ellyagg

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by ellyagg 17y ago
I'd be pretty damn upset too if some other project got a lot of press for an announcement which included comments undermining the quality of my project. Sorry, but if you're going to strongly imply that my project's ease of use and performa
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by ellyagg 17y ago
I'm baffled. Doesn't the top of the article say that Wozniak is known for pulling practical jokes like ordering 4000 cups of coffee from Starbucks? And then the end of the article shows Steve Jobs doing that? What am I missing?
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by ellyagg 17y ago
Exactly. The whole first half was sand-poundingly stupid. Finally I got to a heading I agreed with, though: Stop fussing over expenses and taxes. I think many smart people don't value their time enough. My personal experience has been that
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by ellyagg 17y ago
Uh, no, he didn't say photorealism was pointless. In fact, he said the opposite: > As a style, Photorealism has a few detractors, who often dismiss it as pointless, or non-art. They fail to realize that many photorealistic paintings are
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by ellyagg 17y ago
Where do you live that not being into hunting marks you as an outcast? That sounds so alien and interesting to a SoCal resident like myself...
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by ellyagg 17y ago
So using the mild intensifier "pretty" is quite appealing to women, eh? How interesting...
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by ellyagg 17y ago
And as the editorial in the title is not straightforwardly implied by that line, we can confirm that the headline was crafted to provoke outrage.
608.
by ellyagg 17y ago
That's a fairly stupid characterization of what happened.
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by ellyagg 17y ago
If BENJAMIN FRANKLIN isn't entitled to boast, I don't know who is. (Note: I've read his autobiography a couple times and don't think any of it was inappropriately boastful.)
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by ellyagg 17y ago
"You do not have health insurance." The logic at the beginning of the post to justify this hyperbolic title was atrocious. Shouldn't be on Hacker News.
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by ellyagg 17y ago
Pretty interesting match-up really: ruthless efficiency versus individuality; process versus personality; open versus closed; workaday versus sublime; dauntingly powerful Borgian collective versus one man's vision.
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by ellyagg 17y ago
Constant learning is part of grit, and you can't take talent out of the equation.
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by ellyagg 17y ago
In fact, you can eat all "unhealthy" food and be far healthier than 95% of the people around you by keeping a calorie budget and exercising enough. In my case, I buy vats of lard at the local grocer and use it liberally. It tastes delicious
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by ellyagg 17y ago
Sure, any behavior is going to be a product of evolution and environment. Of course, sex is actually the mechanism of evolution, so it's doubtful that pretending behaviors associated with it are not strongly related to it will yield sensibl
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by ellyagg 17y ago
At some level, rape is absolutely a product of evolution, unless you don't believe in evolution. The desire for a male to have sex with a female is so strong that it approaches a need. Acknowledging this doesn't condone rape, but it does al
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by ellyagg 17y ago
Uh, I read your first link, and it didn't provide any reason whatsoever to make the government's case seem stronger.
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by ellyagg 17y ago
After clicking on it a few times, it should say "did you mean 'stack overflow'?
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by ellyagg 17y ago
No. Actually, it started when my 7 year relationship broke up, and I realized I wanted to be in complete control of my life before dating seriously again.
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by ellyagg 17y ago
You can change this trait! I promise you, you're not stuck with it. I'm about your age and I was a huge procrastinator and underachiever until only 2-3 years ago. Since then, mostly through "grit", I was able to acquire a job as a senior so
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by ellyagg 17y ago
Are you serious? How about this part right here in the study title: Caloric Restriction DELAYS Disease Onset AND MORTALITY in Rhesus Monkeys ...combined with the fact that in the contents of the study you link to, they eliminate significant
621.
by ellyagg 17y ago
What are you talking about? He linked to the study and priced it out for you, but he didn't read it? The article compared the actual findings of the study with what was reported in the media and press releases. I don't care how careful they
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by ellyagg 17y ago
I don't see how prudent it is. What can I do with that information, given the rest of the results of the study? I don't have anything against diabetes, cancer or heart/brain disease per se. It's not as if, when I die from an infection or pn
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by ellyagg 17y ago
"A new, advanced model of the electron microscope, much lower in cost, less complex and only 30 inches high, has been developed by RCA and will be placed on the market later this year." Ha. That link doesn't show you could buy miniature ele
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by ellyagg 17y ago
No, I wanted to cover the 16 x 8 foot surface of one wall in my apartment, so that wouldn't have been practicable in my case.
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by ellyagg 17y ago
Last year, I tried many different dry erase surfaces, including dry erase paint and many alternative treatments of showerboard. I even tried dry erase paint buffed onto a showerboard panel. Surprisingly, this was worse than the melanine alo
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by ellyagg 17y ago
No, you are exaggerating. And the things you WOULDN'T have done are precisely the things that make the app stand out from the crowd and become a success, which is the thesis of the post.
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by ellyagg 17y ago
Problem solved then.
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by ellyagg 17y ago
I doubt picking the actual locale for retirement requires 30 or 40 years of lead time. There's a significant chance countries with attractive costs of living will still exist several decades from now.
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by ellyagg 17y ago
I'll check the polls again when the economy collapses under the burden of too generous government benefits.
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by ellyagg 17y ago
I have hobbies, but none that couldn't earn a buck if positioned right. I yearn for the validation that comes with people voting for my activities with their money.

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