hingisundhorsa

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by hingisundhorsa 11y ago
> still marvel at the OLPC XO-1, also derided as a toy but one of the most amazing computers ever built Sorry, I was with you until the moment you described a pretty standard AMD Geode GX2 SoC with a pretty poor transflective LCD as &quo
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by hingisundhorsa 11y ago
> at least from a moral point of view I don't see that we did something wrong. You did. You lied on your Thai tourist visa application form. It explicitly said: "I hereby declare that the purpose of my visit to thailand is for
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by hingisundhorsa 11y ago
> No locals were out of a job Could you explain how you formed that conclusion? > They lived there as tourists so paid a lot more into the local economy than locals How did you determine that? I've lived as a hippie in India, sim
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by hingisundhorsa 12y ago
"For a thousand years, China has been ruled by a cognitive meritocracy selected through the highly competitive imperial exams. The brightest young men became the scholar-officials who ruled the masses, amassed wealth, attracted multipl
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by hingisundhorsa 12y ago
I don't know much about the actual conditions in North India. But this article contains some markers that are at best suggestive of exaggeration, at worst maybe falsification. Eg, high levels of descriptive details that don't seem
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by hingisundhorsa 12y ago
I believe that's Singapore. Albeit, the rules are being changed due to rapid influx of rich foreigners into Singapore causing social issues. https://sg.news.yahoo.com/ferrari-crash-fuels-singapore-anti...
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by hingisundhorsa 13y ago
I tried to find where in the article it says anything that might back up "already been convicted of being part of a terrorist cell". The closest I found is where it says: "already in jail for being part of a cell that conside
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by hingisundhorsa 13y ago
We're all so easily swayed by propaganda to label someone "murderous thug". Odd how we never had a trial, never had concrete verifiable data and easily label them as such. We sweep those collateral casualties under the rug th
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by hingisundhorsa 13y ago
Marketing was the example in the article. It is also one that catches my attention because I was aware of a case where my personal physician was pushing a particular drug and I was aware that pharma salesmen (marketeers) are permitted to en
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by hingisundhorsa 13y ago
Sigh. I don't know whether you're being sarcastic. You're focusing on a country when we should be thinking about individuals. What I see is a population set that is currently excluded from survival due to the pricing of certa
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by hingisundhorsa 13y ago
I don't feel conflicted. Patent protection was established as a mechanism to encourage and facilitate innovation and to encourage inventers. The question I ask myself is whether the current system is sufficiently balanced. In my opinio
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by hingisundhorsa 13y ago
It gets worse, France actively committed "terrorist' activities against organizations opposed to the French using French occupied Polynesia as a location to test their nukes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinki
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by hingisundhorsa 13y ago
As a “<insert ethnicity here> <insert gender here> <insert sexual orientation here> programmer”, I've always been uncomfortable with race based or gender based or orientation based policies. Google would have been bet
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by hingisundhorsa 13y ago
I looked up the point you are making. The data backs you up, 3 wheelers suffer from inherent instability on turns. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQh56geU0X8 "When the single wheel is in the front , the vehicle is inhe
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by hingisundhorsa 13y ago
Uhm, perhaps my English is slipping but that just seems like a description of what they saw.
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by hingisundhorsa 13y ago
Yes, a person with drive might achieve that. That said, it'd probably be massively less likely. Out of the 100 million kids in India born into poverty, probably 1 in a 100 would make it to a blue collar job, 1 in 10k to a white collar
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by hingisundhorsa 13y ago
Could someone help me out, I've read Pinker's criticisms, Chablis' and others, but I don't feel convinced because they all seem to be generic attacks on accuracy. From their articles, I was not able to identify a specifi
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by hingisundhorsa 13y ago
Really? Comments like this seem to be intent on setting up a strawman (ie: not anything close to what Gladwell attempts to communicate) and then knocking down that strawman.
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by hingisundhorsa 13y ago
"there's money in writing books to take down Gladwell.". It is interesting that much of the negativity seems to be about the person, Malcolm Gladwell (masked by talking about "Gladwellism" or his style), rather than
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by hingisundhorsa 13y ago
That's one of the poorest E-Paper panels I've seen. That first picture of Anool looks dithered. A regular E-Ink display is capable of 32 levels of gray, this seems to be much lower depth and lower res.
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by hingisundhorsa 13y ago
Sometimes I feel confused. Are "we" the real terrorists?
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by hingisundhorsa 13y ago
Strong statements need to be backed up with strong data. You said "all of the equipment and techniques". Did you not read the Gawande section? Seems like the techniques are new and weren't invented by us.
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by hingisundhorsa 13y ago
Is this the magical trickle-down healthcare plan? :-)
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by hingisundhorsa 13y ago
How long do we think this Indian protection of this island will last? The current Indian government, who Indian colleagues tell me is led by a mafia related Italian family, is one of the most corrupt in the world. It is only a matter of tim
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by hingisundhorsa 13y ago
Are we really surprised by this? Think about your own experience in highschool and the type of people from that experience who are now in law enforcement? Any correlation between bullies and law enforcers?
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by hingisundhorsa 13y ago
It's not just Indian and Chinese degrees. We hired a guy who had a BA in Computer Science (or something like Engineering Science) from Dartmouth (ivy league!) who turned out to be incapable of doing real work. He had trouble implementi
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by hingisundhorsa 13y ago
Really? What kind of hacker are you if you don't think about basic statistics and false positives? Jeez... The readership here has dropped to the level of slime mold. I guess I'm starting to fall into this category myself.
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by hingisundhorsa 13y ago
This whole thread puts HN to shame. It is a shame on all of us. Horrific. Just horrific. Shame on the people who threw some innocent Brown (yes, the school, not the skin color) kid under the bus, or MIT or whatever other school. The kid is
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by hingisundhorsa 13y ago
Sigh. That justifies spamming HN?
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by hingisundhorsa 13y ago
Anyone else get the feeling we are we making HN become like every news/forum site now? Reporting every and any shot fired anywhere in the world?

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