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13,223karma·911submissions·April 6, 2011
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I think the bigger issue is that someone thought this post was worthy of HN discussion. It's more concerning to me than lapcat writing for an audience that knows his priors and him then choosing …
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>The other issue, I would say the main issue, is that the controls remain on top of the video for several seconds after you're done manipulating them. So you keep having a darkened video for s…
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Right, but as that article notes, the numbers show it's an average of 4.5 pitches per team in the shadow zone in each game. And those pitches are not clear-cut instances where players will be con…
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Some numbers: A typical MLB game sees about 292 pitches thrown. Of the pitches called a ball or strike—so ignore any pitches fouled off or put in play—93% are called correctly by umpires. That's …
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I've been satisfied using Downcast for a long time now. US $3 (though I have used the tipping feature because it's provided me ample value). In particular, its sorting organization matches m…
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An unspoken inference from when you've made posts like this is that HN has largely only changed in terms of scale, that the overall community culture has been relatively static. What are the indi…
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Duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45328579
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Certainly not as precise nor as thorough as proper documentation, but you may be interested in this 2005 New Yorker piece: "The Egg Men: How breakfast gets served at the Flamingo hotel in Las V…
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>There's another important aspect that I wrote about... and still haven't explained very well. In that post it's called "the temporal decay of interestingness in any sequence of…
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>...I assure you nobody who arrives in any of the nondescript white trucks with numbers on them regards the regulatory process as highly as you do. I said nothing of how I regard the regulatory pro…
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>Inspector visits the "dirty" bigCo factory and they have an expensive binder for him showing him why everything they do he could possibly take issue is "compliant", citing rele…
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Maybe Domino's had another delivery vehicle in the 2000s, but one of the 10 Tritan Domino's delivery vehicles from the '80s sold at auction a few weeks ago for US $45,000. https:/…
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Submitted separately by the author: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45236479 Copying their comment to here: I have redone the classical exercise of writing a tiny OS kernel with…
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Previously: World's Oldest joke traced back to 1900 BC (2008) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27374675 - June 2021 (87 comments)…
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>Why you picking those nothing posts? >This is the previous thread from then: I didn't pick those; they're the ones I saw. I missed the one you added. Thanks.
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Previous and related: Did Siri spy on you? You could receive part of a $95M settlement - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44004682 - May 2025 (2 comments) Siri listened in on p…
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Also available read by the author: https://www.theparisreview.org/podcast/6075/the-smoker-by-ot... …
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Sorta related: Honesty Boxes in Scotland (2024) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44824684 - Aug 2025 (59 comments)…
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A 2008 episode of the PBS NOVA program covers the Columbia disaster. It does not get into the focus of the article posted here, but it does well covering how poorly the situation was handled (along wi…