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by philk 17y ago
Good piece. Text is great because the information density is so much higher. The content in a thirty minute video can be absorbed in under five minutes of reading. (On a side note, whenever I read someone promoting rich e-books with sound
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by philk 17y ago
I found the bit about West African kidnappers interesting without the assortment of generic startup advice.
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by philk 17y ago
If I had to define a mediocre life I'd define it as a life where there are things you want to achieve but you aren't trying to achieve them because you're afraid of failure. It's more of an internal mental state than anything.
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by philk 17y ago
We're judged by others all the time. If you're comfortable with what you've achieved and how you live your life then it shouldn't matter[1], you can't please everyone all of the time. Nonetheless, there's a reasonable cohort of people[2] o
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by philk 17y ago
"What if you become a really lousy President of the United States" doesn't strike me as a particularly compelling argument for not trying to go somewhere.
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by philk 17y ago
I think the only reason it has been dragged out this long is face saving on Conroy's part. I'm not so sure about that. Conroy keeps returning to the filter, whereas if they'd wanted to save face but ditch the policy they'd have just murd
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by philk 17y ago
Are you a chronic liar, a drunken slut, a responsible employee or a good parent? Soon the world will know so act accordingly. More like "does someone think you're a chronic liar or a drunken slut" or "have you got on the wrong side of som
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Murdoch paper The Times to start charging for online access from June(theage.com.au)
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by philk 17y ago
I don't think you'll get anyone to take you up on the local elder thing. If someone turns in the local elder and gets a whole lot of cash their life expectancy won't be very good. Cash is only good if you're alive to spend it. Look at it
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by philk 17y ago
You make it unprofitable by tracking and killing as many of the pirates as possible. It raises their costs substantially. I can think of a couple of possible solutions: a) Dummy ships. Get a warship of some sort, make it look tempting and
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by philk 17y ago
Well, I suppose it'll enable you to do 100 pushups in a row, although not much else. You'd be much better off with a sensible weight training program involving squats, deadlifts, bench press, military press and chinups/pullups along with a
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by philk 17y ago
That had way less content that I imagined. I still hope it does turn into a series and he can give us some more information.
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by philk 17y ago
That's a pretty sad piece of advice. If you're over 30 and haven't made something of yourself the best thing you can do is realize that time is passing you by and get moving rather than listen to this defeatist crap.
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by philk 17y ago
Starting off with paragraphs like this... Some weeks though, it’s even easier than that. Someone will say something so breathtakingly wrong – so tracheotomy-cravingly moronic – that I don’t need to explain anything. Simply quoting their wo
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by philk 17y ago
Even if the stuff in this guide actually worked I can't imagine the life he's advocating being more pleasant than sticking around and dealing with your problems in more than a few limited circumstances.
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by philk 17y ago
I think that's being overly generous to modern Neo-Nazis. They, and white supremacist groups in general, seem to be from the bottom of the barrel intellectually. I doubt they'd have the wherewithal to execute such a plan.
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by philk 17y ago
From my perspective "have very mixed feelings" is overly generous. The idea of being stuck somewhere with not just your parents but a variety of other relatives sounds oppressive and claustrophobic. I think I'd end up spending most of my
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by philk 17y ago
For the first post, about Chavez, I suspect that it was downvoted because it wasn't negative enough about him. People will often downvote a comment they disagree with regardless of its merits. (Although on the plus side it's already receiv
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by philk 17y ago
Three additional points: 1) Funny one liners have to be fucking hilarious to be voted up. Best to avoid attempts at humor altogether when it comes to HN. 2) If you're going to post something, remember to make it concise. Just like in the
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by philk 17y ago
Lifting weights is great and most people could benefit from a sensible diet and a regime of weightlifting involving correctly performed compound exercises (ie squats, deadlifts, military press, bench press, pull/chin ups). Can't say I agree
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by philk 17y ago
Disclaimer: I'm not familiar with Crikey and can't tell for sure if this applies to them. Not really. Crikey caters to a very limited niche in the Australian market and is subscription only. It has a really strong presence amongst polic
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by philk 17y ago
Crikey is pretty much the best news in Australia, which is why it manages to make an online subscription model actually work.
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by philk 17y ago
Great to hear that it's working out for your dog :)
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by philk 17y ago
I'm advocating keeping inflation under control, not deflation. These are two entirely different things.
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by philk 17y ago
Four reasons off the top of my head: 1) Officially a lot of the stuff is there for hedging/insurance. 2) It's quite hard to regulate this stuff out of existence, because the aforementioned really smart people will find holes in your regulat
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by philk 17y ago
It's the financial engineering area. In layman's terms it changes banking from being a dull industry where you loan money to people who you're pretty sure will pay it back to you to an exciting casino where you pit your really smart people
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by philk 17y ago
There are other problems with the babysitting co-op. For example, imagine that the co-op now has a whole lot of members who have kids and want babysitting but aren't suitable for babysitting themselves (for some reason). Which is analogou
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by philk 17y ago
He's getting the story a bit wrong. One or two of the couples will have a whole lot more scrip than the others that they've saved up.
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by philk 17y ago
Keeping inflation under control isn't just something done to protect "wealthy bankers". The stability of the financial system as a whole is predicated upon the fact that money that I earn today will be worth something tomorrow.
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by philk 17y ago
I think you may be overestimating just how much exercise your average husky requires. Yes, I'm aware that huskies in the Iditarod do that much running. But frankly, those dogs are athletes, burn ~11,000 calories per day [1] and would break

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