mellowdream

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by mellowdream 7y ago
This is what I'm gonna link to my friends the next time they make fun of me for being a green-texter. This is exactly the story I went through a few years back as well. I had an iPhone 4? 9-ish years ago when I was in a music-kleptoman
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by mellowdream 7y ago
I swear this keeps appearing on the front page every other day, is every poster just missing every other poster?
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by mellowdream 7y ago
I deleted my FB account a few days ago, and reactivated it today (within the 30-day permanent deletion cancel period) to see if I could delete FB's record of my face data. Like some others in this thread, I couldn't see any option
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by mellowdream 7y ago
If only higher education weren't already perverted by the realities of greed and incompetent bureaucracy leading to our little student debt problem inconveniencing a handful of students in the country /s
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by mellowdream 7y ago
Anecdotally - I'm at a moderately liberal college for undergrad (what colleges aren't at least this much, I guess) - more than plenty of people are willing to at least intern at Palantir, Facebook, etc., especially with their init
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by mellowdream 7y ago
Blame it on boomers in both business and government, running both in true live fast die young fashion. Plastics pollution, BPA in our receipt paper, drugs and hormones being pissed out into our toilets into the common water supply - large p
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by mellowdream 7y ago
Early puberty is linked to shorter adult height. A vicious cycle of poor genetic profiles eliminating themselves via offspring from the gene pool after natural selection?
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by mellowdream 8y ago
... This, according to a "travel and lifestyle" "journalist" with a degree in environmental studies. Thank you, very cool!
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by mellowdream 9y ago
Most people don't have the IQ, psychometric personality profile, and circumstantial history (the right/rich family, friends, networks, etc.) in conjunction to succeed. Romanticism, per Goethe and Nietzsche, has always erred toward
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by mellowdream 9y ago
https://jacobitemag.com/2017/06/20/modernitys-fertility-prob... Nick Land's ideas at least marginally relevant to the OP as far as I can tell.
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by mellowdream 9y ago
I can run a marathon in 2 minutes. By the way, my marathons are 20 feet.
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by mellowdream 9y ago
>And if you think this isn’t accurate, just think about how a rich, single, old, but ugly man would fare far better romantically than a rich, single, old, but ugly woman. And speaking of the whole article more generally - Isn't all
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New robot-powered ETF beating the market so far(cnbc.com)
3 points by mellowdream 9y ago|0 comments
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by mellowdream 9y ago
Being alive.
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by mellowdream 9y ago
I get all of my news and advice from /biz/ - always remember the golden rule: buy high, sell low!
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by mellowdream 9y ago
If anybody on HN knew, they wouldn't be on HN.
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by mellowdream 9y ago
Instead we have the black box of the college admissions office, deliberating over components of the college application such as essays and extracurricular activities intentionally designed for subjective evaluation, where the outcomes of a
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by mellowdream 9y ago
AFAIK intelligence (i.e., IQ) is correlated with lifetime financial success - or at least is indicated as such in psychological literature, and to me seems sensible intuitively. So, it is believable that the children of the affluent (and pr