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by garply 16y ago
My point was that "research" dates back well before the 17th century. If you insist upon research meaning "scientific research" the scientific method goes back to at least Aristotle. Scientific standards were different at different points i
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by garply 16y ago
Nitpick: "Dreams of eternal youth feature in many cultures throughout history, but it was only in the 20th century that research into longevity really began." I seem to recall learning about ancient Chinese emperors entertaining Daoist 'pri
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by garply 16y ago
I can't speak for the other cities, but East Beijing actually is much wealthier than West Beijing.
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HTML map tag(w3schools.com)
1 points by garply 16y ago|0 comments
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by garply 16y ago
Not to say that the GP was particularly insightful, but: I suspect he derives money indirectly from his blog - for example, by securing himself as an authority on tech investing in an industry where reputation is quite important.
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by garply 16y ago
People keep mentioning alternatives to FB but I feel pretty locked-in. I would be interested in joining a site that was a superset of Facebook... that is, a site where I could control and access my Facebook data but also interact beyond Fac
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by garply 16y ago
"The concept of death from overwork has also been turned into a computer game, named after the phenomenon. The player must kill themselves rather than survive a level."
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by garply 16y ago
Let me ask a possibly unpopular question because the answer is not immediately obvious to me: Why are there laws against age discrimination? For example, if I want to fill my company with pretty young women, competent or otherwise, why shou
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by garply 16y ago
I was raised in vim and used to do the same when hacking Lisp but it got tedious after a while. Have you considered using viper mode in emacs (which makes emacs behave like vi)? I've found that having an inferior Lisp to which you can easil
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by garply 16y ago
If you are buying something by weight, bring a scale with you. To prevent people from stalling or from providing poor service, find something to threaten them with. Examples that I find myself saying frequently: "Let me talk to your boss",
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by garply 16y ago
I really like their Ctrl + → keybinding for next page (although, much like on DuckDuckGo) I find the favicons distracting).
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by garply 16y ago
I voluntarily live in China and in many ways prefer living here to living in my homeland (the US). Otherwise, why would I be here? The food's great, the economy's great, people are friendly if you try to understand the culture, cost of livi
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by garply 16y ago
dublinclontarf, I live in and run a business in China. I solve my problems with a VPN. I find the GFW an annoyance, but not a huge one. It mostly just means my connection is slower when I access certain sites. Do you live in Beijing? I'd be
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by garply 16y ago
Ironically, better search. Gmail search is nowhere near as intelligent (or as permissive of "fuzzier" queries) as Google itself.
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by garply 16y ago
You only need two: 自由. What was the third?
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by garply 16y ago
The default tor gateways have been blocked, you need a tor bridge. A faster solution is to set up a server outside the mainland and set up an ssh tunnel or a VPN server on it.
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by garply 16y ago
It does look a lot like Bing - but they copied the intelligent suggestions part of Bing, which is what I like about it (for example, the images filter will stand out when Google thinks I might be looking for images). I kind of wish they wou
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by garply 16y ago
"We're not going to have to worry about the cost of servers, hiring a few people, getting office space. Before I would have walked around New York for weeks looking at all the office space to save $2k/month. We don't have to be careful anym
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by garply 16y ago
"Our results have shown that higher cognitive abilities do not always reflect rational decision making."
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Higher working memory capacity predicts greater bias in risky choice(journal.sjdm.org)
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by garply 16y ago
I would like to know what kind of factory the author works in.
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When It Comes To Television Content, Affiliate Fees Make The World Go ‘Round(abovethecrowd.com)
4 points by garply 16y ago|0 comments
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Google Loses Chinese Market Share(online.wsj.com)
1 points by garply 17y ago|0 comments
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by garply 17y ago
I'm not sure what you mean. I never applied to any companies when I was in college. I was courted by a few tech startups and almost joined them because they looked interesting and fun - but at the beginning of my senior year I decided I sho
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by garply 17y ago
Joining a startup out of college is not hard. As I grew up, I went through the educational funnel to these types of jobs (McKinsey, Google, etc) and I found myself disliking the people around me and (especially in the case of finance / mana
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by garply 17y ago
I was really excited about this and so I went to Youku.com (Chinese YouTube) to try it out and, unfortunately, it looks really terrible.
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by garply 17y ago
Actually, word here (in Beijing) has been that the gov't has been scooping up old Google engineers to work on the state-sponsored CCTV search engine.
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by garply 17y ago
It's fine to leave me at 0 points but why was I down-voted? In what way have I violated the spirit of the site with this honest question?
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by garply 17y ago
Who is JWZ? Is he well-known as a techie? As a techie who runs a non-tech business, I find him interesting due to the fact that he runs a nightclub.
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by garply 17y ago
I don't feel like it's a stretch for HN because it actually discusses in detail what's going on in Mexico. Previously all I could understand from various major media sources was that there was a lot of drug-related violence in Mexico and th

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