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by mcphilip 10y ago
It's looking like it might be a Brexit moment for the USA. The filter bubble echo chamber of social media and 24/7 coverage of celebrities stumping for Clinton is going to leave a lot of people shocked tomorrow when/if it&#x
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by mcphilip 10y ago
I rarely listen to music while programming, but when I do, it's usually Megadeth for trivial work or Ashkenazy playing Chopin - Bercuse for complex work. Possibly swapping Sigur Ros () for Chopin. I search on YouTube for a URL and thr
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by mcphilip 10y ago
You are incorrect. From Bloomberg: >A day before the March 6 debate sponsored by CNN in Flint, Brazile allegedly wrote Podesta and Jennifer Palmieri, the Clinton campaign’s communications director, that a woman from the town “has lead p
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by mcphilip 10y ago
That MusiCares speech is a great read if you have 30 minutes to spare. A few favorite bits: On Dylan's immersion in classic folk: >If you sang "John Henry" as many times as me – "John Henry was a steel-driving man &#
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by mcphilip 10y ago
Additional background info from last year: http://www.bbc.com/news/health-31594856
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by mcphilip 10y ago
1. Ask HN: Urgent connection to Twitter support -- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8006869 The admin of an automated twitter feed alerting followers of rockets launched between Gaza and Israel appeals to HN for help ge
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by mcphilip 10y ago
Agreed. My suspicion is that they are way ahead of competitors in terms of data from testing self driving cars and realize there are still so many unsolved problems that true autonomous vehicles aren't going to happen nearly as soon as
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When a Commercial Rocket Blows Up, Who Pays?(bloomberg.com)
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by mcphilip 10y ago
Google Drive's REST API documentation is a good place to start: https://developers.google.com/drive/v2/reference/#Children
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by mcphilip 10y ago
New blog post on dao hub. Seems pretty grim: https://blog.daohub.org/the-dao-is-under-attack-8d18ca45011b...
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by mcphilip 10y ago
Question: are frequency, consistency, and productivity important metrics for bubbling up users that get noticed as really good candidates? I poke around every now and then on stockfighter but am definitely not looking for a job change in th
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by mcphilip 10y ago
Sam's take on bubble talk from his Hard Tech is Back post said it best: >Leave the Medium thought pieces about when the stock market is going to crash and the effect it’s going to have on the fundraising environment to other people—
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by mcphilip 11y ago
Re: Hard Tech is Back >So, if you’re thinking about starting one, we’d like to talk. And we think we can help What's the preferred method of contact? I have connections to a "hard tech" startup in Austin and pointed the
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As SXSW grows, Austin unaffordability dims famed music scene(houstonchronicle.com)
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by mcphilip 11y ago
>I think "made redundant" has been the British term for laid off for quite a while; though this is, IME, far less common in American usage. A big part of the plot in the British Office tv show was watching Ricky Gervais fumble
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by mcphilip 11y ago
The Onion Talks series parodying TED talks has some real gems. My favorite: What is the Biggest Rock? http://youtu.be/aO0TUI9r-So
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by mcphilip 11y ago
Discussing the merits of HFT is similar to discussing the merits of different approaches to cryptography. Because there's such a vast amount of prerequisite knowledge required for analysis, one either has to slog through the learning
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by mcphilip 11y ago
I seem to have less nervous tics associated with stressful situations, but anxiety related racing thoughts don't seem to have changed. E.G. Propanelol doesn't seem to impact problems like laying in bed worrying about the upcoming
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by mcphilip 11y ago
I've been using extended release propanelol daily for the past couple years as part of the treatment for chronic mixed tension migraines. I'd been struggling with migraines leaving half of my body feeling extreme muscular tension
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by mcphilip 11y ago
Looking for Dark Forces custom levels was my gateway drug to the QMODEM, BBS, and news groups back in 1995. Similar to Doom's wad files, dark forces had gobs. Eventually a dos base editor, DFUSE, was released, but I remember one leve
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by mcphilip 11y ago
It's fairly common to take profits on half one's stake in stocks when you want to realize some profit but still think the stock could go up further.
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by mcphilip 11y ago
Reminds me of the "In College and Hiding From Scary Ideas" NYT op-ed [1] that lists a lot of similar scenarios to the one at Yale. I have no problem with an NA group asking participants to respectfully focus on recovery and minimi
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by mcphilip 11y ago
This first person account of social anxiety hits closer to home, for me at least: http://mobile.nytimes.com/blogs/opinionator/2013/03/25/a-day...
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by mcphilip 11y ago
Logically, if the U.S. feels justified in targeted drone strikes against legitimate threats to national security, what's to stop China or Russia from doing the same? Arent there some legitimate scenarios where U.S. and Chinese nationa
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by mcphilip 11y ago
Pulling up that link in Safari on mobile really demonstrates how bad the UI/UX is. There is no obvious way to see anything other than the first tweet in the series: http://m.imgur.com/7JSETBc
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by mcphilip 11y ago
Apart from the clickbait title, the article is mostly common sense. No ideas should be held as beyond questioning/testing/proving etc. Labeling this approach as atheism just confuses the matter.
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by mcphilip 11y ago
Reminds me of Nietzsche's thoughts on Eternal Recurrence. Instead of living each day like it's your last, you live each day like it will be repeated indefinitely in exactly the same way: >The greatest weight. -- What, if some
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Glossolalia(en.m.wikipedia.org)
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Drones Delay Efforts to Fight North Fire in Southern California(abcnews.go.com)
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by mcphilip 11y ago
Have you tried Mother Earth Mother Board? http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/4.12/ffglass_pr.html It's a ~40,000 word article from 1996 he did for Wired about the laying of undersea fiber-optic cable

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