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by khafra 16y ago
As Zed Shaw, you could've gotten away with "Japan is justly famous for martial arts, cool gadgets, and staggeringly comprehensive preparations for just about anything. If Batman were a country, that country would be Japan."
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by khafra 16y ago
Be prepared for this to fail more or less dramatically every now and then. Some people just don't like to be touched; I've met them.
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by khafra 16y ago
The two situations are hard to reconcile because your moral axioms are an attempt to make a simple, coherent system starting from your moral intuitions; but your moral intuitions do not actually arise from a simple, coherent system. In the
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by khafra 16y ago
That's why he used the word, "might." Some people wouldn't feel a moral responsibility to pull a toddler back out of the path of a speeding bus; but many people would--and if flyosity is one of the latter, he might appreciate being made awa
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by khafra 16y ago
For clarification: "Negotiation counseling" sounds different from "negotiation class." Is the difference that a counselor studies your portfolio and credentials and tells you how much to ask for, as well as how to ask for it? Or is it just
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by khafra 16y ago
Seems like he should've had half the class do the staring, the other half take the test normally, and give as many points as appropriate. One could get a lot of data after doing that for several classes.
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by khafra 16y ago
I'm pretty sure there are technical barriers to constructing an ore-mining-to-finished-product spaceship factory on the moon.
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by khafra 16y ago
For future reference, don't plan your schedule by looking at the tasks you need to complete and thinking about how long each will take you. Plan your schedule by looking at how long similar projects have taken similar teams. http://en.wik
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by khafra 16y ago
One reason I'm not an entrepreneur is that I haven't found a reliable, enjoyable way to get past the precipitous drop in enthusiasm and energy that occurs around 3 days to 1 week into a project, for me.
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by khafra 16y ago
Of course. Closures are, after all, a poor man's objects[1]. [1] http://codermonk.blogspot.com/2007/01/venerable-master-qc-na...
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by khafra 16y ago
I, personally, would rather not have children being raised by the type of person willing to drive from Florida to Nebraska to dump them at a fire station.
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by khafra 16y ago
Witcoin is fascinating; thanks for the link. But it seems like it could make trolls very rich.
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by khafra 16y ago
That sounds entirely appropriate if she does branding for hair salons. However, if your nudge is directed at her core competency, and your authority consists of being a younger relative in the States, that's going to have to be one hell of
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by khafra 16y ago
The audience isn't the contributors; they're the audience. The speakers don't pay; if some homeless guy had the credibility and charisma to speak at TED, there'd be nothing stopping him. Let's be very clear, here: TED does not exclude poor
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by khafra 16y ago
That is not dead which can eternal lie; and with strange aeons even death may die. http://alcor.org http://www.cryonics.org
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by khafra 16y ago
Agreed. Additional parts that I can't see myself doing: - Finding guys doing cutting-edge work like eye tracking software in the 80s - Convincing those guys to invite me into their workshop and look at their code - Glancing over any unfa
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by khafra 16y ago
Tampa is a vast, flat, suburban wasteland of sprawl; but there's a fantastic climbing gym built into an old warehouse 5 miles from my work, martial arts studios everywhere, public parks with bodyweight exercise stations in circuits, etc.
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by khafra 16y ago
Your restraint in not using speed as the independent variable is admirable. With fuel prices on the rise again, it'd be great to track fuel efficiency against a ton of different variables--you could find out if you really do get better mile
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by khafra 16y ago
Note that, witty and knowledgeable as he is, Clarkson isn't exactly the most reliable and unbiased source on the merits of cars he dislikes. Disclaimer: I have an M3, not a Prius. But I average 27mpg.
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by khafra 16y ago
I didn't see you addressing the actual point I raised, which was that Techmeme looks for certain topics, covered from a certain stance. Just like Encyclopaedia Britannica demands articles inhabiting the Classic Stance[1], Techmeme demands
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by khafra 16y ago
If I'm reading joker's summary of your argument correctly, you're saying that techmeme disproportionately covers blogs about tech news instead of blogs people write about their own lives or about generalized, uncontroversial knowledge; whic
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by khafra 16y ago
Bitcoin seems about ready to take over...
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by khafra 16y ago
I spend most of my time on the iOS youtube app in mortal fear of accidentally brushing one of the bottom menu items.
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by khafra 16y ago
I agree, life's too short for tabloids unless they're really useful, like the National Enquirer if you're a Man In Black, or Techcrunch if you're a startup entrepreneur.
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by khafra 16y ago
Please also notice that the economy was growing at a fantastic rate for most of the period that the top marginal tax rates were over 90%; and the last time they dropped as low as Reagan-to-now was the period directly leading to the Great De
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by khafra 16y ago
Relevantly, I have a friend who makes a living drinking Scotch. Quite literally; his job title is "Master of Whiskey," and that's what he does.
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by khafra 16y ago
My amusement is at the application of the word "privilege" to a negative description. I currently enjoy not-superstitious privilege, not-being-kidnapped privilege, not-being-forcefed-arsenic privilege, and many others that help me maintain
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by khafra 16y ago
As a fair-weather motorcycle commuter, I'd prefer a 36-hour forecast focusing on rain chance as a default widget.
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by khafra 16y ago
> it comes off as a bit dismissive The presentation of previous discussions was as neutral, factual, and to-the-point as I can imagine; I don't see any dismissiveness or sentiment other than what I injected into it from my experience de
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by khafra 16y ago
I always thought "tomboyish" meant "willing to climb a tree," with possible overtones of "hair shorter than shoulder length."

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