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by xiaoma 9y ago
IMO it takes greater mental gymnastics to justify the current copyright laws which extend far past the life of the author than it does to justify a lyrics site. The current law is almost exactly what Jefferson was worried about when writing
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by xiaoma 9y ago
This is great to see! After 80 years a key piece of shared culture is finally free. I hadn't realized this news. It is kinda insane that it took until 2015, though. I still somehow doubt that people who get on a high horse about lyrics
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by xiaoma 9y ago
So it goes without saying that you're not one of those people who has committed the monstrous act of singing Happy Birthday without paying to license the performance rights? Or have you perhaps also lead a less than pure life (as viewe
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by xiaoma 9y ago
> "first, I can't use %w! to define an array, and secondly You can't call things like that." The second part is a pretty fundamental language difference but you can use sigils to handle the first part. E.g., to gene
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by xiaoma 9y ago
It looks like you may have mistakenly replied to the wrong comment I didn't say anything about my wishes. I just welcomed a new(ish) user.
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by xiaoma 9y ago
That solution doesn't scale to all HN users and all sites. If there's no way to access an article without paying, it's a pretty poor choice to share it here.
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by xiaoma 9y ago
Welcome to HN. As someone who's been here for over a decade (and had this account nearly that long), I can assure you this is normal behavior for the forum.
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by xiaoma 9y ago
This has its roots in our evolutionary history. Missing something positive might have meant missing dinner. Missing something negative might have meant being dinner.
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by xiaoma 9y ago
That guess is not just wrong but somewhat startling. Why would everyone living in what is now China have spoken the same language 2000 years ago? The people living in what is now the US didn't. Neither did the people living in what&#x2
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by xiaoma 9y ago
I would have just updated my review with the relevant info that they gave you a free replacement and then followed up by asking you to remove your review.
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by xiaoma 9y ago
If by "Chinese" you mean all of the languages in China today, such as Cantonese, Amoy, Hakkanese, etc... then you're talking about separate languages more distinct than modern French and Italian are from each other.
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by xiaoma 9y ago
On data point to help pull apart the nature vs nurture question is that very similar trends with respect to risk-taking behaviors occur in wild chimpanzees (who share nearly all our genes but not our cultural influences): http://
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by xiaoma 9y ago
This is amazing for small advertisers. Anyone's salary can be found online, for free, and it's easy to target high earners with ads or even direct sales teams. It's not so great for the high earners, though...
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by xiaoma 9y ago
This comes on the heels of banning beards: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-39460538 and banning "extreme" Muslim names: https://www.hongkongfp.com/2017/04/25/china-bans
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by xiaoma 9y ago
It is a sure-fire way to get into keto if that's your goal. Also there are some significant advantages to intermittent fasting vs continuous calorie restriction: https://www.dietdoctor.com/intermittent-fasting-vs-calori
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by xiaoma 9y ago
Every time I go to Okinawa, like anywhere in Japan, I see people eating either noodles or white rice with nearly every single meal. People often even have rice (and an egg) for breakfast.
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by xiaoma 9y ago
It's not really. Most traditional religions have fasting practices and pretty much all our ancestors did it from time to time. A 7 day fast here and there is completely natural and not that hard after the first 30-50 hours.
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by xiaoma 9y ago
> "A 12 ounce can of coke has 39 grams of sugar, or 7-10 times what the human body considers normal. It's a tremendous shock to the system" Is it still a "tremendous shock" for someone in their 80's who&#x2
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by xiaoma 9y ago
I'd get a job and go the more conservative "sidehustle" bootstrapping route of making a site or YouTube channel and then selling something for money. Stay focused on your job and don't quit until a sidehustle has momentu
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by xiaoma 9y ago
If you're MS, there are no ramifications.
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by xiaoma 9y ago
That's an extremely pedantic argument. This isn't a sports medicine journal and you can google to find many other sites focused on health and wellness that go with a more mainstream usage. This even includes the NIH for what it&#
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by xiaoma 9y ago
I think it really started when Google made its ill-spirited push to make everyone use Plus[1]. Before that point, Google was mostly beloved and most users were truly grateful for Google's free products. After that push, many lost YouTu
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by xiaoma 9y ago
Running is generally considered a high intensity activity, but of course there are different degrees. > "The definition of high intensity training is literally anything above that (lactate) threshold." That's far from a u
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by xiaoma 9y ago
> "Marathons aren't high intensity workouts." It sounds like you've never run one. World class athletes can run an entire marathon at a sub 5m mile pace. While they could run a single mile race in 4:05 or so, it&#x27
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by xiaoma 9y ago
I know he works for a16z. They will ultimately be subject to judgement based on their investments, though the time horizon is long. And yes, it's clear that this is content marketing. > "it is amazingly hard work to churn out q
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by xiaoma 9y ago
This piece has a lot of assertions and predictions but nothing clearly quantified or falsifiable. Somehow, I doubt he's shorting Disney or any other major content company but if he were (even in a fake money portfolio) it would make fo
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by xiaoma 9y ago
Standard. This is what bitcoin leaders do.
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by xiaoma 9y ago
I'm skeptical of that interpretation given how Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore score near the top. All three are very hot and humid places.
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by xiaoma 9y ago
> " I don't know anyone who went to an elite university without significant baseline intelligence" Oh, I sure do. The strongest positive correlations I've noticed with elite schooling are conscientiousness, acquiesce
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by xiaoma 9y ago
Relevant thread with comments from competitors and people who were there at the beginning: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14758364

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