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by nichtich 12y ago
It's not about contradicting my world view, or even the mainstream view. It's because this is one of the latest tricks played by a long time con artist and it's not good to be drawn to it time and time again. Given the track
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by nichtich 12y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_Catalyzer Somebody with the power should downvote this. Maybe it's worth talking 20 years ago, but after so many years of dubious results there should be a much high threshold f
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by nichtich 12y ago
I've heard about failed city planning a lot, and I wonder is there a good example somewhere? like a booming city with more than 5 million population that have "good" city plan? which city is best in this regard?
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by nichtich 12y ago
This is exactly what I thought. Think about the organizational challenge and the bureaucracy involved, there's no way for a "secret" spy unit's head to evaluate the economic value of all those targets, select for the one
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by nichtich 12y ago
People always underestimate how valuable information is. When you short a stock or a currency, you are not "screwing" someone, but providing information to others saying "this thing is screwed". If you believe something
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by nichtich 12y ago
My experience: using paypal is so confusing for me, compared to alipay. And ebay makes you uncomfortable and doubting your purchase decision more than taobao. I think it partially explains Alibaba's success in China. how you do shoppin
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by nichtich 13y ago
Why is greater than one second is a problem? You can chain many predictor together using robots that when seeing a flash from one predictor presses another predictor. That way you can move the message back in time many seconds.
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by nichtich 13y ago
Wallet is not a good testing device. It's a common sense in a lot of people that if you see a wallet lying around on the ground, you should never pick that up. If you do, there will be a bunch of thugs showing up from nowhere, claiming
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by nichtich 13y ago
This is the most important reason why Chinese family members don't love each other that much. You never know if your relatives are just nice to you or they are after your money. It complicates everything and when things go bad they go
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by nichtich 13y ago
I take it back. Just found four of them.
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by nichtich 13y ago
I'm surprised by the lack of penis drawing. Is there a review process or do people just suddenly decide to behave better?
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by nichtich 13y ago
No, because people are not money earning machines. People earn money to satisfy their needs, and the ability of earning money doesn't always sync with their needs timely. A loan will help that. So you can take your children to Disney w
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by nichtich 13y ago
Well, you maybe willing to pay $1000 to settle the debt when the nice lady from the bank called you, but chances are you will be willing to pay more if a debt collector shows up at your door.
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by nichtich 13y ago
The story is sadly true, and in some places it's the only information the family gets on when the execution is/was performed.
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by nichtich 13y ago
> It also means that over time, the Darwinian pressure is for us to become ever more good, as that is what gets rewarded. Therefore, if one day we meet powerful aliens, they are likely ethical aliens. I can't agree with this kind of
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by nichtich 13y ago
"He taught her how to scramble eggs." Can somebody tell me what exactly is that? Urban dictionary didn't help much. http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=scrambled%20e...
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by nichtich 13y ago
It's mostly a marketing hype. Xiaomi is known for it's style for "releasing" a phone that's really cheap for the specs, but limiting the supply until when the price for the hardware drops. Hardcore fans who closely
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by nichtich 13y ago
Which award is more depressing? "expert in slacking off", "expert in staying poor", "expert in getting wealthy". Also note that it's not an award for "wealthy" but "expert in getting wealthy
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by nichtich 13y ago
This got me thinking. If you keep running into people "bad" at a job, there's usually something else in the play. If you found a restaurant has very rude waiters, but manage to keep open for quite a while, it usually means it
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by nichtich 13y ago
Although I agree that "There are plenty of fields where "it won't work" if you lie." But Law? Surgery? are not the examples you should choose, both had plenty of cases where lying did work.
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by nichtich 13y ago
It's not that hard to imagine what will be like if there's no financial institution and corporate lawyers. The first is that the dollar you own will not be real money -- we have to go back to gold standard (even this requires cert
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by nichtich 14y ago
Then let's suppose there's a study that shows children who grow up in a rich family grow up healthier and happier and have better education and better jobs. Don't we owe it to those children to make sure that as many as possible are born in