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by shutupalready 12y ago
> but customers don't for the most part. It's a lot easier than trying to explain to them that there are two kinds of ounces It's that kind of stuff that makes people think that jewelers and gold buyers are crooked. Some
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by shutupalready 12y ago
> 28.35g per ounce No, it's 31.10g per ounce. The price of gold is always quoted as troy ounces[1]. You used the figure for the avoirdupois ounce which is used for anything that isn't a precious metal[2]. Though it doesn&#x27
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by shutupalready 12y ago
> but I suspect that's the kind of project shutupalready was referring to Yes, those are precisely the kinds of projects I was thinking of. (I was worried that if I gave examples, the conversation would derail into the viability o
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by shutupalready 12y ago
The topic was what people leave their money to (after death). All of the people you mention are alive.
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by shutupalready 12y ago
> It's not always about the "big picture". No, it's never about the "big picture". High net-worth people almost never leave their money to a "space shot" type of endeavor.
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by shutupalready 12y ago
An observation on what the super-rich never do for their legacy: There's something that super-rich individuals can do that vastly richer governments, organizations, and companies can't do. They can make long shot bets. That is,
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by shutupalready 12y ago
> Lisa logged on to her computer and pulled up their bird-cam. There was the crow she suspected. "You can see it bringing it into the yard. Walks it to the birdbath and actually spends time rinsing this lens cap." Why wouldn&
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by shutupalready 12y ago
> When conveying nuanced ideas, I believe they will be much closer in length, with perhaps a small advantage for French. I've looked in bookstores at expert translations of French novels to English, and English novels to French, and
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by shutupalready 12y ago
> had a hypothesis about drug addiction, designed an experiment to prove his hypothesis. Performed the experiment, measured the results That's the very definition of the Scientific Method, so I don't understand what problem y
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by shutupalready 12y ago
Not to detract from your observation, but just as an aside, I wanted to mention that less than an hour after your comment, googling for "cow thiophenol romanesque establishment" (with or without quotes) lists this very page as the
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by shutupalready 12y ago
> The tiny tab allows gravity to cause all the pullers to hang in the same direction as they fall into a rail toward the left. The explanation above makes it sound like the pulls are getting re-oriented (flipped around) which is not wh
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by shutupalready 12y ago
> 1. The comment you're talking about is from, essentially, someone who doesn't know what they're talking about. Yes, of course, the person who made that comment is clueless about technology -- just like 90% of the popul
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by shutupalready 12y ago
Was it really necessary to involve a smartphone at all? > color change [is] picked up by a set of photocells in the dongle, and the results are then sent to an app The logic to discriminate a color change could have been handled by a 7
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by shutupalready 12y ago
> ought to be prima facie evidence of ineffective/incompetent counsel A much more likely explanation is that the writer and her lawyer know perfectly well the difference between gross and net, but this was the best deal they could
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by shutupalready 12y ago
> "BLANK to City: Drop Dead" He means fill in the blank here: "_________ to City: Drop Dead" Older news junkies would know the answer to be: "Ford to City: Drop Dead"[1] [1] http://en.wikipedia.or
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by shutupalready 12y ago
What joy it is to finally uninstall Flash. The last time I was this happy to uninstall crappy software was when I realized that I no longer needed RealPlayer. For those that don't know it, RealPlayer was a very popular proprietary medi
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by shutupalready 12y ago
Thank you, but I still don't get this part: > The Landsat images seem to be much larger than they need to be for the level of detail they provide. For the level of detail I'm seeing, the same information could be represented in
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by shutupalready 12y ago
I was expecting the Landsat images to be something like satellite view in Google maps. I realize that close-up views in Google maps are collected by airplanes, not satellites. I'm not expecting to see individual cars and houses in the
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by shutupalready 12y ago
> retail margins are disproportionate to the amount of cost it takes to sell garments for a list of reasons out of the scope of a Hacker News comment I think it's perfectly appropriate for HN. Do tell us your thinking about why ap
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by shutupalready 12y ago
He's obviously concerned about being sued by, for example, McDonald's because you made and used a logo having golden arches in the shape of an "M" with on a red background with text "McDonald's" at the bot
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by shutupalready 12y ago
> going with a friend really really really helps too My experience has been exactly the opposite. It is much better to not have a friend with you. Whether at a computer conference, backpacking through Europe, or trying to meet the opposi
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by shutupalready 12y ago
No it's not the same logic. If a 1000-word article had 50 misspelled words, would you then say that it was a pretty accurate because it was 95% correctly spelled? No, you'd be horrified. Things like spelling, grammar, and basic fa
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by shutupalready 12y ago
> General Clapper praised the food; his hosts later presented him with a bill for his share of the meal. Not only are they evil, but they're cheap too. But the fact is that the hosts would have billed for the meal because the U.S.
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by shutupalready 12y ago
I know a kid whose throat swelled up, couldn't breathe for several minutes, and suffered brain damage after a one time incident of eating peanuts... Apparently, non-negligible (over 1% [1]) portion of the population reacts this way. Le
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by shutupalready 12y ago
So disappointing. I was expecting robots, bitcoin, cloning, gene therapy, integrated circuit design, space travel, face recognition. Instead it's senior care, making rental payments, social this-and-that, dog walkers, and a lot of comp
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by shutupalready 12y ago
> From the article Yes, you read the article. But the hostages didn't! All the hostage heard is "19 people rescued. You are next. Don’t lose hope". How does a hostage conclude "you should try to escape" from the
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by shutupalready 12y ago
> However, with this message, they would know that the fighting is a sign of a rescue mission and try to escape. What makes you think that a sign of a rescue mission means that you should try to escape? If anything, popular culture teach
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by shutupalready 12y ago
> Me : I think it should mean, you might be the next to be rescued. But what specifically would you have done differently if you were a hostage and had received this message? Don't answer, "I'd keep up hope." &quot
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by shutupalready 12y ago
It's a great feel-good story, but the whole thing is just intelligence theater , à la Bruce Schneier's security theater . That is, the coded message serves no intelligence or military objective. It sounds to me like the governme
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by shutupalready 12y ago
What happened exactly? How much did you lose (if you don't mind saying)? How long was it before you noticed? Do you think you were (a) individually targeted as a BTC holder, or (b) do you think someone was port scanning the Internet an

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