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by btam 3mo ago
This is so impressive - kudos to you. Thanks for sharing and being open to questions. How much overall has this costed you? Do you think that a middle-class person could afford to do what you did? > So, I laddered up the academic food ch
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by btam 6y ago
What exactly do you mean by "a large percentage"? Cancer.org[1] says that it's 1 in 8 men during their lifetimes, the parent post says "almost all men get it at some point" -- where is this info coming from? [1]: h
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by btam 6y ago
Will this be for fall 2020 or fall 2021?
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by btam 6y ago
> After reading many reviews I kept on coming back to the same brand which I had sworn to never buy another item of due to their disrespect of users’ systems integrity, aka the ‘rootkit debacle’ Does Sony really have the best noise cance
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by btam 10y ago
> I have a pile of examples, but not the time to elaborate - I'll add them later. Please don't forget to share, this sounds very interesting to me as a novice.
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by btam 14y ago
I have some advice that I think could be great for improving Impact Trail, but your email address isn't in your profile. Would you mind sharing your email address? If you'd prefer to just email me, my email address is in my profile.
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by btam 15y ago
Can you give examples or links that explain what sort of "tweaking" you're referring to?
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by btam 15y ago
It seems like giving all of the people in the test area Chromebooks would be a really great move by Google, because people would associate Chromebooks with "lightning-fast" once they advertised the two products together. Thoughts?
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by btam 15y ago
Would you please elaborate on this? Why are curled-in shoulders especially bad?
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by btam 15y ago
I think that whether you decide to show the comment scores immediately or not, you should should show them after some delay. Judging from the replies to your comment, pg, at least some people read old threads. I know I do. I find helpful
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by btam 15y ago
I think hartror's meaning was the same as "Do you prefer the language Ruby to Python, or vice versa?" The idea is that if you like Ruby(for example) better, Rails is the way to go. Even if that wasn't what hartror meant, you probably should
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by btam 15y ago
There's also the possibility that this comes more from the change in atmosphere than the particular atmosphere that you change to. Maybe for some people here the change to an atmosphere of ambient sociability is just more of a contrast th
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by btam 15y ago
You're pretty much right on the math competitions front, but the first few problems on the AMC are pretty simple IMO(pardon the pun). They are barely above the level of mechanical problem solving. It does get harder, though, and I agree tha
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by btam 15y ago
The thing is, students already think of math as difficult. If we switched from algorithms to actual creative problem solving, it would become a lot more intimidating. I'm pretty confident of this. I'm in high school, and the other students
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by btam 15y ago
The TechCrunch article hinted at this feature being rolled out to everyone performing a search on Google, so this sort of thing may very well affect us all. I imagine Google will manage some sort of defense, though. This feature could kill
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by btam 15y ago
I think what he meant is that the kids who sat through the horrible Java and ASP.NET classes show that they can live through drudgery in the coding world. It makes sense in theory, and I'm sure there are examples of it. Hiring a student who
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by btam 15y ago
Is it so difficult to believe that that was a joke? I can see myself making that sort of joke in person, but after seeing what's happened to Zuckerburg, I would treat the internet as a press conference. Zuckerburg has been described as soci
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by btam 15y ago
Note that these information agencies that you refer to are in competition. That makes manipulating Zuckerburg a lot more difficult, doesn't it? Also, his '26 year old mind' is not alone. He's not the only guy that wants to support his ideal
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by btam 15y ago
What you're missing is that PG says "can." When you're in a ten-minute interview that could change your life forever, you're going to be concise when possible. That being said, I don't believe that one's 'natural' verbosity has any correlat
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by btam 15y ago
The word "hypocrites" would only apply if Mark Bao had done something that the legal system would do, like send the guy to jail.
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by btam 16y ago
I imagine that the 2-10% figure also helps YC keep its elite status. Not as many founders would find YC worth applying to if they had to give at the minimum a fifth of the company's equity.
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by btam 16y ago
The difference here from malaria would be that our bodies evolved, adapting to the nutrients that we were getting. We're more efficient on them -- more capable of living 'natural' lives. [Of course, whether a 'natural' life is desirable is