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by unabst 11y ago
Excuses are that important to you? A life without excuses is so much better. Best of luck.
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by unabst 11y ago
Here's the thing about excuses. Excuses can be identified as anything said that has no consequence. And to anyone focused on only the consequences, not a single one of those words matter. They could be true, they could be false, it doe
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by unabst 11y ago
Where are the gotchas and purposefully ambiguous terms? And none of those are difficult math problems either. Regarding traffic, a smart human (including students) would just refer to an app on their phone. There is a clear line between pro
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by unabst 11y ago
Their value would be so much more heartfelt if students actually encountered math word problems outside class. But they don't. And part of it is because they don't exist. They are hostile games. By hostile I mean they are designed
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by unabst 11y ago
By "stupid" I mean unintelligent, premature, arbitrary, and weak. Rules such as "don't kill thy neighbor" are pretty obvious and don't need to be law for most people to get it. But being imprisoned for smoking
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by unabst 11y ago
You're both right. I think the study is on what it is because that is the less obvious of the two, and the more academically interesting. Cheaters winning is rather obvious. But it's also a chicken and the egg situation. Which cam
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by unabst 11y ago
Armstrong was a true champion. It's the public that wasn't made aware of what the real game was. All the cyclists knew it as did the organization and everyone professionally close to pro cycling. It was a doping game. And out of a
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by unabst 11y ago
Not all children have YOU as their parent :) Seriously, parents matter. That's why it bugs me when parents are used as an excuse for underperforming students. As difficult as it may be, schools must take full responsibility for their s
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by unabst 11y ago
I loved Dropbox for its simplicity, the fact that it has MIT in its genes, it not being Microsoft or Google, and for Carousel. But my dropbox was super slow in Japan, MS Office products keep spawning conflicting copies, Photoshop randomly p
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by unabst 11y ago
What you're saying is "Money won't make you happy, but a lack of it will" which is a more accurate statement that doesn't necessarily contradict the shorter version. And this is what most talk about when using simil
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by unabst 11y ago
Their method boils down to "think about what you're doing." It sounds simple enough, but it's something that takes practice, and as someone who does practice it, the lack of practice by others does become apparent. We te
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by unabst 11y ago
1) Anything gained? What about the people, the lessons, and the experience? No new insights about yourself and the world? You didn't have any fun doing it? Didn't meet your future spouse? No money no gain, is really a horrible phi
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by unabst 11y ago
It's true that having kids does make everything more complicated, and they provide a reason to stick together. But it isn't stopping parents from divorcing completely, just less than if they didn't have children. And seeing a
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by unabst 11y ago
1) This comparison to me says more about religion than it does about parenting. Unconditional love and devotion to your baby? The feeling is physical, and the baby is real. To be able to invoke the same feelings for a deity appears more mag
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by unabst 11y ago
Author is in a far better position than most projects, since he 1) already has companies using his software and 2) has folks from those companies contacting him directly for help. Corporations are in the business of making money which also
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by unabst 11y ago
If 1) we are part of the universe, and 2) we generate meaning, then 3) we are the meaning generators of the universe. The universe is meaningless only when we look out and ignore life, and ignore ourselves. But the universe has us, and has
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by unabst 11y ago
> Mac fans would be wetting themselves so hard that a lot of people would drown.... Be civil.
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by unabst 11y ago
Any tools you can recommend?
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by unabst 11y ago
I can state for a fact that the statement was not a fact, and that it was biased regardless of anything I could have said.
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by unabst 11y ago
"I like that you" is already references to two identities. You as yourself, and I, who did something you liked. Maybe you don't consider this exchange anonymous, but when we have conversations, we instinctively associate some
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by unabst 11y ago
Who decides identity? The speaker can implicitly mark their words anonymous, but what does that do for the recipient? Slashdot automatically labels anonymous comments as being from "anonymous coward". But they have a point. If som
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by unabst 11y ago
Identity is part of the message, and that is the challenge we all face as we try to communicate and be a part of a community (and in Reddit's case, build such a community). This is why when communication is anonymous, not only does it
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by unabst 11y ago
Please stop putting words in my mouth or those of Mac fans. I stated a simple fact, but got downvoted, so I gave up. Glad you admitted there was a lack of innovation somewhere though. > Mac fans would be wetting themselves so hard that
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by unabst 11y ago
Windows 8 was not stronger. Microsoft Tablet PC was a modest attempt in 2002, but again, not stronger. The issue with the Surface Book is how closely they intentionally align themselves with their biggest competitor. They are begging for a
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by unabst 11y ago
Microsoft has been chasing Apple for a while now, but chasers never win, because they depend on whom they are chasing for instructions. They even hired the Apple store firm to do their stores. Now they are making notebooks at Apple's p
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by unabst 11y ago
Fonts are relatively small compared to media. Full screen top page images are only viewed once and mostly show nearly immediately on any decent connection, and are already several times larger than a web font or two used to style entire web
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by unabst 11y ago
When I post I may be putting it out there, but if anyone replies, I'd like to think we are having a conversation. Or like now, I'd like to think this reply is to you, and not to a million people. More people may be reading, but we
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by unabst 11y ago
The biggest lost opportunity I find here on HN are not with the comments moderated poorly or that were banned, but with the comments never posted and the discussions that never happened because of harsh anonymous downvoting. Donwvotes on HN
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by unabst 11y ago
And before that, they gave up on amending the constitution and settled for reinterpreting it because that would be less work. They basically hacked this into law. Why so desperate? And would the Obama administration really endorse this? Bec
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by unabst 11y ago
Inherently racist in the same vein as the word "tolerance". Not seeing race is the opposite of racism, not tolerance. What is there to "tolerate"? I'd much prefer YC announce their office hours as "everyone wel

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