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That's precisely why Einstein's theory of relativity was so groundbreaking. It stipulates that the speed of light must be the same relative to every frame. Let's say you're moving …

Can I talk to you offline? How can I message you on this forum? I feel like I'm missing something. The FAQ defines FTL as "getting to a location faster than light" but what if ligh…

I agree with your assessment, but you're still missing my point. Following your analogy, what I'm saying is not that 1+1=3, but that we're not really using the plus operator here. …

I'm going to ignore your condescension. I'm also going to assume you didn't read the rest of my post, because you presented no arguments to counter my points. I'd like to point out…

I feel like a lot of people here misunderstand the speed of light as a cosmic speed limit. The speed of light as a speed limit is a local constraint. On a larger scale there is no …

It's the only manipulative practice allowed by the SEC because of the need to "maintain a fair and orderly market". This article describes it fairly well in its abstract: http://ec…

Just semantics. The writer presumably is considering only even numbers, for which it is generally true that you get more solutions as you increase the number. You are right in that…

I too am more interested in the bytecode hackery that's going on here than the fact that it is a goto implementation. You might be interested in byteplay ( http://code.google.com/p…

Four years of signing up for pistols, never once got in (I signed up fairly early too. Guess I shoulda automated it). This new degree will now make it even harder to get in! Maybe …

There's a saying: plans are useless but planning is essential. I think generally it's good to think about these things because the process is more valuable than the plan itself.

>> Predatory pricing, according to the linked wikipedia article, occurs when the price is set below the cost of production. I have nothing against profits, but exuberant profit whi…

You are being downvoted not only because a large portion of HN believes that adding huge amounts of value to society should pay off handsomely, but also because a lot of your point…

I will concede that there are many reasonable social frameworks designed to maximize societal wealth in the long run. You are simply describing your own version. After all, capital…

Right. The market price of a good is governed only by supply and demand. Sure, the cost it takes to produce the good influences its supply and demand, but in a capitalist society, …

His story is a bit hyperbolic. Not sure which bank he worked at, but any business sector can have bad/incompetent companies where consumer / investor ignorance and asymmetric infor…

I'm going to assume that you're not talking about the secondary market for used goods, because that can most definitely be a business. See: ebay.com. About arbitrage: I agree with …

It's not so surprising if you consider that humans are much better at pattern recognition in general, where the space of possibilities is too large for a brute force search (even w…

Looks pretty cool :D Keep me updated!