hudibras

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by hudibras 6y ago
If you have a VR setup and you haven't tried either IL-2 Sturmovik (for WW2) or DCS World (for modern jets and helicopters), you're missing out. You can even try out DCS World for free, with two planes.
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by hudibras 6y ago
For a high-traffic train, you need to have someone manually open and close the doors. You can't use automatic doors like on an elevator because someone will invariably keep them from shutting, either on purpose or by accident.
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by hudibras 6y ago
* Cryptocurrency * Fiat currency * Economics is not a real science * I understand what the author is trying to say, but I don't like how he says it * I didn't read the piece, but website that published it is problematic * The titl
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by hudibras 6y ago
Here's the paragraph that's making everyone mad: >Like the student and other forms of personal debt that prepare undergraduates to say two words—“Yes, boss”—the ideal of the entrepreneurial self serves a fundamentally disciplin
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by hudibras 6y ago
>the article would be inaccessible to many due to being steeped in elitism. Inaccessible to who exactly?
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by hudibras 6y ago
If you don't understand what the speaker is trying to say, then there's no need for you waste our time with a comment letting us all know that.
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by hudibras 6y ago
In every HN comment section, there's always, 100% of the time, at least one person who only reads the title of the piece (in this case, a song lyric from The Verve) and still has the nerve to post a comment.
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by hudibras 7y ago
No way in hell I'm clicking that link.
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by hudibras 7y ago
Ultimately, that's what made them stop: somebody (or most likely, three somebodies) was going to get killed.
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by hudibras 7y ago
Every HN submission from a real news source (newspaper, CNN, whatever) will always have at least one commenter complaining about the link title being click-baity, as if they've never before seen or heard of what is known as a "hea
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by hudibras 7y ago
A good rule of thumb is to never believe it when a company or industry says they have razor-thin margins.
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by hudibras 7y ago
If you hover your mouse cursor over the underlined words in the article (these are called 'hyperlinks' or, more informally, 'links') and then hit the left mouse button, your World Wide Web browser will display other docu
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by hudibras 7y ago
Luckily, none of it is true. Or at least a gross exaggeration. As one example, yes, many untouchables didn't support him (there were 300 million people living in India then), but many more did.
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by hudibras 7y ago
>He was against giving his wife penicillin to safe her life for religious reasons and she died. This is one of those debunked smears that instantly disqualifies whatever else the speaker says. We're talking Elders-of-Zion level smea
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by hudibras 7y ago
Putting a link to the "Lykov Family" Wikipedia page in the middle of this article is just plain evil; I'm trying to get some work done here!
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by hudibras 7y ago
I called it.
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by hudibras 7y ago
>But he never made a dollar illegally. Blackmail is illegal, by the way.
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by hudibras 7y ago
Ito will be gone within 24 hours, I guarantee it. And I wouldn't be surprised if the entire Media Lab is shut down by the end of the week.
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by hudibras 7y ago
Epstein, a convicted and admitted pedophile, got MIT Media Lab kowtowing to him.
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by hudibras 7y ago
That same order from June 2000 included five other books and one Sega Dreamcast game (Grand Theft Auto 2), so they must have had a few non-book departments back then.
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by hudibras 7y ago
I'm so old I bought this when it was published in paperback. https://www.amazon.com/Beginning-was-Command-Line/dp/0380815... Edit: Amazon informs me that I purchased it on 19 June 2000.
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by hudibras 7y ago
The headline on that magazine cover is pretty evil: "Kris Kristofferson's Miracle Recovery from Alzheimer's Diagnosis"
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by hudibras 7y ago
>This must be the most American thing ever. Guys, who's going to be the one to tell him?
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by hudibras 7y ago
My feelings exactly. Depressing to see so many smart people here on HN saying "We need to do something about climate change!" But then when a presidential candidate rolls out an ambitious, comprehensive, soup-to-nuts proposal that
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by hudibras 7y ago
> But I suspected it was basically just planting N trees to offset the carbon emission. No, this is not what happens. Check Wikipedia for "carbon offset" and "carbon credit" to learn more.
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by hudibras 7y ago
The whole point of VTSAX is that you don't have to worry about how well any one company does.
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by hudibras 7y ago
I just checked (I have the episode recorded) and they didn't actually talk about staplers, sorry. If it's any consolation, my "Cool Japan" recommendation is the Harinacs stapleless stapler. https://www.amazon.
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by hudibras 7y ago
I watched a TV program here in Japan a couple weeks ago where the panelists were all senior executives from stationery companies. The executives were asked about, in various categories (pens, paper, staplers, etc.), which of their competito
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by hudibras 7y ago
To wit: https://www.mizutani-scissors.com/en/ If you're in the market for a $900 hair shear.
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by hudibras 7y ago
Up in the Air is her biggest movie. Nominated for an Oscar.

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