selmnoo

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by selmnoo 12y ago
"Do governments have persistent identity?" What kind of a thing is that to say? I could have said that in response to me looting a store... I shouldn't be handed punishment, because the rules of the government that were up 2
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by selmnoo 12y ago
Per rayiner's response: Your attempt to create equivalencies between poor blacks and poor whites misses one crucial fact: our government did not systematically oppress and deny opportunity to the ancestors of poor whites. If the govern
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by selmnoo 12y ago
Question for you: who do you think has the luxury to be able to choose who to take money from? In my view, not many people. We're all scrambling to put food on the plates of our children (if not our own). It's extremely difficult
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by selmnoo 12y ago
Here's a video on how to cup up a chicken: http://www.nytimes.com/video/dining/100000002155362/cutting-... The great thing is you can make chicken stock with it. Add the chicken stock to the pilaf rice y
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by selmnoo 12y ago
I'm not sure about the 'best' qualification. That's way too complicated, not many people have the patience to learn and the time to do all of that. Just buy the chicken from the store cut up (and, I don't know about
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by selmnoo 12y ago
This was crazy fast, that you were able to implement this so quickly after getting feedback from HN (and replying to our questions and queries at the same time). Kudos is all I have to say. I wish I had those skills!
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by selmnoo 12y ago
Thanks for answering questions. Please don't mind the 'HN hate', we're a nit-picky bunch. Remember that almost always you can make it better. The current upset seems to be about confusion as to whether shirts will have a
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by selmnoo 12y ago
Cool, thanks for answering. I hope you won't mind if I pick your brain&ways a little more. So, some questions: 1) Are you doing this white-label? 2) Is this a "passive income" side-project, or something you've put a
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by selmnoo 12y ago
The shirt seems to be a color shirt, no? It's pretty impressive to do a single custom shirt for $25 (or maybe it isn't? I don't know about the economics of t-shirt printing). I would love to know more about this, if someone h
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by selmnoo 12y ago
> Well, until you have some actual evidence, I'm just going to operate under the assumption that Bezos likes parties. Oh, absolutely. I'm also entertaining that as a possibility myself. I'm just arguing that news journals
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by selmnoo 12y ago
As I said before, the meeting is happening possibly to curry favor from people who matter: writers and artists. Right now, a lot of writers and artists are siding against Amazon and with publishers (Hachette in this case). Since I've b
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by selmnoo 12y ago
We're talking about a guy who leads the world's biggest commerce site... gathering writers and artists for a big party where he gives them big gifts and even goes so far to provide them transportation on private planes. It's
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by selmnoo 12y ago
I would say it's an extremely important article, and I'm glad the Times is covering it. The meeting feels strangely reminiscent of http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/21/so-a-blogger-walks-into-a-b... (th
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by selmnoo 12y ago
I think the problem is that you're referring back to classical models and frameworks of law and business. The internet has become something too big and too great, it's a weird system in that it is the commons yet parts of it are p
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An Ideal of Service to Our Fellow Man – Albert Einstein (1954)(npr.org)
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by selmnoo 12y ago
This is a fantastic move by the YC folks. Doing the class at Stanford raises their profile in just the right place -- now more of just the right and able individuals will apply to YC (especially because YC basically "teaching" at
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by selmnoo 12y ago
That seems about right to me. Qt is very popular among people making physical products on embedded systems and such. The last 3 places I worked at all used and loved Qt.
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by selmnoo 12y ago
I would not so easily put so much stock or value in the way Steve Jobs did things as a parent or even as a human being. This is the guy who unfortunately refused to pay child support (while being more than able to) as well as refuse to ackn
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by selmnoo 12y ago
> Netflix is particularly unsympathetic in my eyes, because its just a middle man. Almost all the real value (the content, and the wires that deliver the content to consumers) is created by other people. That is a very strange way to loo
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Google Unveils Quantum Computing Research Initiative(businessweek.com)
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by selmnoo 12y ago
A small remark: thank you for not replying to what you deem to be "snark" with just more snark, but rather instead replying with something that can be replied to with a substantive comment rather than a continual exchange of ad ho
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by selmnoo 12y ago
That's a great reading, thanks. On a separate note -- it really, really, really bothers me that DFW made the decision to commit suicide. I mean, it almost compels me to read what you linked in a way that I should not, on the line that
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by selmnoo 12y ago
> My religious beliefs are . . . in flux That's.. interesting, I always thought of you as a stern atheist. May I ask you to elaborate how you came to a different position from your past (presumably) atheistic views?
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by selmnoo 12y ago
Woah, he has a 2 year old? Amazing, that while I was pretty actively following his (and jl's) comments 2 years back, I saw absolutely no mention of a baby (or even so much as a hint of it). I guess he's just crazy good at keep his
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by selmnoo 12y ago
Uber is not a YC company. Though, YC staff (including Sam Altman) do tend to speak highly of it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8100101 . pg also used to effusively praise Uber: "Uber is so obviously a good thing
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by selmnoo 12y ago
Oh jeez, there's no happy way of looking at this is there. Seriously though -- this is extremely depressing to me, it's literally giving me terrors right now. It's reducing all that I love and value to nothingness. How do you
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Dropbox is hostile to privacy, unlike 'zero knowledge' Spideroak(theguardian.com)
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by selmnoo 12y ago
Having tried out SpiderOak, it seems like a fine substitute for Dropbox. Anyway, it's too bad this post is getting censored (a story with less points and yet triple the age of this one was just on the frontpage). Oh well.
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by selmnoo 12y ago
Well, I think everyone kind of breaks down with their "morals" or idealistic visions when presented with the word "billion". E.g. see Occulus Rift founder Palmer Lucey's posts on Reddit from years ago claiming he wi
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by selmnoo 12y ago
> It can't buy you love Not to be a smartass here, but that's probably false. Money buys you social recognition, something that is an important part of your mate valuation. Rich folks will generally have a better time finding &

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