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by colins_pride 18y ago
I'm just happy to see the karma going where it belongs. I "found" these essays three days before my first trip to Bombay, and read all of them on the 14 hour nonstop. I showed up only slightly tired from the travel, but extremely optimistic
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by colins_pride 18y ago
Too bad they're only keeping up with the times when it comes to their lingo, and not with their business model
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by colins_pride 18y ago
I wonder if that's why twitter search is one of the few useful sites that my big-company IT department doesn't block.
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by colins_pride 18y ago
The term uncle means different things to people from different cultures
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by colins_pride 18y ago
def f(hn_irrelevant) = opaque_measure_of_inequality * correlation_vs_causation_confusion Nothing to see here, keep moving
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by colins_pride 18y ago
The Apple II was a side project http://www.foundersatwork.com/steve-wozniak.html
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You Are Not Your Brain(salon.com)
23 points by colins_pride 18y ago|27 comments
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Neuroscience and Social Deprivation(economist.com)
6 points by colins_pride 18y ago|0 comments
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by colins_pride 18y ago
Those military spending statistics suggest that tax revenue is 12% of GDP, which my libertarian heart only wishes were the case
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by colins_pride 18y ago
Doctrine of the Elect is also significant for creating voluntary association, which has been a subtle but important catalyzing principle of western civilization.
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by colins_pride 18y ago
Or nominal GDP .. how many years worth of aggregate economic production is the debt? And don't forget Social Security, Medicaire, gov't pension liabilities, etc - they are important parts of the numerator ..
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by colins_pride 18y ago
Safety systems to save human lives in rare but catestrophic events are just not the same as adding code - and more importantly design complexity - to handle the odd mis-click where the most profound consequence is frustration on the part of
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by colins_pride 18y ago
I've definitely done this, too. And I do tend to get mad at myself - but it is exactly that: mad at myself for making a clumsy mistake. If you start designing things to handle peoples' occassional mistake, you run a real risk of ending up w
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by colins_pride 18y ago
Misogyny is a lack of respect for all women. He has an issue with American women. There is a big difference between those two. We need to be careful when we accuse people.
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by colins_pride 18y ago
Mostly just people rotting their brains on TV ..
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by colins_pride 18y ago
Yeah, that's why there is such a big difference between country GDP ratings in US$ vs. Purchasing Power Parity: Everything is cheaper in China. Everything except political freedom.
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What is narcissistic personality disorder, and why does everyone seem to have it?(slate.com)
27 points by colins_pride 18y ago|9 comments
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Gorillas may not be as vegetarian as they are supposed to be(economist.com)
4 points by colins_pride 18y ago|0 comments
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by colins_pride 18y ago
Don't forget cigarette & alcohol taxes
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by colins_pride 18y ago
He is the kind of guy who might have USED facebook, but he would never be CONSTRAINED by it. He's demonstrated through his actions that he doesn't care about the social consequences of his actions. Although he does appear to have tried to p
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by colins_pride 18y ago
Yeah, that's the one ..
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by colins_pride 18y ago
I've seen an app like this before .. My recollection was that it was generalized so that a user could specify a site, and the app would say whether the site was up or not .. but it did not monitor to let you know when it was back up .. Comb
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by colins_pride 18y ago
Exactly; my instinct is that it would increase initial perceived value, but it wouldn't have a permanent impact.
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by colins_pride 18y ago
It's a lot more interesting when Jobs points out that Microsoft just copied Macintosh
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The Next Generation of Electric Lights(economist.com)
3 points by colins_pride 18y ago|0 comments
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by colins_pride 18y ago
One of the things I've struggled with is figuring out if I'm addicted to something .. One way to judge is to look for withdrawal symptoms, but this requires changing my behavior to test .. So the idea is that if something that stimulates mo
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by colins_pride 18y ago
I agree that we all notice the problem immediately after clicking the send button. The question is, would having an X second delay cause that moment of realization to shift to the point right after the delay has run out? I bet it would.
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by colins_pride 18y ago
This is why all of the recent fury against bonuses is so mis-guided. People literally don't understand what they're angry about. The irony is that bonuses are how people everywhere should get paid. Can you imagine how much better our school
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by colins_pride 18y ago
Not many aggregates are truly equal to the sum of the parts. I would argue that it's at closer to being proportional to some sort of weighted average, where the weights are activity based: a very active member has a much larger impact than
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by colins_pride 18y ago
They're doing a good job laying the groundwork for "The $100 Newspaper" ..

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