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by benten10 11y ago
Ohh man, this is too good! While I vehemently disagree with you (without much emotional connection though. Don't mind losing this one), this is STRAIGHT out of 19th century Russian novels. In particular, I'm thinking Turgenev&#x27
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by benten10 11y ago
And then some genius will decide to bring Opium into the game. : (
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by benten10 11y ago
Great job! I had had the good fortune to talk to Ravi dai (of OLE Nepal) and pick his brains a couple of times. And then we had a few things planned with OLE (and later OLPC) guys, but they sort of petered out. And since then, everyone has
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by benten10 11y ago
What would then be the right way to sleep? I've always wanted to do something like 'sleep until event <X> and do absolutely nothing till them', but end up using the delay every time.
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by benten10 11y ago
Haha, they missed us this year? Nepal seems to have a permanent stranglehold on lists like these. It's not surprising, with the earthquake and the ('not a') blockade, they might have wanted to skip this year.
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The North Carolina Town That's Afraid of Solar Panels, Revisited(vox.com)
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by benten10 11y ago
change the https into http.
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by benten10 11y ago
This is awesome! It'll 'disrupt' a LOT of very well-funded services in the field. If Google extends this to social media (and optionally, 'non-serious' news sources), this will be a truly global-level intelligence s
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by benten10 11y ago
I realize this is getting off-topic, but that's by far the funniest book I've ever read. I don't remember laughing out loud so consistently (or even, at all) at any other book. If anyone's interested, "Three men in
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by benten10 11y ago
As long as we are at it, for sarcasm purposes, I'll generalize it further: If anything can teach us anything, any kind of identity is a ridiculous contrivance. But. We're humans. Our different identities make us feel the 'spe
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by benten10 11y ago
I have, unfortunately, learned this already. STILL makes one not feel better about oneself, haha. But that's for a different day and a different thread on a different forum. : ) Talking of nudity, to all those 'those dang young pe
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by benten10 11y ago
OP claims to explain the 'shying away from nudity' phenomena using the 'ahh those precious young people' argument. I argue that it's not necessarily the 'precious youth' that is shy of nudity, and I presen
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by benten10 11y ago
As someone's mentioned on Twitter, I'd like a browser extension that replaces "Millennials" with 'people more youthful, more attractive, and more sexually active than us', please!
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by benten10 11y ago
Nope. You're conflating two _very_ unrelated trends to prove your pre-existing 'can this generation become any more precious' belief. For example, people in India are generally opposite of what you might call 'precious&#
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by benten10 11y ago
coke, sprite, Fanta aka 'orange soda', whatever you want. The sweet corn syrup thaws first since it's got higher melting point than water, and it tastes nasty!
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by benten10 11y ago
I have a fun story to share about how I created a soda-disgust in myself! In college at one point, I was drinking soda almost every day. It was bad for me and I knew it, but couldn't help. So one day, I froze a bottle of some soda, and
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by benten10 11y ago
Assuming you shop at U.S supermarkets, you can _usually_ find full-fats, but they are almost always the store brand. There are very limited flavor options with full-fat though. Ohh, what I'd give for full(even extra!) fat yogurt with n
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by benten10 11y ago
Last month I heard a McD employee tell me: "Ohh haha, I'm not an all-out McD employee. I'm in just for the spare cash". The same employee also worked in Dairy Queen across the block.
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by benten10 11y ago
You can do even better than a bowl of cereal. Eat something fatty, and even eating a little will significantly reduce your hunger. These days fatty food, such as cheese and creamy yogurt have been a staple of my diet: I can go by for a lot
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by benten10 11y ago
A lot of workplaces do allow you to be an employee and have your own hours.
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by benten10 11y ago
From the wiki[0]: > This required placing the probe into "hibernation" or safe mode to prolong its life beyond the original 4.5-year design. JAXA expressed some confidence in keeping the probe operational, pointing to reduced b
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by benten10 11y ago
Here's a startup idea that I'd been holding close to my heart, but now that my teammate's working for a BigCorp, earning beyond her dreams, it's time for it to go public. Steal this idea! Link rot is only going to get ba
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by benten10 11y ago
They really don't see a difference between disruption like AirBnB/Uber (the 'law breaking and getting away' part I don't agree with; the 'eff rude taxi drivers' agree wholeheartedly) and similar law-breaki
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by benten10 11y ago
I said this on HN yesterday, but I'll repeat again since it's VERY relevant. I'd like the subscription, as you mention too! What I'd like even more (for voluntary payment) is a subscription that divvies up my monthly &#x
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by benten10 11y ago
Agreed! Fun/difficult projects aren't always the 'latest and cutting edge' ones. You can have impressive/difficult challenges SPECIALLY while getting legacy components to work with more recent technology, even thoug
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by benten10 11y ago
I don't really care about the bitcoin TBH. There needs to be a technology to pay the publishers directly a cut for my '% time viewed', the technology matters less to me. Perhaps Google contributor et al. could implement payin
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by benten10 11y ago
I would invest a bit to encourage you and your friend to put this on youtube. : ) I bring this up because these things are really entertaining, and with a bit of witty commentary and nice graphics, I would probably end up spending hours wat
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by benten10 11y ago
I don't know enough about this to comment, but just to get a baseline, what things do you consider _are_ a race thing, in the U.S?
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by benten10 11y ago
This needs to be more common. I'd put in a not unreasonable amount of money (~20$) monthly to automatically pay to the sites I regularly visit. Need this for firefox, stat!
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by benten10 11y ago
Excellent points throughout. Strongly agree with all of them. >Maybe not knowing more about our cousins or our friend's friends is a sort of social lubricant. It's easier to be polite to my bigoted grandfather at Thanksgiving i

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