clarkm

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by clarkm 12y ago
Why not? That type of thing happens to celebrities all the time. The only reason I have a reasonable expectation that it won't happen to me is because I'm not famous, and not one cares about what rickshaws I take.
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by clarkm 12y ago
He was definitely being sarcastic. Look at his previous posts.
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by clarkm 12y ago
I couldn't help but be distracted by the dark line behind "early stage" -- it looks like a strikethrough.
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by clarkm 12y ago
Why? Do you find OkCupid's blog posts cringey too?
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by clarkm 12y ago
Yeah, every time I ssh into a box and see "terminal type not supported" (screen-256color), I know its using CentOS 5.x. Which means ssh doesn't have netcat mode, rsync can't write to log files or show progress properly,
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by clarkm 12y ago
Yep, I got a debit card when I was about 13. I distinctly remember going to the bank with my mom to open a checking account, and explaining to the teller that I needed a debit card because I wanted to sign up for an account with this new co
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by clarkm 12y ago
> Urbit is not meant to replace Unix. But I thought that was the long-term master plan. Isn't the whole point to extricate ourselves from eternal dependence on C and Unix ecosystem?
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by clarkm 12y ago
> Peter Thiel is known for his financial support of... neoreactionarism Do you have examples?
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by clarkm 12y ago
I totally forgot about that. Though I thought EXIF just had technical info like resolution, camera mode, date, and location. Is it really as flexible as ID3? I know next to nothing about photography, so maybe there tons of tools out there t
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by clarkm 12y ago
Is there something like ID3 tags for pictures?
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Is Social Psychology Biased Against Republicans?(newyorker.com)
39 points by clarkm 12y ago|68 comments
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by clarkm 12y ago
For the same reason that it's still controversial that chimps go to war even with not threatened. Some scientists see findings like this as an affront to their closely-held beliefs about humans and human nature. And since these beliefs
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by clarkm 12y ago
I doubt that contributes, because it's not just limited to humans. Females of most species live longer than males.
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by clarkm 12y ago
Well, the first guy profiled could've used his "his savings and his investments" and his "daughter's college fund" to move instead of spending it all on rent. Downsizing is a pretty common occurrence in most pa
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by clarkm 12y ago
I don't have Inbox yet, but I don't think everyone gets invites immediately. Anyways, here's some info: > Once you have an invite, you can hover over the red create button and you will see a gold ticket - Invite to Inbox.
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Beyond Human Science(infoproc.blogspot.com)
1 points by clarkm 12y ago|0 comments
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by clarkm 12y ago
Good to know, but that has nothing to do with what I said.
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by clarkm 12y ago
If you've ever done genealogy, you quickly realize that those individuals don't matter. People care most about people that they are descended from -- not their siblings or other non-lineal ancestors. And while people recognize ado
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by clarkm 12y ago
Well, it's a bug if you're worried about income inequality or the continuing polarization of America. It's a lot like White Flight.
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by clarkm 12y ago
No idea why you're being downvoted. Having high-altitude adaptations certainly helps: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-altitude_adaptation_in_hu...
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An exotic intestinal infusion(johnhawks.net)
2 points by clarkm 12y ago|0 comments
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by clarkm 12y ago
It's interesting to contrast this article with the update that was just emailed out to the Uber Oklahoma list: "Today, we are thrilled to announce that the Tulsa City Council and Mayor Bartlett have paved the way for a permanent h
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by clarkm 12y ago
And make sure to keep this open in another tab: http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/glossary.php
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by clarkm 12y ago
Not only do the residents of Malibu do an amazing job of keeping the general public off their public-access beaches, they also seem to have a knack for crafting ordinances and environmental regulations that keep outsiders from moving in. In
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Investment Rats(enlightenmenteconomics.com)
1 points by clarkm 12y ago|0 comments
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by clarkm 12y ago
Yeah I do this as well. But since I sometimes have to share remote accounts, customizing the environment often devolves into dotfile edit wars over stuff like "set -o emacs".
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Subway history: Don't be early(blogs.law.harvard.edu)
42 points by clarkm 12y ago|14 comments
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by clarkm 12y ago
> The reason is that there's a limit to how big the variance can get- it doesn't grow forever, it grows until limited by other factors (i.e., there are only so many intelligence-promoting alleles that you can possibly have).
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Presidential Death Locations(howderfamily.com)
2 points by clarkm 12y ago|0 comments
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by clarkm 12y ago
Yeah, it's off by an order of magnitude. For most countries in Western Europe it's about 1%, sometimes less.

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