aristus

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by aristus 16y ago
That last stat about reading level bothers me. "Ok, before anyone gets offended about reading level vs race, let's show you a stat that confirms another stereotype: religious people are stupid! And atheists are smartest of all! Scientifical
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by aristus 16y ago
Turn off the computer for a while, use analogies, and remember that children rely on different modes of thinking: http://carlos.bueno.org/2010/07/corrupting-the-youth.html http://csunplugged.org/ Also, please email me (in my profile). I
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by aristus 16y ago
For less formal coworking, become a "regular" at a cafe on a particular day of the week, and invite everyone to join you. I hang out at Sugarlump in SF every Wednesday.
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by aristus 16y ago
Xenophon's "Persian Expedition" is one of my favorite books. It's picaresque yet sincere in a way that few writers achieve.
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Packet Flight: animated tcpdumps(vimeo.com)
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by aristus 16y ago
We're more concerned about electronic voting because it lowers the effort and manpower needed to defraud immensely .
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by aristus 16y ago
Many times I've tried to convince my friends about an idea, but they almost never take it seriously until there is something they can see and touch. That's possibly because I'm unpersuasive, or maybe my ideas suck. :D But it's a recurring t
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by aristus 16y ago
It's just not their forte. They move paper (and highly profitable paper spam!) around the world using lots of people in a system they control end to end. Email has none of these properties. Maybe 200 people, tops, run Gmail. Spam is a liabi
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by aristus 16y ago
"We've already established what you are, madam, now we're haggling over the price." USD$112 per year feels way too steep. That's on par with a subscription to the Economist, which is a) weekly, b) original, and c) one of the best periodical
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by aristus 16y ago
Sounds like Booby McFerrin doing a rock opera.
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by aristus 16y ago
I'll remember that next time someone asks me about my old zombie startup.
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by aristus 16y ago
The US may be gentler, but I take issue with "properly compensated". My grandfather owned a grocery store on the path of a new highway in Texas. The government bought every house in the neighborhood first , depriving him of customers, the
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by aristus 16y ago
Ah, but did that strategy work?
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by aristus 16y ago
That's a very interesting take. I hadn't considered Google being worried about getting commoditized out of the market. That's a very strong motivation. Another is that if speed is a do-or-die feature, then they want to be able to control al
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by aristus 16y ago
Given the numbers, the need to dedupe, the poster's strong motivation and relative inexperience... I'd guess it's a gigantic spam list.
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by aristus 16y ago
That's pretty disrespectful. Sloganeering has its place. The very term "net neutrality" was a brilliant capture of the semantic high-ground. But it can turn on you in an instant, as we're seeing with Google's "Don't be evil" slogan. As far
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by aristus 16y ago
The file has 2+ billion lines. A set or hash table won't work very if if there are, say 500 million unique strings.
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by aristus 16y ago
I've been using software from Fluenz, which works really well for me for Spanish. I'm also lucky to live with a native speaker, and we watch movies with the sound or subtitles swapped.
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by aristus 16y ago
I briefly had dealings with Google on a similar issue. There is a concept in US and perhaps other law, "tortuous interference" where a third party does wrong by interfering with business between two other parties. Think someone refusing to
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by aristus 16y ago
My wife is a writer and painter. I regularly frame her work, correct her English, sell her paintings, and do random carpentry, plastic and metal work in service of her art. For her part, she is also my first editor, and knows a lot about
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by aristus 16y ago
I used to think shared lanes were good too, until I was hit (in SF) and my cousin was killed (in London) on the same day.
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by aristus 16y ago
So... buy a copy of all of then and throw away the diffs? :D
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by aristus 16y ago
Just curious -- what is wrong with laser toner? It's carbon, and doesn't fade. And petroleum is "organic", but lasts for millions of years. Edit : answered my own question. There are several kinds of toner (I had never heard of liquid tone
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by aristus 16y ago
Hah, I'm building a time capsule right now. Acid-free paper, laser printed, and encased in epoxy resin. I'm targeting 300 to 500 years. Eventually I want to do the same thing with a 20ft cargo container and a bunch of concrete.
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by aristus 16y ago
And, dammit, it's spelled Brasil .
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by aristus 16y ago
The original name of HN was "Startup News". Paul generalized the theme about a year into it to include anything interesting to hackers. I also noticed the bias towards business and motivational material as opposed to programming, but that's
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by aristus 16y ago
Well, again, this is a question-begging term. There is no magic bullet -- there are only things that, in hindsight, worked very very well, and disasters that you avoided. Friendster in particular shot themselves repeatedly in the foot by: a
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by aristus 16y ago
McClure is smart and all, but the tone and formatting remind me of the timecube guy.
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by aristus 16y ago
I am generally a risk-taker, but having 5-10 years of nest egg is also a compelling idea. If it were my only 500K, it'd put 200K in CDs or something with limited downside (assuming such exists). I'd put 200K in something more liquid but not
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by aristus 16y ago
"Good execution" is somewhat of a question-begging term, and the details differ depending on who you talk to. If you have an idea, execute it, and make lots of money, it's hard to argue that the execution was bad. In general, I think a good

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