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by crux 17y ago
I suspect you might have a credibility problem as long as one of your quotes is attributed to 'Benjamin Franklin, President of the United States'.
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by crux 17y ago
I think The Wave is actually a perfect counter example. People in crowds don't tend do do the Wave because they have lost their agency. I think most of them, acting rationally, think it's a very cool phenomenon and take advantage as a group
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by crux 17y ago
Given that Webkit is an open-source project with contributors from many different companies and areas of the industry, I don't see how monopoly could divert too far in the direction of non-standardness. Really, the concept of 'monoculture'
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by crux 17y ago
OP is actually saying that he wants to be able to follow someone, but have them hidden from his list. His example is his son; he doesn't want to block his son, he wants to have their Google connection but not create a public list of all his
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by crux 17y ago
Expletive 'it'. As in, 'It was a woman who died.'
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by crux 17y ago
That claim is utterly bogus. There's no indication that the languages have anything in particular to do with Africa, and indeed, no evidence that the language has 'evolved' more or less than any other. There is nothing unique to Andamanese
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by crux 17y ago
It was a woman.
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The futureNYCSubway: The IND Second System(vanshnookenraggen.com)
1 points by crux 17y ago|0 comments
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by crux 17y ago
I'm not terribly convinced by this argument. The author sets up a distinction between achievements and metagames but doesn't really hold to it.
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by crux 17y ago
Your comment was off-topic, but given that this kind of a fluffy article I don't think that's a huge sin. Maybe people assumed you were making some kind of moon landing hoax statement?
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by crux 17y ago
The unfortunate thing, which your examples actually perfectly illustrate, is that everyone has a different idea of what's important, relevant, or necessary in any circumstance. Your examples are actually all situations where you and someone
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by crux 17y ago
Writing may not have been developed indigenously in non-Egyptian Africa, but that doesn't mean it couldn't have been imported—and early on, too. Like anywhere else, you have a spectrum running from languages written in an imported script (A
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by crux 17y ago
I think the gap here is that while WR (and apps of its ilk) may not be particularly 'pleasant' in the sense of sweet-smelling, pretty, etc., pleasantness is not a virtue one really looks for in a tool for work. It's novel but not needful, a
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by crux 17y ago
You know what, I've read this several times before and it absolutely left my mind. It's an obvious first step. Thanks to those who pointed out the, well, obvious.
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Ask HN: Hacker News Clone/Social News software?
4 points by crux 17y ago|5 comments
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by crux 17y ago
For at least a year now I have been hearing tech pundits say, 'Nobody uses RSS anymore. I just get all my news from twitter.' I have never seen this behavior replicated in anybody I know. I think that it's because heavy twitter usage has ot
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by crux 17y ago
This is only interesting if one doesn't realize that sign language is its own language, rather than simply signed English. Syntax and word order are entirely different, and much information is encoded in what one might call 'tone'—eg, the e
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by crux 17y ago
This is not a video, it's a slideshow (insofar as it's a self-contained sequence of card-sized pages), each of whose slides is a video clip.
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by crux 17y ago
Well, he spends quite enough time talking about genealogical adaptation to environmental pressures. Are you concerned that he's not being sufficiently clearly anti-creationist?
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by crux 17y ago
Ultimately this is the sort of thing that is utterly fascinating to me, but since a) it gives me no reason that I _shouldn't_ believe it (corollary: mentions no competing viewpoints), and b) I have no expertise at all in the field, I have t
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by crux 17y ago
The basic question of teaching students how to speak and write in appropriate registers has been an essential project of schooling for a very long time. Everything else in here is fluff or misinformation. The author of this article clearly
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by crux 17y ago
Wait a minute, you think it's reasonable and patent to assert that there's an inherent racial quality (we know it's not cultural, since Israeli culture can barely be said to be a hundred years old) that makes Jews smart and hard-working, wh
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by crux 17y ago
Well, there's several ways to disagree with someone. I would certainly say that I am more likely to disagree with something if it's biased, facile, rude, superficial, lazy, or uninformed. All of these qualities—generally speaking, a lack of
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by crux 17y ago
You should be careful in the way that you use the word 'Chutzpah'—in English people usually use it to mean ballsiness, but in Yiddish it still means impudence, affrontery, gall. Not a good quality. I don't know about modern Israeli but give
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by crux 17y ago
I suspect it is the very rare average HN reader who has spent any time this morning idly wondering whether a computer built out of matchboxes to play Go would be bigger or smaller than the Crab Nebula.
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by crux 17y ago
I absolutely love the color design on that website. Which, considering it consisted of a single color of underlines and a sharpie, is pretty good.
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by crux 17y ago
Is this surprising or concerning? This article seems to presume a belief or decision making process wherein the subject has a belief, but has not thought about what God would think on the issue, and so decides to address the question by per
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12Sprints: SAP's "Google Wave Competitor"(12sprints.com)
1 points by crux 17y ago|0 comments
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by crux 17y ago
I think you're missing the point. The general argument here is: we're all aware of the accounts of those who have done well. Dubai was up until recently quite obviously prosperous. I have no doubt that the stewardesses of Emirates Airlines
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by crux 17y ago
'human language' actually means very little among linguists. If he were being very precise he'd say 'natural language'.

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