curuinor

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by curuinor 8y ago
you can see something awful and metafilter as examples. they're miniscule and dying now, but somehow despite being the bonafide scum of the internet 2000-2010, something awful has chilled out (and metafilter was always pretty chill)
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Show HN: Diogenes Mark 8(github.com)
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Verbal offer is worth the paper it's written on.
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by curuinor 8y ago
That's why our nuclear weapons run on floppy disks...
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we evolved to get a trade building and using computers and build a home?
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by curuinor 8y ago
it's not political, it's just got a board entirely appointed by the president with consent of the senate and has a congressional mandate to do stuff...
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by curuinor 8y ago
"Learning material" for actually-advanced folks, in my experience does exist and is almost without exception books or papers. I gave up on trying to find stuff on video.
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by curuinor 8y ago
If a place can be zoned for 120 square feet, it can also have affordable eating establishments and all sorts of fun things to do, which you will be doing because you will mostly get out of your place.
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by curuinor 8y ago
henry george strikes again!
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by curuinor 8y ago
Nissan makes more EV's than Tesla by a bit.
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by curuinor 8y ago
Wait, isn't Rocket Lab an american company, and they're just locating the rocket in NZ? Founders were Kiwis but HQ is in California...
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by curuinor 8y ago
it's pr speak for "there will be no dick pics"
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by curuinor 8y ago
yes. just have them do it. student loans are fundamentally unsecured loans because they aren't collateralized. amounts loaned should be comparable to credit cards and other unsecured loans, and support of student enrollments should be
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by curuinor 8y ago
Did you have any leverage with the counterparty?
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by curuinor 8y ago
My contracting rate was double my hourly rate...
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by curuinor 8y ago
Metafilter and Something Awful have successfully banned assholes multiple times. The secret: paywalls. Only truly dedicated crazy people are willing and able to spend a hundred bucks on annoying people.
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by curuinor 8y ago
think they mean the movies and things
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by curuinor 8y ago
How are you going to actually execute that and actually win in a Chinese court and get damages back from a Chinese corp?
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by curuinor 8y ago
born rich (his dad was a provincial minister) poor poor (middle-class, if you think a carpenter is that way, maybe) middle-class rich (born a landed knight) rich (although his father's engineering firm went bust but restarted and did w
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"Be contrarian."
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by curuinor 8y ago
If encryption is a core business function, you need as a prerequisite to having a business at all a couple of folks who know encryption well enough to roll their own.
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by curuinor 8y ago
i think i got banned by either vilerat or brown moses for shitting up dnd, years ago
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by curuinor 8y ago
it was started by a mod in the something awful forums
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by curuinor 8y ago
shazam was $400 million after two decades and was materially better at it than douyin....
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by curuinor 8y ago
STRIVR already has some construction and factory line contracts. We started from sports.
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The lessons are very short and we told the Walmart folks to repeat them, for spaced repetition.
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by curuinor 8y ago
First publications in academia on that front were more than 25 years ago. First apps trying to do that were actually quite a few years ago, but they're quite obscure because they're quite scary, oftentimes.
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Not a partnership with Facebook, at least directly. I work for STRIVR, who actually landed the contract.
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by curuinor 8y ago
gab.ai and voat are filled with literal actual white supremacists
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by curuinor 8y ago
This is Adam Grant, who wrote a book about relationships ("Give and Take") and admitted in it that his own relationship with his wife was sometimes rocky because he worked too much?

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