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gggggggg··on For 40 Years, Crashing Trains Was One of America’s Favorite Pastimes
I walked inside these buses [0, 1] a few days after the accident, as part of a 'dont speed or drive tired' lesson from a relative police officer who attended the scene of the crash (he was never the same after). All I can say after seeing this is that you would want to do your crash test with remote controls from a distance.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kempsey_bus_crash

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=kempsey+bus+accident

gggggggg··on Bracing for the Vanilla Boom
Its common to see this hot money concept in a lot of farming. I cant tell you how many farmers I know who have no money in drought seasons, but they bought a Mercedes in the good years.
gggggggg··on Nvidia Vid2vid: High-resolution photorealistic video-to-video translation
Am i reading that right? Its making the videos that look real, from the simplistic input?

If so, that is amazing.

And if so, how do I turn a video I have into a simple/line version, to be able to then put a different 'skin' on it?

gggggggg··on The Perfect Number: Federal corporate income tax rate
I gave up on that page very early. Its horrible.

That being said, I have a tax theory. Forgetting about the political power required to do such a thing. Would it be possible to do away with all the taxes and replace them with a very low sales tax that gets applied to everything. e.g. Farmer buys a cow, pay 1% sales tax Milk wholesaler buys the milk to process, pay 1% sales tax Shop buys the milk to sell, pay 1% sales tax Shop buys labour to work in the shop (staff), pay 1% sales tax I buy milk to consume, pay 1% sales tax

More examples. Trade BitCoin, pay 1% sales tax Sell a house, pay 1% sales tax Trade shares, pay 1% sales tax

I accept some of this will be hard to police without the incentive for smaller businesses to claim the tax back.

I believe the key to making this work, is having no possible way to get exemptions. Doesn't matter if you don't make a profit, you still pay, doesn't matter if you are a organisation looking to on-sell or a consumer, every transaction pays and no way to offset this.

Finding the magic % would be difficult, but is the key part. Would this be possible? Where could I go on the inter webs to ask if such a scenario would even be possible

gggggggg··on Show HN: BigQuery dataset: 22M FCC comments on net neutrality
I dont have a google account, can anyone re-post any of this?
gggggggg··on Find messages faster with the Microsoft Garage’s latest release, Email Insights
"not currently available"

I am in Australia. But sounds like a good idea.

gggggggg··on How to Unlock Netflix Hidden Categories
Got a 500 error. Google Cache View

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:DZ2CzZp...

gggggggg··on Startup hacked by competitor, gets revenge
Long but well worth the read
gggggggg··on What Percent of the Top-Voted Comments in Reddit Threads Were Also First Comment?
I think someone HN suffers this also, not already first, by early.

Some of the best HN comments can come late and never make it to the top.

gggggggg··on Thank HN: From Google form to $1k in revenue in one month
I have to ask why?

I have a team of male devs, and for my last hire really wanted a female for a different perspective and help balance the team, however only received 1 not ideal female application.

At the end of the day, oldgeeks mean you are discriminating (filtering out the young), why should it not work on gender also? Its all just different levels of discrimination.

gggggggg··on Thank HN: From Google form to $1k in revenue in one month
Just a idea which I am sure would be easy given what you currently have, femalegeekjobs.com
gggggggg··on How Spy Tech Firms Let Governments See Everything on a Smartphone
I you were high profile it would be a good reason for a dumb phone or a lesser known smartphone.
gggggggg··on Ant colony discovered in an abandoned Polish nuclear weapons bunker
I see a Pixar movie in this somewhere as they free themselves. Though all the death is not ideal.
gggggggg··on Megaprocessor – A micro-processor built large
Question: is there a market for servers twice the size they are. But a fraction of the cost.

I for example have really consolidated servers in recent years. VMs are fantastic. But the result is that I have lots of Data Center space spare.

I would love to buy servers of similar power consumption but larger foot print, for less dollars than small ones. Assuming that a lot of limitations and cost go into shrinking current systems.

Or are there other issues like distance between components that then come into play?

gggggggg··on Ghost Browser
Google cache view http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...

edit: Not sure why this got a down vote. Site is offline. Cache view will help.

gggggggg··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2016)
Hunter Medical Research Institute| Newcastle, NSW, Australia| 12 month Contract | Front End Developer & Full-Stack Developer | ONSITE

HMRI Data & Evaluation Services are looking for people to fill two new roles.

You'll be working with an established team on an exciting new ground-breaking project. But honestly, look beyond the forgettable wording and realise that you'll be working with cutting-edge technology on a modern system to deliver real value to Medical Researchers.

For the right applicant we will consider a Australian timezone remote worker.

Role detail and applications at: http://www.seek.com.au/Job/31531853 - Full-Stack Developer - React.js/Node.js http://www.seek.com.au/Job/31531921 - Front End Developer / Graphic Designer

gggggggg··on When a crow dies, the other crows investigate the cause of death (2015)
I normally wouldn't add this useless comment, but this made my wife just about wet herself laughing.
gggggggg··on First big containerships en route to the Panama Canal
even docked in a harbor, it would be a great novelty corporate event location. And cheaper than many other options.

Though I assume docking fees would be above the $5500 a day.

gggggggg··on First big containerships en route to the Panama Canal
Am I reading this right. I could HIRE a container ship for $5500 a day? A whole ship! Does not seem right to me, crew costs would have to be more than that.

> Indeed, according to Alphaliner, there are about 40 panamax container vessels currently seeking employment on the spot market against an unfavourable backdrop of oversupply. It said that charter rates remained “stuck at rock-bottom levels” – typically at about just $5,000-$5,500 a day

gggggggg··on LinkedIn password leak
anyone know how I can get a copy of the list. I want to see if the email/password combination I used back then is still in my regular circulation on other sites.
gggggggg··on Luxembourg's leaders have proposed a far-reaching animal rights bill
honest question here. What is a animal vs a rodent vs a insect vs a pest?

I am all for this, but what are the edge cases? I couldn't find it anywhere in that article.

gggggggg··on Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't exist anymore?
The touchpad and webos. Both dead on arrival, bit still a mile better that ios, android and win phone in terms of base ui, ux and os.
gggggggg··on Velocipedia
No frame between rear wheel and front chainring. No strength.
gggggggg··on Velocipedia
I was looking on my phone and didn't actually see the one by the doctor. Was it there?
gggggggg··on Why ‘Mom’ and ‘Dad’ Sound So Similar in So Many Languages
I am in Australia, and we say 'Mum' not 'Mom'. Does anyone know why?

I have always found Mom weird.

gggggggg··on A Floating Island Is Cleaning Up Brooklyn's Polluted Gowanus Canal
This seems very inefficient to me, or even if it is efficient somehow, at that scale it could not be making any real difference.

Must be better ways to spend $20,000

gggggggg··on How DuckDuckGo Rode a Wave of Post-Snowden Anxiety to Massive Growth
I have not uses DDG in a while. Do they still get results from Goolge?
gggggggg··on Cancer Doctor Leading the Attack on Astronomical Drug Prices
I might be wrong as I don't know how to in detail read financial statements, but at the end of the day if they were making too much money (and by to much I mean unproportional) it would be obvious there would it not?

I work in the medical industry and can say I don't know any poor doctors. Even socialists. And maybe they are rich compared to their individual r&d in study, I am not saying I support $200k a year for drugs, but shouldn't this be part of a bigger question.

gggggggg··on Google’s Internal Response to Imminent E.U. Charges
Is it just me or does that memo read like it was meant to be leaked. To the point that it was not at all intended for internal.
gggggggg··on Wanting the Unwanted: Why Eat Weeds
Something to keep in mind here is that once a viable market is found then the product will be fully commercialised and mass-produced. No longer will poor conditions be good enough when compared to the yield you get from ideal conditions.

Then we will start fertilising them, then tweaking the seeds etc etc etc. And before long it will be just like anything else grown on the land.

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