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adviceonly | 14 years ago | on: Why airplane bathrooms have ashtrays

Site is down. A conspiracy by the TSA to bring down those that would thwart security, no doubt. ;)

adviceonly | 14 years ago | on: Feynman’s science lesson for entrepreneurs: Challenge authority.

I agree with the OP about special interests misleading people into thinking that a claim is valid because there are studies backing it up.

However, I think the OP is wrong about Feynman. Feynman was not one to blindly believe in other people's studies. In fact, as he learned from his dad as a youth who used to make wrong interpretations of birds, etc., people are fallible, and so are their assumptions. What he was saying is that you can't argue with validly collected data and valid mathmatical proof. You can obviously argue with their interpretation.

adviceonly | 14 years ago | on: I put my family business on Facebook. Here’s what happened.

I like this post, and I think it probably mirrors quite a number of businesses. That said, I know a business that is making substantial money off of Facebook advertisements... because they are selling them.

adviceonly | 14 years ago | on: Nikola Tesla Wasn't God And Thomas Edison Wasn't The Devil

Edison may not have electrocuted the animals in the video, but he fried an elephant with AC: http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2008/01/dayint...

adviceonly | 14 years ago | on: Didn't see this coming: The Goldman Sachs Github Account

Why simulate Lambda? Couldn't they just have waited on Java 8? Or maybe just used JRuby, if Java was a requirement? Still- it's great that they shared this.

adviceonly | 14 years ago | on: Show HN: www.Facebookipodayclosingprice.com, a hack to see what people predict

It shouldn't allow the same guy to make the same prediction over and over. Neat idea tho. I predict end of day in the 60s/share.

adviceonly | 14 years ago | on: Smart people don't think others are stupid

A total opinion piece with nothing backing it up. You can just type some things in bold letters and make it true. Show us the data.

adviceonly | 14 years ago | on: 50 Years Of Government Spending, In 1 Graph

Unfortunately this graph primarily just shows that government handouts to citizens in the form of safety net programs, medicare, and medicaid have gone up in percentage, that defense has gone down in percentage, and that we don't spend enough (in my opinion) on public transportation- but it only looks at three years!

Instead, look at the Peter G. Peterson Foundation's graphs, like this one of our debt and projected debt: http://www.pgpf.org/Chart-Archive/0024_federal-debt-full.asp...

The Peterson foundation used to be an NPR donor. I don't know whether they still are.

adviceonly | 14 years ago | on: Ask HN: Money management

Low load S&P 500 index fund like Vanguard's. Put it all in there if you can stand the risk, with about 3 months salary in the bank for emergencies. Don't buy a fancy house, car, vacation home, boat, timeshare, or whatever. Be frugal. Then retire early.