hughprime

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by hughprime 17y ago
San Francisco is a terrible place to have children unless you're either (a) very rich or (b) very poor.
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by hughprime 17y ago
I've never seen anything too disgusting in Noe Valley. The main principle of distribution of filth in San Francisco seems to be this: homeless people are too lazy to climb hills.
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by hughprime 17y ago
Lemon and milk?
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by hughprime 17y ago
Perhaps the reason that San Francisco is so relentlessly progressive in its politics is that the residents can all see first hand the divide between the rich and the poor? I've always thought of it as the other way around. A less "progres
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by hughprime 17y ago
Playing the game isn't dumb -- or rather it's no dumber than any other card game, and smarter than most. Buying and collecting the cards is the dumb part.
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by hughprime 17y ago
In particular foreign private oil companies have a long history of not paying adequate royalties to the countries they operate in (which is the reason they get nationalized after popular revolts). Even the US govt sued Exxon in Alabama for
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by hughprime 17y ago
Eating while walking is a bad habit of mine, but by this stage I can eat just about anything while balancing a plate on one hand. Steak is probably my limit.
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by hughprime 17y ago
And for long distances, too! On the other hand, cycling builds muscles and works your heart more than walking does, so if your objective is anything other than just burning calories cycling is, I think, usually the better exercise.
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by hughprime 17y ago
Perhaps "dumb" in the sense of "that looks like a dumb way to spend all your free time and money". I guess that the appeal of Pokemon and similar dumb phenomena (somebody correct me if I'm wrong, I'm too old to have played any of these game
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by hughprime 17y ago
That's interesting, I didn't know about the alpaca bubble. Now I'm fascinated. Googling a bit I found an article http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/28/national/28alpaca.html?pag... implying that the "people are realizing this is a bubble" sta
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by hughprime 17y ago
I'd say that getting caught up in a stupid craze is one of the most important learning experiences that a kid can have. One day everybody suddenly starts talking about a new thing, and it seems like it's going to be around forever, so you p
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by hughprime 17y ago
I'm confused -- what was the old definition of "slave" which was so different from "person forced to work and prevented by force from leaving"? I'm not convinced that there are indeed 27 million people fitting that definition at the moment,
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by hughprime 17y ago
You're right -- actually the curricula and the final exams are all done on a statewide rather than national level, but it is certainly more centralized than it is in the US.
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by hughprime 17y ago
While alarmism is always fun, it's worth taking a step back and comparing the risk of dying from a hamburger to the risk of dying from, say, a shark attack, or a bee sting, or being struck by lightning, or whatever your favourite unlikely c
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by hughprime 17y ago
The more I hear about the US university admissions process, the more I'm grateful for the Australian system, where students are admitted, or not, purely on the basis of their marks from their final year at school (half by a final set of exa
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by hughprime 17y ago
Essays were originally instituted to give admissions staffs an excuse to keep out Jews and other minorities. Whereas now they only use them to keep out whites and Asians?
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by hughprime 17y ago
Sad to see this modded above zero.
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by hughprime 17y ago
Umm, nope, that's pretty much exactly what you can't do.
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by hughprime 17y ago
You can't just disagree with something by saying "Wow".
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by hughprime 17y ago
Really? I heard that no summer Olympics in history had ever made money except for 1984. I expect it's one of those creative accounting things where you can come up with pretty much any number you like.
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by hughprime 17y ago
I would! I can't speak for anyone else, though.
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by hughprime 17y ago
Not sure why the whining Mostly because the hype was huge and the product is, to many people, a bit of a letdown.
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by hughprime 17y ago
I'm not actually sure who Scoble is (apart from being some guy with a blog) but he's some guy who's been using it and has bothered to write a lengthy blog post on what he thinks of it, so that makes his views worth something. I've been play
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by hughprime 17y ago
I dunno. I'd prefer it if I could: a) See trailers for movies coming out further in the future than this week, and b) Rate the trailers before the movie comes out (and more to the point, see what other people think of the trailer of as un-y
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by hughprime 17y ago
Why? It's memorable, and with modern browsers you're only going to have to type the whole thing once at most (sure enough, now I can just type "rat" and it will autocomplete)
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by hughprime 17y ago
Stand far away?
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by hughprime 17y ago
Predictably, the person before me searched for "horse porn". And that, ladies and gentlemen, is why we can't have nice things.
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by hughprime 17y ago
I like rule 3: "Please enjoy what you get, even if you hate it."
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by hughprime 17y ago
The personal ads in the London Review of Books might fit your needs. I was browsing the book mentioned in this article last week: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6592990
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by hughprime 17y ago
I would consider "dammit", "damn it" and "damnit" all to be acceptable. As soon as you leave "damn it" you're in slang territory anyway, so personal variations are acceptable. (I will also accept "dagnammit", "dognarnit" and "magnabbit".)

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