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I recently (well, a few years ago) went through sex education in schools. They don't really teach you sex, as much as why you shouldn't have sex. Even when they're teaching contraception, the consistent emphasis on only x% effective really cuts out student interest. It's almost like saying, "yeah we have a method or preventing HIV transmission, but it doesn't really work." While it might seem like a good idea at first, I found it to quickly invoke the I'm not listening anymore response.

Next, is the issue of effectiveness. Personally, I've been shown way so many gross images of venereal diseases, that I I won't even touch without knowing I have protection. Unfortunately, this doesn't follow through for a lot of other kids who went through the same education as I did. "I was drunk", "we didn't have any", "it doesn't feel as good", and "it's too much work" are all (yes I know it's sad) frequently cited responses among people I know.

Thirdly, and most troublesome of all, some people don't care that they're spreading diseases. I recently found out someone I knew was receiving treatment for Hep B. I asked her when she found out, believing this to be a recent development. "I've had it all my life," she responds. I walked out of the room. She's quite active, and her disdain for condoms is legendary. How anyone can exhibit that kind of carelessness is honestly, beyond me.

Rather than force education, I feel we might have to take a completely different approach. Teaching is great, but it doesn't work when kids don't want to listen or don't care. Perhaps we need to stress the why here, rather than the how.

Lastly - I know this is really aside the point of this article, but schools should probably also teach how to have sex properly. Not using condoms, but common erogenous zones, sensing feedback, appropriate pressure, etc. It's kind of sad that we learn all these things by exploration, again and again, generation after generation. I think it's about time we standardized it. Everyone needs to (well, almost everyone) have sex one day, anyway. Might as well at least have fun.
They may not know how to do long division or compute an angular velocity but, by damn, American kids are going to know how to fuck properly!

I am pleased my tax dollars are so well spent. "Female ejaculation" - sheez...
At first I thought this was posted by one of the email's recipients as a form of revenge on its douchebag author. Then, I realized it was posted by the author on his own blog... how embarrassing.

The whole letter/blog simultaneously reeks of desperation, egotism, conceit and condescension. He clearly craves validation and doesn't hesitate to dole it out to himself. "I picked you guys because you're the best! Now quit sucking and start being awesome like me! Money money money!"

Sad.
Those big desktop replacement sort of laptops aren't what I think of when I think of "Thinkpad".

But you're right, those big W-series machines maintain the Thinkpad build quality.
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As I understand it, it also specifies hourly employees, which the original definition of "professional" didn't.
I know when I finish a project I call up the 'forces of hell' on my side. It's needed for that last 10%=90%.
Because no penalty is functionally the same as a $0 fine, which is well under $100. (if there are nth-time offender bumps to the fine price, then they become different, but that is not studied here).
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I was a huge fan of the thesis, but as I kept reading the situation seemed very familiar. Very familiar to the multiple times I have worked for a non technical guy that really just doesn't have a clue.

I was really not a fan of the part where he told his guys not to make excuses, but then made a very large excuse for himself.

If I would have read only the first few paragraphs I would have been a huge fan of this article.
I loved AQ2. It was such a great blend of unforgiving gameplay and over the top action. The bleeding and kicking were awesome elements. I also liked the low amounts of ammo. Reloading meant throwing away whatever was left in your current clip, so you were always balancing risks.

These things came together to create some wonderful cinematic moments. I remember one, during a clan match: I was the last member of my team alive, almost completely out of ammo, with three remaining on the enemy team. They rushed into a room to get me. I managed to take down one with the last bullet in my gun, then kicked another out of the room, causing him to drop his hand cannon. I whirled and threw my knife into the face of the third, then grabbed the dropped shotgun and took out the second as he ran back in. I think I had to take a break to recover after that, haha.

I also remember AQ2 not showing which players were alive on either team. I distinctly remember games where I'd use the radio command to report in, only to be met with complete silence... and suddenly realize I was all alone.

Even as a long time CS player, I still prefer AQ2. I'd love to find a modern game like it.
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Why does there have to be a sense of urgency? I don't think we are meant to have stressful lives.
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Clever - so having failed to ban alcohol they just let market forces take their natural course and produce a beer that nobody would want to drink.
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> Death of it? There was Counterstrike, and then...?

Rainbow Six, Ghost Recon, America's Army - pretty much the entire "tactical shooter" genre until some of those franchises started moving in on the console casual market.

Not to mention the two console serieses I already listed in the post you responded to, both of which moved multi-million units serving up non-respawn multiplayer.
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Now that's a great point!
No, I'm just introducing this to give you an idea of why those bizarrely large fines exist in the first place. The economic theory is that law should incentivize people to act a certain way, and that if the odds of prosecution are low than the deterrent effect has to be made up on the sentencing side instead.

I don't really know what the 'right' policy is.
Pyramid was BFG prior to being renamed and released as Pyramid. BFG was around for a year and a half or more and has considerable test coverage, is actively developed, actively maintained. There was a sprint held at PloneConf last week and a number of presentations which resulted in a large number of issues being dealt with.

If you're coming from Django, you might find Pyramid a little offputting at first. It is a non-opinionated framework which means they don't make too many decisions for you. Template language, form library, etc aren't decided for you. I find this to be a good thing, but, if you're looking to pull together a bunch of pieces to toss an app together, you might be a little disappointed.

Many of the developers hang out on irc.freenode and groups.google and are pretty responsive.

I use it all the time for many different apps. I find it to be pretty lightweight, does what I need it to do, doesn't get in my way and doesn't have too much cruft. Relatively easy to deploy - almost identical to Django.

I don't believe Graham Dumpleton has gotten NewRelic's monitoring agents working with Pyramid yet if that is a concern.
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The middle of the letter..

The Romans thought Hannibal had the FORCES OF HELL ON HIS SIDE. Why?
Because of that quote: “We will find a way. Or make one.”
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I'm with you. No clue.

When it got to him and a designer in a print shop at 2:30am, I was expecting the punchline to involve crystal meth or something.
This sounds terrible. I would be very unhappy with my life if my job involved regularly receiving emails like this.
You know, Sebastian is a really smart, driven, creative individual and his blog has managed to occupy a spot in my RSS reader for some time because I've always felt his perspective lied outside the echo chamber of the tech media I tend to consume.

However, between this post and the one he posted today: http://www.sebastianmarshall.com/an-open-letter-to-simon-and... I kind of wonder if he isn't experiencing some kind of extreme bi-polar swing or side effects from the nootropics he uses and advocates.

The article posted today is so rambling, incoherent and rabid and so far removed from the realm of "professionalism" that I believe he has not only burned his bridge with his publisher, he has done so with all publishers everywhere.

This doesn't seem to be characteristic of him and if it is, he's certainly a less admirable individual than I had surmised.
It's not how things usually work out. Cisco and Juniper aren't friendly competitors. They are each trying as hard as possible to destroy the other. And the employees at each company feel the same. Less so at Cisco because they are so much larger, but at Juniper, they are absolutely focused on "kill Cisco."
outch, this reads like the author is about to breakdown 'bi-winning' style.
Can I burn an HD copy of a movie off my DVR via the analog hole and then sell it to someone?

Which part is illegal? Recording it? No. Burning it to a DVD? No. Owning it? No. But can I sell it? No. I think this paradox of ownership without being able to sell it will cause ReDigi to lose their case. Horrible situation for setting a bad legal precedent.

Let's not forget that the MPAA is a criminal organization whose members commit fraud every single day. I suspect the RIAA is the same. "Hollywood accounting" is a nice euphemism for a felony crime. I have no sympathy for unethical criminals who as standard business practice screw over producers, musicians, writers and actors. Piracy is justified.
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Freaking ace, guy's a legend!

Having said that, I'd rather get myself strung up in a Judas cradle than work for or with him :D
Case 1: you decide not to pirate. You pay retail price.

Case 2: you decide to pirate. You pay 0 with above a 99% chance. If you do get caught, you can pay the minimal retail price over the last year.

What exactly do you see as a disincentive for choosing #2, since case 2 beats case 1 in all cases?
2 things:

* If you are always running your business with a sense of urgency, you are going to burn out. You are going to burn out your employees. You've might have bitten more than you can chew. Some things are not possible and you need to have realistic expectations. It is fine to have stretches of busy time, but that can't last forever.

* > Its very hard to get people highly motivated about time. -- Ok so it is crunch time. Try communication & openness. Put up a whiteboard, show how many days left, how much money is left, the list of unfixed bugs, and whose name is next to it. Update frequently. Detect problems and slips early and try to fix. Don't yell at them or talk about fucking Hannibal, because you know what? You look like a Joker then.
Sometimes the word "can't" is used as shorthand for "with a probability approaching zero".
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Well data liberation doesn't say that they have to act as a drop box for you. If you have full control of your music to begin with to upload, that's pretty much liberated by the very definition of the term.
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Already got some connections to go to see 500 startups, Apple, and a few other companies there. I'd appreciate any suggestions or intros to awesome places.
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No, it doesn't.

http://www.marco.org/2011/07/19/siracusa-multipage
Good lord, I saw this headline on HN and thought it was going to be the ESR classic "Sex Tips for Geeks":

http://catb.org/~esr/writings/sextips/
Offline reading and (more importantly) multiplatform support is going to keep me with Instapaper. The fact that I can get Instapaper articles to my Kindle is something that I know Apple is never going to offer. Ever. Now, if Apple offered an eInk Ereader that synced with Reading List (and offline support for Reading List) for less than $100 then maybe I'd jump ship.

In all honesty there would need to be a VERY compelling feature set at a low (free) price for Instapaper to lose me. I've already bought the iOS apps and incorporated the service into my flow.
There are two types.

Backscatter x-rays which use a low dose (hopefully) of x-rays but instead of measuring those that go through you 9as in a medical x-ray for bones) they measure the x-rays reflected back by metal objects such as guns and knives.

These do give you a dose of x-rays, hopefully a properly installed, maintained and operated system will limit this to a safe dose.

The alternative are mm-wave radar (terahertz imaging) these use similar radio waves to a mobile phone (but at lower power) They measure the change in the radio signal returned from metal and fluids in your body.
Since they work on the same technology as mobile phones (but even lower power) they are assumed to be safe(r)
Well, you uploaded them in the first place, which means you had a copy at some point.

Don't delete that copy.
This should be a very good read for those of you that think that formal education is not necessary for start-up success. I am not sure who the author of this is and whether he went to college or not, but he clearly needs to take a good writing class. He may actually have a good point about keeping commitments but the whole thing is written so badly, in such a meandering and repetitive way that it is a joke. And I doubt any of the recipients of that email will take him seriously and will stop going to their classes to work on his project as he requests.

The saddest part is that he most likely thinks he is working very hard and being very productive. He is writing all these pages upon pages of stuff repeating the same mantra, relating to his favorite history channel shows, etc. But of course he is wasting his time and the time of the people that will have to read the thing. Although I am sure the readers get some entertainment as a side benefit. If he knew how to write he could have written a tight passage of several paragraphs or so that properly conveys the need for dependability and the urgency of the situation without making a fool of himself or insulting his readers.

Writing is a skill and it matters. This is especially true for people in leadership positions.
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> The radiation from the machines may not be part of the physical act of moving you from A to B, but that doesn't mean they can just be removed.

I am confused since to you it seems that having the ability to fly without being blasted by x-rays and be seen naked by some underpaid TSA guy is such an outlandish thing.

Are you a teenager? Do you remember flying before 9/11? Do you remember how we had daily airport bombings and hijackings? (Yeah, neither do I). Then do you remember how many terrorists TSA caught red-handed, just about to board on the plane with an explosive device in all these years? I do - 0.

Then you acknowledge it is security theater but somehow claim that we need it. Sorry but that doesn't make any sense.
Honestly, I don't think the biggest threat to the music industry is pirates. I think it's bands leaving to start their own label or move to great indie labels like Vangard. iTunes has truly lowered the barrier of entry for a band.

I'm not going to say any other bands are like this, but a couple years ago I was at a Carbon Leaf concert and the lead singer said "Here's what we want everyone to do: go buy our new CD outside after the concert, then go home and burn a few copies for your friends...just don't tell our record company." Well I did as I was told and I now have several friends who have bought many of their other albums , attended a few concerts, and bought some T-shirts and whatnot all because I shared that one CD with them. I'm sure at least a few hundred other fans were gained with this method. Oh, and I was turned on to the band because my father shared with me a CD his brother burned for him.

The band has since switched to their own private label. I've noticed a few semi-big bands producing their own records lately. By the time piracy gets "stopped" (never) the record companies will have died from natural causes.
I agree, some people are shy, unsure, etc, and will get defensive when presented with an angry person barking orders. It's not the military. They may find these people won't even talk about their work because they don't want to offend the barker.

That said, it really depends on the culture of the employees on which motivational techniques to use.
I can always do that, but the problem is that Outlook doesn't put markers on what's quoted text & what's not.

Like

--- Original Message ---
Some text from you.

And some text from me.

Versus

--- Original Message ---
> Some text from you.

And some text from me.

(It looks like Gmail does this so I don't know what I was missing there...)
Most of the time, neither "this" nor "I agree" are of value on HN. If you have something unique to add to the conversation, say it, but don't waste space letting us know that you agree. As philwelch said elsewhere, your agreement isn't valuable information.

There are only a couple of exceptions I can think of:

- if someone says something about your business, personal life, or recognized area of expertise, your confirmation is of value. In that case, "I agree" is a perfectly fine standalone response.

- if you're responding in disagreement to one part of a post, it can be helpful to mention that you agree with other parts, in order to stop responses like "you ignored the rest of what I said". Clarifying the scope of your response can help keep discussion focused, and is therefore of value.
What was that? Does anyone have any sort of context to this? Who are these people?

Why do I feel like I'm missing a punch line?
The difference with Hannibal is that if he and his forces didn't keep advancing, they would literally starve to death. On the other hand, the author here is trying to create senses of urgency with very nebulous justification.
:-) I know that some mailing lists strongly prefer bottom posting. I usually try to adapt to whatever culture I'm entering; I don't care that strongly.
> The goal of a country is to allow her citizens to have "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness".

I think you mean just one country there... Generalising to all countries is a little ethnocentric, no?
The short-term personal predictions you mention are very useful (at least for the person making them), because you can use them to calibrate yourself faster. (If you want to get better at predicting, waiting 10 years for a 2021 prediction doesn't help as much.) It can also be fun to put estimates on other people's personal predictions based on their historical underconfidence/overconfidence.

It has been suggested that these personal predictions should be in a separate category, and that might happen.

Also, these articles on PB might be of interest:

http://lesswrong.com/lw/7z9/1001_predictionbook_nights/

http://lesswrong.com/r/discussion/lw/8dx/predictionbook_a_sh...
This reminds me of "Stop doing stupid shit," [1] one of my favorite articles of all time. This was a great read. The intensity and the trust he projects onto his friends is a good role-model for anyone working with their friends on something and making less progress than they'd like.

[1] http://jinfiesto.posterous.com/how-to-seem-good-at-everythin...
Let's figure out what the fine should be with math! :D

(10+0)/2*0.32 + (100+11)/2*0.43 + (1000+101)/2*0.14 + (5000 + 1001)/2 * 0.03 + (100000+5001)/2*0.01 + (250000+100001)/2*0.01
= $2467.56
My impression was Patton wannabe with an inferiority complex.

Well written indeed, but Hannibal crossing the Alps to manage his AWS setup was a bit too silly a juxtaposition.
I wouldn't be so sure about it scaling directly even within the same chemistry. Batteries can be manufactured for different purposes. I've seen 10C, 20C and even 40C discharge rates in lithium ion polymer batteries. But the charging rate usually stays under 2C.

Personally I don't really care too much about charging rates. My battery powered vehicle would be parked overnight. But I do like acceleration. And that's where discharge rates (and other problems) become an issue.
For me it didn't feel like something from the army as much as a car salesman trying much too hard.

Also, as a college student, I would be really suspicious of somebody telling me not to go to class--I'm perfectly happy to do that of my own violation, but anybody suggesting it immediately comes out as against my best interests.
In a real democracy the majority would actually make the laws. A fine of $100 sounds fair, it is still a punishment and would be much more acceptable to police heavily (and with less lawyers involved). I would be fine with automated fines of $100 being handed out to people downloading a file illegally and I think that would be a more effective deterrent than the present lawsuit madness that rules copyright.
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It's meant as a glimpse into someone else's project. I like it because it lets me compare it to my own with no preconceptions.
Reminds me of this quote: "For a rough approximation of your valuation, circa 2004, you can also use Kawasaki's Law of Pre-Money Valuation: for every full-time engineer, add $500,000; for every full-time M.B.A., subtract $250,000. "
http://www.sebastianmarshall.com/about

The guy seems to be a bit of a self styled guru selling his lifestyle brand which is abstractly focused on 'victory'.
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Given the choice between 'computing angular velocity' and Sex Ed, your tax dollars would give a life-long benefit to the vast majority of the population if applied to the latter - and the value of people understanding the former is minuscule in comparison.

And what is so ridiculous about Female ejaculation?
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