homme

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by homme 10y ago
I spent a thanksgiving back in junior year with a japanese student (along with a jewish bro) in my american uni smoking chronic and covering led zepplin guitar in between turkey eating. Japan needs to send more college students to the US.
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How not to treat users (mp3ify.com)
2 points by homme 17y ago|3 comments
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by homme 18y ago
It's stunning that someone in Florida can live off of the profits of mines in Madagascar, fast-food restaurants in California, steel mills in South Korea, and insurance companies in Connecticut, all without spending more than half an hour
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by homme 18y ago
What effect has it had on you as far as going from just posting an essay to posting an essay and having it deconstructed? Has instant criticism made you more reticent in what you say, or even annoyed?
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by homme 18y ago
My sampling of Jersey was high school and my early twenties, so I have an especially bad memory of the area. There was also a completely irrational market and bid up of low quality stuff due to shortages. The attitudes are proportionally hi
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by homme 18y ago
You are dead on about Europe and NJ. Nothing worse than Jersey dumpster diving, especially when you are unaware that is what you are doing. Some friends of mine went to Europe and came back with 10s, all of them. The most shocking thing t
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by homme 18y ago
I purged my dell laptop of xp and installed ubuntu over it. Love everything about it except the loss of wireless. It even gave me 9 extra gigs on my hard disk, 6 more than the advertised disk space! If the linux community could step it up
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by homme 18y ago
you can't use books to make clean water, except by ripping out pages and using them as water filters I think you would do better by using books as kindling to boil water, killing any latent bacteria.
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Modifying iPhone in unapproved ways violates DMCA(scitech.blogs.cnn.com)
1 points by homme 18y ago|0 comments
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by homme 18y ago
No argument there.
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by homme 18y ago
The maniacal obsession with unassailable formal proof gives mathematics its credibility, above all else. There is a lesson here for all other endeavors that seek truth: Rigor uber alles. Take nothing for granted.
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by homme 18y ago
every time a human being does not get offspring because his/her desired mate gets snagged by a more appealing specimen that's evolution in progress No, that would be natural selection. The two are different, keep in mind.
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by homme 18y ago
Sure, makes some sense. What interesting questions/problems are you looking at these days?
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by homme 18y ago
Sounds like a great method to produce a mechanic but not a creator, i.e. an American Idol winner rather than a Bob Dylan.
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by homme 18y ago
Democracy has always been non-rational Seeing the US House of Representatives in action recently seems to support this statement. What alternatives do you propose?
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by homme 18y ago
So it's $65 million if you believe that Facebook is worth $15 billion. I don't. Why should anyone?
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by homme 18y ago
Cripe, more than the US president less all the attendant duties. A functionary making that much...obligatory greenspun (nsfw) http://philip.greenspun.com/school/tuition-free-mit.html
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by homme 18y ago
Thanks, you didn't come across harsh at all. I cringe on re-reading that comment and wish it could be purged, but sometimes we have to live with our actions...best, regardless.
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by homme 18y ago
people are accomplishing absolutely zero in their lives so they need the fake feeling of accomplishment and respect from hitting level 60 in WoW. If we re-engineer society so that people actually have an opportunity to make friends, do pro
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by homme 18y ago
And what does it matter? Oh, are there consequences... http://cyber.eserver.org/unabom.txt
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by homme 18y ago
No, I was apologizing for an offensive post I made awhile back.
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by homme 18y ago
Further, how is an orthodoxy/political belief murderous? I thought only people could commit murder.
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by homme 18y ago
So a muslim, atheist, and former christian preacher turned atheist walk into a debate hall... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oocFLfoT0Q4
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by homme 18y ago
Why does this worry you so?
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by homme 18y ago
Sorry, yters. No harm intended. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=430118
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by homme 18y ago
This has to be a record for single comment upmods. Well deserved though, by a solid community contributor.
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by homme 18y ago
Deleveraging and conservative restructuring may work for a commercial bank, but not the hybrid commercial and investment banks that we're talking about here. AFAIK, Morgan and Goldman are now commercial banks and restructured to this form
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by homme 18y ago
Who is this talent? Name them. What have they done/are doing that their leaving any of these companies will cause a greater apocalypse? What crucial functions do they serve that make them irreplaceable?
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by homme 18y ago
I don't know. Steve has excellent empathic design acumen and taste, but do you think thats whats required to stop making dumb loans and restructure and write off bad debt? Not saying he couldn't do it, but the skill sets seem orthogonal. T
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by homme 18y ago
Instead, you will be stuck with the incompetents who got you into the situation in the first place and are just happy to keep their jobs, multi-million/billion dollar pay cut or not. Or clearly superior talent like John Thain, et al. Do y

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