selmnoo

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by selmnoo 2y ago
Tried it, it writes my siblings’ names for a brief moment… their names sound absolutely nothing at all like the word. It’s likely guessing based on previously typed history.
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by selmnoo 12y ago
Probably the best HN redesign I've seen yet to date. Some light criticism: 1) decrease the padding between each story space, there's juuust a touch too much white space 2) the big attraction to HN is indeed the comments, so access
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by selmnoo 12y ago
> For the planet, sure. But for economic analysis its irrelevant. No, for economic analysis overpopulation is very relevant. Maybe not in the extremely short term, but in the long term when overpopulation strains the finite supply of goo
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by selmnoo 12y ago
> Given that it's impossible to produce more senior developers in a 1-2 year timeframe, what alternatives do people suggest to immigration? Why do we operate under the assumption that these companies are entitled to as many unicorns
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by selmnoo 12y ago
> because while you bear the costs of training, your competitors can then poach your trained employees by offering a salary that is less than your total cost for that employee but more than the salary you pay that employee I tell everyon
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by selmnoo 12y ago
Woah, interesting. Thanks very much for bringing this up, didn't know!
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Google Just Dealt a Big Blow to the Digital Economy of Lyrics(newsweek.com)
2 points by selmnoo 12y ago|0 comments
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by selmnoo 12y ago
Of course, you can have that without getting married. But you see, more than anything, marriage is really a cultural institution. It has a strong symbolic power. It's an excuse for a big party, a signaling of commitment, etc. We humans
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by selmnoo 12y ago
I think it's crucially important to note that even if folks watch porn, it doesn't mean they can't have a successful marriage. My thinking is it would actually probably help to make a conscious decision to stop watching porn
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by selmnoo 12y ago
> I think marriage is fundamentally an economic institution. I don't like that reduction of marriage. Having known several couples who've made it for over 50 years and above, it really makes things clear to me -- they let thems
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by selmnoo 12y ago
Moreover, people who say they don't eat sugar don't mean they'll never ever eat sugar in any amount. I don't eat sugar - but I'm okay with a desert once per month or something. I'm also willing to eat things wh
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by selmnoo 12y ago
I wouldn't say he's a quack -- that implies incompetency. Dr. Oz is actually one of the best heart surgeons in the country, it's rather just that he sold himself for money.
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by selmnoo 12y ago
The fascinating thing is, you can't stop the ads on HN from the big big players, because it's effectively accounted as being real news. Zuckerberg held the second public Q&A session the other day, that promised him some news
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by selmnoo 12y ago
What? I did not say that Jobs was not a smart businessman, that's not what I'm contending. His quotes in this article are probably very valid and prescient, none of this is what I take issue with. I'm just saying he was a bad
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by selmnoo 12y ago
In the case of MLK, his womanizing activities were quite separate from his civil rights work. Steve Jobs very much got to the top by screwing over people. He was mean at work. And frequently did illegal things. There's a good argumen
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by selmnoo 12y ago
> That'd be the internet's automobile to the big labels' buggy whip. But people don't want indie content, they still want the buggy whips. I generally want indie content to get a large user audience, I don't wa
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by selmnoo 12y ago
> The genius who comes from Nigeria to the States to write some code is going to pick up skills and connections that will prepare them to go back and have a tremendous impact back in their home country. But that's not going to happe
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by selmnoo 12y ago
> Most of them are worthless They are almost never worthless. Small startups who are not experienced with interviewing may get a few bad apples, but companies like Quora (and the others on the list in submission article) don't make
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by selmnoo 12y ago
This brings up an interesting question. The reasoning for bringing talent over from abroad, does it make sense ethically? I'm greatly irked by the idea of a young and ambitious Indian/Nigerian/Chinese/Russian guy or girl
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by selmnoo 12y ago
> Just a few hours later, Vox published an article titled These tech interns are probably making more than you are where they shared a tweet showcasing candid salaries at various tech companies, some larger, some smaller: That is a kind
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by selmnoo 12y ago
Hey guys, the cover image is not properly displayed, it's very often clipping the image in bad spots (e.g. the head is completely missing here: http://www.femalefounderstories.com/shruti-shah.html - and in most other i
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by selmnoo 12y ago
Hah, come on. :) That's not a very high barrier. A 'pirate' simply has to get a throwaway account (or steal one, if he's truly bad) and he doesn't even have to worry about that. I expect all Nature articles made &qu
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Can art and artist be separated?(bbc.com)
3 points by selmnoo 12y ago|0 comments
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by selmnoo 12y ago
Some of the professors I know are basically mobsters. They threaten to have people fired if they don't walk the walk the prof. wants them to walk, they operate in rigged peer-reviewing committees, when sitting on grant review committee
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by selmnoo 12y ago
It is strange that I think this isn't a big deal. At least, relatively speaking, this is peanuts. I mean, really think about what's being collected: <To help build a more personal Twitter experience for you, we are collecting a
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by selmnoo 12y ago
> I'm just curious if you believe there are inherent risks in Wordpress, or if you meant specifically Wordpress in the wrong hands and with the wrong plugins/extensions etc. Well, in the context of submission link -- serving st
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by selmnoo 12y ago
Many sites don't really require all that for them to run, and it's crazy to me that something as read heavy as a blog often can't perform well under load given that it's just serving up the same old
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by selmnoo 12y ago
> job offers are 30-50% above national prevailing wage. Making $70k in some midwestern city will get you a better house, better access to education for your children, and generally better quality of life than what $200k will get you in t
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by selmnoo 12y ago
Some of them should be getting $20000/mo, since they're doing work that really full employees are expected to do. But that aside, you're totally misrepresenting the situation here - $9000/mo is not the pay for an average
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by selmnoo 12y ago
That was a beautiful video, thanks. I think I'm going to make a handsome donation to NPR right now.

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