hackaflocka

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by hackaflocka 10y ago
At this stage, I've given up caring about my privacy :-)
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by hackaflocka 10y ago
Which is why I wrote "idiot-proof". Things such as "encrypted backup" and "server side" are difficult to parse when I'm under the pressure of changing a phone. Plus, Apple has a bad enough reputation as it
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by hackaflocka 10y ago
If there are any Googlers on here reading this, some free unsolicited advice from me to you: GMail is awesome. It made email 10 times better and easier (for me anyways) to use. Here's an idea: GText. Despite all the products that have
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by hackaflocka 10y ago
Please use periods at the end of sentences. This is Hacker News for crying out loud.
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by hackaflocka 10y ago
Look up "app.net". It's been tried. It failed.
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by hackaflocka 10y ago
How big is it?
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by hackaflocka 10y ago
Very interesting proposition. I've only read the Abstract and the part about Testosterone, and would like HN's take on this. Pmarca re-tweeted about this, that's how I found out about it, and was somewhat surprised to note th
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by hackaflocka 10y ago
Buzz could have been a great idea IMHO if handled properly. What got them in trouble was the underhanded way in which they 'friended' people, exposing mistresses to wives.
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by hackaflocka 10y ago
"YouTube Community" is not 'verbable' (e.g. "Tweet it", or "inbox me").
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by hackaflocka 10y ago
"Hello green username."
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by hackaflocka 10y ago
On average? Of course not. It's a power-law! Averages mean nothing in power-law situations.
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by hackaflocka 10y ago
You don't contact them. They contact you. Like the earlier poster said, you need a high profile career where you are able to signal intelligence, mental toughness, and your political and patriotic leanings. Journalism leads to all sort
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by hackaflocka 10y ago
You do smell like it. You just don't know it. Self knowledge is rare. I have it, you don't.
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by hackaflocka 10y ago
The idea of forcing owners to let people who are not compatible, stay with them, is ridiculous. I'm Indian and smell of curry (probably... at least a few times a month). If someone hates the smell of curry, they should be allowed to bl
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by hackaflocka 10y ago
Couldn't find anything to do with steam engines, internal combustion engines, or electric motors. Couldn't find anything invented at IITs. "Here, let me tell you about Indian inventions from 1000 B.C. !!!"
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by hackaflocka 10y ago
Thanks for your thoughtful comment. I really think we're losing something by not having this kind of knowledge more evenly spread out in the population. There was a time when my near-ancestors could all stitch up a wound or re-set a bo
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by hackaflocka 10y ago
His motor used parts that were pre-built abroad. He himself admitted that there was nothing original about his design, that he used existing blueprints to build it.
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by hackaflocka 10y ago
You're probably one of those who also insists that India has the best teachers. Why I can't find any of their lectures on YouTube (but find a "shitton" of lectures from non-Indians) is interesting. You also probably beli
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by hackaflocka 10y ago
Survivorship Bias (what Taleb calls Silent Evidence). What's missing: all the children whose parents raised them the same way, and who ended up committing suicide, or are in mental institutions, or fill the ranks of the homeless today.
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by hackaflocka 10y ago
I was recently reading an article about James Watt, and his steam engine. It's a remarkable story. I'm reasonably intelligent, but I'm pretty sure that even if I was given his tools and his blueprints, I would never be able t
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by hackaflocka 10y ago
The greatness of Hardy is that some unknown person from across the world (Ramanujan) wrote him barely legible letters, and he read them, believed in the writer, and helped expose him to the world. I was once in a position where lots of peop
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by hackaflocka 10y ago
Thank goodness for Europe.
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by hackaflocka 10y ago
When certain media outlets in the U.S. (Fox News, Ann Coulter, Clint Eastwood, etc.) represent people behind "heroic" feats in the past (space race, WWII battles, capture of Saddam Hussein, Yeshua the Christ, Egyptians in the Old
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by hackaflocka 10y ago
I had one of those HP Elitebooks. The trackpad is really really bad.
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by hackaflocka 10y ago
If Milo weren't gay and Jewish, he'd have the EU human rights commission on his ass. In a bad way.
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by hackaflocka 10y ago
The author in 1885: "People say that we should train people for factory jobs, but everyone I know is gainfully employed in agriculture, and we don't have any factories where I live." As a college professor, let me assure the
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by hackaflocka 10y ago
Obama should do more outreach to industry to promote the idea of more competition in the insurance space.
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by hackaflocka 10y ago
According to Nassim Taleb, when all the lions were killed in the Middle East, the goats multiplied, and they apparently love tree roots, which led to the Middle East turning into desert (not sure if it's true, but he says it is and I&#
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by hackaflocka 10y ago
Can it be transmitted from heavy kissing?
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by hackaflocka 10y ago
Does oral sex transmit Gonorrhea? Are there any sex acts that are immune to it? Is there anything safe (sex-wise) that one can do to prevent it?

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