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by karzeem 17y ago
Fandango makes you apply for that on Commission Junction, and they've turned me down twice so far. I'm going to keep trying, and I figure now that the site has launched publicly, they'll be more open.
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by karzeem 17y ago
Thanks, I'm going to keep tinkering with that, because you're right, it's a bit less clear than it ought to be.
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by karzeem 17y ago
Not at the moment, but later on, who knows. For now, I'm using the Twitter/Facebook login as a simple way to keep people from voting twice on the same movie.
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Ask HN: Review my site - Rate Expectations(rateexpectations.com)
28 points by karzeem 17y ago|29 comments
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by karzeem 17y ago
In my experience, old people are frequently the best people to end up next to on a plane. Given 80 years, everyone will have some absolutely fascinating experiences.
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by karzeem 17y ago
I haven't used it myself, but I've heard good things about Backblaze. $5/month, you download a small piece of software that runs in the background and backs up your data to their servers.
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by karzeem 17y ago
> The human ability to recognise text as it becomes more and more distorted is remarkably resilient, says Gordon Legge at the University of Minnesota … But there is a limit. Just try reading small text in poor light, or flicking through
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by karzeem 17y ago
> Long before you’re consciously aware of making a decision, your mind has already made it. > All of the data of cognitive neuroscience are pushing us to replace the idea of mind-body duality… This is ultimately an issue of definiti
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by karzeem 17y ago
The Flex SDK is free, but Flex Builder (the IDE) is not.
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by karzeem 17y ago
Yeah, it was a little surprising not to see the piece emphasize more the fact that for seriously and/or chronically depressed people, the condition is very much a net loss. Going through a down period of two weeks can ultimately be helpful.
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by karzeem 17y ago
They note toward the end of the essay that the best deterrent may be the illness suffered by the first explorers of the site and that in fact, that may be a cheaper warning system than everything they've discussed building. In any case, if
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by karzeem 17y ago
This makes intuitive sense. A car vs. bike accident is fer worse for the cyclist than for the motorist, so it makes sense that the cyclist would be paying more attention on the road.
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by karzeem 17y ago
What is with the top option being $500/month? It's ten times the price of the second best account type but is only marginally more powerful. Are 15 extra requests for introductions and 40 extra InMails that valuable?
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by karzeem 17y ago
It is a clean design, and that's good, but there's a really long list of things that are wrong with it. Things they could fix while retaining a clean, stripped-down experience. In light of that, I'm confused about why people ascribe so mu
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by karzeem 17y ago
It seems like people are making the mistake of generalizing from a sample of one. Craigslist does things in a certain way, and craigslist is a success. The latter doesn't necessarily follow from the former. Sure, it's a lean organization,
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by karzeem 17y ago
A lot of 20-somethings — especially the ones with natural intelligence — grew up jumping through hoops. An adult puts up a hoop, you jump through it. A clear series of steps. Take the tests, ace the classes, get into the good college. I
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by karzeem 17y ago
I've never understood why you throttle a motorcycle by twisting the handle. It's not a particularly comfortable or natural motion, and it's relatively easy for external factors (shifting in your seat, a bump, etc.) to affect the amount of
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by karzeem 17y ago
I know lots of people who've been caught on red light cameras, but as far as I know, none of them entered the intersection more than 0.5-1 seconds after the light turned red. Obviously, if you're able to stop safely, you should. But the po
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by karzeem 17y ago
Not paying the cash out to shareholders saves Apple a lot. And I'm not the first to say this, but paying out to shareholders isn't exactly the most innovative way to use your cash. It's like saying, "We couldn't think of anything to inves
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by karzeem 17y ago
I got pretty obsessed with safety razors and wetshaving a little while ago. The blade is unquestionably less forgiving than your standard 3-5 blade Shave System™, and you have to unlearn some sloppy technique that pivoting-head razors prom
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by karzeem 17y ago
http://daringfireball.net/feeds/sponsors pretty much always shows the feed sponsorship as being sold out for at least a month. I admittedly don't know very much about this sort of thing. Is being sold out for the next month good, or cutt
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by karzeem 17y ago
A lawyer could hugely undercut most of his/her peers on this sort of thing and still make a nice amount of money. Annoyingly, when lawyers do these standard documents, they're basically functioning as secretaries who happen to charge hundr
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by karzeem 17y ago
I don't want to suggest that this isn't very cool, but there was one thing about it that bugged me a little. The researcher put the cylinder in the cage, and after the rook comes over to investigate, the researcher comes back and puts a han
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Twittergraphy(nytimes.com)
4 points by karzeem 17y ago|0 comments
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by karzeem 17y ago
The main takeaway from this is that anything you simply cannot afford to lose should be locked up, either in the bank or in a safe that a burglar can't feasibly breach or carry away. It'll take a burglar a lot less time to toss your entir
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by karzeem 17y ago
It's something out of The Omnivore's Dilemma . Joel Salatin pens his cows with a mobile electric fence that's basically a wire, a bunch of stakes, and a car battery. Michael Pollan notes that it took him and Salatin ten minutes to set it
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by karzeem 17y ago
There are a couple different things going on here. First, the author makes some good points that without modern tools, some of the things we ask of modern farms would be impossible. There's a limit to the natural productivity of an acre of
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by karzeem 17y ago
People think of shredding as destroying a document, but in fact it's just scrambling it. And with enough time, someone will be able to unscramble it. Documents which truly need to be destroyed should probably be burned or pulped.
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by karzeem 17y ago
"There is little difference in nutritional value and no evidence of any extra health benefits from eating organic produce, UK researchers found." To add to your point, "no evidence of any extra health benefits" is different from "evidence t
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by karzeem 17y ago
There are a whole bunch of tough-to-avoid assumptions which make the 2046 joules likely to be imprecise. And in any case, as you say, force is ultimately the relevant issue. The article is meant more to put the impact into perspective by

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