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by gabemart 13y ago
> I've been beating the market, albeit by only a few percent, for years. I may just be lucky, but I believe my methods give me an edge. The problem is that for an outsider to whom you are a stranger, the former is overwhelmingly mor
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by gabemart 13y ago
> By blind-testing it that dimension is lost. It doesn't produce any more "pure" result, because the setup is artificial to begin with. I agree that the results of a properly controlled blind tasting are not more "val
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by gabemart 13y ago
Does anyone know of any double-blind taste-tests for enthusiast setups like this? Not limited to coffee but I'd also be very curious about tea, wine and much of the accepted wisdom of both classic and modern cooking. I don't mean
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by gabemart 13y ago
>In desktop, resize your browser window. Fully customizable, and no worry for layout break. It's better for the user if a site has good readability without them having to do anything.
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by gabemart 13y ago
body { max-width: 600px; margin: 0 auto; } Improves readability by an order of magnitude in my opinion.
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by gabemart 13y ago
In case you haven't heard of it before: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-gold
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by gabemart 13y ago
>In my opinion with a few simple changes she could have gotten quite a bit more than $36k from the site. Could you very briefly explain what kind of changes you're talking about? I have a site I haven't updated in years that ge
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by gabemart 13y ago
I feel out of touch for saying this, but I found the page visually exhausting. I don't know exactly why - it's partially because the contrast of the text is too low on the white background and partially because I find extremely lo
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by gabemart 13y ago
Most of the less-technical people I know who use it use it as a backup. The free tier can restore deleted files within a certain time period (30 days?). If you put your default file locations (My Documents or similar) inside dropbox, it wor
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by gabemart 13y ago
I'd be cautious of using number of submissions as a metric for growth. It's possible that at least some of the growth in the number of submissions is caused by an increase in the ratio of spam. In fact, a growing number of submiss
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by gabemart 13y ago
Alternatively, only activate voting on comments when new users reach a certain karma threshold (does this exist already?), and only activate voting on stories when users reach a certain higher karma threshold.
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by gabemart 13y ago
How, please?
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by gabemart 13y ago
>If you earn $2500 now and a Basic Income of $1500 were introduced, then you wouldn't suddenly earn $4000. Yes, you would. That's what basic income is. If you make $1,000,000 per year and basic income of $10,000 is introduced,
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by gabemart 13y ago
"Any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines
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Gmail service disruption(google.com)
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Chrome will now save its users from unexpectedly noisy browser tabs(arstechnica.com)
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by gabemart 13y ago
Do you mind if I ask where you spent $250 online for prescription sunglasses? Did that price include designer frames? I got two pairs of prescription sunglasses from firmoo [1] for about $25 during a promotion. I am currently considering bu
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by gabemart 13y ago
The idea of Cobb's wedding ring as his totem has been discussed publicly as early as July 2010 [1], the month of the film's release. [1] http://www.reddit.com/r/Inception/comments/cvk2i/is_cobbs
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by gabemart 13y ago
Google's cache is up: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttp%...
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by gabemart 13y ago
Thanks, I will look into this.
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by gabemart 13y ago
I never assumed the purpose of snapchat was provide bullet-proof self-destructing images, in the same way that I wouldn't assume the purpose of a lock on a diary or medicine cabinet was to provide bullet-proof physical security. I assu
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Ask HN: How do you stay up to date with scientific papers on a particular topic?
5 points by gabemart 13y ago|3 comments
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UK spies continue “quantum insert” attack via LinkedIn, Slashdot pages(arstechnica.com)
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by gabemart 13y ago
Definitely not against the etiquette. When you post the kickstarter link, it would also be nice if you included a link to the comments here in a comment in the new post
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by gabemart 13y ago
>The undrewriters don't always come out doing so well. Take a look at the Facebbok IPO as an example. They didn't end up selling all of the stock that was issued in the IPO and had to buy up stock back from the market at elevat
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by gabemart 13y ago
This is a very small niggle, but I've noticed at least one other website that invites me to tweet select quotes from the article. I find this invitation obnoxious and smug. It suggests (incorrectly, I'm sure) that the author is a
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by gabemart 13y ago
The most difficult part of SEO (and, perhaps tellingly, the part covered only extremely briefly and superficially in the PDF) is getting links from relevant, high-authority sources with relevant anchor text. It's more important than an
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Pebble SDK hits 2.0, brings new APIs, full iOS 7 integration(arstechnica.com)
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by gabemart 13y ago
You could try a tool like http://cloudmonitor.ca.com/en/checkit.php
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by gabemart 13y ago
Saturated fat intake has been suggested by some studies to be positively correlated with cancer risk [1]. I don't have an opinion on the quality of the evidence, but it's worth considering. The article doesn't appear to menti

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