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by JohnnyBrown 16y ago
there are vaguely habitable houses available in my neighborhood (seventh ward new orleans) for 50k or even less
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by JohnnyBrown 16y ago
Agreed. The white male info made me think "divorced 30-45 yo professional type" quite distinctly. (I'm a young white guy). Also, I bet this thread will get seriously contentious if not for the fact that the HN audience was depicted quite we
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by JohnnyBrown 16y ago
Yes, we need to teach children to recall certain facts and apply various algorithms. The great thing about imagination, though, is that we can dream of a world where we are taught these things without being trained to submit to authority or
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by JohnnyBrown 16y ago
Exactly the rant I intended to write. Seeing that attitude presented as anything other than pure self-interest makes me sick.
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by JohnnyBrown 16y ago
Two contradicting trends in advertising to men (and culture) i've noticed lately: Classic masculinity, of which this Old Spice campaign is an example. See also the Dos Equis guy, the sudden popularity of mustaches, steampunk, etc. Homoeroti
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by JohnnyBrown 16y ago
So . . . The iATM?
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by JohnnyBrown 16y ago
What time of day were those questions asked?
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by JohnnyBrown 16y ago
Remember when facebook introduced the option to show limited profiles to certain people? I liked the concept but it was clumsy to use and it was clear to the other party what I was doing. In fact, the reason I switched to facebook originall
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by JohnnyBrown 16y ago
Also crashes safari on iPhone. What gives?
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by JohnnyBrown 16y ago
Consider New Orleans. It's a bikeable, walkable city where one can get by for very little. Not the biggest tech city in the US but loads of culture and if you're considering moving to the wilderness that's probably not a big deal for you. A
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by JohnnyBrown 16y ago
Sure, this is being proposed by clueless incompetents. But the worrisome thing is that they are wealthy powerful clueless incompetents backed by people with guns, and this is the world they want to live in.
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by JohnnyBrown 16y ago
The Dunning-Kruger effect: If you aren't practicing it, start.
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by JohnnyBrown 16y ago
The product is made by people whose profession is internet marketing. I'm inclined to think that "scammy" style is what sells, to judge by how often it pops up.
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by JohnnyBrown 16y ago
I suppose solving that problem is the holy grail of dating sites
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by JohnnyBrown 16y ago
If only the tea party crowd would get worked up about this issue - seems like the perfect overlap of "stuff the right loves to throw fits over" and "actually matters"
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by JohnnyBrown 16y ago
How is this anything more than a correlation? I saw nothing at all in support of a causal link.
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by JohnnyBrown 16y ago
the most interesting part is at the very tip of the inverted pyramid: "The scientists also trained another group of people on the same game, but with a twist. They put a battery on top of the head of each subject, sending a small current th
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Now charlatans will know to beware the geeks(guardian.co.uk)
5 points by JohnnyBrown 16y ago|0 comments
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Inside India’s Rent-A-Womb Business(motherjones.com)
1 points by JohnnyBrown 17y ago|0 comments
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by JohnnyBrown 17y ago
First, I freely admit this is probably not even a meaningful comparison, I'm just gloating. I'm a student (CS major) at a mediocre school in a tourist city. I live within walking distance of the bar I work at, and school is a 20 min bike ri
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by JohnnyBrown 17y ago
if you suffer from the action of a stupid person, you have participated in an interaction where both you and the other party lost. By the author's definition, you are stupid.
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by JohnnyBrown 17y ago
"biometric scanners and automatic timeclocks on all personal computers" is what they are building. I work in a strip club that has this.
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by JohnnyBrown 17y ago
"I'm reasonably happy, but the money's not the point. It's an indication that I've succeeded in the grand adventure of understanding reality." -George Soros The way I look at it, making money is a great competition because it has the larges
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by JohnnyBrown 17y ago
Dear "Young Bride": as it is 1890, I'm pretty sure I can legally beat you. Try this on me and I will.
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by JohnnyBrown 17y ago
clearly a joke.
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by JohnnyBrown 17y ago
For better or worse, "beware the coming fascism/totalitarianism" seems to be a topic that consistently gets upvoted here. Extra points if it involves IP.
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by JohnnyBrown 17y ago
A solid business article. but see if you can spot the exact point it becomes a HN article: >"In the last 20 years you have focused too much on banking and finance. The best students went to banks or law firms. Where are the engineers?"
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by JohnnyBrown 17y ago
The sharp ones get a different lesson from high school algebra: Apply your mind, find the pattern, and you'll get better results out of less work than everyone else.
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by JohnnyBrown 17y ago
I think the tradesman analogy is good, but the future programming career may have elements of the starving artist in it as well. Working for free to build a portfolio is a feature typical of creative trades that would be foreign to an archi
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by JohnnyBrown 17y ago
The declaration of independence also calls for violent revolution as a means to obtain a more ideal society

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