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by unalone 17y ago
I think we're officially past the point where we can say the quality of our posts are any more hackery than they are on Reddit, which is where I first saw this three years ago. I'm not completely against that, but if things like this are hi
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by unalone 17y ago
Perhaps life has no explanation. Perhaps the fact that every person who tries to understand life reaches a different "answer" implies that life is life to be life, and that any other meaning is personal in nature. Evolution is describing so
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by unalone 17y ago
Give it another try. Sometimes loading a page doesn't work and refreshing fixes it. Also: With all respect, supporting Konqueror is really stretching support. It's got practically no market share, and isn't even the most popular Linux brows
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by unalone 17y ago
I'm interested in who in this community got access. Perhaps start an invite circle? Or d'you think that's too informal for this community? (My email address is i.am@me.com, if this gets rolling.)
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by unalone 17y ago
In what way is it irrational? The fact that it relies on an absurd belief. Rabbi's are inspired by God, God created us and inspired scripture and knows what is best. Yeah. That's the irrational part. But it is a rational argument, it a
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by unalone 17y ago
There're two kinds of depression, to me. There's the depression that's chemical, and that kind can be predicted and dealt with. Then there's the kind that comes from things not being right in your life, and that's the kind that both fascina
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by unalone 17y ago
This is the tragedy of a lot of science fiction writers, many of whom are incredibly bright and often better with nonfiction than they are with their writing. DA's fiction is good, but not particularly special. His style's a bit amateur. On
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by unalone 17y ago
The reasoning goes wrong when the parades become less about a bunch of sincere people campaigning for their rights, and becomes more a grotesque parody of what that group looks like in the public eye. I go to a school where there are more g
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by unalone 17y ago
Having a test group for new features would be really cool. Or perhaps offering it as a Greasemonkey extension?
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by unalone 17y ago
Seconded. We had this for a day. Keep it up for a week or two, let people adjust. Kneejerk reaction is always against change, even when it's for the better. I remember hating the Reddit redesign for a good month before adjusting and decid
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by unalone 17y ago
I clicked the ad. I didn't buy the shirts, because last year was the year I grew out of buying t-shirts.
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by unalone 17y ago
Working hard is one thing. Everybody's working hard by some metric. When I got curious last year and looked at how much I write on sites like this, the result was staggering. So theoretically I'm a hard worker. I guess it depends what you m
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by unalone 17y ago
But that's a competition with a few hundred thousand judges. It's easy to nab eyeballs when there are so many. As for "top levels", I don't know how to determine that. I hold Vimeo in higher regard than I do Youtube, for instance, even if V
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by unalone 17y ago
I don't think they click ads, I see friends checking out ads all the time. Particularly music ads. I'd imagine that it's not just a small-time thing, considering they're in the green now, but perhaps that money's coming from something e
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by unalone 17y ago
The connotation exists, mind, because most people who are labelled with the term are so labelled because they've lost some touch with reality. Mind you, protesting for basic human rights, that's not extreme. It was seen as extreme at the ti
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by unalone 17y ago
Not a "next Google", but certainly another site that'll be as big as Google. As I've said before, my money is on Facebook. People my age use it like it's the Internet. To them, that's all there is. And they click its ads.
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by unalone 17y ago
The site I launched last February expanded to its first ten thousand users in a month. My friend and I put no work into it after launching it, because we didn't think it was interesting, but I'm able to raise attention to things pretty quic
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by unalone 17y ago
What does that have to do with what I was talking about? If accomplishment matters, I'd say that Caterina's launched one of the twenty largest web sites and, more importantly, made it scalable and beautiful, and that Hunch is one of the mos
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by unalone 17y ago
Then perhaps the moral here is that it's possible to be successful regardless of how hard you work, and that different people have different habits that lead to success. I'm a fundamentally lazy person who does nothing all day and has enoug
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by unalone 17y ago
Wow, I thought wheels was just an active user. Didn't know he was a part of the YC crew.
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by unalone 17y ago
If by "pot, meet kettle", you're mentioning how dcurtis responded to my remark with a personal psychologizing remark, then the expression makes sense; otherwise, I'm confused. I didn't get mad at what dcurtis said, so I don't know who's the
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by unalone 17y ago
PG, 'cos he's PG. tdavis, because he was memorable on IRC. patio11, because Jesus that guy posts like an inferno. jrockway, who I think I've argued with more than anybody save amichail, who I also recognize. edw519, because duh. Probably so
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by unalone 17y ago
Ah, that makes more sense. Thanks for clarifying!
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by unalone 17y ago
It's not a matter of doing it "part-time". The original example given was that if somebody said "this way is better" and they had lots of upvotes, then it would be worth looking into. Thing is, that's a rare case in a conversation. Most tal
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by unalone 17y ago
That's why I try to be careful how I swear. I thought that "fuck that" was casual enough to come across as being neutrally dismissive. Guess not; apologies to all!
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by unalone 17y ago
I officially dislike disagreeing with somebody without explaining why. That's not what upvotes and downvotes were meant for. They're meant to maintain commenting relevancy by downvoting irrelevant comments. It's a brilliant idea dashed by
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by unalone 17y ago
"Look at your comment score, looks like I'm right." is an appeal to the democratic theory of truth. There's no such thing as a democratic theory of truth. The truth isn't something that can be voted on. Does God exist because more people
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by unalone 17y ago
That explains why you have so much time to read all the comments. What, that I'm a student? Reading comments doesn't take that long. As I said above: Fifteen minutes at most? And that's if it's a seriously long thread. Most threads are fi
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by unalone 17y ago
You're awake for sixteen hours a day and you can't spend five minutes looking up what somebody's talking about? Research nowadays doesn't take a long time.
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by unalone 17y ago
I'm an art student who is very rarely angry and doesn't think swearing indicates emotion. I also believe that it's better to have to spend time thinking about what to read, how to spend your time, than it is to be offered an easy way out th

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