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by PaperclipTaken 14y ago
First I want to remember that Bitcoin cost $10 less 24 hours before the $30 plunge than it did afterwards. Having said that, I don't believe that it will go back up, most speculators will probably be ready to sell after today. It's also har
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by PaperclipTaken 14y ago
There are several factors driving the bitcoin prices up, including people from European countries converting their money to bitcoin because it makes it harder to seize. But since the beginning of the year bitcoin has doubled nearly 3 times,
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Bitcoin up 15+ percent in 1 day(mtgox.com)
48 points by PaperclipTaken 14y ago|56 comments
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by PaperclipTaken 14y ago
I normally hold the philosophy that a person should not recieve health care unless there is money to pay for them, and I woudn't ever advocate that someone donate to a charity like that. Life is hard and not everybody can make it. But the s
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by PaperclipTaken 14y ago
I have tried to quit porn before. In high school I tried very hard, for religious reasons. I never succeeded. In college I got to the point where 2 30-90 minute sessions daily was the norm. I then tried to quit again. I went 5 days, and the
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by PaperclipTaken 14y ago
This sounds compelling but I'm not willing to trust it. Where did you get this information?
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by PaperclipTaken 14y ago
I had never even heard of Aaron Swartz before today. But hearing about his death hurts. The first I saw that that he was a confounder to Reddit. But what really got me was discovering that at the age of 14 he participated in writing RSS, an
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by PaperclipTaken 14y ago
They project each frame 3 times so that your eye can't pick up flicker from the light going on and off. I'd imagine that at the full 72fps it would not be necessary to flash each frame 3 times. Finding a 'framerate' for the eye is difficult
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by PaperclipTaken 14y ago
The article is very hyperbolic, and I don't think that the author meant to say that networking is unimportant. I think he was trying to say that your friends are more important for determining your success than your network. And I agree wit
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by PaperclipTaken 14y ago
"48fps is just above the threshold that the human eye/brain can detect changes" No, it's not. The actual threshold is unknown, but it's generally assumed to be around 100fps. Like the threshold for color, it's a complex question. You don't
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by PaperclipTaken 14y ago
It reminds me of the quote from Lincoln. (paraphrasing) "Just because we know which direction is true north doesn't mean we should instantly head full speed in that direction, for we risk getting stopped by impassible obstacles." We live in
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by PaperclipTaken 14y ago
One question that's come up for me a number of times in the past 2 years or so is "how permanent does a healthy relationship need to be?" Traditional values suggest that "'til death do us part" is the desired level of permanence, but as a s
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by PaperclipTaken 14y ago
It's hard to expect him (looking at the child growing up, and the kid in college less than the adult) to know how to balance work and entertainment when he was never taught these things. Discipline isn't something that you are born with, an
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by PaperclipTaken 14y ago
I used to struggle with the same thing. Always being told that I was special. Graduating at the top 2% of my high school, slated for MIT, "you'll go far kid." But here I am, feeling normal and useless. I lead a moderate sized club at RPI, b
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by PaperclipTaken 14y ago
This is a concept that I find myself continuously in love with. As ahi points out, it comes up every few years and never seems to go anywhere, but something like an airborne luxury craft sounds like a fun vacation. You couldn't have all of
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by PaperclipTaken 14y ago
I am worried about adding another metric to the way that we measure performance in schools. It's already been shown that there are problems with the standardized tests. Not that they are terrible things, but students in the US tend to disag
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by PaperclipTaken 14y ago
It's an interesting visualization, but it doesn't really seem to highlight anything new about the way prime numbers are structured. It's difficult to make connections between the spiral and the prime numbers, because the red pieces don't ge
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Rick Falkvinge: Child Porn Laws Are Worse Than You Think(falkvinge.net)
13 points by PaperclipTaken 14y ago|5 comments
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by PaperclipTaken 14y ago
As other people have pointed out, this isn't so much true as popular belief might suggest. There are people out there who enjoy watching death, but most of the content comes from pre-existing stuff (security cameras, and deaths that were fi
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Ask HN: How can I learn to code in a practical environment?
7 points by PaperclipTaken 14y ago|10 comments
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Spinning Heatsink Cools CPU 30x more efficiently.(gizmodo.com.au)
7 points by PaperclipTaken 14y ago|0 comments
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by PaperclipTaken 14y ago
I particularly like the comment about discipline. I've read the arguments that we are in a current period of technological stagnation, and if that is actually the case I think one of the big detractors is our lower levels of discipline comp
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by PaperclipTaken 14y ago
I'm 19, and I work with kids in 2 primary settings: Sunday School at my church (2 hours a week all through high school, maybe 100 different kids total), and as a martial arts instructor (~3-7 hours per week all through high school, 500+ dif
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by PaperclipTaken 14y ago
The article is far from complete enough to make a judgement of the parents, but it's possible to be a bad/impatient/non-understanding/etc. parent while still being loving, trying to do the best, and not being abusive in any sense that would
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by PaperclipTaken 14y ago
Generally by brainwashing, I refer to things like media stereotypes. While religion can have a very brainwashing effect, it really depends on the institution.
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by PaperclipTaken 14y ago
In my rather controversial yet experienced opinion (I work with many kids), these kids develop the way they do as a result of bad parenting and improper/inadequate attention from adults. The majority of kids who display anti-social behavior
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by PaperclipTaken 14y ago
If this is true (and it might be), it would be only because most adults are completely oblivious when it comes to children. Adults in our society are notoriously good at seeing only what they want to see (I'm not talking about the HN type o
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by PaperclipTaken 14y ago
Theoretically, anything that has energy can be turned into food. We can turn sunlight into electricity, and I'm certain that we can change it back as well, if we are desperate enough. At the end of the day, food is a complex set of molecule
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Can Going Without Money Hurt the Economy?(gma.yahoo.com)
1 points by PaperclipTaken 14y ago|0 comments
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by PaperclipTaken 14y ago
There's a big difference in how students are taught and what students are thought to think from school to school, which is mostly correlated with income bracket. It's not that our leadership structure or general society has this 'keep the p

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