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by philangist 8y ago
That's awesome to hear. I'm so very happy for you. Looking forward to a world where these gene therapy solutions are available to more and more people for a wider range of illnesses.
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by philangist 8y ago
How was the recovery process? Did you feel better immediately or was it in small amounts and over several weeks?
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by philangist 8y ago
> There's a great disorder in working from your home at odd hours, it's not healthy I'd be curious in hearing you elaborate on this. I've been in a WFH setup like this for about 4 months, and while I enjoy it right no
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Bitcoin: A Peer-To-Peer Electronic Cash System (2008)(metzdowd.com)
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The Divorce Surge Is Over, but the Myth Lives On (2014)(nytimes.com)
75 points by philangist 8y ago|169 comments
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by philangist 8y ago
> Doing what you think would be best (i.e. learning Russian) is most often not as good as doing something similar that fits your routine better (i.e. there's a Polish guy in your building that's willing to teach you Polish). An
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by philangist 8y ago
- Many well known people in tech are charlatans. I'd love if you could expand on this topic. What do you mean by charlatans?
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by philangist 8y ago
The best one I've seen yet is GAANDU (Google, Amazon, AirBnb, Netflix, Dropbox and Uber). Apparently it means asshole in Hindi. https://www.teamblind.com/article/Breakdown-of-compensation-...
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by philangist 8y ago
Take them to a standup comedy show at The Stand. Or maybe explore the Whitney museum for a few hours.
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by philangist 8y ago
I'd love to work in Norway or Sweden one day. Do you know what the tech scene in Oslo or Stockholm are like? My experience is mostly in building backend/distributed systems.
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by philangist 8y ago
> And yet, as a programmer, I feel all of these improvements pale in comparison to the stuff I learned that would be equally useful in Notepad as it would be in a decked out Sublime Text/VSCode/Emacs. As someone who's 5 ye
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by philangist 8y ago
I loved the message of self-reliance and "bearing your burden" in the book personally, it really reminded me of Mark Manson's The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck. Could've done without all the religious metaphor but I un
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by philangist 8y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EApk15pCIEA
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After 15 years of practice(sivers.org)
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Amazon Workers Booed Jeff Bezos in Berlin(qz.com)
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by philangist 8y ago
> The more people collude, the more profit they get, the more rational it is to join them. This is not true. Colluders diminish the value of their PoW reward by reducing the trust of all other participants in the system and honest actors
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by philangist 8y ago
It's also a ridiculous argument since Wikileaks does not have a monopoly on leaking secrets. Any whistleblowers who were censored by Wikileaks can not only find another channel to release their original documents, but also have another
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What's all that memory for?(syslog.ravelin.com)
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by philangist 8y ago
In [218]: female_founders = 0.17 # https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/19/in-2017-only-17-of-startups-have-a-female-founder/ In [219]: male_founders = 0.83 In [220]: female_founders ** 6 Ou
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by philangist 9y ago
Both of which are constantly asking for donations
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by philangist 9y ago
The Halo 3 & Halo ODST advertising campaigns were so high quality, I think they could've made a great movie had they commited the time & resources necessary. The we are ODST video is probably the best example https:/&#x2F
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by philangist 9y ago
Jag är också tränar hur man pratar lite svenska. What resources have you been using? Klartext is a service that delivers news in accessible Swedish (sort of like simple English Wikipedia) along with pronounciations that I’ve found to be ver
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The Unix Time-Sharing System(1974) [pdf](people.eecs.berkeley.edu)
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by philangist 10y ago
Who are you to police what we do or don't need in online gaming? Why is your definition of tactless behavior more valid than mine? All of this just seems like recreational outrage from the outside looking in.
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Eight stages of genocide(genocidewatch.org)
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by philangist 10y ago
I'm pretty sure we are - https://blogs.valpo.edu/law/does-the-second-amendment-apply-...
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by philangist 10y ago
I think the title of this post is wrong. Here's another post - http://www.theverge.com/2017/1/28/14427086/federal-court-hal... - that states that "The court specifically ruled on Darweesh and A
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by philangist 10y ago
They're not wrong, they're alt right.
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by philangist 10y ago
Glenn Greenwald has already stated his opinion on this report: https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/817479125707399168
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A Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal Deviates(en.wikipedia.org)
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