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Ask YC: I am going to kill my HN account, can I give my karma to someone else?
4 points by starkfist 16y ago|6 comments
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by starkfist 16y ago
The vitamin D in cod liver oil actually comes from the algae the cod eats, so a pill based on that algae is closer to it's original state than the oil.
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by starkfist 16y ago
I wonder why you think I haven't seen that video as it's been posted here multiple times and I've commented on it. I was commenting on why I should care about what Nassim Taleb thinks about carbs. He's not a particularly svelte or athletic
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by starkfist 16y ago
Nassim Taleb had one obvious idea that he milked for two books. I'm not sure why he's qualified to comment about anything outside of derivatives trading. (or derivatives trading, either, since his funds melted down when he was actively invo
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by starkfist 16y ago
Why would you quit eating fruit, or "carbs?"
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by starkfist 16y ago
Do you have any friends? Modern careers leave people estranged from their families and without any real friends. Although programmers like to believe their Asperger's syndrome or Randian individualism means they don't need a social or famil
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by starkfist 16y ago
I lived in Tokyo for a year. However, most of the stuff I remember was outside of Tokyo. Tokyo was like a giant urban blur. The main thing I remember in Tokyo as a tourist destination was the Tokyo Tower. The rest of the time I just randoml
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by starkfist 16y ago
It's well known that Ted Turner has bipolar disorder. From my anecdotal experience, most other entrepreneurs do, too. ;) If you aren't good at programming, you don't necessarily have to start a software company. I know many people who left
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by starkfist 16y ago
But will the radio work? I guess that is what I'm really asking... if the radio in the phone will work with networks in the USA, Japan and Australia. I'm going to add that to my original post.
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by starkfist 16y ago
Is there a list somewhere of the countries in which an unlocked iPhone will work with a prepaid sim? I read on Fred Wilson's blog that it works in the UK (and presumably the rest of Western Europe). I am specifically wondering about Austral
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by starkfist 16y ago
The problem isn't whether or not it should be illegal... It's that it is actually illegal. Not just jaywalking illegal, it's possibly go to jail illegal. Some places don't really care, or it is quasi legal, but some places still care. Whe
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by starkfist 16y ago
I wish this were possible, but the difficulty in doing this is massive. If you are not U.S born, it's QUITE difficult to simply walk in and start a company in the U.S. How do all the Chinese/Korean/Indian people in the US do it? I often r
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by starkfist 16y ago
This is what New York is like in all social aspects, not just tech meetups.
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by starkfist 16y ago
This exact thing started happening to me more and more frequently when I hit age 30. I tried all the standard remedies: psychological tricks, pomodoro techniques, vacations, exercise, reducing stimulants, increasing stimulants, blocking the
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by starkfist 16y ago
It seems like OCaml is mostly dead and Jane Street is the only place it is still used.
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by starkfist 16y ago
I don't know why it's such a bad thing to give welfare assistance to young single mothers. This should be extended to all mothers regardless of marital status or age. Parenting in America has turned into a scary, expensive headache, rather
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by starkfist 16y ago
If you put in 150K annually, paid bi-weekly instead of 12,500 monthly, it comes out closer to $6800. I tried yours and got $7,490. Your Pay Check Results Bi-weekly Gross Pay $5,769.23 Federal Withholding $1,351.36 Social Security $357.69 Me
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by starkfist 16y ago
I don't know how you are getting that. I made $150K in California and my paycheck was about 3400 every 2 weeks, which is what that site says, too.
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by starkfist 16y ago
Only if you live somewhere with no state tax.
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by starkfist 16y ago
If you make $150K, after taxes you have about $6800 per month.
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by starkfist 16y ago
Sure, whatever. I guess it depends on the graduate program. Computer scientist PhDs are generally fat. Kinesiology grad students are usually fit. Everyone else is somewhere in between. I am not providing a link, because I don't care.
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by starkfist 16y ago
63% of all adult Americans are overweight or obese, graduate students included. In poor areas it is hard to swap bad calories for good, because there is no place to get good food cheaply. I don't know about Jersey City, but in Queens there
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Ask HN: where can I make the most money as an iPhone programmer?
2 points by starkfist 16y ago|2 comments
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by starkfist 16y ago
What happened to philg? Is this just what he does now, spends his retirement writing quasi-political rants?
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by starkfist 16y ago
The stakes are already as low as they can get. There is no shortage of postdocs who will work for peanuts. In relation to tenure, what you are proposing is already in place. When a tenured prof dies, they don't replace him, they just hire 2
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by starkfist 16y ago
The sciences, I suppose, are a far different ballgame... if you don't make it to a tenure track position or want to skip the whole postdoc nightmare altogether, you can always get a good job in industry Unless your science PhD is in Biolo
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by starkfist 16y ago
Sort of surprising. Less so for the salaries of the philosophy profs, which were around what I expected. More so for the big salaries of the other profs. Someone who is a B-school prof isn't necessarily going to make $300K in industry. I me
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by starkfist 16y ago
My uncle is a chemist, and he wanted to see what sort of salary he would have made if he was a tenured chemistry professor, instead of staying in industry. It turns out a tenured chemistry professor at the University of Minnesota makes $190
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by starkfist 16y ago
It was important for the EVO engineers to make sure the signal didn't degrade because you've only got about 2 hours to work with when using that device.
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by starkfist 16y ago
ah, yeah well that makes sense. Personally I only watch 2 tv programs and just buy them at iTunes because it's easier than dealing with all the bittorrent crap. I used to do the pirate stuff but then I got old and stopped caring about music

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