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by delackner 19y ago
1. Start in a large pot 3cm of water to boil. 2. in a fry pan, holding it tilted, at very low heat, drop in well-chopped anchovies and garlic, in a bath of enough olive oil that they are swimming. 3. When the pool of stuff is bubbling rapi
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by delackner 19y ago
I have only read this excerpt, not the whole book, but the author appears to fail to understand that when you are talking about the design of a product that you only have one chance to get right, civility and head nodding is the enemy. You
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by delackner 19y ago
Look at the relatively lengthy comments on this, and yet almost all of them are intelligent and a relatively nice portion of them add more to the discussion. So we aren't dead yet. I don't see much discussion of the importance of avoiding
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by delackner 19y ago
I think a lot of us end up hesitating to bother opening an article because so often the submitted-title is a bad attempt at humor that instead completely masks the true topic of the article. Titles like "you really want to know..." are a t
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by delackner 19y ago
I have been living outside the US for 4 years now, and for the first 1.5 years I pretty consistently (as in, every month) used my www.firstib.com bank ATM card to make withdrawals all over asia, and they never even once blocked me. They al
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by delackner 19y ago
I have been at startups and established small firms with every thinkable permutation of pay, stock, and required hours. Frankly if you are at a point where you are ready to hire people, a FAIR salary (not even thinking of future profits or
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by delackner 19y ago
Actually if you read the literature on Provigil, it is much safer than caffeine in two vital ways. It is not a stimulant, whereas caffeine is, like amphetamines. It very specifically and directly affects the brain's chemistry. It is also
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by delackner 19y ago
Actually plain Coca leaves have been chewed for (insert very long time frame) by people in its native areas for a variety of medicinal and performance enhancing effects.
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by delackner 19y ago
Looking at the systemic failures of the US education system leaves me unable to see a viable route to a high functioning system[1]. This leaves me wondering, when I have children, how to deal with educating them when even the very best pr
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by delackner 19y ago
My own understanding of derivatives is very weak, but could someone extend this example to explain what the resulting state would be in this chain? Simplifying a little, a->b->c->a (a loop), where -> is "owes $1000". So pa
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by delackner 19y ago
This post really encompasses the essential boringness of stories (and by extension games, which we weave our own stories within) that focus on complexity for its own sake: a story is not made interesting by having a large dataset for many d
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by delackner 19y ago
The money quote is that one of the explicit purposes of public school is to indoctrinate our children to be patriotic and to defend the nation. That is nationalism folks, the movement that helped cause most of the wars in the last century.
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by delackner 19y ago
Exactly. The Wii doesn't contain any new technology either, nor is it even as powerful in specific measures compared to its competitors. I think this is a similar situation of the right execution of good design and execution of the full s
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by delackner 19y ago
This reminds me a lot of the coverage of the Wii before its release. Some people don't seem to grasp the huge difference between what Apple (and Nintendo with the Wii) have done compared to previous mobile platforms. We are looking at a f
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by delackner 19y ago
If you are actually determined to use it and develop some software, that should not exactly be a major concern.
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by delackner 19y ago
Agreed. I read through the entire thing expecting to eventually see some claim that was worth reporting, and yet it all seems like it could be summed up as: Wikipedia Founder took some people to an expensive dinner (shocking!), has very u
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by delackner 19y ago
If infrastructure spending is the solution (not sure I agree with that one) then federal funding for fast-tracked subway network construction in regional population hubs would be ideal. Massive up-front costs (pouring money in the economy)
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by delackner 19y ago
Despite the old saying that the trains always run on time, just about everything else seems to go to hell. Note Singapore is one of the few modern examples I can think of of a dictatorship that turned out pretty well. Of course the plain-c
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by delackner 19y ago
This is one of the foundations of building an actual sense of community. If you were having a discussiion in the real world, wouldn't you feel a bit put-off if someone jumped in and started talking without spending even a moment to hear wh
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by delackner 19y ago
Do not pick San Diego. I have lived in the valley and in San Diego, and it is a cultural wasteland that will drive all your best potential hires away to other parts of the world. It sure drove me away, to Tokyo.
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by delackner 19y ago
NO. In fact, I would love a link that says "downmod/ignore stories from similar to those that vote for this story". If a story has been up-ranked by a lot of people that you disagree with, you should be able to just ignore them, effective
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by delackner 19y ago
Think about the incentives you are creating. This fee would just get written into the contracts of viral ad companies, while enthusiastic users would be deterred by the psychological barrier of spending money to do something that feels lik
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by delackner 19y ago
Without "mark all unread articles as read" (per-page, say) the flood of articles is unmanageable without reverting back to an rss reader. Yet doing so adds a level of indirection that removes any impulse to rank items, diluting the quality
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by delackner 19y ago
The logical fallacies in that video are breathtaking. This must be how conservative-voting people view the world, and for that at least it is informative.