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by araneae 17y ago
Oh god... I had a partner in school that would name any variable x and then reuse it ad infinitum... what a nightmare.
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A tool to make online personal data vanish(physorg.com)
4 points by araneae 17y ago|1 comments
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by araneae 17y ago
A 3.25 hour long .mp3 of techno music played at a rave held in my college dorm's subbasement. That, and random OP/EDs from anime.
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by araneae 17y ago
So, basically they found... that money makes people feel good. Duh. Dan Ariely has done a lot of (better) research showing all the weird effects money has on people. For instance, people experience more pain relief if they are told that t
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by araneae 17y ago
I actually think he has a point. Google's motto may be "don't be evil," but they're extraordinarily powerful. And an evil entity that everyone thinks is good is a lot more dangerous than an evil entity that everything thinks is evil. This
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by araneae 17y ago
I am not a "good hacker" but I know a few, and they say it's filled with wannabes.
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by araneae 17y ago
So basically... anyone who wants to do YC is doing it wrong. Sure, if you have a stress free life you'll live longer. If you eat 30% fewer calories, you'll live longer as well.* But you'll be poor and hungry. *Although that was a really c
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by araneae 17y ago
Yes :). Ah, college. I miss it.
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by araneae 17y ago
It's not the analogy that's flawed at all. You admit that this might make that choice of who to interview less obvious, which is exactly my point. However, if the goal of teaching is to teach students, then obviously one should try to impr
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by araneae 17y ago
14 year olds can be very mature if they are expected to be. Having to hunt to survive can make you learn to do it well very quickly. Also, clearly you have never lived in the Midwest. Even in some parts of modern day society 14 year old b
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by araneae 17y ago
Best for what or whom? All the first world countries are below replacement rate, except for the United States. We're at replacement rate only because we have fairly heavy immigration.
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by araneae 17y ago
I am the classic example of a boring suburban upbringing resulting in a penchant for the unsafe (I don't really consider myself self-destructive, but everyone else does ;P) But kids are fairly rebellious no matter how they're raised. This
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by araneae 17y ago
On the other hand, maybe you don't want to help people submit better applications, because you can still only select a few of them. As the overall quality increases, it becomes more difficult to select between poor and high quality work.
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by araneae 17y ago
I also use Twitter as a sort of malformed feed reader. In fact, I blogged about it a bit ago, so in lieu of writing something new: http://scigrad.blogspot.com/2009/04/science-twittering.html
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by araneae 17y ago
The research is good, but the article title is misleading; what they've shown is that females devote more mental activity to interpersonal relationships. Males are far more disengaged. This is consistent with other data. For instance, we