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by Camillo 9y ago
> In hindsight I was probably wrong to pay homeless people to steal bikes. :D :D :D You don't say?
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by Camillo 9y ago
Have a look at the "Treatise" section of this page: http://wiktenauer.com/wiki/Fiore_de%27i_Liberi Expand one of the sections, like Grappling. Every move has a picture and an accompanying explanation. Nice!
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by Camillo 9y ago
"Wondrous", seriously? How can people be so brazenly self-laudatory?
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by Camillo 9y ago
But there's an opportunity cost. You pay a whole interdisciplinary committee to sit on their asses thinking about it for n weeks (I don't even want to know how long it took). You could take that money and use it on a million other
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by Camillo 9y ago
That whole effort was such a waste of time and money. If civilization collapses, what does it matter if the waste storage site is disturbed? It's not like it's going to be a threat to humanity. Without advanced technology, any dam
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by Camillo 9y ago
What were you working on at Google?
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by Camillo 9y ago
> I cannot stand people who complain when they live in a first world country. I find it so insulting for the entirety of the third world out there. Eh, at least people in the third world have a better future to look forward to. In the fi
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by Camillo 9y ago
This must have been an expensive production. They even got native English speakers to sing part of the OP, which is rare even today.
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by Camillo 9y ago
There's even a correlation between height and intelligence (presumably due to nutrition).
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by Camillo 9y ago
When you stay up late, does your girlfriend also stay up? If it were me, I would stay up after she went asleep just so I could get some alone time. Maybe it's the same for you.
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by Camillo 9y ago
May I ask you a question about your story in [0]? You said that you could not call anyone because you did not remember any numbers. Is that how it works? When they let you make a phone call after arrest, you can only call numbers you know b
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by Camillo 9y ago
This may be a banal point, but do you think the increasing concentration of wealth within the American upper class, with a simultaneous impoverishment of the middle class, is such a reverse wealth transfer?
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by Camillo 9y ago
Tokyo is the best.
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by Camillo 9y ago
How expensive is an electric bike? How do you keep it from getting stolen?
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by Camillo 9y ago
There should be a site where these actionable things are concisely listed. Not a HN comment, a real website. Maybe people could even sign up for emails whenever a new action item pops up. OTOH, many people here are not US citizens, so they
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by Camillo 9y ago
> they pushed outwards [...] into racial minority neighborhoods which didn't, at the time, have a legal mechanism to meaningfully resist. AFAIK in the boomer years the prevalent phenomenon was the opposite: minorities moving into fo
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by Camillo 9y ago
Ars Technica is tech Buzzfeed.
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by Camillo 9y ago
Women actually control the majority of discretionary spending, and not because they make more money. The fact that there is no contract does not mean the work is not compensated.
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by Camillo 9y ago
A gimmick can work in a place with a large population: even if most customers only go a couple of times, there's enough of them to keep the place running. But SF isn't that big.
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by Camillo 9y ago
If the toolbars, as is typical, end up hijacking the search engine, or injecting their own ads on pages, then Google loses money.
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by Camillo 9y ago
You are assuming that everyone is entitled to an equal share of the wealth of the world, irrespective of who produced it, and why. First, this is at least as strong an assumption as the just world hypothesis, and at least as poorly supporte
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by Camillo 9y ago
The last thing America needs is more college.
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by Camillo 9y ago
That assumes that the person's work has an inherent value, and further that this inherent value is equal to the highest amount it can be paid in any market. That hardly seems reasonable. Consider two countries, A and B. A has limited e
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by Camillo 9y ago
I think you're being actively uncharitable, but I'll offer the other cheek and agree to call that "misunderstanding" instead. My objection is to the use of the unemployment rate (as defined by most governments), not to t
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by Camillo 9y ago
"Culture" in American vernacular essentially means non-anglo food (90%) plus festivals and other folk things (10%). I know, it's weird.
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by Camillo 9y ago
Didn't most of those human rights improvements precede economic liberalization? People are talking as if China joined the WTO right after Mao's death. That's not how it went.
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by Camillo 9y ago
But it doesn't. Even the US is moving away from liberalism. Consider the increasing restrictions on and fading support for freedom of speech, the most fundamental of liberal values.
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by Camillo 9y ago
Funny how these spherical cow models of perfectly efficient and fungible markets end up justifying a huge and growing transfer of wealth from the productive part of the economy to pure (and literal) rent-seekers, which is perhaps the worst
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by Camillo 9y ago
Why do we even bother discussing the unemployment rate any more? It is now common knowledge that it does not include people who have given up on finding a job, people who are underemployed, people who went on disability as a replacement for
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by Camillo 10y ago
So the "m" glyph is half as wide as itself?

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