helveticaman

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by helveticaman 16y ago
English: native. Spanish: oh-so-close to native. Varies from day to day. I mean, I've spent 20 years in Chile, but it is not easy to stay bilingual. I'm not even sure it's possible to remain completely native in 2 or more languages perma
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by helveticaman 16y ago
From a dean I spoke to: "We felt that, under the circumstances, we couldn't afford the luxury of a fair trial."
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by helveticaman 16y ago
Looks like half-life is inversely proportional to pay.
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by helveticaman 16y ago
That's funny, I specifically avoid fish (but eat other mammals) because I care more about the mercury in fish (and all aquatic meats) than I do about the non-cerebral badness of meat.
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by helveticaman 16y ago
Well, yeah, money's on the line.
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by helveticaman 16y ago
Does this work? Don't VCs make you relinquish on that debt?
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by helveticaman 16y ago
Outside hacker circles, Amazon is always Amazon-dot-com.
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by helveticaman 16y ago
This is the kind of thing I had to deal with at Stanford. Same "rainbows and unicorns" outward appearance, but...
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by helveticaman 16y ago
And for about $200 a barrel, you can use nuclear power to make that same hydrocarbon fuel out of thin air.
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by helveticaman 16y ago
Or improve the option that always exists: walking away.
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by helveticaman 16y ago
Does Airbnb have a lobbying budget?
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by helveticaman 17y ago
Fair enough, but they're all engineers.
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by helveticaman 17y ago
This fits with Mencius Moldbug's idea of rule by the smart: "Yet, even within the ballpark of restricted democracy, racial qualification is an incredibly crude measure. A much better result would be achieved, for instance, by psychometric q
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by helveticaman 17y ago
This is the kind of event that sets your credibility as a business-friendly country back ten, twenty years. How far does the rabbit hole go in Russia? All the way to the other side of the earth, apparently. Disgusting.
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by helveticaman 17y ago
This appears to be the guy that makes acq decisitons, or works for the acq department. I know I read this intently.
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Lisp: No easy download(lispcast.com)
15 points by helveticaman 17y ago|30 comments
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by helveticaman 17y ago
Because they have to compete for goods and services with the government, which can and does print the money. This means their costs reflect real inflation a few months ahead of other products.
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by helveticaman 17y ago
Mmmmmm...deliciously nerdy.
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by helveticaman 17y ago
I think it's an incremental improvement. It won't make or break bit.ly, but a hundred such improvements will make it a success.
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Technology Review: Making Gasoline from Carbon Dioxide(technologyreview.com)
3 points by helveticaman 17y ago|1 comments
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by helveticaman 17y ago
good point. thanks for the hint.
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by helveticaman 17y ago
Sometimes you have to access something from cybercafes. I bought qwertqwert.com so I could access "Dvorak anywhere" quickly with a qwerty keyboard.
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by helveticaman 17y ago
I.e. they are the ones that have to back the decision legally.
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by helveticaman 17y ago
The parents of the youthfully betrothed, in this case.
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by helveticaman 17y ago
Fanatical service, man.
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by helveticaman 17y ago
It would have been even cooler to have made it out of tungsten. Specific gravity for titanium: 4.506. For tungsten, 19.3.
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by helveticaman 17y ago
Supply demand.
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by helveticaman 17y ago
I think it is rational in the sense that it is counting something. That always leads somewhere.
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by helveticaman 17y ago
What about alcohol?
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by helveticaman 17y ago
After prohibition, it was the illegal smugglers that became the new businesses that ran the trade. They were notorious for lobbying against mariguana and other drugs' legalization, but, on the bright side, no longer killed people.

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