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by anthuswilliams 16y ago
I like my vacations better this way. Humans are built to adjust to their situation. It benefits us, from an evolutionary standpoint, to stop enjoying ourselves and start looking for potential enemies. So in that sense it doesn't matter to m
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by anthuswilliams 16y ago
Perhaps you're better at controlling the {A,Z} keys with your left hand than you are at controlling {K,M} with your left?
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by anthuswilliams 16y ago
Finally, someone after my own heart. I don't vote, not because I feel my vote is worthless, but because I resent the claim that there is a choice to be made. Democrats and Republicans talk like they hate each other, but once elected they pr
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by anthuswilliams 16y ago
I was once trying hard to be a screenwriter, and we in the writing community never accepted any such thing. If someone is putting 10 years into their novel, or 5 years into their screenplay, that is cause for suspicion. The bars of Hollywoo
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by anthuswilliams 16y ago
You're wrong. >>Silicon Valley can be just as nasty as Hollywood, but that's not everyone. Hollywood's not everyone. There are thriving filmmaking communities in just about every large city on earth. They don't all have the same mas
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by anthuswilliams 16y ago
The researchers are comparing the time we spend walking against the time spent walking by a bunch of theme park actors they hired? How absurd. No doubt there were people in history who moved about more than we do. There were also people who
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by anthuswilliams 16y ago
Do both! Each process informs the other.
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by anthuswilliams 16y ago
The problem with switching to Dvorak is the same problem I see with too much customization on an IDE or a word processor. Few people I know use one computer only. So no matter how adamantly I insist a Dvorak configuration, there will always
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by anthuswilliams 16y ago
What does his being a college freshman have to do with the argument? I call ad hominem.
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by anthuswilliams 16y ago
At least now it's been diagnosed. As I was reading this article, I couldn't resist the urge to wikipedia Quaking Aspen, General Sherman, and (from the comments) the antimalarial effects of quinine.
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by anthuswilliams 16y ago
>> I've realized that entitlement hurts you much more than it helps. I think this is the biggest problem with entitlement. Not that it's annoying and presumptuous, not that it's A Sympton Of Everything That's Wrong In Our Society (T
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by anthuswilliams 16y ago
My (totally unqualified) opinion: corporate and individual tax rates don't tell the entire story. If you are making a high-risk venture, you are best served to do it in a place in which there are lots of other people making risky ventures,
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by anthuswilliams 16y ago
Please change the title of this post. The article has nothing to do with why (or whether) Stack Exchange will fail. It could be more aptly titled "What I dislike about Stack Exchange".
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by anthuswilliams 16y ago
I've noticed this effect on Facebook as well. And the effect seems to be more pronounced among those who visit as much as three or four times a day. Specifically you can see status updates shift wildly from "I'm so happy! My life is awesome
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by anthuswilliams 16y ago
I don't know that that's a circular argument so much as a vicious cycle. Perhaps I am reading too deep, but that's the exact point the article seems to be making.
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by anthuswilliams 16y ago
It's because you didn't need a subsidized loan when you could afford to pay tuition yourself. Sure, they were available, but there were fewer people that would be unable to attend school without them. I have an old teacher who went to colle
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by anthuswilliams 16y ago
Omaha is a pretty respectable business nexus. I can't think of an Alaskan city with a similar situation.
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by anthuswilliams 16y ago
Interesting. I notice my county, in southwestern Utah, is at the 2% mark, but my own limited experience suggests that might be a rather conservative estimate. A couple idle speculations as per the study: 1) I know many people who have respo
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by anthuswilliams 16y ago
This whole process is too self-absorbed for me. There is this urge expressed to focus on things that cannot be measured. So the proffered solution is self-reflection. But just as it is easy for me to conflate reading technical stuff with wo
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by anthuswilliams 16y ago
I think there is a more fundamental reason why startups who build open-source may be more successful than those who don't. In my (entirely anecdotal) experience, there is a definite correlation between proprietary source code and paternalis