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12 years ago
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on: Did removing lead from petrol spark a decline in crime?
It's always interesting when statistics correlate across multiple frames (time, location, etc.); however that still doesn't prove causality. I'm inclined to think that the causes behind an area being slow to remove leaded gasoline could also affect crime rates.
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12 years ago
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on: Facebook acquires Oculus VR
Facebook could make this a promotional win by refunding anyone who funded the dev kit a certain amount of money (down to the material cost for ex.)
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12 years ago
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on: Ask HN: How to disable new Google search styling
The font and underlining change are a non issue for me (other than looking terrible in chrome for windows); however the increased font size is jarring and reduces the amount of information that can quickly be scanned.
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12 years ago
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on: Stack Exchange tag correlations
Interesting. What about including a second column showing the back correlation? An example: 'WPF' appears 6% of the time for 'C#' questions, while 46% of 'WPF' questions include the 'C#' tag. Would be interesting use this to identify ontological hierarchy trends.
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12 years ago
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on: China cloning on an 'industrial scale'
Because evolution relies on survival of the fittest and genetic mutation. Your Chi-Pom-Poodle-Terrier isn't an evolutionary step for the canine. And most of all I don't want creationists to think that 'hand of god' is a valid evolutionary driver ;)
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12 years ago
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on: Why is a minute divided into 60 seconds, an hour into 60 minutes?
This is exactly why metric is so powerful: I also have no inherent concept of a deciliter or decagram, but I can convert to my understood liter and kilogram in moments.
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12 years ago
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on: China cloning on an 'industrial scale'
I didn't click on this link, but I really hope the domestication experiment with foxes is not being called 'evolution'.
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12 years ago
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on: Google to Acquire Nest
This might be a minority opinion, but I think more than home data collection (which they probably have a lot of already from phone / computer usage), that this is about acquiring a company that has cache and a 'cool' factor within both the design world and more importantly the market sector of young tech inclined home owners - a hugely lucrative market.
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12 years ago
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on: Bill Gates takes part in Reddit's Secret Santa
I think there's a middle ground where you are giving the gift of x dollars in real food / livestock to a family in xyz. Then the actual logistics of what that means are figured out and told to you.
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12 years ago
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on: Gravity Battery Concept
A pretty illustration of a terrible idea. Gravity just isn't that strong of a force. Electrostatic forces in chemical bonds on the other hand...
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12 years ago
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on: Why You Should Never Use MongoDB
I agree with you to a point. Joins are your friend. But trying to pull out all of the information about a graph of 'objects' using a single query with multiple one-to-many and many-to-many joins is just as foolish in SQL as in Mongo.
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12 years ago
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on: This basic income crowdfunding campaign reached its goal in less than 48 hours
sorry, price inflation. Supply and demand.
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12 years ago
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on: This basic income crowdfunding campaign reached its goal in less than 48 hours
The problem I envision with a basic income model is that it could have an inflationary effect - shifting the baseline. The only way this doesn't happen is if our basic income economies exploit non basic income economies - and even this wouldn't prevent housing, energy, and (non artificially) scarce items from inflation.
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12 years ago
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on: Amazon Kindle Matchbook is live
What about the other way round? The argument for ebooks costing the same as a paperback is that we are paying primarily for the content not the physical form, so shouldn't this work in both directions?
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12 years ago
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on: Russia: Hidden chips 'launch spam attacks from irons'
I'm thinking hotel rooms could be a target. Irons that are used frequently and in close proximity to people connected to (or sharing) wireless connections.
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12 years ago
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on: OS X Mavericks adoption pushing past 7% in under 24 hours
A lot of people have macbooks and external secondary displays. Just as you said, these people should be able to go fullscreen on their laptop and still utilize the connected display...
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12 years ago
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on: No rare earth metals in the Model S
Does anyone know the relative merits of induction vs brushless with regards to regenerative braking?
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12 years ago
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on: Please, don't buy my book on Amazon
Because a monopoly leads to zero competitive pressure - no matter how much we believe in Bezos' ethos.
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12 years ago
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on: The Coming Dropbox Apocalypse
It's definitely not a source control replacement, but I think dropbox themselves have been pushing their service as a cloud backup solution for quite some time. I don't think it's unreasonable to expect that you are able to use up the space allotted (or payed for) however you may choose.
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12 years ago
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on: Your name is way too long for your ID
Randall Randall?
