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by ellyagg 16y ago
It surely lowers you IQ, although it still may still be a net positive. Many brilliant people are also anxious, and can't get things done because of it. If marijuana helps you relax enough to focus, this is a win. I don't smoke, and I've ha
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by ellyagg 16y ago
Why do I drink 2 or even 3 bottles of Dr. Pepper a day and still stay skinny[1]? As always, one little piece of information doesn't tell the story. The fact is, almost all rices have a high glycemic index, thus cause a blood sugar spike, th
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by ellyagg 16y ago
I'm sure you got my point. The amount of press that this topic has generated is really only warranted if this flaw were a deal breaker, meaning the release was a dud. Given the uptake, and the fact that signal quality for the phone is highe
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by ellyagg 16y ago
So you're suggesting that the story over the last few days was never about a legitimate gripe, but was all along just eager Apple haters slavering over the prospect of a prostrate Steve Jobs?
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by ellyagg 16y ago
Jesus, I don't know what you're on about in this thread. When people think to themselves that they are better than average drivers, they mean "I am better than the majority of people, for example most of my coworkers, at driving." No one ha
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by ellyagg 16y ago
That's only because people don't realize all the obviously unhealthful foods and mistakenly believe many healthy foods are bad for you because they contain dietary fat. A baked potato is practically as bad for you as cake, weight-wise. On t
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by ellyagg 16y ago
Did you read the article? What are you claiming is the wrongly attributed cause here? They didn't claim small feet cause pretty faces. They speculated on potential root causes that might affect feet and faces at the same time, but they cert
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by ellyagg 16y ago
It's best not to worry about whether you're average or above average or below average. Instead, winners focus on setting personal goals and incrementally improving their performance against objective standards. Let others do the comparisons
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by ellyagg 16y ago
Actually, it is useful, because everyone is going to the same page, so the community's attention is focused on a few items at a time. This is what enables conversations to happen. If instead you just have a catalog of code, the community'
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by ellyagg 16y ago
I disagree. There are already many, many places to search for code and sites where code fragments are organized in that fashion. Here, each code submitter is making a claim that their submission is an example of beautiful code. User voting
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by ellyagg 16y ago
No, Fergie is 3008, they're so 2000 and late.
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by ellyagg 16y ago
After the match, Coach Bradley gave the most likely explanation. He speculated that the ref had already decided to call a foul on the play because he thought better of awarding the free kick in the first place--so, a makeup call. Usually th
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by ellyagg 16y ago
A few months or a year ago a Google designer quit when he was forced to split test one too many shades of blue. He described what a creativity sink the uniform fidelity to that sort of approach is. Of course, in a large organization there a
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by ellyagg 16y ago
Whether your parent's comment constitutes inappropriate objectification of women or instead your comment constitutes an insufficient sense of humor, that debate could fill volumes. Now is not the time for that. Please stop moralizing.
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by ellyagg 16y ago
Considering your love life with a technical and analytical bent in no way suggests a lack of feelings (psychopathology), and it will definitely improve your odds of being successful. It's a bit creepy to intimidate others into suboptimal li
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by ellyagg 16y ago
Things we know: * The term html5 has been used loosely to describe the next generation of emerging browser standards for a long time. After this tempest in a teapot, it will continue to be so. Until someone comes up with something better, t
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by ellyagg 16y ago
No, his negativity wasn't nearly that focused. See the argument around his introduction of "fuck you". Aside from which, I'm partly making a meta comment on the discussion over this page. The last couple of posts concerning it have been cat
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by ellyagg 16y ago
You're right that it's not that big of a deal, but downvoted for using "apple fanboy".
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by ellyagg 16y ago
It's an Apple page promoting Apple's adoption of emerging standards. I've never before seen criticism of a browser vendor adopting standards too fast . In general, web developers normally wish browser vendors had magical resources to imple
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by ellyagg 16y ago
Uh, what? The vast majority of the time, when people talk about web standards, they mean the W3C recommendations. Suddenly, when Apple uses it in marketing material, it means "recommendations that have been implemented by all browsers"?
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by ellyagg 16y ago
> This sets a very poor example for Apple supporting standards. Can you, or any of the dozens of upvoters, explain the logic behind that criticism? It literally seems to make no sense to me, so I must be missing something. The page talk
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by ellyagg 16y ago
Uh, what? The recently leaked emails specifically showed climate scientists attempting to work together to suppress dissent, e.g., urging that people in the group stop submitting to a particular journal because it published "skeptical" stud
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by ellyagg 16y ago
Sure because 95% leaves 5% of room to cherry pick aberrations.
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by ellyagg 16y ago
Dammit, I'm really close to that profile, yet by no means elite. Worst of both worlds.
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by ellyagg 16y ago
I believe because the publicly available reports of their interview process don't seem to emphasize "getting stuff done" as much as she prefers, but instead emphasize other attributes. She believes that if it's not emphasized in the intervi
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by ellyagg 16y ago
That's true. My mind doesn't normally jump to the tiny fraction of outlying billionaires when I think of successful people though.
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by ellyagg 16y ago
He's absolutely right. The problem is that people buy their listeners some temporary comfort with their false modesty, but at the same time disempower them in the long term by saying that success is a function of luck. Few people say their
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by ellyagg 16y ago
But the sales figures are not bearing out your latter claim, nor are the reactions of my "normal" friends or family.
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by ellyagg 16y ago
What do you mean? At my local Apple store they were all toting around iPads.
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by ellyagg 16y ago
"[D]epending on your politics", indeed. It's not self-evident that everyone should be equally happy. It's not even self-evident that happiness should be the overriding concern of our existence. I've sacrificed my happiness many times in the

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