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Hung on as long as she could. Now she and her two dogs live in a car in Carlsbad(latimes.com)
4 points by pen2l 10y ago|0 comments
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by pen2l 10y ago
> They make you do all the writing, editing, formatting and figure design for free Shouldn't research scientists be the ones who write? I mean, who else knows the intimate details about your experiments that need to be communicated
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by pen2l 10y ago
It can't be that Singhal's life has just ended . Everyone is more than their worst moments. Everyone deserves a second chance. The guy did a complete rewrite of Google's search engine... he made Google what it is today. The
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by pen2l 10y ago
I wonder how Genius feels about this news. But they were the ones rooting for this future, so probably they will be happy I think.
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by pen2l 10y ago
I think this is the answer to a lot of ills today. Suppressing trolls/stupidity is hard... because naturally and organically, things easy to digest (as trolling text/stupid text usually is) rise to the top because they get more vi
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Perspective API – An API that makes it easier to host better conversations(perspectiveapi.com)
6 points by pen2l 10y ago|2 comments
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by pen2l 10y ago
Two scoops is an okay book I suppose, but it's definitely not what the grandparent post is asking for -- it goes over things too quickly. I actually recommend youtube video tutorials! Like, some will show you how to make a basic photo
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by pen2l 10y ago
Small suggestion: make the patterns bigger. Not many people do that, but it can give pretty good results every now and then
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by pen2l 10y ago
> Surely there is something more important to complain about than that. https://plus.google.com/+VicGundotra/posts/gcSStkKxXTw Sam, it's meant with the love of the art. I was going to make the same complai
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by pen2l 10y ago
(With hesitance, that I'm just piling on the negatives: I actually tend to ignore people who say things in an authoritative way but make no effort to substantiate their claims, because more often than not they're just wrong. I wou
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by pen2l 10y ago
I apologize in advance for making a meta-comment. I hate news organizations using curse words. Don't get me wrong, using curse words is completely fucking fine, but it's weird in the worst way seeing news organizations using the
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by pen2l 10y ago
Perfect execution, great, great job. I was really impressed with how fast it just worked , how quickly I was just presented with a video. Your back-end is really well optimized. The autocomplete is really good... I assume autocomplete is
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by pen2l 10y ago
It was pretty bad around 2008. Now, 2017, it's not perfect but it's much, much better. They're on the right track. Separately, I want to say: judging per capita they're not doing bad.
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by pen2l 10y ago
> Just look at just how horrible smog is in Beijing. Huh? Have you looked at it recently? Beijing has made incredible strides in solving air pollution problems. They turned around the situation quickly to pretty decent results -- give th
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by pen2l 10y ago
Politics should be allowed in my opinion. The HN crowd has a very interesting take on politics that I cannot get anywhere else. Seriously, the most interesting stuff I read is here, and not anywhere else... it's comments from potatolic
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by pen2l 10y ago
> Seems pretty immoral to give someone a wildcard treatment and not back it up with something known to work. I think they're giving the treatment to patients for whom pretty much all options have already been pursued and they'r
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by pen2l 10y ago
mxstbr, I just want to sound one comment: the seamless way that 'max stoiber' transitions to the "<mxstbr>" "logo" when scrolling down, the smoothness of the metamorphosis, is really impressive. Lots of s
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by pen2l 10y ago
Huh, is Alibaba really very comparable to Amazon for the everyday consumer? I was under the impression that they weren't exactly targeting the same consumers. I thought Alibaba was moreso for resellers, folks who buy in large quantitie
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by pen2l 10y ago
> You get to choose your friends--you don't get to choose your conworkers. I don't like that you say this. For us introverted folks, that's the only way some of us meet. This is, in a way, questioning the sincerity of my f
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by pen2l 10y ago
No one in the industry uses blender though, sadly. C4d supports python scripting but that is python 2
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by pen2l 10y ago
There's always hostels. Down to $30 some places per night, a small locker to keep your valuables. No?
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by pen2l 10y ago
Shouldn't creating artificial fat be easier than creating artificial meat? (I confess I have the impression that it would be easier based on a mere hunch... fat just seems less "complicated")
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by pen2l 10y ago
I am no fan of Peter Thiel, but Peter Thiel did not scoop to this level of low-quality trolling. Going forward, we need to try to get along with Trump supporters -- the portion that isn't deplorable. Supporters like your general joe sh
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by pen2l 10y ago
So, I should not have said "Pakistani". He's actually an American-born, his parents came here in early 80s. Is that still a problem you think? Would a defense contractor be hesitant in hiring native-born citizens with parents
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by pen2l 10y ago
Hah! Great point! Now is the time for a startup to emerge that makes Bitcoin _EASY_ ! Easy like my-grandma-can-do-it easy. This actually finally might be the thing that makes BTC!
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by pen2l 10y ago
> > For starters, immigration is a key issue for Silicon Valley for which Thiel can be a voice of reason to influence the new administration. > I don't know if immigration is as much of an issue for Palantir, given many of its
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by pen2l 10y ago
That's... not even him, that's not Luke, that's Sam. For a second they had me thinking Sam had stepped down from his position at yc. Sam wouldn't do that to us.
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by pen2l 10y ago
This is great. I would love to have this. But my univ gives me an 'OpenScholar' access... ( http://theopenscholar.org/ ) it's like this weird cms that I can't seem to figure out. Here's a question if
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by pen2l 10y ago
Thanks for expanding. I wonder what kind of sauce you're thinking of when you write all of this... some sort of alfredo sauce for pasta? And Indian curry kind of sauce? Some gravy-like sauce you put on your turkey or chicken? Could you
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by pen2l 10y ago
> A beautiful pan sauce from a well timed reduction. Well timed reduction? Sorry, don't know what that means, please explain?

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