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by motoko 18y ago
Bill Gates, 2004 "Two years from now, spam will be solved." This came true. The problem was that email inboxes were inundated with spam, but now free spam filters are good enough to filter almost all spam with extremely few false negatives.
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by motoko 18y ago
http://www.jobbountyhunter.com/howItWorks.html This should be HTML text... and lose the chintzy stock photos.
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by motoko 18y ago
"Consider a sufficiently diverse collection of molecular species, such as peptides, RNA ... are autocatalytic. It reproduces itself. ...autocatalytic set theory is a mathematical theory, not reducible to the laws of physics, Well, obviously
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by motoko 18y ago
Why do intensely personal attacks start with "Nothing Personal?"
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by motoko 18y ago
PayPal, SecondLife, and other online payment startups have all at one time dreamed about printing a government-free independent virtual currency. The problems are that 1) the existing government really doesn't like that and 2) it's been too
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by motoko 18y ago
What an impressive de-trolling effort, rw. The O'Reilly brand is the "good enough" brand. I don't expect to be up at night reading an O'Reilly book in my bed, but I do expect to be up at 7pm referencing an O'Reilly book's index at my desk.
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by motoko 18y ago
Under other circumstances, this would be trolling, but note that edw519 is the third most voted user of HN (12387 karma). I agree, this author has had a few other toxic posts to HN that, while excellent link bait, significantly reduce the i
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by motoko 18y ago
I have to admit: the irony of the founder of a business purporting "life management" strategies blogging her mental breakdown is... ripe.
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by motoko 18y ago
Myopia?
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by motoko 18y ago
This reads like a physiological (and subsequent psychological) breakdown. Please see a physician.
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by motoko 18y ago
Simply say that your 20% was already agreed to and that it's not negotiable. It seems to me (and of course, I can't know from short post) that Austin is negotiating for the sake of negotiating... maybe because he was taught to be a "hard ch
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by motoko 18y ago
Please set up automatic system imaging for your server (e.g. Slicehost backups). The biggest barrier to learning is fear, so it helps him to know that he can press the "undo button" for the entire system at any time. Other than that, I reco
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by motoko 18y ago
Not knowing what you're doing isn't sufficient for success, but it's not sufficient for failure, either.
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by motoko 18y ago
Wow, it prints my HTTP referral.
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by motoko 18y ago
I strongly recommend: - jQuery (all the documentation you'll need is online) - O'Reilly JavaScript: The Definitive Guide - Firebug Javascript Debugger for Firefox. - Emacs Javascript Mode - Some virtual machine environment for IE6 testing (
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by motoko 18y ago
Waterville, visiting family. We should meet up.
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by motoko 18y ago
This is true for me in semi-rural Ohio, too.
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by motoko 18y ago
Off-topic: have you played EVE? I've heard that it's an extremely engaging game with a realistic game world, but that to play demands your life full time for a year.
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by motoko 18y ago
Ostensibly near zero heavy industry, unless you over-leverage your GNP by 4 times and need to pay back your international debt in something other than your now devalued currency. Also, you're right about economic opportunities that don't in
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by motoko 18y ago
"Green" is subjective. Iceland is attractive to industry because - it's largely unpopulated - it's on the ocean and near both Western Europe and the Eastern US - stable and modern government - energy is cheap Also, Iceland has not only geot
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by motoko 18y ago
Yes, but let's go with another material for the briefcases. Iceland will have plenty of aluminum, I promise.
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by motoko 18y ago
MacGyver! Save Iceland! Ok, what do I have? Girl power, Gaia worship, $800k, and Bjork. You have one year to make 61 billion dollars, and you can't exploit any natural resources. Oh God...
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by motoko 18y ago
All that I read in this article was: Slam dunk for economic hitmen in Iceland! Ding ding, here come the smelters!
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by motoko 18y ago
Iceland needs some serious answers to some serious problems. This is PR fluff. Edit: I had written something much more critical before, but maybe Iceland needs the morale boost. It's unclear to me how $800k is going to save Iceland's econom
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President-Elect Obama’s Choices for Key Science Posts Hailed(genengnews.com)
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by motoko 18y ago
I'm sitting on the domains KNOLBLE.COM and NOVELBITE.COM in case anybody would like to use them. I'm not using them for anything right now.
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by motoko 18y ago
Agreed. It's the difference between winning a video game and getting a promotion / winning the high school football game / launching that product and getting an email that somebody loves your work / etc.
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by motoko 18y ago
Lore has it that Peter Thiel is a financial genius, or at least, would have access to information financial geniuses would be able to conjure. You are right that Max probably has little idea himself about the financial industry. However, hi
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by motoko 18y ago
No, this is advice for preparing for troubled times.
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by motoko 18y ago
No, I consistently am not moved by status-posturing awareness spending. Truth isn't a marketing expense, and I don't appreciate having my opinions manipulated by advertising regardless if the advertisement's goal is ethical, logical, or tru

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