Where it doesn't work well is in hierarchical data like HN comments. I installed the chrome extension and used
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by da3da 14y ago
I don't think this is true. I follow tech trends fairly closely, but I use very few of the consumer tech startups, with the exception of Spotify, which was created in Sweden. Those on HN may have this perception of the Europe startup scene,
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by da3da 14y ago
I'm not really sure why this is being downvoted. At least with a firing squad the person dies nearly instantly. The anticipation may be slightly worse however.
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Your iPhone as a Weapon(vanityfair.com)
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by da3da 14y ago
I want to second your weight lifting suggestion. Also, when you're strong, people treat you better. It's probably related to the halo effect surrounding attractive people. [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo_effect
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by da3da 14y ago
Does this happen anymore? I flew out of Boston the day before Thanksgiving (when I would imagine tons of people are traveling) and it took <5 minutes to get through security. Same thing on the way back.
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by da3da 14y ago
I'm curious why that is? I remember a table that showed the deaths per terawatt-hour of each energy source [1]. Coal was the highest, and nuclear was the lowest (below all the renewables even). I don't know if this data is accurate, but ass
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by da3da 14y ago
And linux!
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by da3da 14y ago
Your points are valid but I think you're arriving at the same conclusion that the parent is. Since the population groups that have lots of children are generally less intelligent and poorer, evolution is currently selecting for less intelli

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