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by riffer 17y ago
Yeah, that's pretty much what I was thinking, too. I posted it because it's a very good piece in a genre that is crowded with mediocre essays.
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What Poker Can Teach Us(chronicle.com)
32 points by riffer 17y ago|13 comments
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Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human(telegraph.co.uk)
20 points by riffer 17y ago|5 comments
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The Short Unruly Life of Ramparts Magazine(nytimes.com)
1 points by riffer 17y ago|0 comments
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Hating What You Do(economist.com)
44 points by riffer 17y ago|15 comments
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by riffer 17y ago
That makes sense; put differently it would be roughly karma^2/comments^1 And right now the settings are karma^1/comments^0 To generalize, one way or the other you have karma^x/comments^y which looks strikingly similar to points^x/time^y Why
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by riffer 17y ago
That's fair, but remember that if you scrape HN with a 'sleep 3' your IP gets throttled quickly and then eventually blocked ...
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by riffer 17y ago
Yes, this is horrible, this idea.
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by riffer 17y ago
What was her reaction? (that part doesn't come through on the video at all)
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Yext Scores a $25M Round from IVP(techcrunch.com)
41 points by riffer 17y ago|18 comments
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by riffer 17y ago
When you say "first and only technical employee" ... should I take that to mean that the four founders are non-technical? I assume so, if you'll be the CTO and one of the partners will be the CEO. Based on that assumption, and what you sai
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by riffer 17y ago
In a similar vein, this is a comparison of 8 multi-person SMS services from September 2006: http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/09/27/a-look-at-eight-multi-p...
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Are Oklahoma Students Really This Dumb? Or Is Strategic Vision ...(fivethirtyeight.com)
34 points by riffer 17y ago|13 comments
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Rethinking Addiction(seedmagazine.com)
1 points by riffer 17y ago|0 comments
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Illuminating Dark Economies(seedmagazine.com)
6 points by riffer 17y ago|0 comments
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by riffer 17y ago
This title made me think Nelson Mandela had passed away
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Green Metropolis(features.csmonitor.com)
1 points by riffer 17y ago|0 comments
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Evolution is a Tinkerer(seedmagazine.com)
5 points by riffer 17y ago|0 comments
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by riffer 17y ago
At first I thought the point in the Q&A where the Yext front man said "Yeah, I just told you" to PG reflected poor manners. http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/2163590 - 13:15 Then I went back and I realized that PG was repeatedly probing
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by riffer 17y ago
Yes, there are a lot of people who are ignorant about how good their circumstances are relative to most of the world's people. But how does being judgemental towards the ignorant help the unfortunate?
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by riffer 17y ago
Also, try using "fine" as a way of consenting to something rather than "yes" It conveys the same certainty and closure as "no"
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by riffer 17y ago
If I had to choose between going through life provincial, delusional or cynical, I would definitely choose some blend of delusional and cynical.
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Nouriel Roubini: Don't Believe The Optimists(forbes.com)
14 points by riffer 17y ago|7 comments
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by riffer 17y ago
What would you do more of on the web if it didn't take so long, and wasn't such a hassle? Now make it fast and easy.
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by riffer 17y ago
This is extensible well beyond non-profits. The general form is still rough in my mind but it is something like "avoid situations where accountability and feedback mechanisms are not essential parts of the environment"
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by riffer 17y ago
The insight that readers like knowing that writers have agreed to be constrained is a great one. Witness Twitter.
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The Age of Enhancement(prospectmagazine.co.uk)
5 points by riffer 17y ago|0 comments
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Sticker Shock(economist.com)
3 points by riffer 17y ago|2 comments
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Computing Climate Change(economist.com)
1 points by riffer 17y ago|0 comments
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Keeping Pirates at Bay(economist.com)
11 points by riffer 17y ago|21 comments

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