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One theory is that nuclear detonations are not only detectable by ET but it causes some sort of ripple effect in their dimension that is beyond our own and it worries them and have…

I've never laughed so hard from an HN comment. It's funny because it's exactly what will happen as it has in the past

but how does that explain the sharp rise in suicide rates amongst WASP males approaching middle age?

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> As someone who watches the very unusual moderation of China-critical comments on HN (+3 one moment, -3 a few hours later) I'm wary of a political piece praising China hitting #1 …

As long as the US is able to maintain both fiduciary and military hegemony, it has nothing to worry. The fact is to aurpass the US, you need to possess better if not technologicall…

I might be generalizing and basing this on anecdotes but often people that work in the drug trade are users/addicts themselves, including the ones who are drawn to positions where …

seems to be a quite desperate time for north korea supposedly undergoing another famine....how long can this tyranny last I wonder....

I am considering laying off the ganja for a while. but I need it to meet deadlines, to do the work the market demands at the best possible time to the best possible consumer, I am …

Ah yes! Pleasantly surprised you'd follow up on here. Does Estonia offer any anonymity through its e-residency program? A lot of us have stereotypes towards EU regulations as being…

This reminds me of the Estonian business startup thing that BBC covered, has anyone actually used this to a success? What would be the point of starting a business in countries lik…

is it possible to somehow buy this off-line in person in mass quantities? seems like it takes ages to ship from alibaba, also I'm afraid of the Chinese government tapping my phone …

Hope the best for you guys, I really do! If realized, this could be too seductive for foreign governments that depend on importation of oil and polluting their air to support expor…

You really hit the nail with those simple percentage, its clear as day to me now. So it seems to me that Groupon really makes sense for businesses with fixed & low variable costs, …

I see so the primarily utility of Groupon is that businesses can pay for a chance of repeat customers and/or extra spenders? I think the theater is a good example of the latter. Th…

Very promising but I'm going to hold out until I actually see this being applied in places like South Korea, literally suffocating from a combination of both local and foreign smog…

So the retailer is forced to provide a deep discount, even if it forces them to sell at a loss? Who gets the final say here, might we assume Groupon? If so, why would retailers con…

> It's a very compelling illusion of actually understanding the topic. I've seen less coherent responses on Stack Overflow and, dare I say it, Hacker News. I think you've highlight…

I'm having trouble understanding how Groupon generates net profit? From what I've read, its sort of like a Group Buying model (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_buying) ? So for …

yeah my original idea was a sort of a Google Freebase P2P Strikes Back Like KaZaA Imagine a structured gigantic tree data where relational, tabular data of any data is available? Y…

oh yeah forgot about that....its a great template, everything all one one html...many thanks. I will swap out the drawing.

I'm working on it as I speak.

It uses a sort of a DSL that I came up with, and removes a lot of boilerplate. Headless yes. You write WSL (Web Scraping Language) to scrape 2 pages of HN: GOTO news.ycombinator.co…

yeah I've actually had a sudden change of heart - implementing a p2p/decentralized theme is quite a bit more work than I anticipated, mainly syncing problems. originally planned on…