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by pigbucket 5y ago
Some practical stuff to consider (not prescriptions), some of which is more relevant in case of advanced disease, and some of which may save you time or headaches in the long run, and some of which will just seem trite and obvious: 1.Second
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by pigbucket 14y ago
As discussed in Bertrand Russell’s If the Title is a Question, Is the Answer No?
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by pigbucket 15y ago
Teachers consider the practice you describe (paying someone to spruce up an essay) cheating, but it's not clear that that is the kind of service that OP's site offers. Many teachers also encourage students to get critical feedback on their
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by pigbucket 15y ago
Thanks for your kind words about http://www.essayjudge.com While it's true that our service is free, it does come at the cost of the publication of one's essay. I had several (<15) requests last semester for private essay reviews (whi
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by pigbucket 15y ago
This is why I love HN. See something that blows my mind. Read comments. Meh. (When I say "love," you know I mean "hate" right?)
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by pigbucket 15y ago
This is a rare and wonderful eulogy. We can nitpick over the details of Fry's grasp of the Apple way, but today it is probably better just to appreciate what Fry gets right about the phenomenon of Steve Jobs. I think one thing he gets right
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by pigbucket 15y ago
> Honestly, should the consulting thing confuse or worry anyone? I think the author did a pretty good job of explaining why she is worried, and while your two points are compelling, neither really addresses that explanation. You've got
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by pigbucket 15y ago
Yes. It was appealed by the Bush admin., and overturned in '09 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandon_Mayfield#Court.27s_ruli...
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by pigbucket 15y ago
Good to be aware of this if you plan to falsify your tax returns, according to a '98 NYT article (from which this post takes its neat title) http://www.nytimes.com/1998/08/04/science/following-benford-...
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by pigbucket 15y ago
I recognize that this is a soundbite version of recent history and tangential to the main point of the article, but just for the sake of contrarianism: Google is the company that pulled out of China in opposition to government-sponsored cen
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by pigbucket 15y ago
Your comment was looking a little grey under the collar when I read it, which I think raises the irony to which you allude to another level.
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by pigbucket 15y ago
I really like your comment, but I don't think we should judge an odd philosophy on the basis of one of its most banal articulations. The article belongs to a genre with a pretty decent tradition, but its relation to that tradition is deriva
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by pigbucket 15y ago
I like the concept but I think it's missing something to get the user interested in the first place. HN has content I like from people I don't know. Twitter has random soundbites from people I can choose to follow. It looks like your app dr
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by pigbucket 15y ago
A beautiful typo. You mean "vulnerable" for "venerable" right? Is that because you think they really are doing what the article implies? Is there evidence more substantial than that offered by the Tribune? The article for me is just shoddy
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by pigbucket 15y ago
Exactly. In fact, the guy didn't discover that trees branch according to the Fibonacci sequence (which was long known) but rather began his investigation by asking, Why the Fibonacci sequence? Then he hypothesized that it optimized the gath
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The Secret of the Fibonacci Sequence in Trees(amnh.org)
344 points by pigbucket 15y ago|26 comments
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by pigbucket 15y ago
Inhabitat credits treehugger.com as its source. Treehugger's article is not breathless about biomimicry, not spread over two pages, and not interrupted by adsense and images. http://www.treehugger.com/files/2011/08/13-year-old-makes-so...
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by pigbucket 15y ago
Thanks for the feedback. On my immediate to do list. No excuse, but I didn't build the site, and the process of trying to fix its bugs since I took it over while completely changing its focus has been especially onerous for me. Please use m
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by pigbucket 15y ago
> I’ve seen a lot of what passes for excellence in high schools, and it’s not good enough. I’ve encountered many brilliant students in college, with straight A’s through highschool and stellar SATs, who cannot string three or four sent
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by pigbucket 15y ago
Could the downgrade not have led precisely, if ironically, to the treasury rally by promoting concern about the general economy, with consequent sell-off of high-risk assets and flight to safety (treasury bonds, downgrade notwithstanding, s
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by pigbucket 15y ago
If a company has access to hundreds of millions of profiles, can figure out an effective way of delivering targeted ads, and can effect a fundamental shift in the way most people find content on the web (i.e., a shift from keyword search to
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by pigbucket 15y ago
dsl put one up when the chrome extension block was released: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2218528
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by pigbucket 15y ago
"If you don't like a site that appears in your search results, you can block all the pages within that site. Then you won't see any of those pages when you're signed in and searching on Google. If you change your mind, you can unblock the s
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by pigbucket 15y ago
From the US site http://www.spotify.com/int/coming-to-the-us/ > The award-winning music service that’s taken Europe by storm will soon be landing on US shores. Millions of tracks ready to play instantly, on your computer and your phon
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by pigbucket 15y ago
>The ignorance the writer displays in the last paragraph is ridiculous. "Anti-stem cell research campaigns" are against use of embryonic stem cells. But the writer's own article indicates that adult stem cells were used here. Some oppon
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by pigbucket 15y ago
>I find it hard to believe that in the millennia of recorded observations of animals, that no one observed a single instance of rock-bashing or stick-throwing. Pliny's Natural History, which every natural philosopher and biologist in th
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by pigbucket 15y ago
I distrust articles from "the Fool" because they often do stuff like this; publish one article calling for a recovery in X, and one saying that X will tank. Ultimately, someone at fool.com will always have been right. That doesn't mean this
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by pigbucket 15y ago
Completely missing from your postmortem (from which I learned a lot and for which I am very grateful) is the fact that the service you offer, to judge from the demo alone, is frankly not very good. Perhaps your analytics show that few visit
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Essay Review: The Dangerous Mr. Khan(essayjudge.com)
1 points by pigbucket 15y ago|0 comments
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by pigbucket 15y ago
Saying what works as part of your criticism is also a pragmatic way to make the recipient receptive to your negative criticism. A friend of mine who is a professor uses what he calls the sandwich theory of essay criticism: Say something nic

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