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by istari 13y ago
I have the same experience as you and the author. Chrome extensions with timers such as StayFocusd have not worked for me. I just disable it or use firefox or something. What if the user had to enter a predetermined answer to the question p
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by istari 14y ago
You are being needlessly modest. Your posts are always insightful and often valuable. I personally would not mind if you built a bot to spam the front page with your old articles.
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by istari 14y ago
As I read I thought, wow this dude sounds just like my friend Phillip from high school. Glad to hear you're doing well. -Frank
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by istari 14y ago
Dear Craiglist, please let Padmapper continue to scrape your data for free because I find Padmapper super useful and much better than your shitty site. I'm not going to address your interests at all, because they are directly threatened by
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by istari 16y ago
This is something I always wondered about. I get FAR more tired running 2 real miles than 2 "miles" on a treadmill. On a treadmill, both of your feet are in the air for a significant amount of time, and you're not being carried backwards. Y
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by istari 16y ago
I walk into a restaurant. They charge me $10 for a meal. Yet they only paid $2 for the ingredients! Now I don't know a lot of math, but even I know that 2 goes into 10... FIVE times! They are charging me FIVE times what it cost them to make
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by istari 16y ago
Blabber is a short story, Vinge's first foray into the Zones of Thought Universe, and features several cameos from A Fire Upon the Deep: http://books.google.com/books?id=txBNZiQw2GUC&pg=PA78&#3...
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by istari 16y ago
Because when Marco Polo returned from China, he brought with him fantastic stories of meat pies, mythical pastries with the meat INSIDE of the bread. How did it get in there? Nobody knows. Many tried, but none could discover the secret. Def
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by istari 16y ago
Isn't Intel having another go at it by acquiring Infineon? http://www.mobilecrunch.com/2010/08/30/intel-acquires-infine...
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by istari 16y ago
All of those magazines should pay her for cleaning up their sloppy work.
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by istari 16y ago
When your SO is paying you they have a name for that as well.
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by istari 16y ago
"Genius" is 10,000 hours of constant improvement. Spending 10,000 hours on something is incredibly common. Everyone spends 10,000 hours on multiple things. But we coast. It's what we do by habit. It's habit itself. To break our own habits o
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by istari 16y ago
There are some things that you cannot help BUT teach your children. It's part of who you are, your daily habits, your aspirations, your worldview of what a parent should be. Just by being your son, he is guaranteed 1000s of hours of practic
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by istari 16y ago
Yes, I have a recommendation. Get 10 packets of 8.5 X 14 printer paper. (8.5 X 11 works too, but not as well) Make a tower for your keyboard. Make another tower for your mouse. Tilt your monitor back by putting something underneath it. Adju
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by istari 16y ago
Compared to me, most people ARE dumb, in my area of expertise. What's that you say? Step out of my area of expertise? No.
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by istari 16y ago
For pg, diversification would be to take that $1M and plow it into 30 promising startups.
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by istari 16y ago
This is like saying that car designs should be more "mechanic friendly" and less "closed" because every car owner is a potential mechanic, and mechanics learn by working on their parents' cars. How would you feel about a car company that of
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by istari 16y ago
The author met the prerequisite for getting lucky, which is several tens of thousands of hours of failure and iteration. Sure, if he were more mature, or wrote more coherently than a fifth grader, or had any kind of formal training whatsoev
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by istari 16y ago
What are you going to do personally to address this evil that you seem so outraged by? Nothing.
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by istari 16y ago
My boss was doing an internship at Intel, and didn't have time to verify the floating point unit because he had to go back to school.
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by istari 16y ago
Isn't there overwhelming logic that heavier objects fall faster? After all, force = mass * acceleration, and if there's more mass, there's more force. Isn't it LOGICAL that the immune system will react more rigorously when presented with mo
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by istari 16y ago
Those things are inherent to the human condition. They are hard wired into our DNA. Where we go, so will they.
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by istari 16y ago
You know how most people decide when someone is telling the truth? I agree with him = he's honest. I disagree with him = he's lying. Very few people care about object evidence that goes against what they believe in.
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by istari 16y ago
I use Firefox on a Windows box. Page 1: Looks interesting. Download or Start Reading? I'll Read. Click. Page 2: Stop. Do something unexpected. Cool. Okay, how do I go to the next page? Any arrows to click? None. Click somewhere randomly? N
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by istari 16y ago
Being smart about trying to get rich includes getting the right people to help you. Obviously. Think about the richest person you personally know. Was it really "at the expense of all else"? Or did they structure their professional and soci
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by istari 16y ago
People seem to consider it immoral to want to get rich too much. People are answering in a defensive way. Every other post here preaches the importance of true happiness, family, friends, health, etc vs money. I find this tiring. Imagine go
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by istari 16y ago
You're backing it up with your own personal anecdote? That's not valid. If you found data that said, for example, 30% of college graduates took longer than 6 years to earn their undergraduate degrees, then I would agree with you. If it's le
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by istari 16y ago
Copied from the other thread on this topic. Vietnam: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mr5Gssaxl6g Ikaruga: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-zSi0xt9fY
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by istari 16y ago
The Vietname video reminded me of chapter 2 of Ikaruga, my favorite video game stage and not a good model for urban traffic planners. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-zSi0xt9fY
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by istari 16y ago
You didn't factor in the very high possibility of someone dropping out. Google "college dropout rates". Consensus figures seem to be around 40% of enrollees don't have a degree 6 years later.

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