Agathos

There's one. Depending on who you ask, it's called surge pricing or price gouging.

> How did that work out for oil a couple years ago?

Do you think there's a new technology on the way that will increase the supply of gold the way fracking increased the supply of natural gas and oil?

Fun to think about asteroid mining...

Not a good idea. Elephants never forget.

If video games have taught me anything, they've taught me that I can find love by quitting my desk job and moving to the country to run a tiny farm.

That gave me the best bad idea ever: a four-legged robot. The front legs are controlled by Javascript; the rear by PL/pgSQL.

Raise your hand if you were excited when you heard Java 1.5 would introduce autoboxing.

After reading these comments, I'm starting to wonder if I'm the only one who owns an old-fashioned flyswatter. With a long, stiff handle and a flick of the wrist, it moves a lot faster than a fly. I've even stunned them by hitting them in mid-air.

Guar gum is also natural. It's extracted from guar beans. And it's widely used (and overused) in lots of US ice cream brands.

Explaining why they moved to San Francisco in the first place?

It runs hot and sucks a lot of power. Are miners going to be interested in that?

My father is red-green colorblind and he flies small planes.

Yeah, but none of those Democrats are running the Justice Department right now.

In Republican eyes, they are heroes for their Supreme Court victory over Obamacare. With that comes immunity from pretty much anything short of a dead girl or a live boy, as the saying goes.

I hate iTunes and I'm glad to be rid of it, but I really miss the iPod hardware. Driving that clickwheel by feel was so much more convenient than looking down at a touchscreen.

Computer programmer is fine. Software engineer... I think the argument about what qualifies you as a real engineer comes up every other day on HN.

That's the dream. But there isn't much evidence that new firms are being founded at a higher rate than the historic average, and there is some evidence that incumbent firms now enjoy increased structural advantages.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/on-small-business/wp/201...

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-slow-death-of-ameri...

https://hbr.org/2017/06/is-america-encouraging-the-wrong-kin...

Who are the top three?

Yeah, maybe he died thinking he got his money's worth out of those 3 million dollars. Maybe.

At least two ways: scuba diving and skiing.

If you're a search engine and I send you a billion takedown notices, of which one is legitimate, and you don't comply with that one, then you will be liable for infringement. Is it worth the risk?

For example, https://imagetragick.com/

"One of the vulnerabilities can lead to remote code execution (RCE) if you process user submitted images."

I bought a new X1 Carbon six weeks ago. It came with the smaller brick in your picture.

RSI = Roberts Space Industries

> Putin hasn't been trying to increase his sphere of influence

What a peculiar thing to say.

> Those who desire power make the worst leaders

But bringing it up here diminishes the absurdity of this case. This line stood out to me: "Her corruption was not self-interested at all. If anything, her corruption was self-sacrificing in favor of Choi Soon-sil."

Park Geun-hye has not used her powers for her own sake. She allowed herself to be humiliated in ways large and small, and eventually destroyed her own administration, for someone else's petty convenience. It is completely out of line with even a cynic's portrait of a selfish and power-hungry politician.

It's a surface ship, so it doesn't have a prayer against a submarine. Russia, China, and any hypothetical technologically sophisticated foe all have submarines.

They're throwbacks to classic Westerns where big ranchers try to force out small homesteaders.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shane_(film)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnson_County_War

It's also rough if you're a time traveler from the early eighties, hanging out with other time travelers.

"Near as I can tell, all of popular culture and most of the English language gets taken over sometime in the early nineties by something called The Simpsons. I know this because nobody from that time or later seems to be able to put a sentence together without quoting them, then everybody giggles like idiots, and if I ask them to explain, all anybody ever does is laugh and ask me a condescending question about Bananarama!" -- Scott Meyer, Off to Be the Wizard

Lawsuits are the continuation of flame wars by other means. -- Carl von Clausewitz (not really)

When I saw "at least since March 2016," I wondered if it was a typo.