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by haploid 16y ago
Just so I'm clear, are you suggesting that once one has consciously elected to enter into a long-term relationship, one's biological drives and genetic predispositions immediately shut down? Genetic expression and disposition toward gene-pr
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by haploid 16y ago
I edited my post. The hipster reference was not constructive. Re: fat nerds and social value: In 2011, "fat nerds" can wield quite a bit of financial power. This can make them attractive to females by virtue of the fact that they can be u
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by haploid 16y ago
"My personal belief is that if a woman chose you for your social status, you made a mistake getting involved with her." I'd suggest reading the book cited by the grandparent. You're a little naive on the topic. The vast majority of women
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by haploid 16y ago
Both you and yummyfajitas are making the classic error of espousing an unpopular opinion amongst people who tend to irrationally believe magical romantic things about evolved bags of meat. It's a fairly well established biological fact( cav
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by haploid 16y ago
Why paypal/google instead of a real payments gateway like authorize.net?
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by haploid 16y ago
That depends entirely on whether you married a woman who demanded vacations, jewelry, expensive dinners( e.g. saw you as a walking wallet ), or a woman who actually likes you for who you are.
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by haploid 16y ago
Um, postmark? It's an extremely simple API to implement.
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by haploid 16y ago
Downvoting is not shaming. Comments calling the poster out as being an idiot, pointing out his fallacies, etc would have qualified as shaming.
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by haploid 16y ago
Downvote the heretic! Unpopular opinions will not be tolerated! Oh, HN, you never fail to disappoint.
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by haploid 16y ago
Which article are you referring to ?
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by haploid 16y ago
Here's an unpopular, but scientifically verified thought: Beauty isn't all that subjective. Things like waist/hip ratio( 0.7 for females, 0.95 for males ), facial symmetry, skin smoothness, have all been subjects of bias-controlled studies
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by haploid 16y ago
Huh? SFGate is a little slow on the uptake. The museum has been open for many years now. I was there two years ago.
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by haploid 16y ago
"Both had the maturity and view on life of someone, well...who didn't go to university" I'm having a hard time understanding what you mean here. What maturity and "view" would this be? A lack of "getting drunk at the frat house and bangin
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by haploid 16y ago
Double spacing helps to set sentences off from each other visually. I prefer reading material that's double-spaced, so that's the way I prefer to write. It's also to some extent simply out of habit. But even if my only reason was becaus
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by haploid 16y ago
It's a double space. HTML renderers don't display double spaces in the absence of an actual space entity like  
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by haploid 16y ago
It seems that the reason it's wrong is that typographers say it is. The author has not given an actual reason , other than appeal to authority. I will continue to double-space until I'm dead.
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by haploid 16y ago
I don't see anything in the OP's comment that suggested a presumption of automatic female incompetence. Design in many realms is not trivial work. At Google, at present, it is by no means trivial work. But one should bear in mind that con
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by haploid 16y ago
Somewhat related: Plentyoffish is also an excellent example of this principle as applied to hardware architecture. POF was doing insane levels of traffic for most of its life on 2-3 average-sized servers.
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by haploid 16y ago
Yes. We could have easily written this. We've been building our business slowly, brick by brick, for a little over 5 years now. We never took outside capital, we have always conducted our development in an iterative manner, and we're qui
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by haploid 16y ago
This was exactly my point. Thus far we have not seen significant core inflation, hence why I said "QE1, QE Lite, and QE2 might not be there, yet." I later went on to suggest that additional rounds of QE probably will, however. Please ex
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by haploid 16y ago
My comment was more a reference to the fact that my original post, and most other posts that express inflationary views, are rapidly downvoted. This opinion is very unpopular amongst the Keynesians/deflationists at HN, who prefer downvoting
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by haploid 16y ago
Don't bother polluting this thread with facts. HN is clearly dominated by Keynesians. Your dissent will not be tolerated. I believe the standard response writ large upon Bernanke's beard would be something like "But but but the 2011 model
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by haploid 16y ago
I do. QE1, QE Lite, and QE2 might not be there, yet. But QE3, QE4, and QE5 are all but inevitable. It's just a matter of time.
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by haploid 16y ago
- E-mail/calendar/docs: Exchange/MS Office - Hosting: Limestone Networks, AWS EC2, Joyent - Invoicing: N/A - Analytics: Google Analytics - Project management: Internal App - File-sharing: Shared SMB Volume + VPN - Version control: SVN and G
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by haploid 16y ago
Way to go HN. Instant downvote due to violent disagreement with an unpopular sentiment, not because the poster failed to add anything to the discussion. I don't think it's a failure to contribute to point out that rational people( and here
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by haploid 16y ago
This is very dubious. Women are only more "discerning" about men insofar as mate preferences go. If I were at a networking event or party, and I was seeking out men who offered good reproductive fitness potential, then examining the "hotn
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by haploid 16y ago
Softlayer customer here, but not for long. Some points need to be made about SoftLayer: 1. They have a fantastic network. 2. Point #1 is the only good thing that could be said about them. They used to be an incredible company, but recentl
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by haploid 16y ago
I respect Groupon. They've built a good company predicated on a good business model in record time. They properly deserve all the fortune they reap. That said, I don't understand why they are seen to be a technology company. They are bas
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by haploid 16y ago
31, for what that's worth. Had I taken this 10 years ago, I imagine I would have easily scored above 40.
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by haploid 16y ago
And therein lies the problem with a definition whose meaning has been diluted to near meaninglessness. "Geek" doesn't mean the same thing it used to, or even close to it. Teenage girls running around calling themselves geeks because they s

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