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by Snail_Commando 13y ago
I'm honestly baffled by the reaction to this. You're absolutely right that it is extremely clear. It says he is a director at the Center of Law and the Biomedical Sciences at the School of Law and that he is a Professor (by courte
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by Snail_Commando 13y ago
> "Hank Greely is not a "genetics prof", he is a bioethicist in Stanford's Law School. He doesn't develop new genetic technologies. This is like calling a film critic a director. http://www.law.stanfor
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by Snail_Commando 13y ago
There are already suggestions in this thread that are better than mine, but I'll still throw my hat in the ring. That's great that she's interested in biology. I'd like to gently suggest that if she "isn't very
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by Snail_Commando 13y ago
>"He became an investment banker." I'm not sure you actually understand what an investment banker is. >"He became a capitalist." Implying that somehow, after he sold his company and co-founded YC with his frie
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by Snail_Commando 13y ago
The author of Land of Lisp (an excellent and fun primer on writing games in Common Lisp) is both an MD and a hacker. Perhaps you could try to get in contact with him for advice.
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by Snail_Commando 13y ago
For those that don't know, Jason is the editor in chief of MIT Technology Review.
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by Snail_Commando 13y ago
It was renamed and became the basis of Yahoo! Store.
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Publishing frontiers: The library reboot(nature.com)
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How did the popular 'Proposition HN' idea turn out?
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by Snail_Commando 14y ago
Here, this map summary might help with your search a little. It should help if you are looking to live near SOMA but it also describes some SV neighborhoods as well. (I didn't make it, credit goes to Garry Tan) https://maps.google.com/maps
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by Snail_Commando 14y ago
Drew Houston posts here. In fact, he posted a few days ago.
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by Snail_Commando 14y ago
Hey! I played more and I found a bug. It's similar to a "no-clipping" cheat in a game like Doom. On at least two of the arena walls if you move backwards (via s-key) you can exit the 'game-verse' and shoot at players within the 'game-verse.
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by Snail_Commando 14y ago
I had fun messing around with your game! I'm not sure if I was playing against a person or bot (I'd like to think it was a person because I won.) I really liked the terrain you generated; I think it would be really cool if you could impleme
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by Snail_Commando 14y ago
At least as early as 2011 [1], the 500 shareholder rule [2], when applied in the case of Facebook, meant that Facebook had to start reporting financials to the SEC. Although they were not necessarily obligated to go public, they were effect
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by Snail_Commando 14y ago
I was guessing you didn't mean that, that part of the response was in the context of the parent comment. I wasn't entirely clear, I'm sorry. ------- As far as "A-Levels" banding together to get hired, I'm not totally sure where I stand afte
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by Snail_Commando 14y ago
My guess is that a good group of people not already at a company would more likely want to work together, for themselves. Also, it would probably send a bad signal if the head of a startup started posting groups of his employees up for sale
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by Snail_Commando 14y ago
That was a really interesting post, thanks. Anecdotally, how would you characterize the distribution of risk aversion of the younger folks? (ie, engineers vs hard sciences vs social sciences vs business, humanities etc.) Or rather, is it ev
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Ask PG: If Viaweb hadn't worked out, what would you have likely done next?
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The Scale of the Universe(htwins.net)
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Ask HN: What are the current limitations of panoramic video software?
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by Snail_Commando 14y ago
Apparently, about 80% of Dell revenue comes from product(PCs, peripherals, servers, and some consumer electronics.) The remaining 20% or so comes from services (including software.) What I was trying to say is that I don't really see what i
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by Snail_Commando 14y ago
A 20 Billion market cap is quite large, even with so much cash on hand, it would still likely take several PE firms to team up and take it private. It would amount to one of the largest PE deals in history. I don't think taking the company
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by Snail_Commando 15y ago
"Guns, Germs, and Steel" is excellent. I don't think the synopsis really did it justice. Diamond supported his thesis very well, while it could have benefited from some environmental feedback information, on the time scales he was examining