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by xiaoma 10y ago
Wow... and I thought cereal was the lazy option.
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by xiaoma 10y ago
Previously submitted here (over the past four days): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11957926 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11957544
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by xiaoma 10y ago
>"I had a lot of respect for Draper but this is so disappointing." Didn't you ever read Founders at Work and what DFJ did to the Hotmail guys?
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by xiaoma 10y ago
If by "developed", the implication is "done making technological progress" then yes, economic progress will be very slow.
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by xiaoma 10y ago
Only in the same vein as the more extreme example of avoiding flight itineraries with a layover in North Korea is. There are two sides to any story and countries have different versions of reality that they believe in and promote. Nonethele
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by xiaoma 10y ago
No. I merely meant to make the more general point that death tolls often don't provoke much of a policy response.
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by xiaoma 10y ago
It's sometimes surprising how difficult it is for a death toll to force political action a sizable minority of the population strongly opposes. How many people had to die from tobacco before even our currently very modest restrictions
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by xiaoma 10y ago
60M is possibly double the population there ever was, and that was a time when far, far more land was devoted to them. The only way to have that many now would be an extremely concentrated population (with its methane output) plus all the o
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by xiaoma 10y ago
From an ecological perspective, replacing cattle with buffalo wouldn't be much of a win. There are too many meat-eating people on the planet to make either animal the primary source.
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by xiaoma 10y ago
Zuckerberg voted to keep others on the board, too. It's routine. This isn't news. It's a swipe.
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by xiaoma 10y ago
Gawker owns Gizmodo and has a vested interest in painting Peter Thiel in a bad light since he has contributed to the legal expenses of their victims, so I'm unconvinced of the newsworthiness of this piece.
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by xiaoma 10y ago
Ah... sadly it's only for immigration to the US.
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by xiaoma 10y ago
How would most Norwegians look upon an American trying to learn their language and assimilate (at least on a professional and social level)?
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by xiaoma 10y ago
Import Icelanders?
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Earth to Palo Alto (2001)(therecorder.com)
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by xiaoma 10y ago
I dunno. I read an awful lot of articles in 2011 saying that SF was the next startup scene and that soon it wouldn't be about the valley anymore. Those articles were all right.
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by xiaoma 10y ago
This looks kind of interesting. The basic modules are a smaller version what you'd expect to get from a major publisher's "Programming ________" book, but the apps in the upcoming section look like a unique value. Anyone
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by xiaoma 10y ago
Check out No Man's Sky : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-uMFHoF8VA&feature=youtu.be... An entire galaxy of planets, fauna and creatures (including shape, coloring and even voices) is procedurally generated!
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by xiaoma 10y ago
Realm of Racket is a fun and engaging book. It will guide you through making successively more complex and interesting games using a Racket, which is modern and fairly widely used type of Scheme.
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by xiaoma 10y ago
A good marketer puts the message where those who it can benefit will find it.
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by xiaoma 10y ago
> Cutting trade with China would take a decade or more if it can be done at all at this stage. This belief is clearly a failure of imagination.
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by xiaoma 10y ago
I'm not sure I follow your reasoning... are you implying that trade with China is more important for the entire western world than international trade with the all the west is to China? I could certainly see leaders in certain countrie
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by xiaoma 10y ago
The UN is useless anytime the interests of the US, China, Russia or other veto wielding countries are involved.
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by xiaoma 10y ago
It also depends on the judiciary.
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by xiaoma 10y ago
By this logic Apple should have fired Steve Jobs right after his return when he started negotiating with Microsoft for the investment that would save the company from going bankrupt in weeks. Only he was in a position to do that negotiation
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by xiaoma 10y ago
Is that how it works in Romania?
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by xiaoma 10y ago
Why? Why would one use Elixir for OpenGL?
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by xiaoma 10y ago
> If foreign talent = domestic talent and foreign wage = domestic wage; is there a compelling reason to hire foreign? Yes, it's diversity. Having people with a variety of cultural backgrounds on the same team will sometimes lead to
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by xiaoma 10y ago
The Japanese are healthier than anyone else on the planet.
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by xiaoma 10y ago
I used to set my alarm on the Caltrain and sleep during my commute to the south bay every day. If someone like you had ever woken me up, I'd have been pissed. In months of commuting before I moved down to Mountain View, nobody ever did

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