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by quirkot 10y ago
A big part of the value a successful salesperson brings to the table isn't "I can talk well," but being adept at A) determining who is valuable to talk with B) finding out how to speak to them C) in the language they use to m
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I want to print this out. Draw a giant middle finger on it. Then post it on the entry to my cube. So friggin badly. Take that you neatniks.
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"Peer pressure's effects are perhaps more powerful than we thought" only if you've never heard of Stanley Milgram
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To see all of the characters that are on the internet, you will need to download a CD's worth of fonts, 473mb. #MindBlown
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logfromblammo used APSIRIN against INFLUENZA. Attack is successful. INFLUENZA is vanquished. You gained 14 exp.
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DRACO: Drugs Relieving Antigen Class 0
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Hydrogen Man by Leonard Baskin (1954)(rmichelson.com)
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How Universal is the Mind? (2011)(psychsciencenotes.blogspot.com)
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The demarcation problem just became the most important problem in publishing
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It would still be RGB with an extra. Like RGB+X
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Haven't you heard about the dust-up about DRM on tractors? Tech is everywhere, even the unglamorous places
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I agree. Perhaps another way to generalize it is to say: The ability to critique and improve the product of others is only loosely correlated to the ability to produce a high level product yourself. Another place you can see this is in art
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This article seems to legitimize satire by pretending "Its raison d’ȇtre over the long term is to bring about change" Can we just step back and say that funny things are good as an end unto themselves?
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Well, when you put it like that... suddenly it all makes sense :p Seriously though, very neat to see the actual equation used to model the universe.
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i.e., "We've decided it would be easier to make everyone who updates a page on the GOV.UK website change their language than to make everyone that makes screen reading software produce a product that reads screens correctly"
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The tiered share classes is the key here. A cooperative is great and all, but who puts up the money to start it and market it at first? Those people will get paid first
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Chalk another win up to capitalism. high fives all around
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A legislative body is a conflict resolution mechanism, and one that is basically in the business of writing the code of law (literally). For something to be considered a typo, there must be negligible conflict over that interpretation. If n
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by quirkot 10y ago
Just realized someone actually read my comment! Situation was basically a table rendered in prose format. I can’t recall the precise verbiage, but it read something like: In 2015, the requirement shall be 0.05%. In 2016, the requirement sha
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by quirkot 10y ago
I actually found a typo of a 100x magnitude in a Washington, D.C. law about ten years ago. Submitted it, and it was administratively adjusted. No need to even take it back for another vote. I believe is happens with much greater frequency t
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by quirkot 11y ago
"the [...] Basic Income posts that seemingly rocket up the front page a few times a week" Sounds like HN is also one of those powerful political forces
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To put this in context, "Hire the Best" means: adopt an incredibly risk tolerant nature, initiate an incredibly risky business venture, and then tolerate zero risk in your hiring decisions.