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by mwerty 19y ago
I think you are asking for two features - a way to privately exchange contact info and a way to publicly/privately explain rationale for up/downmod. I really like the former but am fine with the noise of explaining mod-rationale in the comm
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by mwerty 19y ago
Chuck Norris
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by mwerty 19y ago
reference: http://www.paulgraham.com/power.html
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by mwerty 19y ago
That's still an ad hominem.
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by mwerty 19y ago
Who decides what levels are absurd? What is magical about 16%?
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by mwerty 19y ago
I thought they only tracked ancestry. I don't want to know if my ancestor was Genghis Khan. I do want to know when they can confidently estimate my risk of getting diabetes. edit - reliably, not confidently.
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by mwerty 19y ago
People generally shell out a lot more than that for many tests. I thought it was pretty cool. The only reason I'm not paying is that they do not seem to have a service to keep my info updated based on new discoveries.
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by mwerty 19y ago
Something oddly rails-ish about the site.
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by mwerty 19y ago
Outlook's drm claims to do this I think. Of course, no software can do it.
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by mwerty 19y ago
Rules of thumb can be applied without thinking to control both chance of failure and chance of a crazy success.
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by mwerty 19y ago
Serves me right.
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by mwerty 19y ago
you mean 'your request'.
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by mwerty 19y ago
The white square boxes on the two sides reminds me of google ads.
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by mwerty 19y ago
burn the ships.
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by mwerty 19y ago
Don't positive thoughts help survival? Perhaps we have evolved to an optimum mix of the two (nightmare & positive dreams).
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by mwerty 19y ago
where does songza get the songs from?
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by mwerty 19y ago
Is the sorting non-live? I see items in the following order: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=87772 21 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=86514 22 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=84732 21
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by mwerty 19y ago
suggestion: read innovators dilemma.
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by mwerty 19y ago
b. and c. are not an option for everyone. Their risk profile may be different than what you think it to be.
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by mwerty 19y ago
Take the boring one. You'll find it easier to learn the interesting one by yourself (provided you have time while working on your startup).
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by mwerty 19y ago
Good points and all but the cringing was for the cliched way the article ended.
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by mwerty 19y ago
If what you have to say about neurosurgery makes sense, what's the problem?
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by mwerty 19y ago
Arguments about the topic matter. Qualifications of the people don't.
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by mwerty 19y ago
The last line: > There's one significant cost that SimpleDB users can avoid: keeping a database administrator on the payroll. cringe cringe cringe.
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by mwerty 19y ago
You mean GM I think. GE is worth 20 times as much.
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by mwerty 19y ago
Conceded. Cross-site communication is a problem I had not thought of. I'm still not sure what their novelty is given how doubleclick's cookies working across different portals were being talked about during the dot-com days. I thought Beaco
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by mwerty 19y ago
c) because other people are reading this.
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by mwerty 19y ago
True, but that was an extremely lousy way to poll people. Everyone is going to be a saint in public. Edit: I just wanted to add that I would totally have sacrificed everything to save those 10 people.
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by mwerty 19y ago
news feed was defended based on the increase in usage (hits, etc.) of facebook. I'm guessing usage dropped during this whole experiment - it would certainly have been mentioned otherwise. As for revolutionary, a lot of apps were trying to d
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by mwerty 19y ago
>MIT was founded to be a utopia of meritocracy where no one cared where you were from or who your father is, all anyone wanted to know is "can you do the work?" At $34k a year? The key word is 'founded' I guess.

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