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by sielskr 18y ago
"noprocast" in the settings has been wonderful for me. The only thing I'd change is add -1 karma when you click override How about it, PG? Will you give that "antifeature" a test?
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by sielskr 18y ago
And again, I am not trying to take away your freedom to live that way. My objection was to the statement that 99% of entrepreneurs have to fail so that the success of the 1% who succeed is sweeter.
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by sielskr 18y ago
At the time of my comment, my comment's parent has 4 points, so it is not only the author of the parent that I am responding to, but also those who upvoted the parent and those who have expressed similar sentiments here in the past. First,
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by sielskr 18y ago
It's true Doctorow is accomplished, but it is also true that most accomplished people cannot be objective about the factors behind their success. It is one thing to have all the skills and motivations to succeed; another to be able to repo
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by sielskr 18y ago
We are getting off the interesting point, namely, that people do better on certain tests of concentration after spending time with green tree mold, pine trees, etc, than they do after spending time with concrete, cars, etc.
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by sielskr 18y ago
I'm a tech guy, and I think the site could use more guys like you.
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by sielskr 18y ago
You can buy laptops with digitizer screens now, but the software to take advantage of the digitizer is not as usable as the software that currently runs on the iPhone and the iPod touch.
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by sielskr 18y ago
If someone can tell me how to disable autoplay of video in Firefox, I would be grateful.
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by sielskr 18y ago
the author of this comment and book recommendation is an accomplished professional physicist of no little reputation. Apparently he does not want to toot his own horn here on this site, so I'll do it for him.
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by sielskr 18y ago
--for some sense of the word "available"
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by sielskr 18y ago
In the U.S., Charles Murray has been advocating a similar policy. He wrote a book called In Our Hands on it.
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by sielskr 18y ago
I hate pieces like this. You have some reporter or blogger trying to make himself look important by repeating some lurid scenarios told by some Obama appointees also trying to make themselves look important or prescient or serious and resp
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by sielskr 18y ago
On a related point, I'd like some warning that the linked page relies on Flash. Relying on Flash is a very good predictor that the page is not worth dealing with.
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by sielskr 18y ago
Sarbanes-Oxley is probably not going to be repealed or significantly reformed, so was the point purely theoretical?
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by sielskr 18y ago
Is it not the case that like a VC, a seed-stage investor maximizes his income when the startup he funds tries to hit a home-run? And are not home-runs much more likely if a VC invests in the startup?
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by sielskr 18y ago
There could be 100 times as many U.S. public companies while Sarbanes-Oxley remains in effect?
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by sielskr 18y ago
At what price though? The cheapest plan authorized by Apple that works with an iPhone in the U.S. costs $70 a month.