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by rubashov 16y ago
> Gliese 581g, has a mass three to four times that of Earth > The surface gravity would be about the same or slightly higher than Earth's I'm confused. Maybe it's way less dense than earth, so on the surface you're far from the cen
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by rubashov 16y ago
Something "remotely like YC" no, but there is plenty of industry specific angel and venture activity all over the country. DC/Baltimore is mostly gov/DoD/intel. Philadelphia (whole delaware valley, really) is heavily pharmaceutical indust
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by rubashov 16y ago
The presumption that people need to eat a lot of vegetables is perhaps flawed: http://www.second-opinions.co.uk/why-eat-5-portions-1.html Population studies haven't really shown a clear benefit from eating a lot of vegetables.
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by rubashov 16y ago
A bet on Canada is a bet on the commodities markets, plain and simple. Canada is fucked if Bob Prechter is right. Canada does great if Jim Rogers is right.
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by rubashov 16y ago
> Canada has the lowest ratio of net debt to gross domestic product among the Group of Seven industrialized countries If we're including household debt this does not square with what I've read elsewhere. p.s. I've immensely enjoyed vari
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by rubashov 16y ago
Anybody else remember the late 90s when people would send wide distribution emails about their trips and parties and such? I don't really feel facebook improved that system so much.
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by rubashov 16y ago
There's almost no such thing as Japanese text that isn't confusing. It is a rather imprecise language. I'm not sure machine translation will ever work well.
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by rubashov 16y ago
> the main effect will be that the Japanese people will be a lot poorer I'd say the main effect will be a global financial meltdown to end all meltdowns.
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by rubashov 16y ago
> a chance for you (the managed) to express yourself As it is I'll walk into my manager's office whenever I feel like it and literally tell him he's "being a shithead" about something. Don't see the point of him wasting a half hour of
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by rubashov 16y ago
If we're not boozing and cracking jokes it's a "meeting", and I've got better things to do. > where you get a pulse of each other ... find out whether your report is happy Mature adults want a business relationship at work, not a psycho
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by rubashov 16y ago
Ugh. A thirty minute status meeting every week? I'd be updating my resume.
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by rubashov 16y ago
I'm sure it's true that Bezos at 80 wouldn't end up looking back and cursing himself for failure at starting a company. But it's a little naive to overlook that a lot of people would. Decent careers aren't exactly growing on trees.
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by rubashov 16y ago
> You're going to be trusting the government either way With money not in a 401k or IRA, one can: keep gold bars in a vault overseas (I do); bury cash or gold in the yard; buy woodland or farmland and trust that local property rights
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by rubashov 16y ago
I have a tough time trusting the 401k and Roth concept. It's kind of your money, but it's also under the control of the government. You just have to trust them. If you're in your 20s, trusting 401ks/IRAs means having faith there won't b
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by rubashov 16y ago
You are all bonds and equities. This is betting on the previous 30 years of financial history going forward. You will be wiped out in a deflationary environment or in a very high commodities inflationary environment. Harry Browne's "Perma
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by rubashov 16y ago
I've found electric to be the only way to comfortably shave daily. Wet is a little closer, but doing it daily just tears up the skin too much.
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by rubashov 16y ago
The blades degrade simply by being worn down. The cutting edge is a few molecules of soft steel. I really don't think corrosion is an issue.
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by rubashov 16y ago
tako is japanese for octopus...
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by rubashov 16y ago
It's a huge issue that the vast majority of people remain delusional about. It bears repeating. Did you complain about prescient analyses of the housing bubble, too? "Bubble" might not be a good choice of term for this case because bubble
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by rubashov 16y ago
I dare say a handful of physicists and chemists did not have major bearing on the US economy, after their accomplishment of needlessly incinerating a bunch of japanese.
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by rubashov 16y ago
> Americans dont take tough courses in college - ie science/technology courses ... because an army of H1Bs and green cards have driven down wages and thus the incentive to pursue science & tech careers? Seems at least plausible.
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by rubashov 16y ago
> Not especially surprising, nor damning of american-borns I disagree. I wouldn't be sanguine about it. Previous major waves of technical innovation were lead by well established Americans. Something has changed. A plausible hypothes
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by rubashov 16y ago
> For a lot of people For New York Jews? You say it to me I think potato famines. It's a fine, catchy name with some bite. Hopefully they don't trade it in for something dumb like folksr.
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by rubashov 16y ago
What's even more interesting is that zero calorie sweeteners are just as bad, stevia or other-such. They still produce weight gain. Simply tasting sweet produces insulin spikes.
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by rubashov 16y ago
Lighter skin is universally more feminine. In any ethnicity the women are lighter skinned and usually have lighter hair. Observing women using skin whitening products and dying their hair does not necessarily lead to some class/race socia
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by rubashov 16y ago
I find it more interesting that the female models you see on billboards and such in Japan are distinctly more caucasian looking than the population: rounder eyes, narrower face. The popularity of actual caucasian models in advertisements is
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by rubashov 16y ago
It's par for the course in most of the world that an alien loudly mouthing off about politics will be run out of town. There are probably less than ten countries where that's not the case. The War Nerd is hit and miss. The article on carr
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by rubashov 16y ago
So I'm going through my bloglines feeds and re-entering them into feedingo.com. Apparently bloglines has been ignoring updates to over half my feeds for many months. The other reader finds very recent updates just fine. I had just assume
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by rubashov 16y ago
They are high time preference and relatively high IQ. These are the features that distinguish the various ethnicities that build pleasant societies.
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by rubashov 16y ago
As a result of their tax rate and size of government? That's ridiculous. Denmark is wealthy and comfortable because it's full of Danes. I bet you Danes in the US are even wealthier and more comfortable than Danes in Denmark.

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