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by alexophile 16y ago
If you come from a solid grounding in (specifically Greek) philosophy, the concepts and questions Pirsig raises are familiar, but for me the way he addressed them seemed much less self-indulgent. Greek philosophers were public intellect
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by alexophile 16y ago
When I was interviewing a founder at SpiderOak, he mentioned that they did this for some bigger clients (complete with zero-knowledge encryption) to get them up and running faster.
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by alexophile 16y ago
Reminds me of pgs "Fundrising Survival Guide": "More often than not the company comes to a standstill while raising money. And that is dangerous for so many reasons. Raising money always takes longer than you expect. What seems like it's g
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by alexophile 16y ago
...unless you're dealing with the government, banks, or car dealerships.
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by alexophile 16y ago
I'm curious as to why this necessitates a new app. Justin.tv is a pretty strong brand, why not wrap this functionality into the existing app? Not that I would do it differently, there's dozens of reasons, but it's a blog post I would want
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by alexophile 16y ago
I signed up for LinkedIn probably 4 years ago or so, and all it's really done for me since is notify me by email when all the business school grads I've ever met discover LinkedIn.
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by alexophile 16y ago
ahh. Guess I missed that in the link title. It would still be nice to see on the landing page, though.
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by alexophile 16y ago
Landing page would benefit from some additional information... specifically, where the conference is taking place.
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by alexophile 16y ago
I think my real problem with all this really comes out when he mentions the Kurt Wise case: "Although there are scientific reasons for accepting a young earth, I am a young-age creationist because that is my understanding of the Scripture.
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by alexophile 16y ago
A fun side-story: There was a question on Quora recently - "Why did Duck Duck Go Block Mahalo.com?" and Jason Calacanis, of course, felt it necessary to weigh in. I had to read this response twice, assuming there was some intended irony: "
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by alexophile 16y ago
Seems plausible. http://www.artandpopularculture.com/Pritzker_family
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by alexophile 16y ago
I have an 07 Honda and the dealer (and I believe the owner's manual) specifically instructed against any ethanol. Unfortunately, I'm also supposed to avoid anything above 87 octane... Basically, I just have to go around Iowa.
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Cool, Artistic Book/Exhibit About the Lives of Marie and Pierre Curie (nypl.org)
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by alexophile 16y ago
Disagreed. I think everyone has the potential for creativity, it just gets scared out of us as we grow up. Teaching someone to paint or take well-structured photographs is pretty much trivial as long as they put in the effort. And once you
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by alexophile 16y ago
An interesting addendum: John Maloof, who 'dicovered' her work, as it were, decided to try and locate her after some time. His search turned up her obituary. It had been posted the previous day.
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by alexophile 16y ago
Before I decided to start meditating, I read a ton of material on how and why to do it and none of it really stuck. So instead, I just sat down on the floor and started thinking. At first, it was just free-association. I would let my mind
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by alexophile 16y ago
I remember a friend of mine having to get on AIM on his phone to tell people not to text him because he was over his limit. It's really amazing how quickly and firmly "Our bill this month is how much because of unexpected overage charges?
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by alexophile 16y ago
Learn to write! And not just in the baseline required rhetoric class that require little more than a pulse and a spellchecker - find a composition course that will actually demand something of you. Fiction writing, poetry, etc., something
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by alexophile 16y ago
I had been working face to face customer service for my mom's business since I could talk - it could never have prepared me for this situation, as I suspect is the case with your odd job experience, but that's not the point. I didn't have a
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by alexophile 16y ago
[I originally posted this on a reddit discussion, link's at the bottom] One day, my friend Bryan was charged with the daunting task of getting Ellie, one of the older and more difficult students, to read out of a children's book for a d
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by alexophile 16y ago
I tried that same strategy with sitcoms for a while, but they all just turned into "I Love Lucy"
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http://www.headsethotties.com/
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by alexophile 16y ago
You could just as easily make a blog "Things Real People Don't Say About Your App" "I like the functionality, but it doesn't follow best practices." or "Things Real People Don't Say About Science" "These findings are compelling, but I'd lik
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by alexophile 16y ago
Even if it's legal, it can still be "corruption" without the modifier. If you are circumventing the limitations placed on your position of trust, regardless of adherance to the letter of the law, I would consider you "corrupt".
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by alexophile 16y ago
woops - good call. A few years ago, I think I just started assuming everything was published by EA by default.
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by alexophile 16y ago
Or you can split the difference and look into ETFs comprised of Chinese assets.
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by alexophile 16y ago
So if MW1 is available for Mac, why isn't it available on Steam? MW1 for Windows is listed at $30, perhaps EA won't sell the Mac version at that price and Steam doesn't want to endorse a precedent of multiple price points for different plat
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The double-tap on an iPhone only drops a period and single space, although I imagine it does reinforce a habit of double spacing.
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Of course, there's a great comparative advantage in forcing a lesser being to work for no pay. Also, what about the scenario where we are the resource? Best case: Matrix; more likely: extinction (if they could sustainably cultivate peop
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The superconductor proceeded to text its ex-girlfriend all night. Couldn't help it. But I did try and find a more sober analysis of what was going on as it seemed that the only accurate words in the title were "scientists" and "superconduc

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