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by chris11 18y ago
Richard Hamming was quite a brilliant guy. He designed the earliest effective error correcting code and ended up getting awarded a Turing for his work.
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How to do great research(paulgraham.com)
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by chris11 18y ago
That is a good point. When addicts use drugs their stress is reduced. But nicotine is unique in that its profile depends on the dose. When smokers want to have more concentration, they take short and quick puffs. This gets a low level of ni
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by chris11 18y ago
I'm not saying that it's not horribly detrimental. I'm just saying that it has some small benefits. Nicotine can cause weight loss, act as a stimulant, and reduce stress. Though all of those benefits can be gotten a lot safer ways. Nature r
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by chris11 18y ago
I was slightly curious too, and so did some searching. Surprisingly stimulants can actually decrease risk of addiction to drugs or alcohol. It was found that adults who were prescribed medication for ADHD were at less risk for substance abu
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Then most sites just add more domains. Mailinator.com has at least six domains that all go to Mailinator.com
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by chris11 18y ago
Definitely, that's how throw away accounts work. You don't get a personal account. The email just gets sent to a place that any one can access. Just check some common words at mailinator. A lot of those have more spam than can come from one
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by chris11 18y ago
If you wanted to make something out of it, you could do something like bugmenot.com. It might be possible to right scripts to automatically create accounts at places like the new york times. So you could get people to go to your site, and t
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by chris11 18y ago
Or like radiation cures cancer. Radiation treatment is basically just controlled radiation poisoning. A lot of the side effects are the same. Nothing is totally beneficial, or totally detrimental.
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by chris11 18y ago
Wikipedia did mention that nicotine has several psychoactive effects. It reduces stress. And amazingly enough, it can work as both a sedative and a stimulant. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicotine#Psychoactive_effects
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by chris11 18y ago
Good luck quiting! I don't smoke, but I'm close people who have quit and or are trying to. Don't get too discouraged from not successfully quitting. From what I have seen, it seems like most people have to try several times before successfu
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by chris11 18y ago
Yeah I really agree. it seems like most of these posts are saying anyone can make 100k+ working a couple days a week just by finding the right job. Sure, it's possible. But people do it by finding a niche, and marketing themselves very well
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by chris11 18y ago
I agree with you. I'd even go as far as saying that some data should be freely provided to companies to be resold. It would allow businesses to make better products, and give them an incentive to help customers better use the data. I'd like
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by chris11 18y ago
I really don't think of this as drivel. I knew a couple high school wrestlers, and weigh-ins are very important. There are all kinds of strategies to make weight, and then rapidly gain weight. It's a necessary thing to do if your seriously
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by chris11 18y ago
I really agree with this. I had the good fortune of getting an internship at an engineering firm that was managed really well. Management did not seem to assign overtime work needlessly. It was an engineering firm set up to work on long ter
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by chris11 18y ago
I'm sure I would not find out from a moderator, but the math for detecting voting rings sounds really interesting.
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by chris11 18y ago
It's definitely possible. The company that made runescape started out as a small company. Now the company isn't so small, and the founders are worth tens of millions. If you are including text based games, there is a lot of competition, but
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by chris11 18y ago
I think you can ethically ask your friends to vote up your stories, as long as they actually have accounts used for more than voting up your stories. It would be like asking your school friends to vote for you if you were running for a scho
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by chris11 18y ago
Is this a common occurrence here? I've heard of power users on digg doing this, but I'm slightly surprised its happening here.
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I've gotten to the first page with that number of upvotes, so it's definitely doable, you just need to have the link voted on shortly after submission.
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I agree with you. He's been doing this since 1994, so I'd hope he is able to pay himself a livable wage. But that 120k includes business expenses, and partial salaries for two other full time employees. He says he has been unusually success
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by chris11 18y ago
It's really cool that he's able to make a successful living making indie games, but it definitely is a labor of love. So far, he hasn't broken even on it, and it's a two year old game. He spent around 120k, and made around 116k. It really l
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by chris11 18y ago
So how does an admissions officer predict college success? Is it just assumed that people with strong socioeconomic backgrounds do well, and the people without don't?
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by chris11 18y ago
I'm also slightly curious who gave him the tracks. It sounds like he got them anonymously over the internet. It would have been somebody with deep connections to GnR. And I'm sure that the person did not just give tracks to Cogill. And I'm
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by chris11 18y ago
No matter what your opinion on porn is, it's obvious that it is viewed as a moral controversy. If it's child porn, it's virtually guaranteed to be viewed as immoral. And people treat others differently if they are viewed as immoral. I know
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And filtering/tracking software seems to be pretty naive. So if the network administrator uses tracking software, that article will probably raise a red flag. I would be somewhat surprised if a person thought that this article was inappropr
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by chris11 18y ago
While I agree that child abuse laws could use some change, mainly with how it deals with sex between people where the age difference is very small. For example, I'm not comfortable with an 18 year-old being viewed as a predator for having
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I really don't think it could have been prevented by good journalism. I see the government basically guaranteeing bank losses without adequate collateral. The government did not really know how the banks assets should be valued, but they w
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Do you know how likely it is for the police to arrest a bot herder?
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by chris11 18y ago
So it's accurate to say the distributors are almost impossible to find? What do you spend more resources on? Going after customers, distributors, or creators?

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