lakeeffect

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by lakeeffect 11y ago
I think it is really inaccurate to say that the work of a writer and the work of a psychologist are very different. Both require abstraction and a framework to define the narrative.
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by lakeeffect 11y ago
Who is he?
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Certain customers spell doom(arstechnica.com)
6 points by lakeeffect 11y ago|1 comments
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Ask HN: What have you completed in 2015
3 points by lakeeffect 11y ago|1 comments
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by lakeeffect 11y ago
My brother is an Er physician and yesterday we are all together and our dad is changing his hearing aid battery at the table. My brother points down at the battery on the table and says be careful thats a baby killer explaining that once s
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by lakeeffect 11y ago
I'm on the bus today and the lady behind me is talking to another about facebook and how she finds it kind of scary that they are suggesting friends to her that she knows and she hasn't given them any information about where she w
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by lakeeffect 11y ago
It's common now for parents to put their kids in Kindergarten at the age they used to start first grade. My kid just made the cutoff but my wife wants to hold him back and some of his friends parents with kids born in January or march
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Tiny temperature sensor powered by radio waves(tue.nl)
3 points by lakeeffect 11y ago|2 comments
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by lakeeffect 11y ago
The thing that is silly about that is related to cost of acquisition and retention of customers. If a company is able to get more data quicker they are more valuable to the customer and will most like be used and retained by the customer.
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Van Eck Phreaking(en.wikipedia.org)
39 points by lakeeffect 11y ago|16 comments
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by lakeeffect 11y ago
The MLK thing is amazing to me. We celebrate this person every year as a national event but unlike are presidents his speeches are under enforced copyright so nobody hears his famous thoughts or words. Even on his day people reference the
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by lakeeffect 11y ago
>dominance could be attributed to quality. The truth is that most children's books are "bad" I couldn't agree more. We get about ten to fifteen children's books a week from the library and I'm utterly amazed
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by lakeeffect 11y ago
Sorry for your luck. Just wondering, do ads show up on these sites? With the internet.org or this I'm curious if they have ads that link. It seems they could only go to user pages.
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by lakeeffect 11y ago
> Other research has show that sarcasm can be easily misinterpreted, particularly when communicated electronically. I can't tell if the comments thus far are sarcastic.
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by lakeeffect 11y ago
Call centers for a while were teaching agents to talk with a southern accent as it was believed to be more welcoming.
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by lakeeffect 11y ago
ESL. His post was an hour before the reader5000 uml post.
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by lakeeffect 11y ago
I'm pretty sure Starbucks, the merchant, would have to cover the costs not square as the processor. I used to work at MBNA and when there was fraud on an card the retailer was responsible.
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by lakeeffect 11y ago
I think if more people realized that p/e was the equivalent to years to payback they might reassess their portfolio. 107 years of current earnings is a long time to get your money back. Earnings growth is the only thing that lowers
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by lakeeffect 11y ago
Does anyone have any figures on using coal to generate electricity to power a car for a day verse a days use of gasoline in terms of pollution? It's always been a wonder for me. Now given the idea of electric cars in china it seems mo
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by lakeeffect 11y ago
There is a difference between psychological manipulation and cultivating confusion or blatantly misleading. An ethics still applies to marketing's use of psychological manipulation that asks the customer to participate.
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by lakeeffect 11y ago
What happens if you violate one of these orders?
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by lakeeffect 11y ago
Like the invention of the dust jacket, the delicate protector.
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Ask HN: What Algorithms or patterns do you use?
4 points by lakeeffect 12y ago|2 comments
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by lakeeffect 12y ago
Considering that all double blind medical studies are compared against a placebo, its really important to know who in the group the placebo would effect.
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by lakeeffect 12y ago
I was in this same situation for a long time and when meteor 1.0 came out I went through several tutorials, including discovermeteor, bulletproof meteor. Its like a wave of ok, now I can build stuff and its dynamic, I had a plan to learn s
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by lakeeffect 12y ago
I imagine that most of these small businesses will end up with a better sense of a posts value and the net result could potentially be for a 100k a year business to become a half million dollar business. Its hard for small businesses to ra
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Sony pictures hacked(smallbusiness.yahoo.com)
1 points by lakeeffect 12y ago|0 comments
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by lakeeffect 12y ago
They offer everything else, why not offer barracks?
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HUVr: The Back to the Future hoverboard is finally here(extremetech.com)
1 points by lakeeffect 13y ago|0 comments
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Cold fusion reactor independently verified (extremetech.com)
2 points by lakeeffect 13y ago|2 comments

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