firefoxman1

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by firefoxman1 13y ago
"The money that would otherwise go into a second vehicle, fuel, insurance, and maintenance instead goes toward higher quality food." I love this. It shows how so many of our lifestyle choices affect one another. I'm sure the domino effect
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by firefoxman1 13y ago
This is hacker news, chances are 1/6 he knows what a revolver is .
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by firefoxman1 13y ago
hmm that's a thought. I think it would be more sociopathy than psychopathy if anything. Then again, it could be that I'm an introvert who's read too much stoic philosophy meanwhile forcing himself to act extroverted lol.
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by firefoxman1 13y ago
So what is it called if you have every single one of these symptoms, except actually being depressed? I find myself not caring at all about what others have to say, how they feel, etc. and you can imagine the hurdles that imposes on someo
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by firefoxman1 13y ago
I think some areas depend on city size. Moving from New Mexico to (southwest) Virginia I realized that small-town southern cities are extremely backward, especially with racism. However, head North to the northern 1/3 of VA and it's as dive
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by firefoxman1 13y ago
The school's reaction is truly ridiculous. I remember telling my grandfather about the explosives my friends and I would make when I was ~13/14. He responded with "You ever see what happens when you mix sodium and water? There's that, then
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by firefoxman1 13y ago
What, you're not into this kind of thing? http://goo.gl/ZvOlp http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/images/stories/large/2012/08...
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by firefoxman1 13y ago
> the city REFUSES to re-zone for higher density Call me crazy, but that's what I love about SF. It feels so much more (friendly? approachable?) than other cities because of the architecture and height of buildings. It's quite unique
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by firefoxman1 13y ago
Well said. Those are the two opposing sides of labor in capitalism. As Marx pointed out, a company does best by commoditizing labor. To make a worker as replaceable as possible is in the best interest of the company: They can pay less and h
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by firefoxman1 13y ago
From http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html 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: any
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by firefoxman1 13y ago
Me too, then I Googled it: https://github.com/Moodstocks/redisk https://github.com/quirkey/redisk
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by firefoxman1 13y ago
> I'd like to read antirez's opinion about this. It looks like he already made his own (3yrs ago): https://github.com/antirez/Bigdis > in redis you have to design how you are gonna store your data with it's limitation and perfor
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by firefoxman1 13y ago
I completely agree with this. My grandfather is a millionaire...apparantly. I never would have guessed it. He drives a near-broken-down 1980-something honda. He takes frugality to the extreme. I love talking to him and hearing his investing
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by firefoxman1 13y ago
I bike to school and work in 20 degrees because my dad wants me to learn the value of a dollar before I'm in the "real world" (he also started me investing pretty early). I have 0 resentment and complete respect for him because of it.
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by firefoxman1 13y ago
Looking at all these comments has me wondering: Why is it that as soon as a startup is acquired we immediately abandon it as if it's going offline tomorrow ? I first remember noticing this when FriendFeed was acquired. As soon as I read th
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by firefoxman1 13y ago
> Every mother participating in the study spent enough time with their kids to develop the skill tested, while just about half of the fathers did It seems like this data explains that stereotype. Mothers are often "better" at it becau
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by firefoxman1 13y ago
Back then in the U.S. and Europe, black tea was pretty much the only thing they knew as "tea". Of the different types of tea, black is the least healthy and most caffeinated, which is why he would call it a "stimulant".
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by firefoxman1 13y ago
It also doesn't answer my main question: Why does the air smell good right before it rains. I'm sure being able to smell rain coming had evolutionary advantages...but how does it work?
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by firefoxman1 13y ago
I'm not comparing the Nazi party to our own government. I'm simply giving an example of how easily the term "anyone endangering [country name]'s security" can be abused.
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by firefoxman1 13y ago
I've heard of this "public safety exception" before: In 1941 Adolf Hitler ordered a directive intended to suppress members of the resistance. It was called Nacht und Nebel ("Night and Fog"). People suspected of "offenses against the Reich"
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by firefoxman1 13y ago
I'd love to know. I bought an N9 late in the game expecting its "openness" to work with all this year's upcoming mobile OS's, mainly Sailfish. So far all it can run is android.
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by firefoxman1 13y ago
I think there were a lot of us who got it. Palm's hardware division, marketing dept. and whoever sucked at wooing carriers didn't get it.
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by firefoxman1 13y ago
So much for the "small government" Republicans advocate, huh?
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by firefoxman1 13y ago
With adequate access to natural light, it's pretty hard to oversleep if you follow your body's natural schedule. As soon as light hits your (still closed) eyes, your brain scales back melotonin production and raises your body's temperature,
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by firefoxman1 13y ago
> Apparently brown babies are receiving their Ivy League acceptances stapled to birth certificates in the delivery rooms nowadays. You sign up for a lifetime of other systemic issues (Racism? Discrimination? No big), but hey, at least
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by firefoxman1 13y ago
> Well, someone also has to not die from small-cell lung cancer to give the disease its 6 percent survival rate, but would you smoke four packs a day with the specific intention of being in that 6 percent? No, because that’s stupid. Y
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by firefoxman1 13y ago
I think Derby and SocketStream might sit at the 7-8 spot.
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by firefoxman1 13y ago
I can relate to this. I came up with the idea for my current side project while sitting in a waiting room for 30+ minutes with no phone, just me and my thoughts.
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by firefoxman1 13y ago
I have to say, replacing the caps lock with a "search" (super) key is one of the best design decisions on my chromebook. It automatically brings up my Gnome3 app menu/search, which I used to have Gnome-Do for. Needless to say, the "search"
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by firefoxman1 13y ago
> "Why asm.js is a JavaScript subset?". Simple, because Mozilla wants the benefits of the (P)NaCl approach but don't want to have to import LLVM. Or, you know, it could be like Mozilla's vice president of products said about NaCl: "Th

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