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by hugh3 15y ago
I heard about a startup which was doing this a couple of years ago via the VC who had invested in it. It's no big secret.
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by hugh3 15y ago
Following its first month of public trading, a new Derwent fund based on Twitter reported 1.85 percent return on investment. During this same time period, the S&P 500 index fell 2.2 percent, "and the average hedge fund made only 0.76 p
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by hugh3 15y ago
Yeah, one day I figured out that I'd already muted about half my "friends". Of the remainder, most never posted. But the remaining folks are largely my real friends, so it all works out.
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by hugh3 15y ago
A lot of people walk into a tiny NYC apartment and say, this is so SMALL! How do you even live here! But frankly, it just doesn't matter. Right now I live in 634 square feet in the Bay Area -- not a tiny apartment by any means, but the sm
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by hugh3 15y ago
I'm seriously considering only using facebook on my phone.
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by hugh3 15y ago
Why do you think that is going to happen? Because harvesting email addresses is pretty much the ultimate purpose of all online petitions. Their privacy policy doesn't seem to allow email addresses to be used for that purpose Which par
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by hugh3 15y ago
It's not clear to me where the line between "software patents" and "other patents" exists, or why that should be a bright line. And even if you could convince me that patents in field X (say, patents for mining machinery) were (at present
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by hugh3 15y ago
If the best thing you can say is that the benefits of software patents are debatable, then.... well, you haven't yet convinced me that they're bad.
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by hugh3 15y ago
Now let's plot the same curve "rate of fundamental innovations in software and computer science" against the popularity of the name "Tyler" for young boys. Correlation, causation, yada yada yada.
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by hugh3 15y ago
The only thing less useful than an internet petition is... actually I can't finish that sentence because I can't think of anything less useful than an internet petition. But I'm sure the White House had a fun time harvesting all those email
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by hugh3 15y ago
What do insects have to do with it?
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by hugh3 15y ago
Has the legality of these sorts of things ever been tested? I can easily imagine that the courts wouldn't actually stand for the idea that someone can throw away their right to sue by clicking on the bottom of a thirty-page ALL CAPS agreeme
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by hugh3 15y ago
No, but I do remember Mad Magazine making fun of get rich quick schemes! If every kid grew up on a diet of satire, they might grow up to be less gullible.
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by hugh3 15y ago
The best part is that if you ever do manage to build a million-dollar business, nobody will be impressed any more. "Oh, I heard you could do that in one weekend just by building a website to sell some crap."
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by hugh3 15y ago
I'm gonna flag it for this reason. Come back to us when you're using sensible titles, Mr Ferris.
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by hugh3 15y ago
Yeah, but in medicine, by the time you're making the big money you're working much less. Or on whatever schedule you like. At the age of 29: $45,000 for eighty hours a week. At the age of 49: $600,000 for forty hours a week.
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by hugh3 15y ago
How depressing.
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by hugh3 15y ago
No, but the bit after you finish medical school and spend the next eight or twelve years as a sleep-deprived zombie working thirty-hour shifts for a crappy salary at a hospital you probably didn't choose is due to it being a competitive fie
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by hugh3 15y ago
I'd argue that this sort of article applies mostly to the "glamourous" professions -- things that kids want to be when they grow up, jobs that will impress your nephews. Actor, musician, doctor, certain varieties of lawyer, physicist cou
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by hugh3 15y ago
That's a pretty good summary. It progresses from "things that might seem to be FTL but don't really count" through "things that are kinda sorta FTL in some sense but still don't carry any information" and into "highly speculative things whi
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by hugh3 15y ago
Yes, the English language really lacks the vast suite of words we need in order to express our degrees of certainty about things. Words such as "know", "believe", "think" and "suspect" don't express these things properly, but we have to mak
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by hugh3 15y ago
The OP is clearly claiming that young men are better suited to succeed at programming today than women. What is this if not "a chauvinistic belief in the inferiority of women?" [1] * Actually I was claiming that young men are more likely t
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by hugh3 15y ago
Ah, the homeopathic approach to food labelling. I'm gonna sprinkle a grain of gold dust on every twinkie I sell, just to screw with the label.
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by hugh3 15y ago
One hundred and fifty names (err, anons) should be easy enough to rustle up on 4chan for a petition to... well, whatever the meme of the week on 4chan is. I googled "white house petitions free republic" to see whether the freepers were plan
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by hugh3 15y ago
True, but such a particle would violate causality and allow messages to be sent backwards through time (including, presumably, the message "Hey, don't send this message") which causes potentially nasty causality violations. Great Scott!
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by hugh3 15y ago
No, I'll wait until it's replicated in another lab before I get excited. Failing that, I'll at least wait three years for the "Ohhh yeah, so we checked again and it turns out that [simple explanation X]". On the offchance that this is a s
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by hugh3 15y ago
Good to hear, I've always wanted to be able to gain weight without looking fatter.
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by hugh3 15y ago
It could perhaps be both cultural and genetic. Women are genetically predisposed to prefer one sort of profession to another, and over the years as programming has changed it has increasingly become one sort of profession rather than the ot
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by hugh3 15y ago
It's a bit hard to call any statement of the form "X could happen" a lie unless there's some physical law preventing X from happening.
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by hugh3 15y ago
I'm not sure this is great visualization. Firstly, trace ingredients are often what's important to the consumer. Fine, I know my peanut butter is mostly peanuts, but how much salt is there? Secondly, these are simple examples. What do you d

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