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by philk 16y ago
If you have to give up the SLI graphics and RAID array then I don't think what you have left constitutes "almost all of that".
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by philk 16y ago
I might be in the minority here but I've never found a desktop PC to be particularly restrictive[1]; the main things tying me to a desk when I want to accomplish something are a good chair, a few large monitors and a quality keyboard. I co
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by philk 16y ago
Rather interestingly I just noticed a rather extreme example. This comment had lost its author 75 points of karma by the time I made this post and still shows up as -4: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1444511
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by philk 16y ago
I think you're being deliberately obtuse here. If you give people a numerical rating most will feel compelled to improve their standing. Losing karma is negative feedback (hence punishment). It doesn't matter that your HN karma score isn'
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by philk 16y ago
To be honest I hadn't noticed a problem with too many smart-ass remarks before the change. Everyone makes poor decisions from time to time and punishing them more harshly seems unnecessary.
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by philk 16y ago
Step 2: Write article to convince your competitors to pay below the odds and refrain from poaching your best staff.
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The Man in the Rockefeller Suit - A lifelong con artist [2009](vanityfair.com)
1 points by philk 16y ago|0 comments
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by philk 16y ago
If they aren't particularly good at anything, how do you know that they're smart? They could merely sound smart to you because they seem (for example) articulate and hold similar opinions.
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by philk 16y ago
I think he's conflating "smart"[1] and "good at communicating". [1] In fact "smart" should probably be restricted based on domain. You can be a brilliant violin player but that doesn't mean you'll be a brilliant molecular biologist.
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Economics of a POW Camp(albany.edu)
1 points by philk 16y ago|0 comments
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by philk 16y ago
Finally, a website that caters to my beekeeping fetish.
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by philk 16y ago
As a Tech-Savvy Westerner I accept that you guys won't stop blowing your cheap plastic horns and I understand that it's really annoying.
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by philk 16y ago
So you're saying if it were a more mature industry then companies would just stick to their defined roles and not compete with each other as much? As a customer I'm glad it's not a mature industry then.
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by philk 16y ago
So we have an blog post that spends the first 700 words saying "Google started it" and then the latter 700 justifying why there aren't comments. I'm not sure how this is interesting. Companies compete, and that's a good thing. Rambling ab
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The Perils of Positive Thinking(unlimitedmagazine.com)
39 points by philk 16y ago|20 comments
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by philk 16y ago
The problem (at least from the perspective of someone who enjoys games with lots of meaningful choice) is that the public in general seems to be happier with fewer choices, more simplistic gameplay and absurdly expensive graphics. So while
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by philk 16y ago
I honestly, honestly wonder how such deceitful, thieving people live with themselves. I think you're being a bit harsh here. One of the best ways to improve productivity in aggregate (and in return, get more tax dollars) is to improve[1]
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by philk 16y ago
Using the phrase "is what he says he is" to describe a politician who admitted to lying during an interview on a major nightly news program strikes me as a rather creative interpretation of reality. Luckily for him actually being honest a
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by philk 16y ago
We are "blessed" with a two party system where the two major parties are both headed up by religious conservatives.
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by philk 16y ago
I'm getting sick of the words "paedophilia" and "terrorism" being trotted out to justify every invasive new policy.
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by philk 16y ago
I've often thought "If only I could meet a nice girl who defines herself entirely by the operating system she uses". Finally someone has solved this problem for me.
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by philk 16y ago
I'm going to strike gold with my Plan 9 only dating site.
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The End of Men(theatlantic.com)
7 points by philk 16y ago|7 comments
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by philk 16y ago
It's not a huge surprise. Farmville and it's ilk were always terribly dull games. People weren't staying for the gameplay, they were staying thanks to the social pressure of all their friends playing it too (and having to log in to help t
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by philk 16y ago
Of course it's a joke. Not a very good one, in my estimation, but I wouldn't term it "very offensive." (In fact, I'd reserve the phrase "very offensive" for things way nastier than a joke article on the internet.)
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by philk 16y ago
On a somewhat peripheral note I found this a bit disappointing: According to the Times, eight out of the ten job categories that will add the most employees during the next decade—including home-health aide, customer-service representative
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by philk 16y ago
To some Christians, the fact that the mail was delivered late last Thursday heralds the apocalypse. I'll never really understand how some people can be so enthusiastic about the end of the world.
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by philk 16y ago
From watching that I got the feeling that you could ask Ballmer about his thoughts on (for instance) the steel refining industry and receive a remarkably similar stream of business pseudo-speak.
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by philk 16y ago
Tech history is filled with former champions such as IBM and Microsoft who were pretty damned sure their customers would find it too difficult to abandon them, only to wake up one morning to find themselves abandoned by millions of formerl
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by philk 16y ago
This is a fantastic post by Scott. I think the great idea fallacy continues because it appeals to people's fantasy of becoming successful without much work. Anyone can imagine themselves having a great idea and then being successful. It's

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