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811.
by seiji 13y ago
That's what a facebook like is, isn't it? A way to get the user to indirectly opt in to future marketing materials. When it started, nobody realized that's what would happen.
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by seiji 13y ago
There are a lot of before/after studies of meditation. This book covers a lot of them from a pro-meditation point of view and includes brain scans comparing monks to people beginning meditation to people who have practiced meditation
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by seiji 13y ago
It's largely a UK/US-ism I think. It's inappropriate in not-America to say you're male. "Male" just means you're an animal with dangly bits. US doctor: "A 24 year old male presents with..." UK
814.
by seiji 13y ago
Oh, you're right. For some reason I thought everybody had the 'saved stories' link public on their profile page. Did it used to be there and got taken away?
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by seiji 13y ago
Two things work: • run your wrist under warm/hot water. That'll help for about five minutes. Not vey long, but it does help. • sleep with these on (one for each hand, obviously): http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00
816.
by seiji 13y ago
I am a 24 year old male. But, are you a 24 year old human male? You are well-read, but are you well-red? You don't need to be told to do things, but can you be told to do things, or are you too prideful to take direction? Sadly, the
817.
by seiji 13y ago
On this site, you can see every story somebody has submitted or upvoted by going to their profile. The comments someone up/downvotes isn't available publicly, but I assume it's kept on the backend. I think the noise in a sim
818.
by seiji 13y ago
Imagine if Microsoft did install a crazy smart creative person to lead them. They can always keep business school twerps to do silly things like manage their existing lines of business. The CEO doesn't have to be a chair lunatic. Th
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by seiji 13y ago
He's already the Galactic Viceroy of Research Magnificence. Is CEO a step up or down?
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by seiji 13y ago
You must read his The Slow Winter: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/mickens/theslowwi... — It deserves to be made into a movie.
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by seiji 13y ago
Develop a hater radar and keep your grind in the dark.
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by seiji 13y ago
It's meant to be an inside joke with their reddit/4chan brethren. Viewed from outside their tribe, it does come across as condescending, but that isn't the intention (the intention is just to get more social props from givin
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by seiji 13y ago
I bought three small ones from http://www.helipal.com recently. They come pre-tested so when you crash them, you know you're the one who threw them all out of alignment. A proper quadcopter is different than those styrofoa
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by seiji 13y ago
All publicity is not good publicity. Nope. Companies being in the news at all for any non-person-harming event is good. It's like display advertising to reinforce name recognition. The name of the company is "rapgenius."
825.
by seiji 13y ago
Does anybody else see the folly in letting a corporation with their own agenda run a real time news site?
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by seiji 13y ago
Revisit the Blub Paradox: http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html In short: Languages less powerful than Blub are obviously less powerful, because they're missing some feature he's used to. But when our hypothetical B
827.
by seiji 13y ago
This site should be penalized up the wazoo. Can we get them banned on HN? NSA-level penalized? Insta-dead?
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by seiji 13y ago
Growth at all costs. Concepts of "right" or "moral" don't exist. Only money exists. They're above the rules. They have insider connections. Untouchable, yo.
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by seiji 13y ago
the least spammy lyrics site on the internet Is songmeanings spammy at all? They didn't even have ads for the longest time, and they don't do crappy a-dozen-pop-unders like other sites these days.
830.
by seiji 13y ago
Perl has the most libraries and most active extension system of any programming language available. It runs the entire Internet.
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by seiji 13y ago
When I was in Ireland last year, many torrent sites were blocked at the ISP level (with big scary "you are doing something illegal" pages in their place). I found it kinda amazing they were so blatant in their censorship. (Only
832.
by seiji 13y ago
Fun fact: the word "that" is an expletive and doesn't convey any information.
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by seiji 13y ago
Well, if 90% of your population is high and unproductive, that makes you ripe for invasion. There's a difference between fixing a problem collapsing society and targeting groups to punish them for your own gain. More at http:/&#
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by seiji 13y ago
Well, all the drug laws started in the early 1900s and their rationale is forgotten unless you find a documentary or do research somewhere. For example, the reason opium dens were outlawed in San Francisco is because they got very popular w
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by seiji 13y ago
US drug laws are actually just about keeping people who may vote for democrats out of the voting pool wrapped around a layer of public health stigma and "scary minorities terrorizing white people" images.
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by seiji 13y ago
In what world is it "fair" for you to alter the behavior of what I expect to happen just because some people find it "easy" to fix the way you broke it?
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by seiji 13y ago
It's fitting that cryptocurrencies become a giant CCG.
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by seiji 13y ago
I was in the early days of Dogecoin It launched two weeks ago.
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by seiji 13y ago
A tracker for the current top 59 cryptocurrencies: http://coinmarketcap.com
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by seiji 13y ago
Here you go: http://newyork.craigslist.org/search/sof?catAbb=sof&query=py... Craigslist is a horrible place for everything. The only way to deal is with carefully selected minus operators.

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