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by phlux 16y ago
When I was between the ages 16 until I was about 22, I would meditate for at least 1 hour per day - at night prior to going to bed. I would just focus on my breathing. If I had anything in my mind - I would choose a mono syllabic word to re
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by phlux 16y ago
Drugs.
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by phlux 16y ago
@dennisgorelik : Yes, I offered them everything I had, asked to refinance - filled out all their forms for refi - got a re-appraisal - sent them new employment info once I got a new job and they refused to work with me. They said, quote: "Y
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by phlux 16y ago
I agree with this - especially relating to lite or free games I have downloaded on my iPhone and my MT4G phones. The one game I have been playing incessantly, though is RoboDefense on android. Great game. Other apps I find take too much
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by phlux 16y ago
and they just lost ~1 trillion ++ worth of infrastructure... I believe they have a 10 year rebuild in front of them. This is assuming that we have hit bottom on the catastrophe over there now and that we can contain the Daiichi plant. It wo
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by phlux 16y ago
@dennisgorelik : Yes, I offered them everything I had, asked to refinance - filled out all their forms for refi - got a re-appraisal - sent them new employment info once I got a new job and they refused to work with me. They said, quote: "Y
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by phlux 16y ago
Well, for one - I would have paid until I lost my job and split - and I would likely have had a better "relationship" with the bank as I had never missed a mortgage payment or made it late in the 4 years i had the place. However - I was obv
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by phlux 16y ago
This happened in 2008
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by phlux 16y ago
I did keep the money that I was paying on my mortgage - until I lost my job and was going through a divorce. My circumstances were farked in multiple ways... The amount I was making on my income was less than required for all my bills - as
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by phlux 16y ago
I think this is a great idea. Over the last few weeks, I had been interviewing at Twitter for a position - which I didnt get :( -- and just this last Monday, through the couple of rounds of interviews I went through, I had the opportunity t
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by phlux 16y ago
Something similar happened to me: I had a house that I bought for $490K had put 80K down and had equity of something like 70K. I made all my payments on time - had a credit rating of 750 was never late or missed a payment. One day - I went
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by phlux 16y ago
> ...I'd wager most small businesses have no way of tracking the marketing impact of a Groupon (i.e. how many people come from 2nd visits or word of mouth from Grouponers).... Aren't there ways to solve this; e.g. change the name/sku/p
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by phlux 16y ago
>...so I'd love some great selling points. They built it while riding the bus, what more could one ask for?
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by phlux 16y ago
So in thinking about this more - it seems that using a fiber relay system is less than ideal - and instead what we may want is a series of tubes with mirrors. Tubes and mirrors with joints that allow articulation of the tube system. Further
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by phlux 16y ago
This is not a serious reply. [comment deleted]
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by phlux 16y ago
Sweet, where shall I procure said backpack? I think what we need, is to couple the weight of the accelerator backpack-based laser weapon and a generator to power it with the new exoskeleton suits being built by Lockheed, Boston Robotics and
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by phlux 16y ago
Are you offering?
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by phlux 16y ago
WTF - That article states 6,000,000 SIX MILLION deaths? Can this be accurate? It reiterated what I heard on the news regarding passenger trains missing due to the Tsunami - but 6MM??? EDIT: Looks like wiki-trolling... From CNN: The o
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by phlux 16y ago
How well can laser light pulses travel through fiber optics? (I am talking about intense laser pulses such as this - not regular lasers) Could you have larger version of this in a backpack with the gun portion being the end of a fiber optic
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by phlux 16y ago
So if they lose their lease at their current spot - youd be far less likely to work there?
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by phlux 16y ago
all i see when i look at that domain is this face: O.o
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by phlux 16y ago
This was in 2007, so it was a bit of a different market at that time as well...
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by phlux 16y ago
Cool, submitted one...
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by phlux 16y ago
Yes, I recognize they are differnt -- was posting it as an alternative. BTW- I had a thought today after reading your post; why dont hackerspaces, like NoiseBridge and The Dojo partner with Techshop.ws -- It would be great to see if each me
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by phlux 16y ago
Noisebridge.net is cheaper -- and donation based - you can stop by for free, drop a $20 in the bucket and get right to hanging out and seeing whats going on. The soldering on mondays is really cool.
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by phlux 16y ago
"Let's Use Video To Reinvent Education " That is exactly what I said should happen with Qwiki, in a comment I made on Quora recently - and people thought I was nuts.
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by phlux 16y ago
Regardless of the risks - this is a very very important product sector that is still very new. We should see this boil down into every level of computing in the next 5 years. I expect that FusionIO type SSD HW based caching services become
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by phlux 16y ago
/. And at the time - I was working as the IT manager fora company on the peninsula -- I switched out standard image to make the default homepage for all machines point to google. this was ~1998?
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by phlux 16y ago
haha. I was interviewing for a network project manager position with google some time ago. When I went in on the first day I was very candid with them by saying "I am very qualified for this position, but I don't have a PMP certification so
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by phlux 16y ago
Heh. For fun - we should all apply for these jobs via the fax number they list.

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