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by zasz 18y ago
I do know. The mushrooms on my pizza, however, weren't grown by planting spores in a poor animal's head and growing and growing until its exoskeleton cracked.
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by zasz 18y ago
It's what's interesting, not what's new.
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Ask YC: Need a bit of advice, fellow student is screwing me over on this website.
5 points by zasz 18y ago|26 comments
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by zasz 18y ago
Gross. This stuff's used in Chinese medicine. My parents have a friend who drinks a tea made from this fungus.
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by zasz 18y ago
Thanks for the link. Reading it, I couldn't believe that I and the others commenting here swallowed this book's thesis so easily and uncritically.
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by zasz 18y ago
It does "home" all right, but not "garden." I typed in some searches for flowers and just got home accessories.
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by zasz 18y ago
I wish I could downmod for the overly sensational title. So Google's doing something that a lot of other big tech companies do, so what? If the article had said Google was starting a YC-clone, that would've been something.
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by zasz 18y ago
The value proposition and purpose are clear, but I'm not sure why you're focusing on students. It seems like it shouldn't be too bad to make it more generic and show good rentals within a decent radius of some user-supplied location. Also,
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by zasz 18y ago
I can't imagine this process working for a book where there's a lot of intertwining between the later and earlier parts of the book. You just don't know what's going to happen until you write it with Stephenson's method. Compare _Snow Crash
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by zasz 18y ago
I had a very smart, very nerdy friend in high school who wasn't cool. Whenever the French teacher handed out an assignment he thought was stupid, he simply refused to do it. No popular kid would have ever done that.
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by zasz 18y ago
Yes, class of 2005. Most people in Palo Alto are pretty gung-ho about sending their babies off to a Top 20 college, so being smart got you respect. The only people I could think of who I would consider ostracized in school were those who we
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by zasz 18y ago
Yes, but the only refutation I think he has is this little footnote saying that underneath the layer of paint is a super-precise line drawing. I would be incredulous to hear that super-precise line drawing was not a refinement of a blurrier
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by zasz 18y ago
I draw a little bit, and I couldn't see anything wrong with pg stating the following: "Most painters start with a blurry sketch and gradually refine it." Unless the author or some other great painter manages to get it perfectly right from t
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by zasz 18y ago
I went to a fairly atypical school district in Silicon Valley where you didn't have bullies beating kids up, so I probably can't understand what everyone else is talking about. In my experience, however, you only got shunned and had severe
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by zasz 18y ago
"I visited Stanford for a few hours while travelling through California and even the bookshop clerk pretended I was some sort of king. Maybe she took acting classes, or denies the fact were she not employed by Stanford, many of the students
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by zasz 18y ago
Excuse me? The Chinese had their own proof of the Pythagorean theorem a long time before Pythagoras did. You cannot accuse them of a lack of mathematical intuition. http://www.visual-euclid.org/chinese/
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by zasz 18y ago
Then the problem is not that it was pointless, but that it was not novel. The article in question for your C++ programmer has a point; the programmer just doesn't care. As a college student, defending copyright is rare in MY world, and peop
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by zasz 18y ago
I thought it had a lot of points. Defending the usefulness of copyright is a rare position on the internet, and he does give some actual reasons as to why copyright is useful (which is why his article is pointful rather than pointless)--it
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by zasz 18y ago
Your sleeping problems resemble mine so closely I could have written that post, right down to the sleep studies and failed CPAP. I sincerely and truly and really really hope the food clock works for you; I'm going to start eating something,
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by zasz 18y ago
I can tell if your software is open-source if you leave the source code on your website. I can't tell if "free-range" eggs were actually laid by hens allowed to range freely. Whether something is open-source or not is pretty obvious; whethe
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by zasz 18y ago
Peculiar. I just asked Google and Powerset "who was born on october third 2003." (No quotes used.) Powerset: Andre Agassi He was defeated in the third round by world #2 (and eventual finalist) Rafael Nadal, 7â€“6(5), 6â€“2, 6â€“4. ... Their
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by zasz 18y ago
People don't do what's always in their best long-term interest. They don't always even act in their best interest in any form. Re predictability: You could say that about agriculture too. Think about the great potato famine in Ireland. Agri
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by zasz 19y ago
Every language has its extreme difficulties. In America, you have spelling bees, in France, you have grammar conjugation contests, and in China, you pride yourself on the number of characters you've memorized. I really despise this article
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Foreign Aid: "A complete waste of money that succeeds primarily at keeping Westerners employed." (netnomad.com)
1 points by zasz 19y ago|0 comments
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by zasz 19y ago
Along this line: when people say, "I would <x>, but I don't have the time" (where <x> is some creative, interesting thing), usually one can substitute the word "Vespene gas" for "time" in their statement, and learn a lot mor
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by zasz 19y ago
Hunter gatherers actually had plenty of food and leisure time and were much better nourished than their agricultural compatriots. Jared Diamond wrote a good article summarizing their lifestyle: http://www.awok.org/worst-mistake/ Seasonal
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by zasz 19y ago
I go there. I have a good hacker friend who's been approached by other students or ex-students several times to form some sort of startup or to do other little programming projects. So far, they have all been miserable failures. No, not eve
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by zasz 19y ago
I like geeks. I'm not a very good geek myself, but I can mostly follow the technical discussions, with lots of Googling. I can't speak for other women, but I hate it when people exhibit a lack of social skills, and it especially infuriates
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by zasz 19y ago
Why? Experts in other fields have no reputation for being socially retarded, and yet they must have to devote enormous amounts of time and effort as well. Do you think da Vinci allowed himself to become socially retarded so he could focus o