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by xianshou 15y ago
I wish the authors of adapted metaphors were forced to map their altered versions to the original. Example: The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse are Conquest, War, Famine, and Death. The Four Horsemen of Technology include Apple, Google, Fac
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by xianshou 15y ago
I was prepared to laugh, but that's actually...a little touching. Now who said hackers have no creative spirit!
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One of the main problems about technological visions of utopia is that they so often assume that perfection is the absence of problems. Perhaps, but the more a world approaches that perfection, the more limited it becomes by necessity. Henc
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Anna Karenina would have you believe that there are more ways to fail than to succeed, but I would argue the opposite in most cases involving creative endeavors: Bad programmers are all alike; every good programmer is good in his or her own
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The man is butthurt about trolls trolling trolls trolling a man who's butthurt about bad software. All I have to say: the cycle continues.
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The other wonderful thing about the market is that it doesn't care whether you have favorable odds if you only take one bet. Lucidity in a debate is much more likely to produce upvotes than 55% odds on a single speculation about the market
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by xianshou 15y ago
I appreciate point #2: "The probability that I exist, given that I exist, is 1." However, the question addressed by the OP is not "What is the probability that I would exist in this world?" but "What is the probability, across the space of
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by xianshou 15y ago
Trelolololo, lololo, lololo, lololololooooooo...
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by xianshou 15y ago
Actually, I'm writing an article about it: "Are headlines phrased as questions always best answered 'No'?"
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I like how he doesn't even entertain the notion that his success might come in spite of his "bad negotiation," not aided by it. Though I don't know very much about Altucher's past endeavors, in the absence of other information, the cases he
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TechCrunch has always smelled slightly of yellow journalism, but I would say that, on average, they've given Airbnb fair treatment. Arrington and the TC crew have written very enthusiastically about Airbnb in the past, perhaps excessively s