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backgammon. started playing it recently when i got a new job and the guys at my new firm play it. fun as hell.

high fructose corn syrup. obesity becomes the new norm. everyone gets so fat they can't walk around, global production grinds to a halt. Nobody can remember how to hunt or farm sin…

haha, actually made me laugh. funniest HN comment I've read in a while.

Wow! Insightful! I guess I happen to be the very rare counterexample in that at some point in every interview process I've been through, I've been asked questions like the ones the…

Wow, that is one of the worst articles I have ever read by Gladwell. I generally think Gladwell is overrated, but at least provides interesting anecdotes. I was sorely tempted to q…

link? and is it free?

i wish somebody would create an exchange where buyers and sellers of stock could synthetically place bets on these companies. i'd love to shortsell facebook at its latest official …

i love this idea. it amazes me that people can deconstruct organic life as being just mechanical robots built with organic parts, then try to make their own organic robots that "li…

:)

but gmail is good. and we like it. being corporate != departure from quality. its not really fair to say that the burden rests on hackers and startup founders to promote/use small …

More interesting to me is the question of what actions can be taken to get on the winning side of this. If its really so inevitable, what sort of positions can I put on to profit t…

cool. first thing i wanted to do was to add some companies and find out what the highest salaries were. unfortunately i had to hit next a bunch of times to get there. would be kind…

i know this is a terrible thing to say... but... I love bluefin tuna. its delicious. knowing that i might not be able to eat it in a few years leaves me conflicted between increasi…

like the idea. i'm definitely a believer that the "restaurant/food reviews" space is underdeveloped. Yelp and Citysearch have great reach, but I feel like its not giving me what I …

incidentally, i still think somebody should write an article about what the community thinks is "Fair" compensation. Skip past the "it depends" dialogue (which granted is important…

99,71,34, Sqrt(8), ... http://xkcd.com/487/

lets talk. my gmail account is fbbwsa@

claude shannon = biggest stud ever. i highly recommend "Fortune's Formula". Great read. Smart dudes (Shannon, Ed Thorpe), blackjack, casinos, financial markets, and more. http://ww…

I'm going to do the thing that makes it seem like I'm a suckup, but I'm unaffiliated with YC: PG mentions this in his articles about Bayesian Spam filtering. Seems pretty compellin…

agree. can't argue with the results, traffic, and revenue of Drudge report. Design can mean a lot of things, but the kind of "design" i care about when presenting information can b…

sexy 21 year old college co-ed looking for an older man to "show me the ropes" if you know what I mean. NSA.

On that note, what sort of compensation IS acceptable? I'd join someone with a vision I believed in/thought would succeed for no salary and all equity. I wouldnt give up any $ sala…

i love the taste of g-undecalactone. and the sweet, slightly citrusy overtones remind me of freedom. isobutyl anthranilate is only so-so though.

since we've already established that i was out of line, i just thought i'd revisit this topic of pseudoscience vs science since: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2008/11/18.html…