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by philk 16y ago
Maybe I'm not being the authentic me when I don't make dirty jokes to my Grandmother that I would to my friends but I'd view that more as simple respect.
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by philk 16y ago
Fantastic. Another part of the internet that can be as bland and humorless as my Facebook news feed.
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The blind man who taught himself to see(mensjournal.com)
388 points by philk 16y ago|84 comments
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by philk 16y ago
Interesting if it's true but ultimately Coke's strength lies in its worldwide brand[1] and distribution rather than having an unreproducible taste. [1] Of course, being able to say only two people know how to mix the 7X flavoring ingredien
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by philk 16y ago
She's incredibly melodramatic: It made my heart bleed. A month passed. Facebook hadn't responded. I stopped sleeping. I couldn't follow conversations. Words swam. Reading the profile was like plunging into an icy pond from such a high
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by philk 16y ago
It's the internet. Almost anything controversial and widely covered will net you death threats from weirdos.
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by philk 16y ago
It's a bit unpleasant if you're on the wrong side of the equation but it's just market forces. Mobile application developers were scarce while normal developers were plentiful. The big lesson is that you should continually refresh your ski
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by philk 16y ago
It's a great idea (from the point of view of virality) but it seems like it would be poisonous to the atmosphere in most teams. Would I want to stay back late to help someone who'd ranked me lower than my coworkers? I'd love to say yes, b
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by philk 16y ago
The sad thing is even though the study has been thoroughly discredited[1], it continues to hang around and be cited by anti-vaccine activists. [1] Even sadder is that they cite Wakefield being exposed as a fraud as evidence of tampering by
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by philk 16y ago
Using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanners, Professor Rees and his colleague Dr Ryota Kanai at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL (University College London) analysed the brain structures of ninety young adults who had repor
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Daniel Assange: I never thought WikiLeaks would succeed(crikey.com.au)
2 points by philk 16y ago|0 comments
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Assange lawyer speaks(crikey.com.au)
2 points by philk 16y ago|0 comments
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by philk 16y ago
Awesome, I'd like to take one of my Lamborghinis for a spin. Oh, wait, I can't, because I don't actually own any. Paul Graham's Stuff essay ( http://www.paulgraham.com/stuff.html ) makes the case for not worrying about possessions far bette
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by philk 16y ago
Perhaps I should be joining the tin-foil hat brigade but these allegations have always seemed conveniently timed. There are few better ways to damage someone's credibility than alleging rape, even if the allegations don't hold water.
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by philk 16y ago
A number of reasons: 1) Starting their own country wouldn't offer them much they don't already have. 2) There's no unclaimed land. That means you either need to build your own land (which is really expensive) or take it off someone else, w
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by philk 16y ago
Distractions. The internet[1] being the major one, occasionally video games or books. Somewhat unpleasantly I seem wired to seek new distractions whenever I don't have one currently occupying my mind. I've been thinking of forcing myself t
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IBM uncloaks 20 petaflops BlueGene/Q super(theregister.co.uk)
3 points by philk 16y ago|0 comments
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Modern Parenting(ft.com)
2 points by philk 16y ago|0 comments
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What good is Wall Street?(newyorker.com)
90 points by philk 16y ago|61 comments
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by philk 16y ago
When you can tap your entire social graph for answers to your queries, sites like Facebook have the ability to push aside search engines like Google as the first site that springs to mind when people think about surfing the WWW to find inf
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by philk 16y ago
After reading that I feel like putting out a fake news release reading "Yes Men vow to check facts before launching future campaigns" .
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Twitter joke trial: conviction for joke tweet about blowing up airport upheld(guardian.co.uk)
2 points by philk 16y ago|0 comments
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by philk 16y ago
My favorite part is this: the network is missing a most essential ingredient of capitalism: salespeople. ...given their absence is one of my favorite things about internet shopping.
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by philk 16y ago
Thankfully yes, and hopefully the entire thing disappears from the web. This sort of issue should be resolved through the courts, not through blogs and twitter.
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by philk 16y ago
I think pretty much everything looks more impressive before you see how it actually works.
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by philk 16y ago
If someone has been publically slandering you and is now threatening legal action I think you're well within your rights to fight back however you see fit.
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by philk 16y ago
I'm not a fan of drugs either[1]. I've never smoked or taken an illegal drug, and I drink comparatively rarely. The thing is, prohibiting things just makes them seem cooler. For example, 80% of new smokers start before the age of eighteen
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by philk 16y ago
Well this is a rather discouraging result. I've never understood why people want to lose tax revenue and provide a massive source of revenue to criminals when marijuana is going to be sold regardless.
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by philk 16y ago
This is a sarcastic retort to the common advise given to MBA/business people who look for technical co-founders, by technical people on HN: I'm completely aware of that. It's just that I don't read HN for sarcastic retorts, I read HN f
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by philk 16y ago
You're thinking about this from the perspective of someone who's already technically strong. If you aren't technically strong, trying to prise dollars from fingers is often less terrifying than trying to deal with an impenetrable technic

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