planetguy

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by planetguy 14y ago
No, what I'm saying is that punching people isn't a worthwhile endeavour.
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by planetguy 14y ago
Maybe it does, maybe it doesn't. Most facebook controls are buried three levels of counterintuitive links down in a locked filing cabinet in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying "Beware of the Leopard". Or to put it another way
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by planetguy 14y ago
Farmville could be blocked relatively easily. These can't be blocked at all.
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by planetguy 14y ago
Actually, I just discovered that ads keep appearing even if you defriend the person ! I just defriended someone who works for a social game company because they were pushing waaaay too many ads through to my feed. I felt bad about doing
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by planetguy 14y ago
Quite possibly. Certainly in the old days one could express an opinion that "Hey, maybe there's certain advantages to copyright law" without getting modded down to numbers so low that the HN system refuses to express them. Y'know that book
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by planetguy 14y ago
>The majority of the HNers believe that there should be no intellectual property at all. Most also make their living off producing intellectual property, which is... interesting at the very least. Also most will totally get onboard the
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by planetguy 14y ago
Yes as and no. Fundamentally weight gain/loss really is a matter of calories in vs calories out; if you're burning more calories than you're consuming then you're gonna be losing weight. It's akin to saying that all you need to do to win
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by planetguy 14y ago
>In my belief this is patently disrespectful, in the same way that it was disrespectful for people to call Muhammed Ali "Cassius" after he changed his name Possibly, but since I don't respect Kimmy, it's appropriate that I should call h
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by planetguy 14y ago
Dunno, a message? A notification? "Card" isn't intuitive because this isn't the way people use cards in real life. The only analogy for using cards as a notification I can think of is in an old novel where a visitor comes to your door, your
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by planetguy 14y ago
You do realize that if people like Kim Dotcom ... is that really his name? Fuck him, apparently his name is Kim Schmitz and I don't care what stupid name he changed his name to. Wait, sorry, I got distracted, let me start my paragraph again
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by planetguy 14y ago
That's not how it works. Instead, Crelm toothpaste will note that you've liked them and forevermore your friends will get stories posted directly by Crelm toothpaste with the heading Jerf likes Crelm Toothpaste [blah blah blah a big picture
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by planetguy 14y ago
From talking to other people about it (and also from the only one other comment in this thread that goes "right on, I thought I was going crazy") I'm thinking it might be a limited rollout so far... a lot of people seem to have no idea what
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by planetguy 14y ago
They don't post things I don't like -- they merely like things I don't like and the things they like post things on their behalf and without their knowledge. Even if you put a person on "ignore" the ads will still show up.
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by planetguy 14y ago
Actually I've discovered that the ads keep appearing even if you do hide all their posts from your feed.
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by planetguy 14y ago
I'm considering leaving facebook for the first time, because of the Sponsored Stories thing, which is showing up with disturbing regularity, and frequently winds up as ads for things that make me angry. Nowadays, if you "Like" something, th
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by planetguy 14y ago
It took me a long time to figure out that you meant "principle" rather than "principal". For school teachers, perhaps the reason might be principal.
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by planetguy 14y ago
I think the US regulations about car seats might be entirely different, but I haven't looked into the details.
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by planetguy 14y ago
Sounds difficult -- the oil wells of Saudi Arabia can only produce so much oil per day
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by planetguy 14y ago
Yep, he sure has some wacky ideas about history. Still, gotta give him credit for the fact that his wacky ideas are at least unusual -- he seems to have developed his stupid belief system for himself rather than acquiring it wholesale from
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by planetguy 14y ago
Statistically very few acorns will wind up finding the correct conditions to grow into a full oak tree, so until further notice I just see a nut.
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by planetguy 14y ago
> "This kind of violent activity tends to become more prevalent and audacious when grown men and women can no longer provide food and shelter for their families." I doubt there's much overlap between "people who would commit armed extor
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by planetguy 14y ago
Pretty much it. This is also a good illustration of the difference between the private and the public sector. In the private sector your boss would rather keep all his employees, but your boss's boss, or your boss's boss's boss, would rathe
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by planetguy 14y ago
Or else men just thought the "second best looking" was better looking than the "best looking" one. Or else men don't like it when the only photo is a black and white close-up from an odd angle -- makes it look like you're hiding something.
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by planetguy 14y ago
Well that's even worse, as the whole cost is pinned not just on landlords but on a single generation of landlords. Bam, I just took away hundreds of thousands of dollars of your money with a stroke of a pen, how do you feel about that? Mu
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by planetguy 14y ago
That's a shame, because this writer is far better than most science journalists. If you're out there, anonymous writer, nice work!
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by planetguy 14y ago
This might be the case sometimes; in this case the best-looking one isn't in the unattainably-beautiful class though. Her nose is kinda big. In this case I think it just indicates that the initial judges did a poor job of judging who the mo
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by planetguy 14y ago
Or to satisfy both crowds it could have been either , and we could have assumed that the reader is smart enough to be able to know how many square feet there are in a square metre, to within the desired accuracy. Ten and a bit square feet
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by planetguy 14y ago
This right here is astoundingly good science journalism. Accurate (to the best of my knowledge) and clear, that's all I ask, and this brief article in The Economist gets it right. Am I missing something, or is the writer's name not mentione
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by planetguy 14y ago
I think it's an extremely useful blog post. It's a fantastic perspective check for people who might be going through a similar process. Y'know what? Twenty-nine rejections and one offer is a perfectly normal rate, not just for faculty pos
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by planetguy 14y ago
I'm applying for faculty positions at the moment. I haven't even got one rejection letter yet. A few rejection emails, in each case many months after I'd given up all hope of getting the job, is all I've got to show for it. Sigh. Good thi

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