boat aside, I'd love to see more about the instrumentation on the bridge with those imacs…
Steve Job's Yacht - Venus
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Re: Steve Job's Yacht - Venus
#42Am I the only one who sees this?:
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#43I don't really care; people can do whatever they want with their money, _obviously_. But I am kind of surprised Jobs owned/commissioned a yacht. I always figured owning a yacht was an abject status symbol, and that somehow Jobs tried to be 'above' these things. meh
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#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
You don't think the Jobs family gets a company discount on iPods? C'mon.
So the value of a gift, unlike the value of a product, depends on what the giver paid for it? I would expect the value of the gift to be what it would cost me to acquire it, surely?
Not necessarily. Depends on whether you would have bought it for yourself.
Re: Steve Job's Yacht - Venus
#45The upper section, is that an iPad mini stacked on an iPad?
I'd have to be a first-gen iPad with the rounded back. Top kinda looks like a Mac Mini from the front, but that diminishes in the other views.
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#46#12 7 points by gorans 2 hours ago #13 141 points by Pwnguinz 15 hours ago how does it work?
Originally the formula was: (points-1)/(hours+2)^1.4 , but pg changes it whenever he wants, so the "gravity coefficient" is now different from 1.4.
You can read detailed analysis of the (published) formula in 2009 in http://www.arcfn.com/2009/06/how-does-newsyc-ranking-work.ht...
And there are a lot of secret coefficient corrections, for example the number of flagging that the submission received and the number of comments (if it has too many comments, it is too polemic and it is pushed down.)
If we use the 2009 formula we get
Points(P) Time(H) (P-1)^.8/(H+2)^1.8
7 2 0.3457
141 15 0.3177
Re: Steve Job's Yacht - Venus
#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you were fixing the roof of a $100,000,000 mansion and the owner comes out at lunch time and hands you a warm can of Wal-Mart Cola, what would you think? See dagw's comment above.
I've done yard work and demolition for a few very rich people and I was always appreciative when they came down with drinks--most didn't do anything other than hide out upstairs and wait for us to leave. If someone had come down with WalMart Cola, I probably would have thought, "I can't believe this guy owns a chain of restaurants and still goes to Wal-Mart to buy soda."
Unless it was one of the Walton family... =)
Re: Steve Job's Yacht - Venus
#48#12 7 points by gorans 2 hours ago #13 141 points by Pwnguinz 15 hours ago how does it work?
Originally the formula was: (points-1)/(hours+2)^1.4 , but pg changes it whenever he wants, so the "gravity coefficient" is now different from 1.4. You can read detailed analysis of the (published) formula in 2009 in http://www.arcfn.com/2009/06/how-does-newsyc-ranking-work.ht... And there are a lot of secret coefficient corrections, for example the number of flagging that the submission received and the number of co…
tx!
"if it has too many comments, it is too polemic and it is pushed down." well, this is surprising.
Re: Steve Job's Yacht - Venus
#49To me it looks like an Imperial Star Destroyer.