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by chasingsparks 16y ago
How many people have actually received this?
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We just had one in DC (organized by Rusty) yesterday. It's a good experience; I think more cities should start doing this.
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Equally sarcastic and condescending, but far more nuanced. It's a requirement of people who work for think tanks or politically motivated organizations -- on both sides of the isle -- to over-simplify. For people who study politics, economi
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by chasingsparks 16y ago
Center for Freedom and Prosperity is not Cato; it is not a Cato Institute video.
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by chasingsparks 16y ago
I'm curious, do many people here subscribe to Dan's blog? He was formerly my boss.
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by chasingsparks 16y ago
After being in a cast for three months, I am painfully out of shape. A friend who is a professional weight lifter recommended this book. I read it last week and was very, very impressed. There have been a few of "get in shape" threads on
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The K&R (R&K) of Strength Training(amazon.com)
1 points by chasingsparks 16y ago|1 comments
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by chasingsparks 16y ago
I just called the hotel, but they were not particularly helpful. I was transfered four times. The only person who answered my question could barely speak English. He said, "21 and up." I've never gone to this particular bar, but I doubt tha
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by chasingsparks 16y ago
The canceling of the dividend was inevitable, contrary to news stories from last week. BP is worth a lot more than the cleanup costs, but they rightly fear cash flow problems. That's how profitable companies go bankrupt -- they run out of c
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by chasingsparks 16y ago
In those cases, I think the karmic voting system does the job of hiding redundancy more than the comments that say "this is not news." Especially because the submitter and interested commenters usually take it offensively, (even though it i
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Hacker News is really Hacker Discussions
15 points by chasingsparks 16y ago|3 comments
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by chasingsparks 16y ago
I think people who visit HN -- myself included -- experience cognitive dissonance because we immediately see a domain parking page. Judging from the persistent profitability of domain name parking, most people don't share our experience. It
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by chasingsparks 16y ago
I wanted the OEM harddrive. From what I understand, they are difficult to source for unauthorized service providers. (The link I responded was an Authorized Service Provider.)
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by chasingsparks 16y ago
I believe it's an Apple policy. For example, see: http://www.macservice.com/applemacbookair.html?_kk=macbook%2... The old drive (working or not) is returned to Apple. If you wish to keep your original drive, Apple charges a significant c
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by chasingsparks 16y ago
As you can see below, this post was timed perfectly for me. I was at the Apple store to get a harddrive replaced 10 minutes after this was posted. I did a little digging and wrote a blog post on the same issue, which I'll post here to preve
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by chasingsparks 16y ago
HackerNews is almost omniscient. I am in the Apple Store right now, waiting for a genius to talk to me to replace my first gen Air drive. I did not know I couldn't get my drive. Now I can at least prepare for the argument and try to stay ci
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by chasingsparks 16y ago
We agree: http://pathdependent.com/2010/04/29/why-i-blog/ ;) My metric is comments and emails elicited.
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by chasingsparks 16y ago
First, a quick clarification of 'successful'. This should almost be one of his points. (I agree with his enumerated points.) Figuring out what you want from blogging or writing or anything really is half the battle.
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by chasingsparks 16y ago
My desktop uses a wireless network with an external USB radio. Having the ability to physically disconnect it a few hours a day works better at countering distractions than exercising self-restraint by not opening a browser.
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by chasingsparks 16y ago
I don't think the number of "conservative views" on HN is particularly high. There is an exceptional number of semi-libertarians. Hayek is of particular interest because he is one of the few economists to be at least well-respected thinker
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by chasingsparks 16y ago
Thanks. You are correct. http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/41653/ (Although, part of me would prefer it if you were wrong...)
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by chasingsparks 16y ago
Not that I know of, but I was hoping someone on HN might know why. (While today it is #1, it has been in the top 100 a lot recently.)
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I understand articles like this are meant to introduce ideas to a very wide swath of people, but I really dislike them. There are too many disparate points. It started with unemployment; wadded into Keynesian economics; took a shot at Wall
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Hayek's Road to Serfdom #1 on Amazon Today(amazon.com)
42 points by chasingsparks 16y ago|37 comments
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by chasingsparks 16y ago
In my experience, waiting for doctors appointments and test results is the hardest part of getting treated. When I was told I had a "brain tumor" (inaccurate, but verbatim) after a year of waiting, I actually smiled. I just was happy that
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by chasingsparks 16y ago
I typically like what DHH has to say. Consequently, I expected him to actually produce good comparative graphs. He did not. AAPL is '98-now() and MSFT is '89-now(). If he wanted to compare MSFT to AAPL, put them on a single comparative char
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by chasingsparks 16y ago
I just started writing a GAE open-source community tool for rare disease orgs two weeks ago. I thought it was slow, but wrote it off as a limitation inherent to the Datastore. I moved a lot of things to the Memcache level, mitigating (mostl
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by chasingsparks 16y ago
When you hear hoofbeats behind you, don't expect to see a zebra. This aphorism is taught to doctors in training. It's like Occam's razor for the medical profession. It's not a bad heuristic, but it necessarily leads to a somewhat terrifyi
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by chasingsparks 16y ago
I'm happy to see Chris Pederick's Web Developer has been ported. https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/bfbameneiokkgbdm...
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by chasingsparks 16y ago
Berkshire Hathaway class A stocks, i.e., Warren Buffet's bets. SPY = S&P500 Index ETF. That was actually a minor error on my part. I meant to link you to a comparison of BRK-A versus the SP500 index, not an trust that tries to mirror th

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