pierre_M

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by pierre_M 16y ago
It's also boring, ugly, and at a level of sophistication roughly equivalent to a depressed fourteen-year-old kid's poetry Waaah, life sucks And you're going to die Isn't it horrible And meaningless? Portal at least has some craft to it.
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by pierre_M 16y ago
How is it "borderline scam"? How are they hoping to profit at your expense by offering you $40K and then not letting you spend it?
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by pierre_M 16y ago
Isn't the scale of it comparable to YCombinator? YC certainly gets a lot of mentions here (not entirely unrelated to the fact that they run the site, but still...).
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by pierre_M 16y ago
At its peak, the company employed a third of the British workforce and was responsible for a huge tranche of global trade. I knew it was big, but a third of the British workforce? That's insane. Anyway, I welcome the East India Company ba
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by pierre_M 16y ago
"Same position in space" isn't well-defined anyway. There's no fixed set of coordinates permeating the entire universe. But it's clear enough what is meant in this case. I wonder, though, it should be in the same position in the sky, right
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by pierre_M 16y ago
OK, that's part of the answer: now why do some other drinks (beer and wine spring to mind) taste worse through a straw?
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by pierre_M 16y ago
It's not really nitpicking, "easiest" isn't well-defined. Quickest, lowest effort, or highest probability of working? I know a way to make a million dollars in the next 24 hours, but its probability of working is very low. I also know a way
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by pierre_M 16y ago
Trite BS. I don't know what the going conversion rate between pain and dollars is, but I'm sure if you go down to your local homeless shelter you can find someone who has suffered many millions of dollars' worth of pain and doesn't have two
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by pierre_M 16y ago
Why, that's easy. 1. Get a job that pays $50,000 a year. 2. Live off the first $20,000 a year. 3. Put the remaining $30,000 a year into the highest-yielding savings account you can find. 4. After about thirty years, you will have a million