dhathorn

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by dhathorn 1mo ago
China has been the largest ghg emitter for the last 20 years, and currently emits more than twice as much as the us. Gdp spent on defense is similar as a fraction of gdp (slightly more in the us). So realistically the Chinese military is by
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by dhathorn 2mo ago
Have a butchers at my China who thinks the seppos are less precise.
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by dhathorn 2mo ago
That would be Volvo cars. tfa is about Volvo group, which is Swedish and makes among other things Volvo trucks. (Or HGVs as they might be called in Europe)
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by dhathorn 7y ago
It's a chinese flag, the old republic of china flag. Also known as the five races flag. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Races_Under_One_Union
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by dhathorn 8y ago
There is a really great documentary about Kevin Carter and the bang bang club called "when under fire, shoot back" [0] It's much better than the fictionalized version that TFA references. Although it doesn't seem to be w
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Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by dhathorn 9y ago|0 comments
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Lunch with the FT: Marc Andreessen(medium.ft.com)
1 points by dhathorn 10y ago|0 comments
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Death in Singapore(ft.com)
4 points by dhathorn 14y ago|0 comments
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by dhathorn 14y ago
Why is family farming worth protecting? What extra value do family farms provide to me, the person actually buying food? People lose their jobs because superior companies out-compete them all the time. Why should farmers be protected from t
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by dhathorn 14y ago
This is an example of a problem called the Coupon Collector problem ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coupon_collector%27s_problem ). Short version is that the expected value of number of pulls you'll need to collect all of the coupons (candy
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The gun control that works: no guns (economist.com)
28 points by dhathorn 14y ago|78 comments
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by dhathorn 14y ago
Yes, but the original article is spreading misinformation. Anesthesia is always used during organ harvests.
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by dhathorn 14y ago
Anesthesia is always used during organ harvests. Anesthesiologists treat the donor just as they would any other patient undergoing surgery. This account by a Georgia anesthesiologist rebuts many of the points made by the article, and does s
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by dhathorn 14y ago
Non-technical. http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pausch/news/index.html
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Hot times in Silicon Valley(economist.com)
3 points by dhathorn 15y ago|0 comments
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by dhathorn 15y ago
Cocktail sort twoWayBubbleSort = -> VA.locals.swapped = true while VA.locals.swapped VA.locals.swapped = false for x in [0...VA.length - 1] VA.locals.x = x if VA.gt(x, x + 1) VA.swap(x,
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Too open for business: Japanese shops waste energy by keeping their doors open(economist.com)
1 points by dhathorn 15y ago|0 comments
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The new tech bubble(economist.com)
2 points by dhathorn 15y ago|0 comments
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by dhathorn 15y ago
According to the inflation calculator: http://www.westegg.com/inflation/infl.cgi $100,000 1962 dollars is $712000 2010 dollars. A lot of money, for sure, but not 10 million.
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America's transport infrastructure(economist.com)
4 points by dhathorn 15y ago|0 comments
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Gadhafi Does Swimming.ly on the Internet (online.wsj.com)
1 points by dhathorn 15y ago|0 comments
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America's infrastructure(economist.com)
5 points by dhathorn 16y ago|1 comments