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by veritas 19y ago
Again you're equating farming with progress. Can you say that if we hadn't adopted farming that wouldn't have made progress?
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by veritas 19y ago
They didn't suddenly become smart and you certainly cannot attribute all the developments to the adoption of agriculture. Progress has been very... erratic (can't find the right word) throughout history. To blindly attribute progress to
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by veritas 19y ago
Not to pick a fight here or anything but in your original message, you implied something completely different. You implied that the hunter/gatherers would have no time to make any discoveries since they'd be off looking for food all the ti
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by veritas 19y ago
>>It turns out that these people have plenty of leisure time, sleep a good deal, and work less hard than their farming neighbors. For instance, the average time devoted each week to obtaining food is only 12 to 19 hours for one grou
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by veritas 19y ago
It looks a damn sight better than TechCrunch. Now to see if the quality is any better.
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by veritas 19y ago
No because you piss off your users.
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by veritas 19y ago
Lol okay. I was wondering if there was a magic trick behind it all. If its just screen scraping/api usage with a plus sign... it doesn't seem all that impressive.
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by veritas 19y ago
So a couple of days ago, TechCrunch profiled VideoCounter: http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/01/videocountercom-count-v... While the company's stats tracking was simplistic (only hits are counted as far as I know), I was curious as to how
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Technical Question...
1 points by veritas 19y ago|3 comments
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by veritas 19y ago
Any reason why? Its set to "Lucida Grande" which I believe is an okay choice. If someone doesn't have that it defaults to Times New Roman which is safe. What font would you suggest?
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by veritas 19y ago
You probably don't need to. I think it was an error on my part in the CSS file. In either case, let me know if it recurs or there's another bug. Thanks for the input :)
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by veritas 19y ago
Thanks for the insight paul. Will take a look.
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by veritas 19y ago
Fair enough Ben. The register to vote is so that people just can't vote up an article (their own) over and over again. The email address isn't checked to be valid. I just ask for one so that if it is ever needed (email lost info, close ac
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by veritas 19y ago
Okay... today's MLS match between KC and Columbus has been added. Feel free to sign up/login and place your wagers :). Edit: Too late lol. The game's started already. Check tomorrow when there's another match.
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by veritas 19y ago
Huh really? I'm logged in from a macbook (13 in) and it fits fine. Its also a fluid layout so it should resize automatically. I'll take a look and see what's causing it. Anyone else having this problem? Edit: alrite... I've deployed a
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by veritas 19y ago
Thanks, and I'm glad to have you on board. If you have any ideas, drop me a line.
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by veritas 19y ago
Ah yea! I'll definitely do that. Thanks.
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by veritas 19y ago
I'll take the karma/points thing into consideration. I actually thought it would be clearer this way since I had only karma at first. The tags do disappear (like Digg I believe), but they are used for the search function. So when you do
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by veritas 19y ago
Yea I know. I'm going to try and slowly ramp up the website. Thanks for your input and participation. Great find on the St. Paul video. Hope you keep coming back.
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by veritas 19y ago
You mean at the very top? Edit: I see. I'll change it so that instead of "Logged In" it displays the username
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by veritas 19y ago
Okay.. I'll fiddle with it :) Thanks
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by veritas 19y ago
Link: http://www.fanstate.com Its a digg like website for football (soccer) news that I launched yesterday. It allows you to gain points (like Digg/Reddit) and then wager those points on matches being played. Built using Ruby on Rails.
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FanState.com Launches: YCNews thoughts?
8 points by veritas 19y ago|28 comments
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The Secret to Memcached(blog.leetsoft.com)
13 points by veritas 19y ago|1 comments
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by veritas 19y ago
Yep... is it just me or does everything on TechCrunch get glowing reviews? Apollo, Yahoo Pipes, Silverlight, and now Popfly... Arrington touts them all as the best thing ever.
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Microsoft Launches Popfly: Mashup App Creator Built On Silverlight(techcrunch.com)
10 points by veritas 19y ago|8 comments
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How I Spent My Billions: A Brief History of Ad Network Acquisitions(mashable.com)
1 points by veritas 19y ago|0 comments
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Seth's Blog: Blow up your home page(sethgodin.typepad.com)
1 points by veritas 19y ago|0 comments
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Google To Launch Cross-Language Search Engine(techcrunch.com)
1 points by veritas 19y ago|0 comments
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by veritas 19y ago
I can't believe you just said "parsed" instead of "read"

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