oakmac

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by oakmac 17y ago
The Teaching Company; sometimes I look forward to traffic.
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by oakmac 17y ago
This goal is definitely attainable; it depends on your fitness level. I would have no problem doing 100 pushups every hour 8 times a day.
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by oakmac 17y ago
The finance guys may have been aware of it, but their actions were clearly not in line with this knowledge as evidence by the year 2008. From the article you linked: "None of this implies, however, that the existence of outliers undermines
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by oakmac 17y ago
Things of this nature cannot be predicted so far in advance. This report is as useful as yesterday's racing form.
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by oakmac 17y ago
Black Swan theory isn't about denying science; it's about recognizing the limits of science. Taleb's position (and argument in this paper) is that we need to recognize instances where we don't know the answer instead of making decisions bas
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by oakmac 17y ago
Houston
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by oakmac 17y ago
Something like this already exists for ultimate frisbee: http://pickupultimate.com
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by oakmac 17y ago
I use git on development machines and have an rsync script to push updates to the server.
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by oakmac 17y ago
You could start by providing your email address so people can contact you.
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by oakmac 18y ago
What do you do?
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by oakmac 18y ago
Your initial reply to me can be rephrased as "I wouldn't want to accomplish all the amazing things that Ghandi did because I wouldn't want to live in poverty my whole life." I hope you understand that his accomplishments outweigh his lifes
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by oakmac 18y ago
The accomplishments of Ghandi far outweigh both his reasons for achieving them and the methods he used. Passing judgment on his lifestyle in spite of his feats would be like saying we should disregard the works of Darwin because they offen
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by oakmac 18y ago
Are you implying that you would not want to achieve the accomplishments of Gandhi in your lifetime if it meant living the lifestyle Gadhi lived? If that is the case I would strongly suggest you reconsider your priorities.
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by oakmac 18y ago
Happiness and money are not correlated. You are always 100% in control of your emotions: the choice to be happy is up to you regardless of what you're doing or what's happening to you. Money (or value) will come from following fundamental
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by oakmac 18y ago
The Economist has redefined "scathing" with this article.
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by oakmac 18y ago
Realty's value as a profession is not completely without merit. Just because the true nature of the job has been obfuscated doesn't mean it should be eliminated.
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by oakmac 18y ago
The industry may have created that phrase in a conveniently ambiguous way; still, in English, positives are always better than negatives when giving a command. Consider the difference between "I don't eat junk food" and "I always eat healt
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by oakmac 18y ago
I think you may have misunderstood my idea. I'm not advocating one site with a meritocracy filter; have as many as you'd like. One for Math PhDs, Chemistry PhDs, just having a bachelor's degree, CEO's, car salesmen, etc. The barrier to en
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by oakmac 18y ago
I would change the text: "If you do decide to drink, DO NOT Drive. Drink Safely." to simply "Always drink responsibly." and have that section of the text be a link to a new page with a paragraph about drinking and driving. You also might
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by oakmac 18y ago
I can't know this for sure, but I would hope those sorts of comments/attitudes would be voted down. A modification on the idea would be to only allow a site with people who have a net worth greater than a certain amount or who are in certai
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by oakmac 18y ago
This is an excellent idea! Anything that lowers barriers to accessibility is a good thing.
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by oakmac 18y ago
In order to eliminate fraud of this kind you would have to change fundamental human emotions.
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by oakmac 18y ago
Why only 200-300 years? Either go for the gold (live forever) or accept your mortality.
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by oakmac 18y ago
Here are a few Linux-specific wants: > an intuitive UI for configuring everything in xorg.conf > an intuitive UI for everything involving mounting, fstab, mdadm (raid), network shares, etc > improve the awk, cairo-bar interfaces
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by oakmac 18y ago
I would like to see a digg/reddit/HN site where in order to post, vote, or comment your IQ must be greater than 3 standard deviations from the mean (ie: Mensa).
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by oakmac 18y ago
Eliminating languages would be devastating to culture. How about a software solution for translation that works perfectly?
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by oakmac 18y ago
Are you suggesting that you want to have your cake and eat it too? Who's going to take the risk for the rewards you want?
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by oakmac 18y ago
step 1) please forget anything you read from Jim Cramer step 2) read The Black Swan by Taleb step 3) make an account at caps.fool.com step 4) get your score above 80 step 5) never invest more than 2% of your capital in any investment step 6
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by oakmac 18y ago
The most important book I ever read.
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by oakmac 18y ago
No serious chef would ever claim that sea salt has a discernible taste from regular salt; it's the texture that matters. I have certain dishes where I will only use sea salt and other dishes where it doesn't matter. The iodine issue is tru

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