AndrewMoffat

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by AndrewMoffat 16y ago
National Security vs. The First Amendment: The Ultimate Showdown
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Self-image can be a powerful feedback loop that reinforces other qualities. I think that the types of things he would value if his self image was of a "persecuted international man of intrigue" would be things like vigilance, perseverance,
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by AndrewMoffat 16y ago
> I do feel uncomfortable that this man seems to enjoy playing God. You can't help but wonder if he is playing out some international hacker of intrigue fantasy, but I think that even if he is, that mindset does more good for his caus
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by AndrewMoffat 16y ago
What's with all the jaded young adults on here and reddit blaming their shortcomings on being told that they were special? My take on it is this: "you're special" is not a declaration of your supposed super-human intellect or abilities, bu
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by AndrewMoffat 16y ago
Someone should have shaken the shit out of me when I was 18, forced me to go to a school with a normal gender ratio, and gotten me to strike while the iron was still hot Why is it someone else's responsibility to make you live your life t
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by AndrewMoffat 16y ago
one man's trash is another man's treasure :)
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by AndrewMoffat 16y ago
The conspiracy theorist in me agrees with you. The quality of these images are shit, and the first thing that came to my mind was "well these aren't so bad."
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by AndrewMoffat 16y ago
It's different because Paypal can't issue money, but Listia can.
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by AndrewMoffat 16y ago
Call me paranoid, but I'm wary of Listia. Who regulates the issuance of credits which are used to purchase actual goods? (answer: Listia) What legal repercussions are stopping them from issuing credits to whoever they want? (answer: none
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by AndrewMoffat 16y ago
Good idea with making the whole images clickable. Thanks for the feedback! I didn't really think about the posting time...d'oh
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Show HN: trendingpeople.com (Built and launched entirely last weekend)
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by AndrewMoffat 16y ago
That would be an interesting idea. It might be tricky to make sure that everyone understood that "Liking" now meant "donating", but maybe only if a user has added money to his "Like account" would it really change anyways. Then Facebook w
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by AndrewMoffat 16y ago
Sounds like a very difficult wall to get over. I imagine most people will hear about Flattr through a blog or some service accepting payments with it. Only if they're curious enough about it will they go find out what it is, and then once
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by AndrewMoffat 16y ago
I hate looking at people when I have crazy eyes...I get incredibly self conscious, because I'm sure that they think I look completely nuts. Squinting and claiming I'm really tired helps.
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by AndrewMoffat 16y ago
increased popularity has decreased the signal/noise ratio. just reverse the popularity :) or just make somewhere new to migrate to.
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by AndrewMoffat 16y ago
The decoy pricing plan was straight from Dan Ariely's Predictably Irrational , though he could've cited this. You can catch the gist of it from his TED talk: http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_ariely_asks_are_we_in_control_o... Starts around
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by AndrewMoffat 16y ago
Are you trying to get him into legal trouble?!? ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1791718 )
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by AndrewMoffat 16y ago
How about a vote-up mechanism to bring the most ridiculous patents to the top?
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by AndrewMoffat 16y ago
Well, I was having a good morning.
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I couldn't decide if the movie portrayed him as a sympathetic villain or a tragic hero. Probably more like a real life complicated person going through an amazing journey. I liked that too. A lot of the dynamics and relationships weren't
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by AndrewMoffat 16y ago
I don't really see how that could be. Zuck was using emacs, wget, and PHP is plausible ways to accomplish things that a tech-savvy viewer would see as realistic. In Swordfish, Jobson was visually programming a "hydra" matrix-textured rubi
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by AndrewMoffat 16y ago
I thought I agreed with the article until the last paragraph: There are FAR FAR FAR more jobs out there today for someone with the technical skills to build a SharePoint portal, or light up a CRM instance or build a bioinformatics database
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by AndrewMoffat 16y ago
Everyone wants to be a genius. And if they can't be, they want the comfort that it's because they're not trying hard enough. I've met some people who were just anomalies, whose brains worked in "genius mode" naturally, without much of what
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by AndrewMoffat 16y ago
Equivalent headline: "Tell HN: Every encrypted message is somewhat publicly accessible* *if you guess the key/password"
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> The truly brilliant people I know follow their passions, and usually make just enough money to do so, spending the rest of their energy on their actual passions. This sounds suspiciously like No True Scotsman
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by AndrewMoffat 16y ago
reddit.com?