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The Fetishization of the Offline(thenewinquiry.com)
5 points by pedrolll 14y ago|1 comments
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by pedrolll 14y ago
Business Insider... A great source for wild Apple rumors. Also, funny top 10 lists like: http://www.businessinsider.com/10-things-science-can-teach-u... Not much credibility there.
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by pedrolll 14y ago
Also, why is "unknown" almost the same colour as "1-5%"? To me it seems that most of the world is unknown, including India, yet they still have statistics for India. Confusing...
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by pedrolll 14y ago
It's just a PR trick, telling investors he's taking things seriously and learning some business 101 in a restaurant. Probably the restaurant doesn't even exist.
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by pedrolll 14y ago
Not to mention the fact that professional athletes start their training very young, so this would essentially mean pushing drugs to kids for the entertainment of adults. A lot of pro athletes use drugs anyway these days but making it legal
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by pedrolll 14y ago
I would have to agree with you. When agriculture was invented, so was "work", that is, something that is separate from your real life. There's a reason agriculture didn't properly take off for hundreds of years, even though people knew that
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by pedrolll 14y ago
Wht do you mean by signing? Scene groups don't use torrents.
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by pedrolll 14y ago
Got this weirdness after a while without touching any settings: http://i.imgur.com/ebmc0.png Chrome 18 osx
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by pedrolll 14y ago
To save you some time: Japan: September 13, 1985 US: October 18, 1985 (NES launch) or November 17, 1985
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by pedrolll 14y ago
Offtopic: Why do you use two accounts on HN, _gabesmed & gabesmed?
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by pedrolll 15y ago
Why? Why would Nokia want to enter the tablet market, when everyone except Apple is struggling with their tablets? Consumers seem to want ipads, not tablets. What could Nokia possibly bring to the table, with their string of failures in the
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by pedrolll 15y ago
Seems there's still no proper Lion support. I wonder what's taking so long. Chrome has had this for months.
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by pedrolll 15y ago
So we procrastinate because we're intelligent? This should massage every hackers ego on Hacker News :) "Ah, I see, it is because I'm smart that I can't get things done. It's not that bad after all". To me it seems that most people procrasti
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by pedrolll 15y ago
What a horrible article. Complete lack of in-text citations. There's no way of verifying any of the claims there, unless one goes through all of the listed references. To me it seems like the article was created by someone with very mild de
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by pedrolll 15y ago
Over 70% of indians live in rural areas. Many of these people live completely outside of the monetary economy. Counting these people in the GDP statistics skews the whole thing. Yet many of these people live just fine by farming, but do not
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by pedrolll 15y ago
In Peru and Bolivia, coca leaves are sold just about everywhere. A good tasting tea is made from them, and people chew them while hiking on the mountains and so on. The effects are similar to caffeine. I didn't see any coca soft drinks ther
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by pedrolll 15y ago
HN is a freaky place sometimes. Accumulating a pile of money is actually the purpose of life for many commentators here. It has often been stated here that there are easier ways to accumulate money than doing startups. This article also see
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by pedrolll 15y ago
Looking ok on 17/OSX.
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by pedrolll 15y ago
Yes, this is definitely relevant to my interests as well. So far I haven't found anything as good as GC and even that is not as good as I would like it to be.
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by pedrolll 15y ago
I've set 4 weeks as default in Google Calendar, so reading this article was baffling at first. Curious that 4 weeks doesn't show up for everyone. It is infinitely more useful than the month view.
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by pedrolll 15y ago
>I'd argue that programmers are held in high regard now--witness all of the news articles in the past year about "software engineers taking over the world" This doesn't prove much. The media you follow might have these articles, but mos
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by pedrolll 15y ago
I can't tell if you're joking or not. Dyson spheres, space mining, superstructures... Currently we have sent a handful of people to a rock orbiting this planet, then gave that up because it was uninteresting. At the moment there is no incen
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by pedrolll 15y ago
I don't think this will turn into a pissing contest. Hacker News comments are usually pretty insightful. Arguing over whether Europe as a continent or the U.S. as a country is better in some respects is just useless.
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by pedrolll 15y ago
After my smartphone was stolen, I switched back to a dumbphone and realized it was exactly what I needed, for the reasons mentioned above. I don't think I'll buy a smartphone ever again.
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by pedrolll 15y ago
Yes it's a problem when there are not enough charging stations around. In some countries the network is quite well spread already but I guess not in the U.S. so far. Once that gets taken care of, I don't see any reasons for people not buyin
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by pedrolll 15y ago
About Joel's second point: Why would Google/Facebook give free ads only for U.S. politicians? If they start with that, shouldn't they do that for every other country as well? Sure for the moment nominally their HQs are in the U.S. but they
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by pedrolll 15y ago
I do interviews over the phone. Often I find myself subtly copying the local dialect of the interviewee. I don't really do this on purpose, perhaps it's some kind of an automated mechanism to make myself more understandable or bring myself
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by pedrolll 15y ago
Maybe I'm missing something here, but isn't the case such that when you place a call and immediately hang up, no one pays for that call, although unnecessary traffic is caused for the operator? In some of these cases the receiver might call
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by pedrolll 15y ago
I think the idea that there's a war between human and nature is a very modern one. People in pre-modern times didn't see themselves as separate from nature, they were nature. Just like other (what we see as distinct) entities in nature do n
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by pedrolll 15y ago
For me, The Mindful Way Through Depression was a good starting point. I was never really depressed, but I feel that without that book, I might have gotten to the point of real depression. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mindful-Way-Through-Depress

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