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by ibsulon 17y ago
I call them bisexual, anyway.
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by ibsulon 17y ago
1. I don't think anyone would complain about health care if it was handled well by insurance companies. However, health care, by and large, is suboptimal in this country. http://ucatlas.ucsc.edu/spend.php shows the price to outcome outlie
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by ibsulon 17y ago
Yeah, but 10,000 days came out years later. :) I was at the Coachella concert days before it was officially released. (Not to mention the Phoenix concert where he was hit by a water bottle thrown from off stage.)
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by ibsulon 17y ago
Please don't underestimate the power of music to change a life. A Perfect Circle's "Judith" was a song that came out as I was leaving an abusive religious group. That, and other music, was part of a major transition in my life, allowing mys
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by ibsulon 17y ago
In the operating system business? AT&T Unix? Didn't they just buy Sun?
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by ibsulon 17y ago
I was waiting to hear that she got lost and if a poor soul hadn't heard of her because of a webapp she had created, they wouldn't have brought her in when her car broke down, saving her from death by exposure.
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by ibsulon 17y ago
Well, just for Illmatic I'd put Nas above Kanye. Nice call on Talib Kweli, though. (Admitting to knowing and liking hip-hop is probably instant disqualification for any future YC application. :)
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by ibsulon 17y ago
No. The author provides counterexamples to the argument, "RDBMSes don't scale." As for the "innovative work" versus "well-trod ground," there are still businesses who need better, more innovative solutions to well-trod problems, and I, for
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by ibsulon 17y ago
The Ottoman Empire was religiously tolerant and motivated by conquest as well. (The irony of the 20th century is that if the empire could have staved off its breakup for just a little longer, they would have had Iraq's oil wealth to back th
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by ibsulon 17y ago
No. Bob Dylan is still the Bob Dylan of our times. Go listen to Modern Times or Love and Theft again. In the genre, I'll still put Common above Kanye in lyrics, and so would Jay-Z. How about The Roots? Kayne, as a producer, does great wor
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by ibsulon 17y ago
It depends. Media as insipid as Newsweek will have trouble competing against the in-depth analysis around us. The Advocate is going to have trouble competing because the news in the gay community is better distributed by AmericaBlog and Bil
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by ibsulon 17y ago
They did mention a correlation even with sibling pairs, though.
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by ibsulon 17y ago
Count the undergraduate costs as well. It's certainly possible to do it on the cheap, but those eight clubs, 4.0, and volunteer work that help you make it into a top 10 school likely means you're not working with the lowly peons, especially
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by ibsulon 17y ago
No, but they probably put you in an equivalent amount of danger.
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by ibsulon 17y ago
Or, perhaps he honestly believes that the stylus and keyboard are important.
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by ibsulon 17y ago
Server is free. http://www.vmware.com/products/server/ -- Mac vmware fusion still costs, though.
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by ibsulon 17y ago
It depends on the quality of speech you need and your audience. Usually, I don't, but that's because of the standards I set for myself. :) (Then again, I haven't done a major speech in a while)
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by ibsulon 17y ago
No, not everyone knows this. In fact, nearly every public speaker is initially taught not to do this. (I was in Forensics in high school, and recently joined Toastmasters.) For most people, if you try and memorize a speech, it will look
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by ibsulon 17y ago
Talking about DeBeers and truth in advertizing: "Diamonds - that'll shut her up... for a minute!" --Ron White The issue, really, is status. Our society places pressure on women to show their status via clothing and jewelry. I'm glad to see
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by ibsulon 17y ago
This is why diagnosis can be hard. Some people don't have social skills because they've never learned social skills. I had trouble learning social skills, but I didn't have many of the other symptoms. Taking one of the self-diagnosis tests
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by ibsulon 17y ago
I'd start at http://tuvalu.santafe.edu/~bowles/ and his actual papers, not what a reporter writes. :)
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by ibsulon 17y ago
As I remember it, he was a programmer and she was a secretary when they met. She moved on to publishing a vegan newsletter, then became a (rather successful from the sounds of it) telephone psychic from there. (I've read him from near the b
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by ibsulon 17y ago
They get below-market talent.
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by ibsulon 17y ago
1. Designers, engineers, and roboticists aren't usually the types taking manufacturing jobs except to find ways to improve the process. 2. Many and dare I say most people in manufacturing are people without the inclination or talen to be de
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by ibsulon 17y ago
Counterexample: What about a reader? These are common both in literature and the social sciences, but the best example is a collection of short stories. In a reader, the editor must pay each one of these authors something. In a juvinile rea
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by ibsulon 17y ago
Company store and inter-personnel transactions. (IE gambling)
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by ibsulon 17y ago
My grammar was advanced, my vocabulary intermediate. I could mostly understand Telemundo and could hold a conversation, but was nowhere near fluent. Now, I'm not much better off than a first year.
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by ibsulon 17y ago
Nearly every American has two years of a foreign language in high school, and nearly every college requires two more years. I started Spanish in 7th grade and ended up with 5 years of study. However, I don't use is and as such, I've lost it
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by ibsulon 17y ago
Can someone explain why proprietary vendors are trying to pick up open source clients? It seems like an odd form of advertising.
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by ibsulon 17y ago
Yep... Amazon, Paypal, and Google.

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