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by korch 16y ago
I'll volunteer 10-15 hours a week to build a recommendation engine like this! I too have wanted a search-engine/feed-reader, no-holds-barred web-experiment that does exactly what you describe. I'm not an academic, but I have fairly deep &#3
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by korch 16y ago
If you compare the cost of inflation to the cost of higher education over the past 40 years, sure, it's probably in a bubble now. And especially if you compare the number of "free riders" decades ago(people who got their college fully paid
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by korch 16y ago
If Craigslist actually stood by their community-centric, "everybody share" principles, rather than wear a fake mask of anti-corporatism over their money-grubbing true face, then Craigslist themselves would put a single checkbox on every Cr
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by korch 16y ago
A wise man once said, it takes money to make money. Rather than viewing a modest annual expense of $20 million on lobbyists and branding, look at it as protection money that enables the revenue stream to continue and to grow. If the choic
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by korch 16y ago
I'm not sure what your point is, but it made me think of something amusing: You exist in the physical world. You body is in meatspace, and your mind is in the ever fluctuating electrodynamic field. Both of these can be modeled by physics
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by korch 16y ago
We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming. — Wernher von Braun Because having a worst case algorithm of n^2 is tractable, while solving for n^1000000 or bigger is not so much. The numbers are as shockingly big as in
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by korch 16y ago
Each ad posted to the adult services section costs $10 per post. Last year CL made an estimated ~$36 million off of their escort ads.
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by korch 16y ago
Craigslist makes over $100 million a year. And they have just 60 or so employees. And I bet they have dirt cheap fixed costs. The website hasn't fucking changed in a decade, and it's more popular than ever! They're probably the Internet c
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by korch 16y ago
The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. —Abraham Lincoln First, the only question that truly matters: Cui Bono? What industry made ~40% of their revenues from classified listings within the last decade? What in
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by korch 16y ago
Mathematics is not yet ready for such problems. —Paul Erdös It may take another century, but I believe with absolute certainty that Einstein will be vindicated for thinking Quantum Mechanics was incomplete , rejecting the non-visualizabl
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by korch 16y ago
^this (thread over, you won :P)
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by korch 16y ago
I think Einstein's dissertation is a bad example of a dissertation that was not an immediate superstar. It was. Einstein could have taken this author's advice of stapling together his first three papers. Einstein's considerations about more
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by korch 16y ago
Bingo! You're completely right. I cringe whenever I see someone drag out Ricardo's comparative advantage BS, dating from the 1800's. Economics, as it is taught in the schools, opposed to the real world of business , is mostly fiction. Sure
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by korch 16y ago
I was recently told a very funny story about a guy who works at the C-level for F500 corps. Paying the guy a visit, the usual chit chat, oh what are you doing? "I'm Google Blasting myself!" Huh? What the hell is that? "Well you see, I nee
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by korch 16y ago
It sure is a good thing that India has nukes! I have a Too-Big-To-Fail theory—as any complex social system grows, it reaches some kind of equilibrium boundary, and if it tries to grow beyond that, black swans, catastrophes, and the usual ap
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by korch 16y ago
Oh man I wish I lived in SF and I wish worked for them! As a mostly self-educated autodidact-hacker-math-type, I get their mission. They're one of the few websites out there for which I would drop everything to pour myself into fully. Unl
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by korch 16y ago
I have been waiting years for someone to make something like this. I still believe Twitter has a lot more room to grow, and a lot more experimental spaces to explore, on the way to becoming more like IRC in many ways. Thanks for making this
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by korch 16y ago
The Federal gov't won't ever let California outright default on its debt. Why? It is the largest economy inside the US, it serves critical national security purposes, and being the biggest state debtor it will take dozens of other broke sta
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by korch 16y ago
This looks like a really good way to conceptually grasp how the probability parts of quantum mechanics work!
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by korch 16y ago
GPS tracking is the tip of the iceberg. I bet we're not 10 years away from the cops being able to put an all in one video-audio-gps-wifi snooper the size of an ipod-nano on you, your car, house, boat, whatever. And given how fast hardware c
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by korch 16y ago
Vim + Screen has been my "IDE" of choice for 5+ years. At this point I probably could not hack on code using any other toolset—it's so ingrained. And compiling Vim with Ruby bindings has also allowed me to whip up some very useful scripts t
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by korch 16y ago
I've read that at the height of the French monarchy right before the revolution, a disproportionate number of labor was being employed in textiles to create the extravagant, lavish and enormously expensive dresses for the royal court. We're
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by korch 16y ago
all [he] ever did was smash up things and creatures and then retreat back into their money or their vast carelessness . —Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby I think I recently drove by a sign on the road that said this too. It was right next to a
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by korch 16y ago
Our youth now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for their elders and love chatter in place of exercise; they no longer rise when elders enter the room; they contradict their parents, chatter b
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by korch 16y ago
scram little kid mode :) Any scientist who can't explain to an eight-year old what he is doing is a charlatan. —Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle Because the hyperbolic metric Einstein created allows us to define how much space-time ca
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by korch 16y ago
Thank God all my CCs are already jacked all the way up to 28% interest rates, so they can't ass fuck me anymore than I already am being ass fucked. (Before the Republican Randroid's come out of the wood work to tell me it's my own fault—it
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by korch 16y ago
Can we get a new Internet-Meme-Law like Godwin's, to say the moment anyone invokes ad hominem without specifying what the personal insult was, they automatically lose the argument?
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by korch 16y ago
Gravity just might be the most interesting thing out there, second only to Prime Numbers, IMNSHO. As a fledgling "amateur-mathematician" (don't ask), I am astonished that centuries after the Newtonian Revolution kicked off all of science, w
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by korch 16y ago
I don't recall what article about startup valuations it was, but it was posted here a few months ago, and one of the pieces of advice was: when valuing a fresh, new startup(< 10 employees), deduct -$200,000 for every product/project man
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by korch 16y ago
Because they pay under $20/hr, offer no health insurance, dental, no vacation, termination at will, and little possibility for promotion or advancement of skills. That and the balance of power is entirely skewed towards some MBA in a monkey

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