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by pmichaud 16y ago
Thanks a lot, I wouldn't have been able to look at this without your comment.
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by pmichaud 16y ago
The article doesn't seem to indicate that the memory interference is permanent. It just says that it interferes with the receptors, so I'm guess that once it clears from your system, the receptors go back to... receiving. I'm just speculati
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by pmichaud 16y ago
Unfortunately that's how our brain software works! It's not necessarily a conscious thing either--it's just an implicit assumption that we'll eventually base either our excitement or disappointment on. My point is to make your implicit assu
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How I Threw Hope Out The Window and Used Data to Build an Empire(petermichaud.com)
12 points by pmichaud 16y ago|2 comments
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by pmichaud 16y ago
I use Goal Mapping: http://www.petermichaud.com/essays/stop-planning-right-start... http://www.petermichaud.com/software/goal-mapping-alpha/comm...
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by pmichaud 16y ago
MDMA is one of the safest drugs you can take. There are long term effects of taking high dosages regularly (to do with mood regulation), but a person using what they have verified to be actually MDMA in responsible doses faces the grave dan
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by pmichaud 16y ago
I don't have to work anymore, and it wasn't glorious at all. http://www.petermichaud.com/essays/how-i-retired-at-age-25/ http://techzinglive.com/page/187/techzing-38-pete-michaud-re... http://techzinglive.com/page/496/81-tz-panel-pete-
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by pmichaud 16y ago
That doesn't matter. When I hire I don't even look for a degree, I look for code, I look for things you've built, and built well. Then I look for a person who I will like and get along with.
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by pmichaud 16y ago
Sounds like a business opportunity.
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by pmichaud 16y ago
This is a great message for those of you who have middle and high schoolers (or the equivalent thereof). Show this to them, swearing and all.
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by pmichaud 16y ago
The title is a little yucky with the "15", but the extensions mentioned are legitimately useful to web devs.
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by pmichaud 16y ago
No, she's not an evil genius, but let me spin you a yarn. She's a homeless woman, so she was perhaps raised by a demanding and misogynistic father figure, from whom she learned to act helpless. Then she figured out in high school that actin
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by pmichaud 16y ago
I thought this was going to be about social services like welfare and food stamps, and how people don't understand the reality of those services unless they've been in a position to really need them. That could be a great article.
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by pmichaud 16y ago
You saw what she chose to show you.
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by pmichaud 16y ago
I second this recommendation. This is required reading for any fiction writer.
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by pmichaud 16y ago
Jail Time is a nice rallying call, but his real point is that the incentives are perverse for the leaders of corporations. Jail time may or may not realign incentives. I doubt it would --we need much a deeper, systemic overhaul to really re
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by pmichaud 16y ago
Speak for yourself. That generalization fails hard for me.
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by pmichaud 16y ago
My question is, how can an individual figure out whether the mortgage they pay is actually legitimate?
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by pmichaud 16y ago
I run a small publishing company that mostly sells physical books. We're not really consumer facing for the most part so we have no site yet, but we'll shortly open to manuscript submissions from outside authors, so our public site is very
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by pmichaud 16y ago
I think you're deluded about how possible it is. Maybe for a single, young, healthy male with very limited space and nutrition requirements it's possible, but add a couple kids to the mix, especially if you're a single parent, then add a me
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by pmichaud 16y ago
Could you potentially buy him out? Just replace him.
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by pmichaud 16y ago
You'll get fewer downvotes if you respond to the article's specific claims that you have a problem with, using data from studies (and absolutely no anecdotes).
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by pmichaud 16y ago
You know how you tinker with code day after day, and you've been doing it for years? How you're connected with peers and betters who know how to code also, and who can critique your work? You know how you think about code even when you're n
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by pmichaud 16y ago
Yeah, that's sort of what actually does happen.
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by pmichaud 16y ago
The US has a candy called Smarties, but they are different entirely, and made by different companies.
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by pmichaud 16y ago
I think it's fear. It's easier to "be normal" because it doesn't feel as risky. But then, not every employer responds well to that sort of thing either. I've tried this same approach more than once, and it's never worked yet. Not a valid st
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by pmichaud 16y ago
Yeah but you're just imagining ONE part of a really complicated system changing. In fact, when life expectancy goes up and elder quality of life with it, you'll see a shift in society. People will work far longer, they will have multiple ca
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by pmichaud 16y ago
I once wrote a haiku to a particularly nasty bug where the offending line had been. I got a call years later when someone found it, they appreciated the humor.
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by pmichaud 16y ago
This comment is pretty much what I was going to say, but let me drive it home: For someone like you, you will not learn anything in fluffy courses. Your goal in college should be to become "certified impressive" and the way you do that is b
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by pmichaud 16y ago
Yeah, I had the same internal dialog. His point was about the equivalence of the cheap degree to the MIT grad, but he undermines his own point by correctly stating that the MIT grad will far surpass him in the years to come. The reason I ul

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