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by Towle_ 16y ago
If you don't have any dependents, you should quit. I could spit out a bunch of mundane platitudes to support that suggestion, like "In life, you never regret the things you do; you regret the things you don't do" or "You have to do what you
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by Towle_ 16y ago
A meta-comment on the article: Apple-centric observers weren't the only ones to get the facts wrong, and phrasing like that title is only used to make a point. This implies that non-Apple-centric observers got the facts right. I don't know
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Are We Living Inside A Black Hole?(washingtonpost.com)
10 points by Towle_ 16y ago|2 comments
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by Towle_ 16y ago
I would love to know what claim the author is trying to make with this. The $35k-100k bracket and $100k+ bracket are almost exactly the same in every area other than parent income/savings. Essentially, the way the "rich" pay for college is
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by Towle_ 16y ago
I understand. In death, a member of Project Mayhem has a name. His name is Robert Paulson.
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by Towle_ 16y ago
Old Media: "Newsflash! Certain categories of so-called 'New Media' remain unproven as business models!" What are you trying to say, NYT? ;)
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by Towle_ 16y ago
Crap. I thought that was cool until you informed me it was already a thing.
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by Towle_ 16y ago
I demand to know whether the 7/30-7:30 thing was intentional or mere coincidence.
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by Towle_ 16y ago
A productivity gem from Jerry Seinfeld, heavily paraphrased. For anything you wish you were doing every day, like working out or practicing violin or working on your startup: Get a big, yearlong calendar and put it on a wall in your bedroom
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by Towle_ 16y ago
Wovon man nicht sprechen kann...
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by Towle_ 16y ago
"Authorities in Washington, DC are reportedly worried about DST’s latest acquisition: ICQ, an instant-messaging service previously owned by AOL." Living near Langley, I've heard from a few different people who work at the "state department"
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by Towle_ 16y ago
Truth. That's exactly what it is. Personally, I only remember seeing falling blocks in my head, never looking at buildings at fitting them together, as referenced by the Wikipedia article. You're so old school, by the way. Haha. Nobody arou
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by Towle_ 16y ago
NONE of those theories are the reason. And frankly, I find it worrisome none of these guys can even come close. Studying methods becoming more efficient? C'mon, dude. There's a great scene in the movie Orange County (Colin Hanks, Jack Black
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by Towle_ 16y ago
Look, these all sound like fine programs, unto themselves. But I find this column itself odd. The author lists different statistics and percentages which demonstrate an uneven male/female distribution within the field. Conspicuously absen
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by Towle_ 16y ago
It should be noted that many of the big names who claim ideas are worthless have a vested interest in you believing that.
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by Towle_ 16y ago
This is like Dade County all over again.
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by Towle_ 16y ago
A relative of mine works as a database administrator making $120k/year and lacks fluency in HTML/CSS. By contrast, Google regularly comes under fire for underpaying their employees, and their average employees are more talented than those o
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by Towle_ 16y ago
When consumers make the decision to purchase Hulu Plus, they won't be thinking about it in comparison to cable. They'll be comparing it to free Hulu, at it will lose. Sidenote: Cable comes on a TV; Hulu comes on a computer. Does this matter
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by Towle_ 16y ago
I don't think your co-workers realize just how fast they're going to run out of things to watch. The thinking is likely, "Whole seasons will be like 5x better than just 5 trailing episodes!" But the thing is, you were already getting the wh
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by Towle_ 16y ago
This just plain isn't good enough. Nobody is going to look at Netflix ($9/month) and Hulu Plus and pick the latter. They're being way too stingy with content. Give it all up, or go home.
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by Towle_ 16y ago
"How an Economy Grows and Why It Doesn't" by Irwin Schiff. http://www.scribd.com/doc/8009736/Irwin-Schiff-How-an-Econom...
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by Towle_ 16y ago
I don't understand why the two categories are being contrasted against each other as though one cannot be both. Wouldn't many highly successful founders later become financiers as well? If the root of this discussion is indeed which paths a
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by Towle_ 16y ago
I like the concept, but I think they missed some of the best jokes. "A group of American football experts claim to have scored the exact same number of 'goals' as their Slovenian counterparts, despite what many believe to be a computational
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by Towle_ 16y ago
Well then you're an Obamabot/Palinist and you're blind as a bat, drinking all your Kool-aid, pulling the wool over your own eyes. Commie. Seriously though, this is a great read.
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by Towle_ 16y ago
Title: Intrinsic Motivation Doesn't Exist, Researcher Says. Researcher: "But there is no real evidence that intrinsic motivation even exists." These are different.
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by Towle_ 16y ago
See quotes? See Declaration of Independence. For anyone who hasn't read the full document in a while, a close read probably the best way you could spend the next 10 minutes of your life. http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/document/index.
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by Towle_ 16y ago
"I think this administration, like every other administration, is driven to distraction by leaking,” Mr. Aftergood [the head of the FAS project on government secrecy] said. “And Congress wants a few scalps, too. On a bipartisan basis, they
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by Towle_ 17y ago
A thought occurs: Congress should stop incentivizing people to buy homes they can't afford.
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by Towle_ 17y ago
Uh...math "expert"? Let's try a different word, NYT.
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by Towle_ 17y ago
Maybe it's just me, but I'd be more concerned with kicking ass than how many other girls there are doing what you do.

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