giles_goat_boy

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by giles_goat_boy 17y ago
Your logic's terrible. _this community means nothing to you other than being a great place to advertise._ That conflates a community with a site, and attention-seeking with profit-seeking. _before long the front page is nothing but posts ab
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by giles_goat_boy 17y ago
seriously. what a waste of time.
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by giles_goat_boy 17y ago
now that's a good idea.
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by giles_goat_boy 17y ago
Nobody who is an expert on e-mail marketing would ever wander in here. They'd be too busy driving their Ferrari. I came in here by accident and came away with a prime example of why Hacker Newspaper doesn't link to comment threads. For ever
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by giles_goat_boy 17y ago
Hi all. I rigged Hacker Newspaper to skip any story which contains the word "iPad" (case-insensitive) in the title. I've got that in effect for now and will remove it after the madness ebbs. So if you want to read a version of HN with iPad
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by giles_goat_boy 17y ago
srsly
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by giles_goat_boy 17y ago
It's not a parody. It's funny, but it's real. This diet saved my life. I mean you could spend a lot of time debating what I really mean, or you could just assume I mean what I say, get the book, improve your nutritional habits, lose tons of
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by giles_goat_boy 17y ago
if you take my argument to its logical conclusion (and there's no apostrophe in a possessive "its", dammit), then you can't trust anyone without affilate links.
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by giles_goat_boy 17y ago
not to protect my rep, to avoid a personal problem I have, which is an overwhelming compulsion to have the last word in every discussion. I can get just about anybody to agree with me if I spend enough time to find out what mistake they mad
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by giles_goat_boy 17y ago
what I'm not telling you is that Dr. Fuhrman's system involves eating a lot of beans, and beans make you fart; and that eating at restaurants, I don't even bother trying any more, too much oil/salt/etc. also technically that can't cost me