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noobie commented on Show HN: A Chrome extension to remind you why you opened Facebook chrome.google.com/webstor... · Posted by u/joshblour
noobie commented on Boaty McBoatface and the False Promise of Democracy theatlantic.com/internati... · Posted by u/geromek
This will probably happen anyway. Research ships are manned by researchers (usually of the non-bureaucratic variety) and in my experience are game for a laugh. Regardless of what it gets officially named, this ship will almost certainly be unofficially referred to as Boaty McBoatface by its crew.
(And as another commenter who is familiar with the project internals pointed out - they already do call it McBoatface)
>this ship will almost certainly be unofficially referred to as Boaty McBoatface by its crew.
Except for the captain.
noobie commented on The $2 Trillion Project to Get Saudi Arabia’s Economy Off Oil bloomberg.com/news/featur... · Posted by u/phodo
Planet Money has an excellent episode on this topic from a few weeks ago: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2016/02/03/465476188/episo...
Thank you for mentioning this podcast. It's amazing!
noobie commented on Apple's amusingly round reuse figures blog.jgc.org/2016/04/appl... · Posted by u/jgrahamc
noobie commented on Apple's amusingly round reuse figures blog.jgc.org/2016/04/appl... · Posted by u/jgrahamc
Their marketing decision is really odd. I guess the engineer that came up with kg numbers decided to round it in 1000kg, which is reasonable to me. Whoever got the number don't like kg, and converted to lb. Someone else adding the number up actually counts in 100lb, and thinks it's better just to round up.
And yeah, the last two zero is fishy, I first tried to do a simple round, and wondered where's the extra 600. It's always fun to write it in a different language:
100×+/⌈.01×2.204×12750000 6090000 5420000 2050000 1340000 86000 18000 20000 59000 2000 3000 1000Exactly. Too bad two wrongs don't make a right.
What language is that?
noobie commented on Apple's amusingly round reuse figures blog.jgc.org/2016/04/appl... · Posted by u/jgrahamc
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There's a difference between pointing out the existence of a similar comment on the post and stating that I have stolen the comment. Assumptions can make fools of us all.
How do you suggest that I make it clear? Keybase doesn't allow for G+ verification.
noobie commented on Apple's amusingly round reuse figures blog.jgc.org/2016/04/appl... · Posted by u/jgrahamc
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I am the same person.
Promises were called oaths and there were such things as enduring love, faithfulness, and trust, yet, there were still scandals and mistakes. But it was all overcome in a story that few today would venture to understand in its original context.
It takes little intelligence to comprehend what a text means, but in poetry and stories we find beautiful manifestations of every moral and in these I think we find the vulnerability of this plague we call humanity.