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601.
by rms 16y ago
I agree with you, but the courts of the State of Delaware do not.
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The Master of Blue Jeans (thehistoryblog.com)
1 points by rms 16y ago|0 comments
603.
by rms 16y ago
Yup, as article commenters point out, this blog post is wrong for comparing Google VCs to a Facebook angel investor instead of comparing the Google angel investors.
604.
by rms 16y ago
Thiel doesn't need the liquid money and has no reason not to signal that he values the stock extremely highly.
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Interesting engineering problems that AirBnB is currently facing?(quora.com)
2 points by rms 16y ago|0 comments
606.
by rms 16y ago
And Project Orion is old nuclear pulse tech. The current state of the art thought on that kind of thing is slighty less crude than dropping fission bombs behind a big shield. I think that once a habitable planet is 99.9% confirmed instead o
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by rms 16y ago
Reddit also has a non-technical community manager (though I wouldn't be surprised if they got him programming by now). http://www.reddit.com/user/hueypriest Hacker News could actually really benefit from one of those.
608.
by rms 16y ago
Dude totally exists, he sent me a free Xbox. (shocking news alert -- rms is an alias I use on the internet sometimes. Nevertheless, I also exist.)
609.
by rms 16y ago
Simon Malls sells non-refillable American Express cards for $2.99; no monthly fee. There is no billing address associated with the credit card and in person at their malls they don't check ID for orders under a certain dollar amount. http:
610.
by rms 16y ago
/ Facebook is beneath me and I can't stop refreshing.
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by rms 16y ago
Also, the more recent articles on Less Wrong do have a tendency towards the esoteric and insular. The best postings on Less Wrong were done by Eliezer Yudkowsky a while ago, archived at http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Sequences .
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by rms 16y ago
DH4? http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html I am not sure of what the slightly different argument you are arguing against is. Did you think that the article said that meta-contrarians are bad? I'm pretty sure the author, Yvain, thinks me
613.
by rms 16y ago
>Error establishing a database connection Evidence that there is no such thing as DRM done right?
614.
by rms 16y ago
http://lesswrong.com/lw/1w1/effects_of_caffeine/
615.
by rms 16y ago
Capacity for the Dinkelspiel auditorium is about 715, which is much higher than the capacity for the YC/Anybots office. It seems that most people that take the Startup School application seriously get in. Also, I'm pretty sure Hacker News k
616.
by rms 16y ago
Yup, it'll all be live/archived on justin.tv.
617.
by rms 16y ago
I give the CEO of EventBrite enough credit to really try out the products of his portfolio companies before he invests.
618.
by rms 16y ago
There are a number of paid services on the net where you give them an email address and they slurp up all the information out there associated with that person. http://www.spokeo.com is one of many and might be the one used in the article
619.
by rms 16y ago
Cracking encryption is the new overclocking
620.
by rms 16y ago
Reddit isn't what it used to be, but it has stopped getting worse and is actually improving. The admins are doing a great job of community management. Triggering the Colbert/Stewart rally in DC is quite an achievement for reddit.
621.
by rms 16y ago
We exhibit a degree of control over our environment not exhibited by rats, ants, or birds.
622.
by rms 16y ago
Obviously you don't read very much Hacker News.
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Ask HN: What self-hosted shopping cart should I buy to do easy A/B testing?
18 points by rms 16y ago|9 comments
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India Asks, Should Food Be a Right for the Poor?(nytimes.com)
2 points by rms 16y ago|0 comments
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by rms 16y ago
>Unfortunately for both of us, we missed the bottom of the rental price market. They have definitely been trending up over the past few months as the tech scene is starting to get frothy again. I don't think that has to do with the tech
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Inside China’s gated communities for the poor (theglobeandmail.com)
2 points by rms 16y ago|0 comments
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by rms 16y ago
Previous thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1514430
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Pittsburgh Hacker News meetup: Church Brew Works, 8PM, Monday 7/18(yelp.com)
2 points by rms 16y ago|2 comments
629.
by rms 16y ago
I took some generic modafanil and it worked as I thought it would, though the traditional stimulants are clearly more effective. I got my 23andme results back the next month and ran it through SNPedia and saw I was a non-responder to Modafa
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by rms 16y ago
The one in the study was of children with ADHD, not adult ADHD, which are very different... childhood ADHD is often a disorder of not conforming in school; adult ADHD is a disorder of not being focused or productive enough.

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