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by ryanklee 11y ago
> You should need to know the meaning of the word to play it How would you go about determining in a regulated fashion whether someone knows the meaning of a word? Would you have them offer a definition to be checked against an official
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by ryanklee 11y ago
> You should need to know the meaning of the word to play it How would you go about determining in a regulated fashion whether someone knows the meaning of a word? Would you have them offer a definition to be checked against an official
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by ryanklee 12y ago
> if it keeps increasing that fast Any reason you can give that it would?
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by ryanklee 12y ago
> At this rate Be wary of any trend extrapolation. Better to figure out the dynamics underlying changes. In this case, the rate will change way before rents have the chance to double. Rental markets are cyclical. In simple terms: They go
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by ryanklee 12y ago
Putting aside the anecdotal nature of your comment, it raises the question of whether, because McKenna was "worried" about a causal relation between his brain cancer and prior cannabis use, he ceased smoking post-diagnosis. If so,
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16 points by ryanklee 12y ago|9 comments
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by ryanklee 12y ago
It wasn't me, but you posed an non-intuitive distinction without explaining it, which makes it difficult to discern what you're trying to claim.
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by ryanklee 12y ago
>you can't get focus to deal with it... working out a series of things to do to contain the task... brainstorm simple things I could do around my outcome... writing a paragraph about why it feels hard... string together four or five
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Ink Molecules(what-if.xkcd.com)
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by ryanklee 12y ago
In Chicago, and cities of that size, this makes a lot of sense. It's a huge city. You can live there for decades and still not have a handle on everything. There's too much for word of mouth to render Yelp unnecessary. I'd us
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by ryanklee 12y ago
Yes, and if you live (actively) in any mid-tier city for any appreciable amount time, recommendations become superfluous, because you basically know every establishment in the city, what's trending, what's not, and where to go (an
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by ryanklee 12y ago
I'm sorry that I don't have the required knowledge to add to what you've said here, but I have a digressive question: what fields have you worked in and what is your current occupation? I ask because the topical breadth of yo
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by ryanklee 12y ago
> anecdotally Yeah, I'd say. Sometimes anecdotes are useful, revealing something interesting about a person's experience in the world. Here, you've done something very unfair: extrapolate from very a very small perspective
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by ryanklee 12y ago
Yup, I know. But out of the hundreds of books I've purchased through Amazon, only a small handful offer free Kindle versions. The complications between Amazon and publishers are deep and messy and I surely won't get what I want as
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by ryanklee 12y ago
If I have a digital copy, it's important for me to have a physical copy, as well. At different times, I prefer different media. Until I can buy a book and get a digital version for either free or for a (very) small added fee, I'm
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by ryanklee 12y ago
Yes, but only to the extent that they themselves aren't willingly paying for the convenience of having somebody else do something for them. When they are , well, that's just common sense. When they aren't , well, those wh
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by ryanklee 12y ago
I'm interested to hear from those who voted this comment down: Why? The parent's comment, even if disagreeable in some regards, is substantial and the discussion is better for it having been made.
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by ryanklee 12y ago
>the updates have been infrequent as of late. If you're referring to updates on the state of development, this is resoundingly untrue. Toady makes multiple entries every week, commenting on things happening, bugs found, and havoc di
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by ryanklee 12y ago
"No matter Who is talking" =/= "no matter what is said"
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The One-second War (What Time Will You Die?)(queue.acm.org)
1 points by ryanklee 12y ago|0 comments
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by ryanklee 12y ago
> Music, because of the visceral reactions it elicits, tends to be best experienced in a live setting. The animation and general atmosphere of the crowd brings a lot to the emotional table that is lost elsewhere, including home listening
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by ryanklee 12y ago
To clarify, I meant this as a matter of ubiquity... There are options for this functionality out there, of course, but they've not been adopted much by users.
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by ryanklee 12y ago
The time has come for phones to start recognizing the presence or non-presence of trusted individuals, granting various permissions. I'd carry a tiny wearable for this.
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He only needed the answer once -- so a pretty smart move :)
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by ryanklee 12y ago
I'm a writer and I think "like that". I know many other writers that do, as well. And it's not surprising, because writing itself is a technology in a traditional sense. Further, it's more "tech" oriented
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Ask HN: Why doesn't ESPN ditch cable?
2 points by ryanklee 12y ago|1 comments
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by ryanklee 12y ago
Easy exception: I need a word that pretty much carries definition-X of word-Y, but cannot be word-Y, because I just used word-Y in the last sentence. As a writer and editor, I come across this exception a dozen times a day. You aren't
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by ryanklee 12y ago
The webcomic opens giving an option of three different navigation options -- left/right arrows, mouse, and touch. With the exception of touch, which I don't have, these were all borked for me. The scroll over-scrolled, and the arr
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by ryanklee 12y ago
> I don't find this cartoon particularly innovative or interesting, and to me (someone uninitiated) Just to be clear: You've never watched it, yet somehow manage to judge it as unoriginal and uninteresting?
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by ryanklee 13y ago
Yeah, and/or people are totally fucked on average when it comes to sustaining deep, long-lasting relationships. Go figure. That shit is hard. Hard . Like: fulfillment, actualization, self-discipline, happiness, etc., etc. Do men suck

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