colins_pride

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by colins_pride 17y ago
This is one of those ideas that seems so obviously good after the fact that it just makes one marvel
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Hotel [Edward] Munch(thesmartset.com)
1 points by colins_pride 17y ago|0 comments
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Organic Food Isn't More Nutritious(seedmagazine.com)
12 points by colins_pride 17y ago|28 comments
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by colins_pride 17y ago
The Hustler - 1961 & The Color of Money - 1986 Both with Paul Newman. Optically about pool hustling. Really about the processes through which the naive progress as they encounter the underbelly of reality.
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A link between wealth and breeding(economist.com)
2 points by colins_pride 17y ago|1 comments
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by colins_pride 17y ago
Yeah, it doesn't make any sense to be able to edit a comment that has a reply
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by colins_pride 17y ago
Where's Ambani at?
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by colins_pride 17y ago
Does showing a large subest of the pages that point to it, default ordered by something that's roughly equivalent to pagerank, with the ability to then search within those results capture the essence of what you're getting at?
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by colins_pride 17y ago
You just have to remember which books you put the money in. Every now and then I open a book that I haven't read in years and there are five 20s pressed between the pages.
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by colins_pride 17y ago
Doesn't changing only one metric at a time tend to lead to getting stuck in a local maximum?
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KnownSenderFind Program for Finding Spam False Positives(josh.com)
1 points by colins_pride 17y ago|0 comments
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by colins_pride 17y ago
I would read even more recent stuff. I agree on Che. How about reading about Kevin Kelly and Louis Rossetto? Bob Hunter created Greenpeace out of nothing. Petraeus revolutionized the most powerful military in the history of the world. I
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Congress Just Buying People Cars Now(economist.com)
17 points by colins_pride 17y ago|28 comments
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When Novelists Sober Up(moreintelligentlife.com)
2 points by colins_pride 17y ago|0 comments
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by colins_pride 17y ago
It took a lot of self-restraint to keep me from downvoting-this-because-I-disagreed-with-it
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by colins_pride 17y ago
Right, it is not tech focused, because his point is not so much Portland as the actual cultural distinction between good places for entrepreneurial people and good places for starting up.
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by colins_pride 17y ago
I agree that filtering out the worst junk doesn't necesarily raise the overall quality to an acceptable level. It seems like there are two issues, which are related: [1] comments are too small-d democratic and [2] there doesn't currently e
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The News About the Internet(nybooks.com)
2 points by colins_pride 17y ago|0 comments
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by colins_pride 17y ago
Yeah, the timestamp right there next to BPC is 07-25
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by colins_pride 17y ago
It's tough to feel sorry for the guy
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Some Ideas about Growth and Quality in Technology [1985](uh.edu)
1 points by colins_pride 17y ago|0 comments
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Can you Digg It? Maybe Not, If You’re Stuck On IE6(techcrunch.com)
1 points by colins_pride 17y ago|0 comments
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by colins_pride 17y ago
But what if there are web-centric OSes and desktop-centric OSes? In a world where the OS market is fragmented, centralized control and opression becomes even more difficult than it was in a desktop-centric world where one OS had huge market
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by colins_pride 17y ago
He felt he had to resort to it. You can be generally opposed to something, but accept it as the least bad option in a specific situation.
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by colins_pride 17y ago
When 10% of HN really likes a submission, it goes to the frontpage. Then if 10% of HN really dislikes it, the submission gets killed. That some stories then get un-deaded is testimony to the faultiness of the system.
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by colins_pride 17y ago
One word: software
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by colins_pride 17y ago
No, he hacked a very poorly designed system. In this case the moral responsibility resides with those culpable for the shameful system, not for people who need organs.
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by colins_pride 17y ago
Expected utility is probably a more appropriate gauge for these decisions, rather than expected value
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by colins_pride 17y ago
This is somewhat tangential, but I'm pretty sure that Google re-writes the search code ever few years.
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by colins_pride 17y ago
Does opening the box kill the cat?

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