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by asdflkj 19y ago
The real answer is: introversion. I have a few Finnish friends, and not only are they all introverts, but all their Finnish acquaintances seem to be, too. Finnish social customs reflect this. It would be interesting to figure out why. Finla
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by asdflkj 19y ago
This is a matter of culture, not race. Is culturism bad these days?
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It is. These men didn't come to her door with their solicitations, and when she sought them out, they were completely upfront about everything. She, on the other hand, deliberately wasted their time, for her own fun and profit. "Sleaze" ind
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by asdflkj 19y ago
Once we understand precisely how music affects the mind, it will be clear what makes the 5th Symphony work, and it will be possible to create its functionality as "the next obvious step". After all, it's not the sequence of notes that matte
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by asdflkj 19y ago
This particular book is one of the four recommended on http://ycombinator.com/lib.html
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That can't be the whole story. A company hiring a roofer can't discriminate on the basis of physical handicap? What if he is in a wheelchair?
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by asdflkj 19y ago
Naomi Klein is a hero to Western socialists, second in her hero status perhaps only to Noam Chomsky. She is most certainly against free market capitalism. Your post makes her ideas seem more attractive to me, but I think you're misrepresent
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by asdflkj 19y ago
Her main thesis is that free market capitalism is bad. She doesn't try to disprove that free market capitalism is good. Instead, she attacks the character of famous proponents of it, by suggesting that they forced their will upon the unwill
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by asdflkj 19y ago
This is an ad hominem attack on the free market. "It wasn't born in freedom and democracy", therefore it must be bad. She makes the laughable assumption that the majority of people know what's good for them. 2004 election proves otherwise.
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by asdflkj 19y ago
Can you elaborate a little on these devious ways?
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Or buy it.
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by asdflkj 19y ago
I'm not sure about small, but a site definitely doesn't have to be narrow to not suck. Old Reddit wasn't narrow, and it lasted for some time. Where did this meme even come from?
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by asdflkj 19y ago
That gives me an idea: an APP for mobile phones that lets you take a picture of handwritten text, and then REPLs it.
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by asdflkj 19y ago
Those aren't very good sources. Amazon links are all weight-loss-oriented "pop" diet books. The genre is notorious for being full of inaccurate and misleading stuff. On that other site, the author's other books include Natural Cure of Cance
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by asdflkj 19y ago
Do you have a source for that? The logic seems backwards. Per calorie absorbed, it takes more effort to digest uncooked foods, not less. Some fresh foods, like lettuce, actually take more energy to digest than you get out of them.
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by asdflkj 19y ago
How about a culture of violence and thievery? That takes decades of sustained effort to change, if not centuries. The things you've listed are merely symptoms. Saying that some 3rd world countries want to fail is like saying that endangered
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by asdflkj 19y ago
This was written in year 2000, it seems. Haven't some things changed since then? This The VC's CEO gets 10 percent of the company. VC-placed board members get 1 percent each. Your entire technical team gets as much as 15 percent. Venture f
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by asdflkj 19y ago
What do you mean by "take off the brakes"?
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There is more stuff, but it's also cheaper. It's possible that all of the "essential" stuff now costs less in percentage of income than all of what was considered essential then cost then. There are actually very few goods and services that
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by asdflkj 19y ago
They changed the design sometime in the last 12 hours. The previous one was even better.
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I wonder who upmods these things. Do these people feel guilty about admiring PG, and think they'll fix their "bias" by promoting "the other side of the story"? Do they want to feel themselves better than everyone else, because they "don't d
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by asdflkj 19y ago
Implement Arc, eh. Maybe you'll go first?
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The case against patents is getting stronger as time goes on. The rate of innovation constantly increases, and for patents to keep working as they should, the term should get shorter and shorter. Even if the system is made to be "fair" in t
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by asdflkj 19y ago
I agree about the zig-zag path, but I don't think it necessarily means you should study calculus before set theory (for example). Only that you shouldn't delve too deep on your fist pass over set theory. Obviously, AOC independence proof wo
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by asdflkj 19y ago
Start with mathematical logic, set theory, abstract algebra and number theory, in that order. Do not follow the usual course of calculus, differential equations, linear algebra and so on. That is, do learn those things, but later on. The pr
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by asdflkj 19y ago
That's because pseudocode conventionally uses indentation to denote structure, and Python does too. This explanation is trivial because pseudocode is trivial. The sort of code that can be meaningfully written as pseudocode is easy to unders
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by asdflkj 19y ago
Where is the evidence that "Python is written to be easily parsed and manipulated by humans", as opposed to a subset of humans with certain (changeable) habits of mind? It seems silly to demand science in a discussion of programming languag
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by asdflkj 19y ago
Incremental improvement is still improvement. iPod wasn't the first mp3 player, and it had no "killer feature". But it was better, and therefore it got popular. I think these iPhone knockoffs aren't doing so well simply because they are not
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by asdflkj 19y ago
>promotes the language extensively >relentless self-promotion When and how did that happen?
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by asdflkj 19y ago
Yes we do. What we don't get is the right to have our demands met.

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