anothermachine

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by anothermachine 14y ago
> I heard he's leaving due to the health benefits changes! What happened?
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by anothermachine 14y ago
Honestly everything on the market is so much better and cheaper than what we had even 2 years ago, that I don't have the energy to be disappointed. Remember when a portable computer was $600 - $100+ and weighed 5+ lbs, or was a 320x720 netb
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by anothermachine 14y ago
eHarmony uses math! OKCupid uses reader-generated surveys.
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by anothermachine 14y ago
It goes either way, depending on circumstances. For example, if someone has a new lover, the adulterer usually moves out. It's actually rare for someone to evict the other, since it's entirely illegal and usually undesired by the evictee. I
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by anothermachine 14y ago
Compared to "X-30 years", for all values of X, when the speaker is over 30, or quoting someone who is.
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by anothermachine 14y ago
> Disclaimer: Not from the US, but married (~2 years~) and kid (~2 weeks~): You have more important things to be doing right now than hang out on HN. Take care of your baby, take care of your wife, and sleep when you have a moment off
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by anothermachine 14y ago
> Companionship and love have nothing to do with a piece of paper filed with the local government. Commitment and accountability to the person how bears your children, or who supports you through medical school or your startup years
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by anothermachine 14y ago
Yeah, Google would never ship software where "Password is stored on disk in plain text" https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=10809#c48
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by anothermachine 14y ago
Interesting to read your comment and dmoy's. On the one hand, compared to Amazon.com, Taobao sounds like a horrible shopping experience. On the other hand, compared to a shuk (or whatever the Chinese equivalent is), it is a vast improveme
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by anothermachine 14y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57ndLGhffwE
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by anothermachine 14y ago
Supporters of the other team are far away and have discounted relevance to your life.
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by anothermachine 14y ago
You are pushing a bit hard there. What is point of having a lasting impact? So that people can can life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness Happy kids does not equal good aid? Really?
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by anothermachine 14y ago
I watched this last night: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oj__w87vkow&feature=plcp "Social Mechanics: Bonding, Gratitude and Karma (Earthlings 101, Episode 7) " Poor people are karma producers. Rich people are karma consumers. Rich p
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by anothermachine 14y ago
If only there were a way to obscure the Kinect's ability to measure the room.
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by anothermachine 14y ago
That's ridiculous. Saying "wouldn't it be cool" isn't prior art. Describing a working system is.
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by anothermachine 14y ago
I had this problem. My parents never talked to me about how much things cost. I had a rude awakening when I learned how much basic rent was, even more so when I learned what my rent was when I was a kid. My kids will know how much their s
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by anothermachine 14y ago
How does that explain social behavior among people working at different companies?
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by anothermachine 14y ago
Fortunately, non-empty intervals of real numbers do not exist in computer science.
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by anothermachine 14y ago
Why is this a website feature instead of a browser extension, where it would work for every site?
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by anothermachine 14y ago
Form content recall is a native Chrome feature now.
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by anothermachine 14y ago
Chemistry sets vanished due to anti-terrahrism BS, not safety concerns. And in the magnet case, larger magnets are plenty fun while still being much safer.
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by anothermachine 14y ago
Pills are specifically formulated to cause vomiting if overdosed. Obviously it's not perfect, but medicines have a significant necessary purpose, unlike tiny magnets.
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by anothermachine 14y ago
Why? Seems like a smart solution to a problem. We have designed many of the risks out of cars too, and I for one appreciate that.
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by anothermachine 14y ago
Explain? With "do" and the coincidental naming of "return", and IORefs if you insist, you can write imperative bottom-up code in Haskell.
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by anothermachine 14y ago
Holy wow. I had read about "Cat -v considered harmful", and I was familiar with cat-v.org, but I didn't realize the inspiration from cat-v.org's name.
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by anothermachine 14y ago
I think you'll find that Tanya Khovanova is in easily the top 0.1% of any general intelligence test you'd choose.
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by anothermachine 14y ago
Top 2% on any one test-taking session of *any one of several tests (SAT, LSAT, Mensa test, etc), which is more than 2% of the population.
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by anothermachine 14y ago
I suspect it was far more valuable in pre-Internet non-population-dense America, where it was one of the few effective ways to connect with other smart people. It is extremely obsolete now. But "they" (whoever "they" is in practice) publish
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by anothermachine 14y ago
I thought the reverse.
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by anothermachine 14y ago
1. Someone named "mistercow" is obviously biased on this question. 2. Another item to factor in, beyond lookup table size, is that questions are written in English, and the medium (spelled words) should not be snuck in as part of the conten

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