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by jiganti 16y ago
Or in a more scrupulous light: let some pay for a story and others pay for a commodity.
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You're only considering the negative aspect of "big words". Sure, there are many instances in which peope unnecessarily use lesser-known synonyms, but it is helpful when people utilize a vocabulary in order to be concise. I think that while
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It's commendable for anyone to give away their money, but especially so when it's a guy in his mid-twenties.
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The title is misleading; even he admits there is talent. Sure, it's overplayed how much it matters, but that doesn't mean it needs to be exaggerated from the other end of the spectrum.
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I was thinking about peoples' usage of facebook last week and wondered about how often people used the news feed as their go-to page, as opposed to their own profile. I'd contend that it would shed some light on the extent of peoples' narci
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by jiganti 16y ago
I didn't know facebook was broken, so I'm skeptical about the fix. When people use a service for months or years and you change it, making them adapt to the new conditions (as minor as that adaptation might be), they better be able to recog
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It's so easy to find reasons for adding another person to a team, but much more difficult to identify when things like groupthink have become a problem as a result of those additions.
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by jiganti 16y ago
The Gay Science - Nietzsche - Age 16 I and Thou - Martin Buber - Age 18 Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand - Age 17
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>> Big companies take forever to get anything done If you think your startup hasn’t done a lot lately, take a look at bigger companies. Long release cycles. Projects that go nowhere. I’ve seen and heard of startups collaborating wi
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I've read opinions that seem contradictory to your thesis (these both appear to be derived from the same study). [1] [2] While they aren't addressing the same types of discipline, I'm wondering if this sort of self-fulfilling outlook they
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by jiganti 16y ago
You're special.
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Describing the main functionality of a service downplays the implications of something that is largely valued by the quantity and quality of the user base. That said, he was likely exaggerating in response to the collective opinion of faceb
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This needs to be reiterated. Even though he mentioned it multiple times, and you addressed it, it can't be overstated: there are people whose emotional turmoil is not cured by any amount of cognitive help. These people are disproportionatel
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No, and buying a gun for protection isn't murder. But each can be easily used for unscrupulous purposes, which is cause for concern.
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Telling the world what you did and are doing assumes the world cares. This is a stretch, but people do it. Not only telling the world what you are planning on doing, but expecting guidance from peers even more optimistic. I don't see this o
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The idea is that you can socialize with people who have a significantly higher intelligence than the average person (I believe 1 in 50 intelligence is the requirement to get in). I knew someone who went into it with these expectations only
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by jiganti 16y ago
The rake actually is taken at the end of the hand, once a winner is decided. So you won't get rakeback for hands you don't win.
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by jiganti 16y ago
Nowadays, 7 big blinds per 100 hands is considered a very solid winrate at midstakes games (2/4 through 5/10). This is actually described as 3.5bb/100 which is read as 3.5 "big bets" per 100 hands, which is the traditional system used for l
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by jiganti 16y ago
First of all, he was playing tournaments with a buyin of $1 maximum- likely less. So he can get away with playing a very simple strategy. He was certainly not making standard raises, I imagine he was playing a "push-fold" strategy from the
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by jiganti 16y ago
It's a market where people spend a lot of money on search engine optimization, but the best asset to starting a rakeback site is being affiliated with high-volume pros who are willing to sign up for a few sites under your rakeback site. An
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by jiganti 16y ago
In hold'em variant poker games, there are typically two blinds that rotate around the table, forced bets that are similar to antes. This prevents people from folding indefinitely.
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by jiganti 16y ago
"A programmer sometimes wakes up in the middle of the night and feels thirsty. Soon, he thinks of a solution. He will leave 2 glasses next to his bed. One full of water, in case he wakes up, and he is thirsty, and one empty glass, in case h
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by jiganti 16y ago
I've been on 2+2 for the better part of a decade and can tell you the online poker community has far more pressing concerns than 'bots' that hope to eek out a few dollars an hour playing a large amount of tables. [1] It's certainly an impre
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by jiganti 16y ago
He was our group's coach for a few weeks (I went to the Bollettieri tennis academy for high school) and it was apparent his philosophy of the game was on a different level than any of ours. There's a big difference from understanding the th
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by jiganti 16y ago
I'm not sure it would work if no one could tell the difference, and I'll cite your example of the audiophiles. Many people are overpaying for sound equipment that would sound no different to them than stuff half the price, but the fact th
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by jiganti 16y ago
Looks like they took that book down, as the URL isn't working: http://www.amazon.com/Pedophiles-Guide-Love-Pleasure-ebook/p...
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Isildur1(en.wikipedia.org)
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by jiganti 16y ago
My average karma is very low, I've noticed that I rarely hesitate to post something, regardless of the thread size. I think this is because I benefit sometimes from other late-thread low-karma posts and want to reciprocate. Much has already
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Ask HN: What other news sites do you read daily?
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by jiganti 16y ago
Paying extra virtually guarantees it will go through, which makes your perception of the message's delivery equivalent to a regular email. But the other person doesn't know that you know that they know , while you simply know that they k

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