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mortuus

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    Comment #6624936

    This is great, here's hoping it spreads like wildfire on facebook!

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    Comment #5102395

    "Is there a way to post this on digg" -2007

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    Comment #4721788

    you have to say the whole line (including the 'if a woodchuck could chuck would' piece)

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    Comment #3960665

    The reference to the Redditor that automated his work and took a disproportionate portion of the bonus pool was a strong example of changes to come. Any thoughts on that piece?

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    Comment #3960645

    Typo in the Bloc.io link URL in the closing line, block.io should be bloc.io : "Jared Tame is a co-founder and mentor at Bloc, where he’s teaching people how to become web develope…

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    Comment #3789770

    It could scale if he sub-contracted work to local college students looking for mobile dev experience.

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    Comment #3789677

    The author looks to be planning a future post on how he plans to take on this responsibility. Can anyone (who feels that they have 'taken full responsibility') share what path they…

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    Comment #3602862

    Potentially allowing him to view the world in inverted colors?

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    Comment #2496036

    Having the information normalized as you suggest would be great. Breaking it up into a ~5 point scale (especially if it took advantage of visual cues) would save some mental effort…

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    Comment #2376518

    The article closes with the thought that there may be a related 'cognitive universal'. This list reads like a bare-bones version of the human experience: http://en.wikipedia.org/wi…

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    Comment #1772495

    I bet they're doing better with the ads now that they are asking users if they are relevant. It would be interesting to see some numbers in this area. Occasionally there are amusin…

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    Comment #1756613

    Multiple comments have suggested that this page has elements reminiscent of scam-related web pages, of the type where you are clearly being sold to. Warning flags that come to mind…

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    Comment #1756456

    typo: "otherwise you nobody can see it" Where did you get the (one boat cruise|two boat race) saying?

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    Comment #1752371

    at least two social bookmarking sites targeted to women have been attempted and failed sk*rt: http://mashable.com/2007/08/08/skirt/ SugarLoving: http://www.killerstartups.com/Web20…

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    Comment #1752190

    This video on Khan Academy's "Vision and Social Return" ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRf6XiEZ_Y8 ) seems to be putting some of this into practice (requirement of 10 in a row wi…

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    Comment #1750385

    Seems like an interesting idea to push into an education system. This is concept behind harder versions of classes (e.g. honors, AP) where you can increase the difficulty level if …

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    Comment #1749900

    this bias tends to come up frequently on HN (often as a reminder that this community shares more articles about businesses that succeed than those that fail), so many may recognize…

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    Comment #1608376

    Heard of the Dead Man Test? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Applied_behavior_analysis#Behav... "If a dead man can do it, it ain't behavior, and if a dead man can't do it, then it is b…

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    Comment #1515777

    fta: "One area where we are seeing real-time analytics improve content companies is in article headlines. For most of us, an article headline is all we use to decide whether or not…

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    Comment #1515705

    Thanks for sharing, had to look the term up. roughneck (drilling): "A low-ranking member of the drilling crew. The roughneck usually performs semiskilled and unskilled manual labor…

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    Comment #1515676

    MySpace started getting a lot of negative coverage in mainstream media in terms of personal safety (bad people out there). (e.g. http://www.ktvu.com/news/7783930/detail.html ) Face…

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    Comment #1500540

    Does this have any applications for game development?