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by fbbwsa 18y ago
backgammon. started playing it recently when i got a new job and the guys at my new firm play it. fun as hell.
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by fbbwsa 18y ago
high fructose corn syrup. obesity becomes the new norm. everyone gets so fat they can't walk around, global production grinds to a halt. Nobody can remember how to hunt or farm since its so long since our sedentary society has engaged in su
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by fbbwsa 18y ago
haha, actually made me laugh. funniest HN comment I've read in a while.
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by fbbwsa 18y ago
Wow! Insightful! I guess I happen to be the very rare counterexample in that at some point in every interview process I've been through, I've been asked questions like the ones the author says won't get me hired. And I've never been asked "
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by fbbwsa 18y ago
Wow, that is one of the worst articles I have ever read by Gladwell. I generally think Gladwell is overrated, but at least provides interesting anecdotes. I was sorely tempted to quit reading it about 2/3 through, but then I thought "maybe
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Using an automated day trader to generate income(fattyfatfat.com)
101 points by fbbwsa 18y ago|97 comments
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by fbbwsa 18y ago
link? and is it free?
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by fbbwsa 18y ago
i wish somebody would create an exchange where buyers and sellers of stock could synthetically place bets on these companies. i'd love to shortsell facebook at its latest official valuation.
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by fbbwsa 18y ago
i love this idea. it amazes me that people can deconstruct organic life as being just mechanical robots built with organic parts, then try to make their own organic robots that "live" (have biological processes, reproduce, etc.) science is
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by fbbwsa 18y ago
:)
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by fbbwsa 18y ago
but gmail is good. and we like it. being corporate != departure from quality. its not really fair to say that the burden rests on hackers and startup founders to promote/use small providers. small providers also have a responsibility to in
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by fbbwsa 18y ago
More interesting to me is the question of what actions can be taken to get on the winning side of this. If its really so inevitable, what sort of positions can I put on to profit the most from this?
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by fbbwsa 18y ago
cool. first thing i wanted to do was to add some companies and find out what the highest salaries were. unfortunately i had to hit next a bunch of times to get there. would be kind of cool if there were sort features or the option to contro
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by fbbwsa 18y ago
i know this is a terrible thing to say... but... I love bluefin tuna. its delicious. knowing that i might not be able to eat it in a few years leaves me conflicted between increasing consumption for my personal enjoyment (at the cost of the
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by fbbwsa 18y ago
like the idea. i'm definitely a believer that the "restaurant/food reviews" space is underdeveloped. Yelp and Citysearch have great reach, but I feel like its not giving me what I want. Check out: http://www.dishola.com/
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by fbbwsa 18y ago
incidentally, i still think somebody should write an article about what the community thinks is "Fair" compensation. Skip past the "it depends" dialogue (which granted is important), and describe some border cases: 1. founders are jerks/mor
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by fbbwsa 18y ago
99,71,34, Sqrt(8), ... http://xkcd.com/487/
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by fbbwsa 18y ago
lets talk. my gmail account is fbbwsa@
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by fbbwsa 18y ago
claude shannon = biggest stud ever. i highly recommend "Fortune's Formula". Great read. Smart dudes (Shannon, Ed Thorpe), blackjack, casinos, financial markets, and more. http://www.amazon.com/Fortunes-Formula-Scientific-Betting-Ca...
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by fbbwsa 18y ago
I'm going to do the thing that makes it seem like I'm a suckup, but I'm unaffiliated with YC: PG mentions this in his articles about Bayesian Spam filtering. Seems pretty compelling.
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by fbbwsa 18y ago
agree. can't argue with the results, traffic, and revenue of Drudge report. Design can mean a lot of things, but the kind of "design" i care about when presenting information can be evaluated independently of its "results, traffic, and reve
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by fbbwsa 18y ago
sexy 21 year old college co-ed looking for an older man to "show me the ropes" if you know what I mean. NSA.
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by fbbwsa 18y ago
On that note, what sort of compensation IS acceptable? I'd join someone with a vision I believed in/thought would succeed for no salary and all equity. I wouldnt give up any $ salary for equity to work for a concept I didn't believe in. How
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by fbbwsa 18y ago
i love the taste of g-undecalactone. and the sweet, slightly citrusy overtones remind me of freedom. isobutyl anthranilate is only so-so though.
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by fbbwsa 18y ago
since we've already established that i was out of line, i just thought i'd revisit this topic of pseudoscience vs science since: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2008/11/18.html currently (as of Nov 19, 7:40am CST) is the number one ran
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by fbbwsa 18y ago
annoyingly addictive. tower defense = untold hours of my life that i will never get back... A++++++ would waste that time again if given the option (and would also be annoyed that i did)
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by fbbwsa 18y ago
hmm... correct. my apologies, offense not intended, though looking back I can see that wasn't the nicest post by me. You didn't claim it was science and you're right it shouldn't be critiqued as such. i AM a scientist by training, so someti
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by fbbwsa 18y ago
you are correct, I skimmed/misread the post. I thought it 75 richest LIVING people (and could not for the life of me figure out why they were using such an old Forbes list...), not in history. Thats why I was assuming we could assume dead p
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by fbbwsa 18y ago
wait, you didn't include a way to contact you. i tried emailing to: join("adam", "@", "8planes", ".com") but my email client returned an error.
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by fbbwsa 18y ago
Sort of a terrible example by the author (Gladwell, I guess), I think with regards to the wealth creation window being limited to those born between 1831 to 1840. don’t see why its surprising at all that 14/75 of the richest people in the c

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