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by guga31bb 13y ago
No, the libertarian obsession with the gold standard and other poor economic policies preclude the Economist from being lumped in with them.
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by guga31bb 13y ago
Where is this data coming from? I'm assuming you have law school admissions data from somewhere?
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by guga31bb 13y ago
For creatine, while it is true that the supplement serves to help you push out an extra rep or two, I've literally never heard of anyone getting "overuse injuries" due to starting creatine. It's just a scare tactic on one of the best-studie
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by guga31bb 14y ago
Sure. Here's the classic example: http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/11/08/twinkie.diet.professor/...
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by guga31bb 14y ago
Seconding WorkFlowy. I started using it a couple months ago and haven't turned back since. I showed it to my (not very technologically savvy) wife, and she loves it too. It's great for sharing the mobile interface is nice, and I like how si
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by guga31bb 14y ago
> All you need to do is go to sleep around the time that the sun goes down. It's just that "easy". What about in December when the sun sets around 16:30? Surely people aren't getting in bed then?
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by guga31bb 14y ago
They are displayed in two cases: 1) When you turn your Kindle off, there will be a full-screen ad. 2) When browsing books at the main menu, a small horizontal bar across the bottom of the screen will display an ad. You only come to this scr
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by guga31bb 14y ago
> I've built an extremely useful service but only 1 in 100 was willing to pay, which is ridiculous to say. To play devil's advocate, if only 1 in 100 people are willing to pay for your service, how useful can it really be? I'd think th
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by guga31bb 14y ago
> One feature I have wanted that would solve a frustration I have with Strava is the ability to quickly "prune" a ride [...] The app could even autodetect part you may want to prune by recognizing when your GPS coordinates remain relati
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by guga31bb 14y ago
> Still, the average restaurant worker, at least around here, is very young, and by definition, unless you're going to an upscale restaurant, likely not getting much money. Since when is the definition of a restaurant worker someone wh
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by guga31bb 14y ago
This happens quite frequently on reddit as well. I'd imagine it's due to the fact that the set of people who vote on a story are different than the set who vote on comments. For example, people could find a title appealing and upvote withou
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by guga31bb 14y ago
> statistically Uncle Bob is many times more dangerous than a random stranger. Well, that's because Uncle Bob is around your kids much more often. I'm not sure if that would be true after adjusting for exposure rate.
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by guga31bb 14y ago
Wow, I did not expect that. This post led to a massive dose of nostalgia (Stanford alum who's been banished to the east coast). Minor suggestion -- it would be cool to have an option to overlay building names. This is really neat -- thanks
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by guga31bb 14y ago
It looks like maybe the submission is just poorly titled? If you click through to the article, it has the following title: > No More Calls From Strangers: Amicus Uses Facebook To Recruit Political Volunteers And then, as you note, the
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by guga31bb 14y ago
Also up for me, also DC area.
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by guga31bb 14y ago
Add me to the countless number of people who found their place on padmapper (just moved in last week!) and are thankful for its existence. It's a great service.
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by guga31bb 14y ago
>And do you know what happens when you leave such natural milk on the table for a few days? It goes sour and turns to yogurt ... has a great taste and is really healthy First, your post was very interesting -- thanks for taking the time
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by guga31bb 14y ago
Boeing moved from Seattle to Chicago in 2001 [0]. A major company moving headquarters is not unheard of. [0] http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/22/us/boeing-jolting-seattle-...
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by guga31bb 14y ago
>instead of sweetened junk or diet bars or low-fat milk Likening milk to the other two seems odd. What's wrong with milk?
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by guga31bb 14y ago
>And yes, the cardio days should probably be squash, heavy bag or football rather than the treadmill. I'd rephrase this and say cardio days should be something you enjoy doing . Some people enjoy running on a treadmill. I don't underst
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by guga31bb 14y ago
I switched over to NewsBlur from Google Reader in December (after there was a post about it on HN) and haven't looked back. I even emailed the creator once with an issue I was having and received a prompt and helpful response. Try that with
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by guga31bb 14y ago
Also in some areas housing is much more expensive in areas with good public school districts.
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by guga31bb 14y ago
Seconding Google's Python class. It does an amazing job of covering the most common use cases in a very short class. I'm still relatively new to programming and whenever I'm writing code I invariably find myself referring back to the lesson
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by guga31bb 14y ago
Sorry to be a downer, but I'm sure what the point of this post is. The gap between kids from high and low SES families has been exhaustively documented (try going to Google scholar and searching, for example, "income achievement"). The only
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by guga31bb 14y ago
Are you seriously suggesting that the topic of sexism hasn't been discussed ad nauseum on HN?
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by guga31bb 15y ago
Zero. Phone -- I don't have a smart phone Desktop -- I prefer to build my own computers since it's far cheaper. The fact that I run linux is even less incentive to buy Apple. Laptop -- I have a Lenovo Thinkpad that I love and was quite inex
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by guga31bb 15y ago
> If pirating music was impossible many people would return to paying for music I think you've missed the parent's point. We have left the world where pirating is impossible. The question is how to deal with it. Thinking in unrealisti
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by guga31bb 15y ago
> Look at the careers of Sarah Palin, Pat Buchanan, Howard Dean, John Stewart, Rush Limbaugh, Rob Reich, et cetera et cetera ad absurdum. Once a politician [...] Who is John Stewart? If you're referring to the comedian Jon Stewart,
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by guga31bb 15y ago
> “It’s completely out of control,” Mr. Robertson said. “Prisons are being overcrowded with juvenile offenders having to do with drugs. And the penalties, the maximums, some of them could get 10 years for possession of a joint of mariju
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by guga31bb 15y ago
Do the new icons seem enormous to anyone else? It feels like a massive amount of space. I got the same feeling with the gmail redesign until discovering "compact" layout. Can anyone figure out a way to make the list use space better?

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