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Snopes' take: http://www.snopes.com/seth-conrad-rich/

Also, his first TV role was in 1978. And even his age during Die Hard was wrong. Born in 1946, Die Hard came out in 1988 so ~42

Also, you can't have these solar panels without the power companies. The solar panels only produce electricity while the sun is up so the people with solar panels are essentially using the utilities as free batteries - produce power during the height of the day when less power is needed and use more power ~5pm when the grid is at its max.

That's simply not true. For the majority of the United States, solar panels don't make economic sense. Your average kWh price after solar installation needs to be less than what the utility charges for it to be feasible. This only happens in places with really high rates (e.g. Hawaii), extremely sunny places (e.g. Arizona), or places with high tax incentives (e.g. Louisiana).

Also, solar production doesn't peak with consumption.

Exactly. Also, the argument that solar provides the grid with power when it needs it most is incorrect. Solar production peaks at around noon while electric consumption peaks around five when people arrive home from work. Solar houses basically use the utility as a no-cost battery.

You should check out Ramsey's Ultimate Cookery course (or 100 recipes to stake your life on). Last time I checked most of the episodes were on Youtube. Consists of simple recipes while showing basic techniques (e.g. in one of the first recipes, he shows how to properly cut a bell pepper).

Read: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Pertinent parts: "Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site. If you think something is spam or offtopic, flag it by going to its page and clicking on the "flag" link. (Not all users will see this; there is a karma threshold.) If you flag something, please don't also comment that you did." Also, this is an article about the New York Times creating an app and website about cooking. Maybe it gratifies your curiosity, maybe not, but that's what is has to do with.

Exactly. It took several individuals two months to get into his files. I don't understand why number one on their list of attack vectors is physically breaking into his house. You're pen testing an individual and number one is B&E?

From the Hacker News Guidelines: http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Under "What to Submit": "On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity."

Since it's being upvoted, then I guess it's gratifying enough people's intellectual curiosity.

Just in case: https://www.google.com/doodles/30th-anniversary-of-pac-man

It's interesting that I kind find news for this on google itself, but Hacker News already has two posts.

"at the end of the employee lockout period"

That's why I said it's on paper.

These employees have the opportunity to possibly make 10 to 20 years of their current salary in a day. Most people don't need more of an incentive than that.

Dilution doesn't really apply to these employees. They don't care about their amount of ownership in the company. All that matters is how much stock they get and what they expect the stock to be worth at IPO. If they've received 10,000 shares and the IPO is at $100, then they're millionaires by the end of that day (on paper, at least).

Not sure what you mean by prose. His writing was prose, so was yours.

It might have been marked dead because both developers posted a submission for the site. The other post is at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1800422 and contains some constructive comments.