JCThoughtscream

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by JCThoughtscream 16y ago
It should seriously not take much more time than it takes to warm up a nasty styrofoam cup of noodles to cook something cheap, easy and - above all - tasty. The first step is to get a rice steamer. The second step is to realize that you can
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by JCThoughtscream 16y ago
Er, yes? Guess what the first results are when you type in "American Nazi Party?" That's right - the homepage of just such an organization. I rather doubt they have any real influence or electability, though. As bad as the dichotomy in US p
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by JCThoughtscream 16y ago
Finding very little to disagree with here (except that odd stance on MDMA, but I don't so much disagree as find myself cold and uninterested on the issue). Patton Oswalt needs to spend more time doing actual research on the state of geek cu
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by JCThoughtscream 16y ago
From the article, it seems as if its breaking was done A. by hand, and B. more as a hobby than anything else. It was explicitly noted that if they had bothered feeding it through a computer, it would've taken "a fraction" of the time.
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by JCThoughtscream 16y ago
TRICK QUESTION. 1 and 2 are not mutually exclusive. Exactly why is the seminar not at the local pub?
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by JCThoughtscream 16y ago
Before we colonize anything outside of our own self-sustained gravity well, we kind of need to have a working model of a self-sustained /ecological system/. Which we noticeably lack. Let's not forget that, under the criteria of self-sustain
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by JCThoughtscream 16y ago
If people want to make donations in support of a fun (or at least funky) idea, I /don't/ think they should be barred from doing so. Discouraging goodwill isn't exactly a great stance to assert. As it is, though, the bulk of the money's comi
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by JCThoughtscream 16y ago
That's about when you release a new model and reduce the price on the old design.
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by JCThoughtscream 16y ago
.../what version/ of Settlers? Original Flavor gets dull after a short while, I find.
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by JCThoughtscream 16y ago
It's not a "viable" model for the /developers/ involved in the Humble Indie Bundle. Not in the sense of pricing for /new/ releases, at least. However, each of these games have been out for sufficiently long that having people name their pri
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by JCThoughtscream 16y ago
If this doesn't turn out to be overblown sensationalism, then the team behind this (actual!) cure probably deserves a Nobel for their efforts and results.
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Ackman offers to finance Borders bid for Barnes & Noble(finance.yahoo.com)
3 points by JCThoughtscream 16y ago|3 comments
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by JCThoughtscream 16y ago
Between the article and your wiki, I now have access to pretty much every iota of social gaming theory I've been looking for. Much gratitude.
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by JCThoughtscream 16y ago
Irrelevant to the topic, perhaps, but... tophatmonocle.com? I am envious of your address, sir.
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by JCThoughtscream 16y ago
Specifically, its businesses and citizens'll be doing just fine. The government will probably be fucked up. But when was the last time it /wasn't/? I suspect even the older of HN's community'd really have to dig at their memories to remembe
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Acer Iconia - Dual-Screened Laptop(engadget.com)
5 points by JCThoughtscream 16y ago|0 comments
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by JCThoughtscream 16y ago
That is... a fairly optimistic opinion. And presupposes that North Korea choses the least self-destructive action. Feeling lucky?
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by JCThoughtscream 16y ago
I'm only guessing here, not being an engineer or a mathematician, but... wouldn't that be rather dependent on what kind of engineering you're getting into?
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by JCThoughtscream 16y ago
By that, he means "sucker them into an endless compulsion loop and offer to heighten the reward for cash."
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by JCThoughtscream 16y ago
...why would it NOT be okay? Startups might need cash, but so do big corps. If we're talking about "donating equivalent to big corporations," then obviously we're talking flights of fancy. But we're not. I'm sure there's tax incentives for
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by JCThoughtscream 16y ago
That's still model-dependent, I think. If the cost is sufficient barrier to entry that user skepticism remains high, then you'd probably have less initial converts simply by having a smaller pool of potential clients giving you a chance.
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by JCThoughtscream 16y ago
How does it not? Of its X population of users, Y% have a need to advertise something on Facebook.
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Ask HN: Major Forms of Social Gaming?
4 points by JCThoughtscream 16y ago|2 comments
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by JCThoughtscream 16y ago
I'm currently a salesguy doing door-to-door work for a telecom fiber optic campaign. I wouldn't quite call it a "sunny" attitude, but you definitely get used to it very, very fast. It's vanishingly rare that rejections are actually personal
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Study Squashes Myth of Gamer as Antisocial 'Comic Book Guy'(arstechnica.com)
1 points by JCThoughtscream 16y ago|0 comments
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by JCThoughtscream 16y ago
Article says near the end that their communicative abilities are limited to badly enunciated short sentences. AND they're four years old. Four years old tend to ignore difficult questions in favor of something more fun.
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by JCThoughtscream 16y ago
It's rather arguable that Waterhouse's inability to recognize that the question scenario was a deliberate simplification justifies his naval assignment. Because while he's clearly a brilliant mathematician in the story, he's really too damn
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by JCThoughtscream 16y ago
Glibly, because TechCrunch itself is a wank outlet for Silicon Valley business drama.
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by JCThoughtscream 16y ago
The valuation for his advice may be at $500, but it's pretty arbitrarily assigned, I suspect, and more to illustrate the perceived worth than to actually drive the auction for it to $500 or more.
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by JCThoughtscream 16y ago
Something smells - and it smells oddly like that supposed BP oil spill microbe.

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