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by balsam 14y ago
I also read the book and predict that raspberries will in 5 to 10 years replace apples completely. It is up to you to find this humorous or not.
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by balsam 14y ago
Did it look like this? http://www.erieaviation.com/aviationmedicalkits.htm
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by balsam 14y ago
not to mention our electronics waste stores [1] (Ctrl-F 'thorium') http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2012/11/rare-earth-el...
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by balsam 14y ago
on yclist it seems 70/84 made it to launch S12, compared to 45/60 for W11.
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by balsam 14y ago
also called downvote the comment, upvote the post
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by balsam 14y ago
tactically brilliant, but i wager you're not a YC alumni. But I'm adding you to my follow list. Also wager that you're not based in the US.
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by balsam 14y ago
I wager that PG won't even reply to this one, unless to prove me wrong. It seems like one of those things that might not scale.
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by balsam 14y ago
funny. yesterday i was trying to explain to my friend, a physics grad student like myself, why i wanted to study algebraic geometry. i said, it's because physicists only know about groups, because everything seems to be groups. but rings ha
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by balsam 14y ago
Web.py is arguably an example of shoddy engineering in explosive software startups that did not become a medical experiment. "The results show that foremost among the causes of growth in U.S., German and Japanese manufacturing value added i
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by balsam 14y ago
could there be a case however against economic growth being too fast? an example of too fast would be building a chernobyl before the safety infrastructure was up.
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by balsam 14y ago
i almost expected tags on those bottles onMouseOver.
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by balsam 14y ago
What percentage of successful HN applicants are Singaporean? I know at least half (he was born there), but it could be a interesting number to know.
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by balsam 14y ago
Thank you! I moved the question up to try to get more eyeballs, looks I didn't have to.
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by balsam 14y ago
Would it be in the category of "if you have to ask,..." to ask for a tightly clustered list of actual impressive things? It's easy to say "a Nobel" or "a knighthood", but I suspect the mean is lower down the log scale. After all, if you've
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by balsam 14y ago
Seems like ArchitectSpeak. I used to hang out with architecture students, they are indoctrinated to write and talk like this. And thus they can't help but sound like literary critics who give talks by reading their own papers. Contrast this
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by balsam 14y ago
This paper's title says he studied mouse leukemia, but does anybody have a link to the human leukemia paper? http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3069786/
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by balsam 14y ago
Would you consider that modern (northern) Italy is a young culture?
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by balsam 14y ago
Who's the comedian? I have about 300 tabs open, tell me if kippt will help. Personally, I'm curious if there are comedians similar to, or indeed a whole lot more unexpected than, Mitch Hedberg.
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by balsam 14y ago
IRC with your mum's approval
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by balsam 14y ago
possible in NYC/SF? given the fire-safety regulations. How are the regulations in the UK, given this article?
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by balsam 14y ago
I'd like to find myself in a city where Gibsonesque situations are the default entertainment. And the job of an entertainer might then become close to a calling.
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by balsam 14y ago
It reads like Nietzsche (all that Will to Power & slave morality stuff) updated for century XXI. (I skimmed the text by highlighting the word "goal".) Frustratingly, the Unabomber doesn't give any examples of "real goals". Does helping
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by balsam 15y ago
Mathematica, if you have access to it, can give you the minimax polynomial in one line.
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by balsam 15y ago
Ok, I found the change status link. So I'm back at the no-idea app. But there seems to be a bug still.
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Ask PG: threads at the same level aren't chrono-sorted
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by balsam 15y ago
there is actually a more quantitative basis for this than MBTI: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11220447 We need more experiments on this. A possible way to become an extravert, should one want to, is to become better at multitasking.
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Ask PG: no-idea link directs me to normal app
2 points by balsam 15y ago|1 comments
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by balsam 15y ago
i see the condensation/mist disappearing suddenly at about 797mph.. is this the shuttle breaking the speed of sound?
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by balsam 15y ago
Anecdotally we once had a dish of raw squid at a Japanese restaurant. They tried to dissuade us from ordering it. I could taste nothing but ammonia. There's also the ammonia (aka Liquorice?) flavored vodka: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S
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by balsam 15y ago
looks like pg's stumbled upon a way to find smart comments

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