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by alexophile 16y ago
Looking at the worldwide list it seems like access to healthcare plays a really strong part... which I guess makes sense if you're calling your metric "Livability"
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by alexophile 16y ago
Tom Hanks is a talented actor that went on to produce/direct - I think a very fair comparison would be someone like Paul Buchheit. I'm not going to go around asking, but I think it's safe to assume my sample would have no idea who he is. Th
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by alexophile 16y ago
Update: I asked some people in my office if they've heard of Mark Zuckerberg - 100% had and could identify him as 'the facebook guy.' Same question with Sergey Brin and Larry Page - crickets.
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by alexophile 16y ago
>I watched Social Network for the second time today, and it got me thinking. Entrepreneurs are no different than struggling actors. Didn't we already collectively agree that the events depicted in the Social Network were more Hollywood
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by alexophile 16y ago
>you could visit places long before you were "meant" by mountain climbing with stairways constructed from objects out of your inventory (my favourite was using books and loaves of bread). This was significantly more meaningful in Ultima
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by alexophile 16y ago
That last category is really telling. Successfully integrating your tastes into the user experience seems to elude pretty much all music players that make a go at it (excluding Pandora, which does exclusively that.) I think this is largely
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by alexophile 16y ago
The mobile app does have the "artist radio" function, but there's still some kinks that need to be worked out of it (goes for desktop and mobile) There's also "recommendations" which I assume uses the same data to provide 1:1 recommendation
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by alexophile 16y ago
And in 06, you may have had to work a little harder to find reddit.
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by alexophile 16y ago
/r/ is, I think, the defining quality of reddit - it's a very elegant solution to the (x) is turning into (y) problem. /r/truereddit is already a pretty strong contingent of people pining for 06 reddit. But when all the cool redditors start
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by alexophile 16y ago
I expect we'll have to agree to disagree on this, but there's a case to be made that it objectively damages you. Consider this question on Quora: http://www.quora.com/Why-did-DuckDuckGo-block-Mahalo-com You are one of the closest concei
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by alexophile 16y ago
Social/crowdsourced companies do this all the time, they just don't have such sophisticated software. But that's hardly an inconceivable jump - I would certainly not be surprised to see a number of in-house versions of this at work all over
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by alexophile 16y ago
Jason: don't take this as a personal attack, but proofreading is your friend. I know you're a busy person, but it seems like more often than not I have to reread your copy because you didn't.
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by alexophile 16y ago
Looks excellent. One thing that would be way cool is Basecamp integration, like syncing milestones/to-dos to your inbox.
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by alexophile 16y ago
Fine with me - everything gets spin-friendly nicknames in the media, it's just apalling when that's allowed to be absorbed into the system itself. What really bothers me is that the lines separating media, commerce, and legislation have bee
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by alexophile 16y ago
"Researchers have recently uncovered what appears to be a site of significant religious importance in the region of the ancient Mojave Desert. Human remains were found scattered around a central monument believed to have been used for sacri
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by alexophile 16y ago
I guess this was the answer to my question: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2149968
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by alexophile 16y ago
Who downvoted this? That's not cool. Asking for an explanation is always ok. Anyways, Yuri Milner (with Ron Conway) recently announced a blanket offer to all YC companies: $150k in no cap convertible debt. The title could have been to a sto
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by alexophile 16y ago
I was kind of hoping this would be a story of Yuri Milner tracking down the one that got away.
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by alexophile 16y ago
Right, I didn't mean to imply that this was deliberately misleading, just that I would imagine these things to be far more useful internally than to the casual observer. (i.e. it would be great for spotting consistent sore spots and the lik
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by alexophile 16y ago
Do you publish response rates? Things like this always scream selection bias to me. If it were, say 90/7/3, but it took 300 interactions to get 100 responses, that seems like a misrepresentation. That being said - I really appreciate the i
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by alexophile 16y ago
In many ways, I think that's already what it is. HN was created to, and still does, serve the purposes of YC. I don't know where the money comes from to keep it up and running, but I would imagine it's part of the YC operating budget. In sh
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by alexophile 16y ago
If they want to do that, then they should have avoided "pad." They can't come out with a "touchPhone" or a "touchPod" without looking like they're trying to imitate Apple. Not that HP/Palm don't deserve some creedence, but I would never re
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by alexophile 16y ago
Does anyone else think this is a terrible name? For me at least, this brings up an image of the trackpad on my laptop - which is... imperfect at best. Aside from that, it just seems horribly generic. Touch? Pad? That's all you have to say a
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by alexophile 16y ago
Right, I think that's more because, at the time, it wasn't all that bad to refer to women pejoratively.
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by alexophile 16y ago
I was under the impression that the only way to use "broad" non-pejoratively is in reference to the actual breadth of something. That being said, sometimes it's safer to study abroad from afar.
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by alexophile 16y ago
In my (biased, but well-founded) experience, it comes down to a question of whether I'd rather be distracted by a cute girl or an old man getting reprimanded for looking at dirty pictures. [bg: I really like libraries - worked at one in the
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by alexophile 16y ago
What I don't understand about all this is why there isn't a way to use these clearly failing schools for experiments in alternative styles of education. Say what you will about things like voluntary attendance, but when your school is des
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by alexophile 16y ago
He wrote criticisms of just about every major western belief system - if you take into account his larger body of work, saying he was anti-this or anti-that just seems disingenuous. Much of what he wrote was criticism for its own sake becau
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by alexophile 16y ago
I wasn't trying to reduce his criticisms to adolescent jabs - I have great respect for his analysis. But he occasionally gets a little carried away and takes an unnecessary pot shot. They're symptomatic of his sort of unique brand of narcis
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by alexophile 16y ago
I like that comparison, he is kind of the troll of philosophical history. The interesting thing about Nietzsche, though (esepecially in Geneaology ) is that he takes on so many different voices to address different existing philosophies s

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