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by philk 16y ago
It's slightly disappointing when this kind of snarky garbage makes it to the front page. There are legitimate arguments why a good business cofounder can be invaluable. This article completely fails to make any of them.
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by philk 16y ago
They also include another additional twelve grand in spending money each month. I'm probably showing my stinginess here but I'd be vaguely baffled by how to get through that amount of spending money each month.
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by philk 16y ago
The point of money is that it enables to choose what you want to work on. Look at Elon Musk. If he didn't have all his PayPal money he wouldn't have been able to found Tesla or SpaceX
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by philk 16y ago
Personally, I find the idea that you can still be doing something actually impressive[1] at that age inspirational and gives me hope as I age. [1] By anyone's standards. Not "impressive for a 100 year old."
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by philk 16y ago
The guy is a pilot. There's no point whatsoever in searching him more thoroughly before he flies a plane because he already has control over it.
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by philk 16y ago
Vertical farms are a terrible idea and I am baffled as to why this isn't apparent to everyone [1]. Here's just a few of the glaring errors from this article: Lower fossil fuel usage This is daft, and comes from massively overestimating of
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by philk 16y ago
I'm not sure "spend more money" constitutes a clever idea.
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by philk 16y ago
Maybe I'm more curmudgeonly than most, but I have no idea why I'd either want a tiny picture of my face in a book or a copy of the book itself on my coffee table. I suppose you could use it to clear out unwanted house guests "Alright every
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by philk 16y ago
Actually a free registration. If you don't want to register you can go to www.bugmenot.com and find a login that someone else has already made.
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by philk 16y ago
It's not going to be used that crudely. The child rapist is going to get a hefty sentence regardless of the cost because people want to punish serious crimes more than they want to save a couple of bucks. Where it does come in handy is for
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Julian Assange free to leave Sweden(google.com)
3 points by philk 16y ago|1 comments
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by philk 16y ago
To be fair, politics/social justice discussions seem to turn poisonous everywhere on the web and they probably produce a steady stream of people saying "I'm not posting there again".
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by philk 16y ago
I might be missing something here but surely a web presence is not vital to either of these organizations, and while it might be satisfying to DDOS them it doesn't accomplish much. Also www.aiplex.com appears to be back up.
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by philk 16y ago
I have to admit to being astonished that there was a need in the first place to explain that vertical farms are a crock[1]. The long list of articles from prominent news sources was actually rather sad. [1] The question how do you propose
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by philk 16y ago
This is terrible, and we should be protecting her so she can continue her life[1] safely to send the message that we're willing to defend the principle of freedom of speech[2]. We don't have freedom of speech if a foreign-based extremist ca
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by philk 16y ago
Freedom of speech relies upon people less craven than you.
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by philk 16y ago
That is absolutely not what I am saying. I am saying that there have been people killed for exactly this type of thing, and that she should not be surprised at the outcome of her cartoon since that is what she was being told would happen.
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by philk 16y ago
That sort of statement makes me think that even without Zuckerberg's involvement ConnectU would have sunk without a trace.
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by philk 16y ago
Being the target of a hatchet job masquerading as a Hollywood movie has done what I thought impossible; made me feel sorry for Mark Zuckerberg.
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by philk 16y ago
Acting in a way that's unfamiliar and uncomfortable will always feel fake initially. If the OP wants to get out of his shell he'll have to be awkward and fake for a while. Happily this will fade with time as he becomes more accustomed to a
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by philk 16y ago
It's going to be a certain slice of the self improvement community. Probably the slice that reads The Secret and believes that affirmations work.
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by philk 16y ago
I'm saying that it's not "horrible abuse" because: a) I've spent a reasonable amount of time around horses; b) Can see nothing in that photo to suggest the horse has been mistreated or is distressed; and c) Find this kind of trivializatio
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by philk 16y ago
I'm not sure how being fitted with two entirely standard pieces of tack (a breastplate and a bridle) counts as horrible abuse .
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by philk 16y ago
This is both hilarious and incredibly sad. If they stopped playing these things they might have more luck getting a partner for real. Also I can't help wondering if they get jealous when they notice the guy two tables over has the exact sa
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by philk 16y ago
It might just be my reading of it but Yes, nothing like rape for a good chuckle. conveys disapproval to me.
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by philk 16y ago
It is possible to maintain a sense of humor and joke about something without actually condoning it.
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by philk 16y ago
I think this misses the broader point that unasked for advice is usually unwelcome anyway, regardless of the age of the adviser.
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by philk 16y ago
I'm pretty sure entrapping[1] some sad weirdo on the Internet is pretty much the definition of a soft target. By hard targets, I mean someone who is actually scary in real life. Harassing the guy who's extorting protection money from loc
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by philk 16y ago
Good to see someone standing up to this sort of thing. Internet vigilantism is creepy, disturbing and usually disproportionate to the severity of the crime being punished. They also seem to go after soft targets. I can't remember seeing o
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by philk 16y ago
I'm always slightly puzzled as to why this is an issue. Surely the goal is to have lots of innovative and successful startups, and the gender of who is founding them is irrelevant. There aren't, as far as I can tell, any real barriers to w

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