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by Towle_ 17y ago
It's not about how many startups Indiana has. It's about Lugar.
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by Towle_ 17y ago
This is the source of the "ideas aren't important" and/or "ideas are a dime-a-dozen" and/or "idea guys are worthless" mindset(s). The trick is to be able to differentiate between movements (in the phrasing of Weinberg's post) and powder keg
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I was amazed as well...but moreso infuriated. I was at a friend's place when I realized the game was starting soon and flipped to NBC. We watched about 20 minutes of skiing and figure skating before concluding that it couldn't be on that st
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by Towle_ 17y ago
"Boreout is a management theory that posits that lack of work, boredom, and consequent lack of satisfaction are a common malaise affecting individuals working in modern organizations, especially in office-based white collar jobs. This theo
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by Towle_ 17y ago
"Welcome! To the World of Tomorroooww!"
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by Towle_ 17y ago
Because most people who declare themselves to be in an open relationship on Fb aren't in an open relationship. It's most often done just for the sake of being silly or telling everyone who your "BFF" is. The latter is more likely the closer
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by Towle_ 17y ago
"We already have methodology for measuring the happiness of Facebook users: by considering how many positive words people use in their status updates (see the USA Gross National Happiness Index). This method allows us to see whether a pers
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by Towle_ 17y ago
Bing must use this plan of attack. It's by far the smartest approach (of those I can think of, anyway). Hear me out: Bing's presumed goal: overtake Google on a global scale, right? At first glance, it may look like they're ignoring the wo
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by Towle_ 17y ago
Many of Steve Blank's posts are extremely illuminating. Others are very... here's-a-teaser-now-buy-my-book . I see this one as the latter.
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by Towle_ 17y ago
Unsurprising that this article earned four (now five) comments from HN readers, whereas "lisp vs. language x" articles merit dozens.
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by Towle_ 17y ago
All other things are never equal.
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by Towle_ 17y ago
Every one of your listed false predictions held within it an inherently great value to prove wrong, a value so enormous and ungodly that anywhere from thousands to billions of spirited men and women pushed everything else in their lives asi
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by Towle_ 17y ago
>So I suppose ... anyone who claims Shakespeare can be appreciated in anything but English is just "lying to himself and others" (as you said in an earlier post). It cannot be appreciated to the same degree, no. Just as a 6-year-old can
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by Towle_ 17y ago
Whatever. Democratic fallacy realized. Moving on with my life.
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by Towle_ 17y ago
Fed pushes interest rates far below natural levels --> flood of easy credit into the hands of those who, regardless of work ethic, merit as human beings, etc., just can't afford it --> loans don't get paid back --> banks don't h
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by Towle_ 17y ago
> Lojban unleashes the full potential of poetic expression Whoever wrote that is lying to himself and others. Please refer to my lower post (the one containing "wherefore art thou Romeo?") for a partial but sufficient explanation.
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by Towle_ 17y ago
Any language's poetry draws its meaning, its form, its essence from the words of those millions of people who expressed their ideas and themselves in that language. No contrived language is ever going to be able to express a thought with th
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by Towle_ 17y ago
And p.s.-- that's not poetry, it's "poetry"
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by Towle_ 17y ago
Thanks for proving my point about ambiguity.
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by Towle_ 17y ago
> one of the things I treasure most about our squishy human languages is how much ambiguity they contain Agreed. Designed languages lack...poetry.
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by Towle_ 17y ago
Kill the Fed.
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by Towle_ 17y ago
Lady Gaga is such a uniquely positioned figure in music, and you have to give her all the credit for that. What she has been able to do with her image would be a remarkable accomplishment for a career of effort; to do the same in such a sho
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by Towle_ 17y ago
Jobs gone forever? That's depressing news. If only there were a way to make more. I mean actually make more, not just tax the people with jobs so you can hire and pay the people who don't have jobs to do work nobody really needs them to do.
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by Towle_ 17y ago
(Until we get that micropayment setup going, I'm going to need your home address to send these two pennies in return for your two thoughts. Or...if you deem it an agreeable alternative, I'll just give you my "two cents" instead.) Yeah, that
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A Penny For Your Thoughts: Compatability of Open Source and my (future) Startup
1 points by Towle_ 17y ago|3 comments
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by Towle_ 17y ago
This is the first blog post (or article or anything) which perfectly captured my own feelings on the subject of the iPad. Thanks to Rory Marinich for writing it. Great piece. I had been dragging my feet about writing down my own thoughts, f
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by Towle_ 17y ago
"[I]ts similarities ... are beyond the realm of coincidence." Though certainly far from their most avid reader, I must say I generally enjoy reading Wired 's content quite a bit. That gem right there, however, made me want to throw up. Is
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In related news, marathons have a minimum of ~2 hours of action. It would seem that length and/or amount of action does not necessarily correlate with average spectator enthusiasm/excitement. Who knew?
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"But let's also be honest and say that Flash is the reason we all have fast, reliable, ubiquitous online video today. It's the reason that YouTube took off & video consumption exploded four years ago. It's the reason we have Hulu, Vimeo
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by Towle_ 17y ago
>I was hoping to ride the twitter tersity trend :-) Mc_Big_G's advice notwithstanding (actually, my initial reaction is to agree with him...let's see if that feeling lasts-- as I grab at my own gaseous thoughts and force them to solidif

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