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by oskarth 12y ago
I thought this answer was interesting: "I don't think I'm very efficient. I have two ways of getting work done. One is like during YC, the way I worked at YC is I was forced to. I had to set the application deadline, and the
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by oskarth 12y ago
Imagine an island with two tribes, except that one of the tribes has a boat, and the other doesn't. Do both tribes want to preserve the coconut trees on the island, or is one tribe willing to take all of the coconuts with them on their
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by oskarth 12y ago
To all the naysayers and party poopers in this thread, I would like to bring to your attention the following excerpt: Calling multi-planetary life an insurance policy “for life as we know it,” the 40-year-old physicist/entrepreneur&#x
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The Threat of Ebola in the West(necsi.edu)
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Effective Ebola Response: A Multiscale Approach(necsi.edu)
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D.J. Bernstein: The Good News Archive (2005)(aaronsw.com)
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by oskarth 12y ago
The Wikipedia page is worth reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_the_Tortoise_Said_to_Achi... Particularly this quote: The Wittgensteinian philosopher Peter Winch discussed the paradox in The Idea of a Social S
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by oskarth 12y ago
Wouldn't it be a better business model to charge businesses to opt-out? Doing this would provide them with more runway to come up with a sustainable business model to leverage and monetize their crowdsourced reviews in a creative manne
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by oskarth 12y ago
Step up. Stop complaining. This is what we got. EDIT: I assume your "No" is a reply to "Stop complaining". Unfortunately, your attitude reflects a "No" to the stepping up part as well. Which is fine, if your go
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Steve Jobs Reinvents the Pen(jiggity.com)
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by oskarth 12y ago
On Lisp by pg is available for free online. http://ep.yimg.com/ty/cdn/paulgraham/onlisp.pdf
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by oskarth 12y ago
Thank you for your elaborate response. Even if some of those requirements seem a bit anachronistic and overly bureaucratic, it does make more sense why Germany thinks it's a good idea. If it is that simple it shouldn't be that dif
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by oskarth 12y ago
I live in Berlin and this is extremely disappointing. I'm beginning to doubt European cities in general have any clue what makes startups in US work. Here's what pg tweeted when there were protests in London: Lots of cities say t
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by oskarth 12y ago
Or you could just do what everyone else is doing: behave like polite adults. Then when you get off the plane, complain about the decay of moral decency in the world.
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by oskarth 12y ago
This isn't a game of three generations of punishment. The problem is with Rice and her role at Dropbox, not everyone connected to Dropbox.
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by oskarth 12y ago
1000 focused hours for most European languages is really good, see for example these quotes: Deutsche Welle suggests A1 is reached with about 75 hours of German tuition, A2.1 with about 150 hours, A2.2 with about 225 hours, B1.1 with about
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by oskarth 12y ago
I thought his proposal was really interesting: Assume we standardize a taxonomy of concepts, each concept being like a “stage” in a computer game. You can think of the planets in the khan-academy galaxy. I can’t find the link right now, bu
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Exams suck (2013)(minireference.com)
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by oskarth 12y ago
> I call BS. Some people here either lack the most basic critical thinking skills, or are NSA shills. Rightly so. And both of those are true. Thinking clearly is expensive for any individual, and shills are cheap for NSA.
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Peak oil, the next Kondratiev cycle, generational turnings, and ERE(earlyretirementextreme.com)
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by oskarth 12y ago
If you are a "pretty good chess player" you are most certainly playing with tactics and strategy, you are just not aware of it. Becoming aware of it would make you a better chess player.
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by oskarth 12y ago
“We have a very large honeypot, where we have, at any given time, over 5m emulations towards the Internet,” states Stiansen. “Meaning we emulate over 5m users, severs, infrastructures on the Internet. We mimic a bank. We put in place honey
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by oskarth 12y ago
The overly ambitious aren't expected to succeed, and the frivolous aren't seen as amounting to anything. What they both have in common is that - when they work - they come as surprises, and surprises means you've probably dis
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by oskarth 12y ago
I've been using Timeful since the beta. The "first beta" wasn't very good, but I've been using the second beta every day now for the last week or so - it has improved a lot. It's a really cool product with a so
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Privacy Economics(tbray.org)
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by oskarth 12y ago
Did OP do something wrong? Yes, definitely. Is being banned from all other Google-related activities forever without recourse proportional? No. The response - being the sum of all its direct consequences - is tyrannical, and worse, automati
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by oskarth 12y ago
The first sentence in the introduction is > This book is about how to make a complete map of everything you think for as long as you like. He then goes on for more than 100 pages (in reasonably logical sections) on how he did this. Isn&#
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How to Make a Complete Map of Every Thought You Think (2003)(users.speakeasy.net)
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The World Health Organization calls for the decriminalisation of drug use(tdpf.org.uk)
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by oskarth 12y ago
I really like Pinboard, and I used to use it a lot but for some reason I stopped. I'd like to start using it again. There's a big elephant in my library though: thousands of chrome bookmarks, uncategorized ("I like this!&quot

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