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by swombat 12y ago
Whilst I agree with the general thesis of the article, this paragraph seemed very distasteful to me: > There is no reason to trust people you will not interact with again in the future. There’s no incentive not to defect. At the end of
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by swombat 12y ago
Read through https://twitter.com/shanley - give it a good hour. You'll come out thinking that you've experienced an alternate dimension, in which all men are evil, all women are victims who need to fight against t
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by swombat 12y ago
This one was even better... really awesome in fact. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nN_jcom8TR4 Edit: This version has a better soundtrack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UH1x5aRtjSQ
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by swombat 12y ago
For the record (Twitter was a poor medium for explaining this) I also have no beef with you - I just unfollowed because practically, seeing Shanley's tweets in my feed just makes my life less good by rubbing in my face that such people
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by swombat 12y ago
I've seen those kinds of more extreme articles (and writers) on modelviewculture before, so I think it's fair to judge a publication by what it publishes. And some of these talking points were adopted by ultra-feminists.
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by swombat 12y ago
I have seen it once, in one of my employees. I fired him. I still don't like the ultra-feminist movement though. Hate doesn't achieve much good.
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by swombat 12y ago
That's pretty awful from the user point of view though. It's bad enough to have to pay - much worse to pay a randomly fluctuating amount and feel like you need to count your pennies every time you add a feed to your reader. Defini
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by swombat 12y ago
I think the page doesn't gain much from the animations, particularly the mouseovers. A lot of my browsing is on my phone or tablet anyway, where those would not work. It makes me think that perhaps the same kind of approach is used in
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by swombat 12y ago
That's not simpler, because the soap will disperse eventually so it would need to be continually replenished. The apparent attraction of this device is you set it up once and it keeps working for years without further maintenance.
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by swombat 12y ago
Peter Thiel's writings are often thought-provoking and insightful. They frequently think several steps deeper than the usual blog posts that we read on the topics... The CS183 notes bear that out. I've pre-ordered the book. Lookin
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by swombat 12y ago
An authentic scientific thriller! Shows the excitement of patient research met with failure after failure and, eventually, a cautious success, followed by learning something important and opening up further avenues of research. Lean entrepr
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by swombat 12y ago
Mailmate has a trial version that works fine for 30 days. I actually did try it, though I ended up going for AirMail instead... and then went back to Mail.app! I don't mind paying $20 or more for a great email client - I mind paying th
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by swombat 12y ago
I've really wanted to like this app, and to try it, but the reviews on the App Store are absolutely appalling - most complaining that the app is effectively useless. This is combined with a very steep purchase price. Add to that the fa
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by swombat 12y ago
I wish those articles referred to this by its proper name: it's not about creating an internet "fast lane", it's about creating "slow lanes" for people not willing to pay extra for the "normal lane".
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by swombat 12y ago
Adding my brick to this pile... I like the new design better too. Especially the search results page. The lower contrast is one of the features I like actually, feels a bit less aggressive, but the font changes and the general decrease in a
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by swombat 12y ago
There are countless books and blog posts written on the topic. The entire "Lean Startup" book by Eric Ries is an answer to your question. Have you read them? If not, go read them. If yes, http://www.catb.org/esr&#x
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"Artificial Leaf" splits water into H2 and O2 easily and cheaply(us.cnn.com)
7 points by swombat 12y ago|1 comments
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by swombat 12y ago
1 Marketing/Community Manager, 2x Client Manager, and 1x Sales
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by swombat 12y ago
Why is this limited to developers? That's fairly silly, imho. I know we have a lot of devs here, but we have a lot of non-devs too, and as an employer, I don't actually want to hire any devs, but I am hiring 4 non-dev roles.
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by swombat 12y ago
GrantTree - London We're hiring for sales, client management (2x), and marketing.
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by swombat 12y ago
> Dukes believes, though he has no evidence, that the bacteria in his gut became drug-resistant because he ate meat from animals raised with routine antibiotic use. That would not be difficult: most meat in the United States is grown th
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by swombat 12y ago
Whilst I totally appreciate the seriousness of this, I still don't get what exactly I can do about this. Most likely, nothing. Therefore, much like the potentially developing WW3 in Ukraine, or Ebola outbreak in Africa, or rape culture
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To the teams currently being rejected by YC(thestartuptoolkit.com)
14 points by swombat 13y ago|0 comments
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by swombat 13y ago
That could be a good solution too.
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by swombat 13y ago
Buro9, did you see dang's explanations on that thread?
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by swombat 13y ago
> That's not only completely false, it's a shameless misrepresentation that eats half the hope out of my soul. Nothing was "silent" [1] and nothing was "removed"—users flagged the posts and I personally rol
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by swombat 13y ago
> She had a good lucking, smart and extremely rich boyfriend but still she decided to deceive and ruin him emotionally by practicing prostitution all this time That's just stupid. Why would anyone "decide to be a prostitute&q
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by swombat 13y ago
I think the assumption is that any guy who uses the "oh btw she's a whore" as an excuse to defend himself against accusations of serious domestic violence is saying far more about his own extremely dubious character than anyt
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by swombat 13y ago
Fair enough. Thank you very, very much for your effort at transparency. The above makes sense.
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by swombat 13y ago
Why? Don't you think having just one story informing people about the resolution of this case is relevant? You know as well as me that flags are seriously overpowered, particularly flags from long-term users like us. I wouldn't di

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