Oh ... so you were expecting somebody else to service you for free?
Maybe someone would've done that study for the PhD.
Hey, you sound touchy. I guess you're letting your biases show. I think the notion is correct, but I understand the "evidence based life." To be sincere about rigorousness, you need to check the the ideas you like as much as the ideas you don't like. But anyhow thanks for letting your biases show for free.
Parachutes actually increase the number of crashes, since instead of attempting a landing, the plane hits the ground.
Parachutes increase the cost of ownership, as they have to be replaced every 10 years or so.
A lot of the people buying Cirrus airplanes are taking off into marginal weather and just assume the parachute will save them when their luck runs out.
Killer Business use of Wine: when you have a linux farm, and you really need that one Windows accounting/enterprise/billing app, and you don't want to manage/license a Windows Server.
I would not be surprised if fish have feelings or even emotions.
The link is worth reading. Despite being short, it summarizes several reasons why non-humans are likely more similar than not to humans that have been developed in the past 2 decades, with no published counter-examples.
Yeah, San Carlos air traffic controllers get pissy when you announce northbound over the 101 and you're really flying due west, with the sun in your face even.
1) When Free Basics launched India, the problems with it turned out to be even worse than I expected. I wrote about how the local marketing (‘Free Facebook’) and Zuck’s post (‘farmers getting weather information’) had completely different messaging.
2) I pointed to another article that dove into these issues about who actually uses Free Basics.
3) The reporter who wrote the article this HN thread is about (“How India Pierced…”) couldn’t find a single person who was introduced to the internet through Free Basics.
No, so you should drop whatever you're doing and get right on that.
Oh ... so you were expecting somebody else to service you for free?