JDGM

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by JDGM 13y ago
Aha! I think it is 250. I recently passed that, and after your post clicked my username to check...voila it's there. This will keep me amused for the next 2~20 minutes.
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by JDGM 13y ago
"Slowbanning is what it sounds like - the site will be slower for you, sometimes just a little and sometimes a lot. The idea there is to subconsciously encourage you to visit the site less and to contribute less when you do." That's hyster
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by JDGM 13y ago
Right. I feel we're talking past each other a bit here. The topic is titled "Ask HN: What are the HN karmic privileges/penalties?" - this question is reasonably answered by returning a list akin to the following: "Comment Downvote, Poll Cre
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by JDGM 13y ago
Is that the latest source? I didn't realise it was available but when searching HN before posting the topic I did find https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=853964 ("Tell HN: How to find karma thresholds in the HN source code") so perhaps
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by JDGM 13y ago
"Nobody could make a list since as you yourself said it changes day by day." Not quite. I'm asking what the privileges/penalties are , which I believe can be listed. An additional second column for the accompanying thresholds, sure, they
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Ask HN: What are the HN karmic privileges/penalties?
30 points by JDGM 13y ago|52 comments
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by JDGM 13y ago
Indeed, I really enjoyed that bit. I hope Rainn did get a Tesla for it but, well, that would be pretty ridiculous wouldn't it. More likely than the $1.3billion loan, though!
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by JDGM 13y ago
Three things I want to say in this comment with the submission: 1.) The interview starts 31 seconds into the video, here: http://youtu.be/Ns0IHCj2q-E?t=31s . 2.) It's from over a month ago but I simply cannot find it on here as having been
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Elon Musk Interview by Rainn Wilson ("Metaphysical Milkshake" show)(youtube.com)
4 points by JDGM 13y ago|3 comments
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by JDGM 13y ago
What I found so interesting about this post is how neutrally Kottke presents it, when I was expecting something that would sway me in some direction. You're absolutely right about how unremarkable the comments are, I finished reading the en
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by JDGM 13y ago
I didn't think I was going to like this from the opening paragraph but she quickly won me over. My take away is "You are not Steve Jobs. You are not a massive arsehole!" - pretty much in agreement with calinet6. However, actually it's a lot
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by JDGM 13y ago
Too late for my wall post, but so obvious now you post it!
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by JDGM 13y ago
Thank you, I did not know that and a quick google gives me plenty of links to start on. It reminds me of when I was a "Cub", we had a couple of girl members and several female leaders. I didn't think anything of it at the time but I remembe
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A pair of 2011 blog comments by "Dzhokhar Tsarnaev"(kottke.org)
2 points by JDGM 13y ago|2 comments
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by JDGM 13y ago
I have a friend who is very active in guiding in the UK (a "Brown Owl", I think?!) and my first instinct upon reading this was to copy the link and paste it on her Facebook wall with a positive, encouraging comment about how cool it is. I g
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by JDGM 13y ago
I submitted this thinking "I wonder what the posters on HN have to say?", as there are always good insights here and I don't really know what I make of it myself, other than (possibly in poor taste) finding it hilarious, a la Krusty's portr
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'Disabled' Gamer Banned from Twitch.tv After Standing Up Mid Stream(gameskinny.com)
47 points by JDGM 13y ago|16 comments
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by JDGM 13y ago
Good reply. The feet on the table did occur to me as one which I could have the wrong way around and while only "slightly wired to predict that feet are smelly or covered in dirt" may be true (seems unintuitive to me though), I think the pe
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by JDGM 13y ago
Something I find immensely troubling about these studies is that examples of high status body language are frequently things that I personally find extremely obnoxious or social-norm breakingly rude, to the point that I have often called pe
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by JDGM 13y ago
Thanks, got it!
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by JDGM 13y ago
A fascinating comment, and now I want to watch the documentary! Could you clarify: "wooing consumers with short-lived products instead of forcing them (reminds me of STEAM)" There might be a typo or I might just be not reading it right, but
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by JDGM 14y ago
I don't know. It was one of those comments that started as one thing and by the end I'd basically persuaded myself of quite the opposite. The turning point I think was getting used to the idea of <1500 worldwide billionaires. For some r
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by JDGM 14y ago
"Could you elaborate on how Katja's idea in the OB post might be used here?" Exactly in the way you describe. I was indeed using it to support the OP and not myself: "I'm not sure which of us is right, quite possibly the author and not me -
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by JDGM 14y ago
I assume that we're taking Elon Musk's "Tony Stark"-ness in this context to mean electric cars, space travel, and solar power. To the best of my knowledge he is neither an alcoholic nor a superhero, though I did just look up his marital his
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by JDGM 14y ago
Thanks, that's a great demonstration of confronting the argument head on, and well-explained to boot. One comment I would make on what you have said is that I think Phillips does understand how chip music is made and you have misunderstoo
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by JDGM 14y ago
What was it specifically that made you angry? I enjoy chiptune music and listened to some of the linked samples thinking they were pretty good, but I still found the level of boldness in his "assessment of Kind of Bloop and the chiptune sce
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by JDGM 14y ago
Pretty much the whole thing was gold IMO :) Discussion at the time, here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4621731 .
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by JDGM 14y ago
I love this, but I was a little disappointed it wasn't a joke article. Read the right (wrong) way that title has the vibe of a sarcastic HN-bait parody. Maybe the immense laughter I got from this a few months ago seeded the thought of HN sp
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by JDGM 14y ago
My headmaster in primary school once gave a great assembly on keelhauling where he went into all the gory details of this punishment. As an 8 year old boy, I was gripped. The part which has really stayed with me is that he said the only off
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by JDGM 14y ago
Whenever Anonymous attacks, one of the top posts is a reasonable argument such as yours here that it is not helping matters, and I pretty much always find myself in agreement (e.g. wrt SOPA/PIPA last year). So I'm curious about: "Most of th

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