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> 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 je…

> 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 is…

> 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 topic was what people leave their money to (after death). All of the people you mention are alive.

> 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.

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 c…

> 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 sp…

> 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 …

> 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…

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" (w…

> 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 a…

> 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 …

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 dis…

> 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 gr…

> "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:/…

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 …

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 seein…

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 …

> 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 appropr…

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 tex…

> 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,…

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 horr…

> 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 hos…

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 (ove…