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by mighty 17y ago
http://www.recombinantrecords.net/docs/2009-05-Amusing-Ourse... It's not necessarily a waste, but it's not unquestionably a good thing, either. There should be something other than blind acceptance or rationalization of its impact. Edit:
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by mighty 17y ago
Other blogging services don't have Posterous' remarkable ease of use. The prior lack of themes has been a turnoff for potential users--now that they're here, it's a no-brainer for those folks.
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by mighty 17y ago
It's a lot more efficient for the journalist to maintain integrity in the authoring of information than it is to have every reader scrutinize that information for a lack of it.
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by mighty 17y ago
It does carry a higher risk of transmitting an STD from one person to another, yes. So I'm wrong to say that it has "nothing" to do with it. But in terms of epidemiology, the higher risk of transmission associated with a given form of sex i
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by mighty 17y ago
Having lots of sexual partners creates epidemics of, wait for it...sexually transmitted disease. The manner in which people have sex, unless we're talking dry humping and such, has nothing to do with creating epidemics.
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by mighty 17y ago
The problem is that you're conflating incompetence with a lack of capacity for competence. In other words, the mere fact of not knowing something implies that one can never know it. If that were true, nobody would know anything. What I'm sa
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by mighty 17y ago
> She seemed kind of flaky but I assumed it was because she was a lot smarter than I was. I pressed on, and an hour later I discovered that she didn't know what a typical size for a C pointer was. That doesn't mean she's actually flaky
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by mighty 17y ago
I haven't bothered checking Politico since the 2008 U.S. election. They were horrifyingly fixated on covering the horse race, with a big spot on the front page dedicated to who "won" the day. Iirc, they also build the partisan split directl
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by mighty 17y ago
Voted you back up. Fwiw, I was trying to respond to the general sentiment that this was a free speech issue, and the quote made for a good place to do so. Thanks for clarifying your stance. In retrospect, I should have used less strong lang
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by mighty 17y ago
To my knowledge, the Thatcher quote has nothing to do with their health care system, and it would appear she was an advocate of the NHS, not an opponent. From http://www.margaretthatcher.org/speeches/displaydocument.asp... Our stewardshi
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by mighty 17y ago
I'm sorry, but the idea that the boycott is somehow threatening freedom of speech is utterly absurd. > A boycott is a ban and bans on other people’s opinions are stupid and childish. I don't know if this was a massive logical slip-up on
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by mighty 17y ago
That has far less to do with TC being principled than it does TC being on good terms with YC.
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by mighty 17y ago
Please don't include a personal rating in your submission's title.
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by mighty 17y ago
Pressing a button is an action that a gestural UI can communicate visually, but there are a number of other actions that have no visual cue. Direct manipulation gestures such as tap (on something other than a button), double-tap, tap-and-h
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Google CEO says will discuss Apple board role(reuters.com)
1 points by mighty 17y ago|0 comments
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by mighty 17y ago
They both make operating systems, browsers, and web apps.
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Why America Is Addicted to Olive Garden(fastcompany.com)
4 points by mighty 17y ago|2 comments
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by mighty 17y ago
Look up "climate" and "weather" before you make silly arguments about what can be claimed about them.
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by mighty 17y ago
> BTW, they don't call it Global Warming anymore. It's now called Climate Change. You see, since the climate is a dynamical system that is continuously changing, the name "Climate Change" per se has absolutely zero information. It only
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by mighty 17y ago
Not a whole lot of discussion here, is there? There are Apple fans here, yes. There is much to discuss about Apple and its products that's relevant to Hacker News. But getting notified about a firmware update that affects a tiny portion of
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by mighty 17y ago
The firmware update only applies to the latest model MacBook Pros, not all of them. And this information is easily obtained on the many Apple-centric websites out there. Presumably, most HN readers with a brand new MacBook Pro follow at lea
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by mighty 17y ago
A firmware update? Seriously? Can we not dilute HN with stuff like this and the inane gamer chatter at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=668692 ?
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by mighty 17y ago
I like it, but my biggest recommendation would be to have columns (rows, boxes, whichever) dedicated to specific categories of apps on the front page. Right now it's a random assortment of apps and it's impossible to tell what they do just
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by mighty 17y ago
I think there's a lot Apple needs to do to improve the IA of the App Store, and they need to make the iTunes store accessible from standard web browsers rather than just the iTunes software. But there's nothing preventing iPhone app develop
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by mighty 17y ago
It's not so much that there is or isn't a better source of news about startups. It's that the stories from TechCrunch that make it over here and get voted up have a high probability of being linkbait ("X Will Kill Y!") or about some Arringt
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by mighty 17y ago
Snake oil. False advertising. Advertising that stokes and intensifies desires far beyond the point at which they would exist sans advertising. Wanting a marshmallow now vs. two marshmallows later. Pepsi doing better on one-off taste tests,
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by mighty 17y ago
> so I would say that the crisis was not "caused" by either greed or stupidity, but is a naturally emergent behavior of the capitalist system. But greed and stupidity are "natural" forces at work within the capitalist system. Asserting
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by mighty 18y ago
The usefulness of site-blockers as anti-procrastination tools depends on how much of a hassle they are to override. Having to use a special bookmark to visit websites doesn't do anything to make the override process more of a hassle. If I c
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by mighty 18y ago
If someone can work quietly in a corner and churn out a thesis after a few years, does that make them more likely to be able to churn out a startup by themselves? I doubt there's a strong correlation here. When you're working on a thesis,
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by mighty 18y ago
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/10/opinion/10krugman.html

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