bilch

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by bilch 10y ago
By this line of reasoning, shouldn't there be a lot of unattractive women flocking to tech?
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by bilch 10y ago
"Activism Or Escapism: Making Sense of 21st Century Communes" by M. Jade Aguilar has a lot of references. Text seems to be paywalled, but maybe you can find what you need via Google Books' snippets ...
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by bilch 10y ago
> there is no way to get your documents for backup/archival purposes https://myaccount.google.com/privacy#takeout
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by bilch 10y ago
Ok, so it's your first time in, say, Anchorage. How would you use Facebook to find interesting app-guided walks or tours, or a story told using RL locations?
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by bilch 10y ago
A platform to connect information / stories / images / video / audio to locations. There are thousands of small, mostly subsidized one-off projects but no general platform for everyone to upload material connected to pla
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by bilch 11y ago
a) You don't have to type Russian characters. There's a little switch that lets you input everything in English transliteration. b) There's an explanation right at the beginning on how to install a Russian keyboard layout: h
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by bilch 11y ago
You can switch your country settings from Amazon US to Amazon DE and back with no ill effects. I did it several times. You get to keep all Kindle books you bought in both countries. Just follow the link at Amazon DE where the buy button sho
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by bilch 11y ago
More like the last 50 or 60 years: "the programming occupation will become extinct (through the further development of self-programming techniques)" (Herbert A. Simon, 1961, and the notion seems to be even older, cf. Janet Abbate&
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by bilch 11y ago
To save you time: Print books offer a superior tactile and typographical experience. You can view them more easily in a bookshelf. DRM is bad. All of which has been said over and over in much shorter articles.
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by bilch 13y ago
Germany is an exception because there is an actual law that says you're liable if someone else uses your wifi for shady purposes. That's why our routers are password protected out of the box and almost no one will offer open, let
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by bilch 16y ago
How exactly is that different from the usual publishers' practice of sending early copies of the book to a ton of reviewers and ask them to, well, review it in newspapers and magazines?
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by bilch 16y ago
"smart people", noun phrase: People who work in computer science or mathematics.
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by bilch 16y ago
A variation that actually works as a game: Name the bigger number, but if your number >= double your opponent's number, you lose. 0 and 1 are off limits.
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by bilch 16y ago
The Flow is as far from waterproof as it gets. It's Neoprene, which means you won't mind getting wet, in fact you'll probably enjoy it. But you'll definitely get wet.
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by bilch 16y ago
Doesn't a three bedroom apartment actually have four rooms, three of them bedrooms? In Berlin "Dreizimmerwohnung" means that there are three rooms, period. So maybe your calculation is off by one.
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by bilch 16y ago
Is there a word for letting the world know how great you are by not-so-cleverly disguising your greatness as a shortcoming? There should be. I need it every day. (Sorry to bother you with this, I actually am quite verbally adept, but Englis
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by bilch 17y ago
Snow Crash was published in 1992, not in 1975. Still, this dude got it already. Edit: Sorry, it's probably just a formatting problem and you were referring to The Shockwave Rider.
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by bilch 17y ago
From what I understand, mustard gas isn't hard to make at all. ("There are several routes to this compound, none of which require sophisticated technology and/or special materials.", Federation of American Scientists: Chemical Weapons Produ
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by bilch 17y ago
This seems rather untrue. "In Nederland worden steeds vaker antidepressiva voorgeschreven. In 2007 kregen 937.000 mensen in totaal 6,7 miljoen recepten tegen depressie voorgeschreven. Het aantal mensen dat antidepressiva gebruikt is sinds 1
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by bilch 17y ago
I run several twitterbots. The ones that autofollow back used to attract large numbers of spammers (until I fixed that). The others don't. I guess the usual spam strategy is "follow - wait a few days for reciprocation - leave if it doesn't
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by bilch 17y ago
This is relevant for US readers only. Most countries do not usually fortify juices, milk or yogurt. I don't know about the situation in Singapore (where the study's participants live), but as UVB and vitamin D production remain constant yea
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by bilch 17y ago
Nothing says "or boyfriend/husband" like a domain that ends in -wives.com.
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by bilch 17y ago
If I followed this advice, my new full-time, ex-procrastination activity would transform into hard work, and I would seek relief in procrastination - probably doing exactly the thing I just got away from. See also John Perry's seminal essay
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by bilch 17y ago
Note, however, that there's newer evidence that says it's not just incompetent people that overestimate their own abilities, but "Kruger and Dunning’s main data is better explained by positing simply that we all have noisy estimates of our
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by bilch 17y ago
This seems to be a more boring paraphrase of Nazi general Knut von Hammerstein-Equord's "I divide my officers into four classes; the clever, the lazy, the industrious, and the stupid. Each officer possesses at least two of these qualities.
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Ask HN: Better deals - ruder customers?
22 points by bilch 17y ago|8 comments
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by bilch 17y ago
After much bugmenot and cookie hassle I'd recommend the Firefox RefControl add-on: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/953 . It lets you set your referrer to http://www.google.com for nytimes.com so NYT thinks you're coming from a G
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by bilch 18y ago
The usual explanation for this pilot/surgeon difference is: Surgeons don't go down with their patient.
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by bilch 18y ago
The research was published in 2007. And it has been discussed here before.
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by bilch 18y ago
So do I; but then I'm narcoleptic, and sleep-onset (hypnagogic) hallucinations seem to be a symptom of mostly narcolepsy, but also some other sleep disorders: http://www.sleepnet.com/forum3/messages/367.html While having a symphony orches

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