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by giblfiz 12y ago
Interesting that you should bring that up. I'm the author, and I talk about the Marshmallow experiment a great deal in the next article http://7goldfish.com/in_defence_of_cognitive_bais
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by giblfiz 14y ago
Relevant regarding standards: http://xkcd.com/927/
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by giblfiz 14y ago
wait... your saying that because they are discontinuing a product? I'm not suggesting that google is/isn't evil these days, but I would suggest that there is absolutely no moral aspect to discontinuing a feed reader.
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by giblfiz 14y ago
"Google's executive jets – of which is has at least eight – carry very few people in great luxury, with the larger aircraft in the Chocolate Factory's fleet coming equipped with double beds" Chocolate Factory? What the hell is going on with
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by giblfiz 14y ago
This post makes me think of many of the concepts from "zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance". For those who haven't read it, it focuses heavily on the nature of quality (how it is both somewhat universal, and somewhat a matter of taste
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by giblfiz 14y ago
Am I the only one horribly confused by the math in these charts? E.G. the second chart has FF at 20.08% and then has a breakout where they show FF15 at ~11%, FF14 at ~3.2%, FF13 at ~0.7%, and FF12 at ~1% Those add up to ~16% by my math...
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by giblfiz 14y ago
It's pretty well known that Einstein was a horrible husband and father http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mileva_Mari http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsa_Einstein http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduard_Einstein
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by giblfiz 14y ago
Yep, still growing. In fact they have a pretty cool "free trial" program running right now, where you can assign the funds of a single large lender. (It's a little bit like matching, but you don't even need to put up anything to be matched)
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by giblfiz 14y ago
Alexanderh, that's a really interesting criticism. I understand where your coming from with the concern that the photogenic will absorb more funding than they should (a morally questionable advantage). To a lesser extent I also see why the
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by giblfiz 14y ago
Don't discount it. Your numbers are about right, but that can definitely be enough to run an organization. Kiva has about 80 full time staff and about 3/4s of their funding comes from lender tips.
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by giblfiz 14y ago
I'm assuming this is a reference to this: http://eyetap.blogspot.ca/2012/07/physical-assault-by-mcdona...
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by giblfiz 14y ago
do you literally want me to kill you now?
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by giblfiz 14y ago
Definition of LITERALLY 1: in a literal sense or manner : actually <took the remark literally> <was literally insane> 2: in effect : virtually <will literally turn the world upside down to combat cruelty or injustice — N
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by giblfiz 14y ago
Well two differences... one only applies to some of those things. In the case of all of the physically active ones they to some extent self-regulate. There is really only so much power-lifting you can do in a week, and very few ways around
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by giblfiz 15y ago
Wow, Dave Carvajal, That was a name I was hoping I would never see again. I actually worked with him for a while at the ladders, and after every conversation with him I felt like I needed to take a bath to get the slime off.