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by mr_twj 16y ago
standardization is one reason: http://xkcd.com/768/
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by mr_twj 16y ago
http://listen.grooveshark.com/#/album/The_Last_Resort/140466
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by mr_twj 16y ago
Mandelbrot (roughly): do not look at what you see, but at the process that created it . Great ideas have infinite applications and all ideas are interconnected. The trouble is knowing how far downstream you are from the source and if it is
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The Anti-Creativity Checklist(blogs.hbr.org)
5 points by mr_twj 16y ago|0 comments
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by mr_twj 16y ago
Or its sibling: a genie grants both a mathematician and an engineer their greatest desire to be located at the end of the room given that each step they take towards it is half the distance than their last. The mathematician throws his arms
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Big steps in creating small chips(physorg.com)
3 points by mr_twj 16y ago|0 comments
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by mr_twj 16y ago
Ideally, yes. I don't have any projects meriting this function but I could foresee it in the future; in the meantime I wanted to know what HN thought. I'm glad to see some interested in such a site function.
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Merge HN: a submission proposal
10 points by mr_twj 16y ago|3 comments
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by mr_twj 16y ago
Not to be overly melodramatic, but I think this is my last comment here on HN for better or worse, simply because this is exactly the microcosmic ideal I've hoped for HN from my beginning involvement--if it dies, there's no need to drag thi
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by mr_twj 16y ago
I'm not sure how well these are worded but assume current entrepreneurship as an underlying condition when not specified explicitly.
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Poll: Were You A Member of Deca?
2 points by mr_twj 16y ago|2 comments
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by mr_twj 16y ago
I was a member and was prepared adequately.
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by mr_twj 16y ago
I was a member and was not prepared adequately.
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by mr_twj 16y ago
I was not a member but knew DECA existed.
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by mr_twj 16y ago
I was not a member but was a high school/college entrepreneur.
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by mr_twj 16y ago
I never heard of DECA, wasn't a high school/college entrepreneur, but am now an entrepreneur.
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by mr_twj 16y ago
Thanks, all comments were helpful.
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Ask HN: Current list of HN startups and spin-offs?
13 points by mr_twj 16y ago|6 comments
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by mr_twj 16y ago
If you ever want any help developing this or need someone to bounce a feature idea off of let me know.
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ReMade: The Rebirth of the Maker Movement(electromagnate.com)
2 points by mr_twj 16y ago|0 comments
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by mr_twj 16y ago
From what I can tell there are two camps that are converging: 1) capitalists that want to monetize off the 3rd Economy and 2) resource-based social engineers using a YC-like network of startups to start an internal shared economy. They are
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by mr_twj 16y ago
Take a look at http://zemerge.com/
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by mr_twj 16y ago
I have a little hobby swap site that I could quickly convert into an unofficial HN book/thing swap. I would be glad to release the source if necessary so others could improve upon it, seeing that there are a few things I haven't had time to
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Program Or Be Programmed(youtube.com)
2 points by mr_twj 16y ago|0 comments
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by mr_twj 16y ago
Theoretically speaking, in a future where the world runs itself and all notions of "scarcity" are eliminated by energy, technological, and agricultural abundance, what need would there be for capitalism, let alone money?
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by mr_twj 16y ago
This only confirms my conviction that solipsism syndrome should be studied more closely in relation to the internet: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solipsism_syndrome Edit (corollary): therefore Farmville is actually healthy.
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by mr_twj 16y ago
Technocrats understand that technology is the only thing that reduces cultural lag, more or less . On the other hand , artificial scarcity keeps it going strong. These two processes are inversely proportional in respect to time, meaning t
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by mr_twj 16y ago
Just smoke some cannabis if you want time to stop (interferes with your ability to filter perceptual information in a linear fashion-- nevertheless one's own personal freedom to choose to do such a thing ); the rest of us have jobs that req
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by mr_twj 16y ago
A couple of nugs might be typical. 1 oz is a lot of cannabis; it might take a year for a casual user to expend it. So no, your garden variety cannabis is not expensive and is comparably cheaper than alcohol, and much cheaper than pharmace
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by mr_twj 16y ago
I downloaded polyglot earlier today and found it mostly amusing in the context of Facebook (e.g. seeing my friends speaking in broken english.) Later, I came back and forgot about polyglot and started a little unit testing. Long story short

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