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by my5thaccount 11y ago
"Who will train all the NFL stars?" That's really what it boils down to. Training the million dollar gladiators for our modern society. Living vicariously through innocent children. Parental adrenaline rushes. It's sick.
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by my5thaccount 11y ago
Yeah, I think you're right. Everyone expects a reversion to the mean -- even the batters themselves. It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. But maybe it's more than that. The will power to overcome our intrinsic limits eventually
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by my5thaccount 11y ago
I was really dismayed when Colin Powell argued for invading Iraq. Yes, there are military people who get it. But just look what's happening. I guess they have to think, what is the alternative? We can't change our role in the Midd
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by my5thaccount 11y ago
No, but thanks for bringing him to my attention! It's amazing how someone like that so long ago could have such an impact on so many fields, while today, it takes teams of people to win the Nobel prize in a single field. It's a te
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by my5thaccount 11y ago
Thinking about this and the wisdom of crowds makes my brain feel fuzzy.
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by my5thaccount 11y ago
Articles like this remind me how rational and practical the military is. I know so many brilliant military minds, yet war itself seems outdated and plagued by so many emotionally irrational decisions. I can't reconcile those two though
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by my5thaccount 11y ago
There are plenty of things she could have done before calling me, but she could call me and she had a great experience doing so and now loves the product even more and has more confidence using it, because she knows if she faces something
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by my5thaccount 11y ago
That's how Hunch worked and it was pretty good.
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by my5thaccount 11y ago
The only two apps I had in the list were Youtube and Google Maps, both are installed at the factory and it guessed: You are a married guy older than 32 who makes more than $52,000/year
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by my5thaccount 11y ago
This is a fantastic book. Buy it if you haven't already. Fantastic book. Really, one of the best books written in any field. Written by Arnold Schwarzenegger. Highly recommended. http://www.amazon.com/The-New-Encycloped
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by my5thaccount 11y ago
As big as The Rock, yes. His mom is Samoan. They are huge. If he didn't exercise like he did, he'd be as big as a sumo wrestler. I feel like this kind of attitude stops people from achieving more, "Oh, I can never be like The
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by my5thaccount 11y ago
It is possible to get built. I was a skinny kid, picked on. Got tired of it. Started working out. Upped my protein intake. Went to the YMCA 3 days a week. The dudes in there were humongous and looked at me and smilled, this scrawny kid. The
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by my5thaccount 11y ago
Right, yes, I always forget about the dollar! The dollar will be the one to prove them all wrong!
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by my5thaccount 11y ago
It's ironic that a currency designed to solve the problems of currencies controlled by human beings is now suffering the very same problems that caused all the fiat currencies before it to fail. Human beings are the problem.
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by my5thaccount 11y ago
"Join the waitlist" Really? There are only, what, 10 candidates?? Srsly Google?
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by my5thaccount 11y ago
Customers rarely call me, but when they do, it's fine -- I love them. It's usually because they can't figure out how to log in. It's especially painful when they call at 8:30am on the east coast and I'm on the west
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by my5thaccount 11y ago
Just wait until the payee has a comma or a quote in the name and you download a CSV and the programmers can't even properly format a CSV and it's broken in Excel.
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by my5thaccount 11y ago
Zero to One by Peter Thiel The Hard Thing about Hard Things by Ben Horowitz Strategy Rules - Five Timeless Lessons from Bill Gates, Andy Grove, and Steve Jobs by David B. Yoffie, Michael A. Cusumano These are all timely books and recently w
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by my5thaccount 11y ago
The fact that they are ignoring this is a very bad sign. It's way easier to do and hasn't been done well and instead they are doing something really hard that people can already do easily outside the system. They've shifted t
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by my5thaccount 11y ago
Lots of different instant messengers like skype. Google chat, facetime, just the regular old phone. Video conferencing tools. Even screen sharing systems like gotomeeting. It's a solved problem mostly, but hard to do technically, so th
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by my5thaccount 11y ago
That is spooky. Both from heart problems too. Maybe the stress of teaching the class takes a toll. Heart attacks are pretty common among men of that age, though. Coincidence, of course. Spooky. For sure.
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by my5thaccount 11y ago
I wish slack would concentrate on making the app more productive for teams to work together remotely. We can type fast enough, in fact, hackernews tells me I'm typing too fast. The problem is organizing and collecting the information a
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by my5thaccount 11y ago
Funny how, at HackerNews, a post with data and intent on progress is still drowned out by useless rhetoric that will never actually make a difference. Someone posted real numbers with a clear intent to find a solution to an imminent problem
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by my5thaccount 11y ago
Quotas are fine for an enterprise with a decades old sales process that has data to measure. SurveyMonkey was entering a new market and growing the sales force quickly and before they even knew what a reasonable quota was. You could say tha
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by my5thaccount 11y ago
Modern wood stoves are sealed to the inside and have vents to pull air in from outside the house via vacuum created by the heat pushing the air out through a vent to the outside as well. You'll easily pay $800 for one of these stoves,
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by my5thaccount 11y ago
I'd like to see conversion rates between qualtrics and surveymonkey surveys. Who is the monkey, exactly? The person building the survey, the person filling it out, or the company providing the service?
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by my5thaccount 11y ago
Sales people are really good about selling themselves, but generally not so great at actually selling the thing you are hiring them to sell.
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by my5thaccount 11y ago
I took, we called it Diff-e-q, my freshman year in college and the professor died a couple weeks into the course and the new guy was not pleased about having to teach it. We did the applied aspects with the springs and the little ants runni
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by my5thaccount 11y ago
Cool, that person's math an mine are the same! :) He does say, "That price does not include windows, door, insulation or interior furnishings. In place of a brick fireplace I have recommended a recycled steel barrel stove and stov
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by my5thaccount 11y ago
This amount of money is not realistic even when you put it into an inflation calculator. For example, Walden built his cabin for $28 in the 1850's, which is about $900 today and clearly not enough to build a cabin with today's dol

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