rancur

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by rancur 11y ago
> I'm baffled as to how he received a Nobel prize. His opinion pieces in the NYTimes are TERRIBLE and seem to be written with one goal in mind: start as large of a flame war in the comments section as possible. 100% agree. paul krUG
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by rancur 11y ago
I've been saying google declares victory at 80/20 for years now, and haven't fought with them for about 6 months. I wait until they fix it, or someone writes an Xposed app, or I just don't take the update. I'm still
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by rancur 11y ago
dammit that was depressing!
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by rancur 11y ago
no one ever said there was. There's just a statistically higher likelihood of being privileged if one is white.
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by rancur 11y ago
maybe they were focused on fabbing from germanium ingots? >germanium ingots 100ghz vs ~3ghz limit on silicon (which is the reason why we sometimes use Strained-Silicon-Gemanium
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by rancur 11y ago
how much longer until I get to use it in something on my desktop that runs 3x faster?
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by rancur 11y ago
no...each should be very careful...in my case, I was dead right twice. The third was a wash, and is why I don't bother unless I'm 100% certain (which I wasn't, the third time)
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by rancur 11y ago
>along with my girlfriend's patience for being ignored can you tell us more about that? The passion that drives me is the passion that gets things done. Does she want the paycheck or does she want me? Sometimes I can't give bot
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by rancur 11y ago
> most people really shouldn't be paying attention eh, IDK about that. I was cooping at a company that bottomed to $2.50 ~February 2008. I had been reading everything I could get my hands on regarding the Fed, their history, and gen
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by rancur 11y ago
recipes suck. They have no life in them. They're technology, man using memory in place of spirit to copy, not create. there may come a time when I use recipes, but I prefer building pyramids to buying them.
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by rancur 11y ago
'acting black' yes that would be racist, because that's speaking of the individual. 'privilege' speaks not to one's own decisions, but one's own environment. I'm disappointed. I thought abuse of the t
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by rancur 11y ago
mine doesn't at all. ever. in fact i had some in a bottle behind my monitor for a year and it was fine
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by rancur 11y ago
> drugs might be the only thing to make life seem bearable there's Jesus, but we took him away, too
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by rancur 11y ago
at our current rate of debt growth (obv required by the exponential interest rate function applied to the creation of our debt backed currency), how long can we continue our exponentially-mandated growth? e.g. <6nm lithography is a probl
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by rancur 11y ago
the best thing about non-clickbait articles is I don't need to read further than the title
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by rancur 11y ago
depends, how well are they putting their talents to use? Are they challenging themselves every day? Or do they not have energy to? Or are they lazy and don't give a damn? Regardless, I still seek to show love and smile and courtesy whe
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by rancur 11y ago
I don't see why. There's nothing wrong with being black, unless you're saying there is. Statistically they're a more disadvantaged group because of obvious generational challenges other ethnicities inflicted. Most people
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by rancur 11y ago
I have friends that fuss when I use the term 'white privilege' but what you describe is exactly what I classify as 'privilege'. Buffett calls it the 'ovarian lottery'.
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by rancur 11y ago
sounds a bit like game theory... that is also what I have independently observed, though not phrased as eloquently. . (slightly off topic) I have to say I'm very thankful to have found HN. I grew up in a decent, moderately sized city (
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by rancur 11y ago
try 7 RTM without updates and Opera browser. that was my only config that worked just barely
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by rancur 11y ago
keep telling yourself that. Powerful people take responsibility. Chapter 7.
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by rancur 11y ago
sorry to hear that. both work great for me
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by rancur 11y ago
oh. yes. I don't read articles sorry I just comment. I'm from slashdot
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by rancur 11y ago
you can get the same life out of a Windows machine if you don't install updates and don't install shady executables.
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by rancur 11y ago
>outsourced shame from managers to the employees themselves this is one of the major selling points of management. McD has a policy that the managers have to tell the employees what to do. Store managers don't. Which creates an inev
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by rancur 11y ago
with a username like yours, I would I think you would understand
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by rancur 11y ago
start with what Jesus said. 'Seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.'
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by rancur 11y ago
maintaining a healthy lifestyle isn't a chore, it's a symptom of a driven individual's mastery of all tools available at their disposal (not that you said it was)
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by rancur 11y ago
it's a symptom of a successful life, but having it does not mean one has a successful life > Seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you that's what worked for me.
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by rancur 11y ago
insulin level being low is just another symptom, like thirst, of being out of balance. Once you get the desire under control and your lardass eating the right foods, all that balances out. Research all the diabetics that dropped carbs and w

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