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New comment by colins_pride in "A New Experiment: The RFS"

colins_pride — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 22:16:13 +0000

This is one of those ideas that seems so obviously good after the fact that it just makes one marvel

Hotel [Edward] Munch

colins_pride — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 00:35:26 +0000

Article URL: http://www.thesmartset.com/article/article08050901.aspx

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=765411

Points: 1

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Organic Food Isn't More Nutritious

colins_pride — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 01:02:59 +0000

Article URL: http://seedmagazine.com/content/article/organic_food_isnt_more_nutritious/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=764182

Points: 12

# Comments: 28

New comment by colins_pride in "Ask HN: Business movie suggestions?"

colins_pride — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 02:14:21 +0000

The Hustler - 1961 & The Color of Money - 1986

Both with Paul Newman.

Optically about pool hustling. Really about the processes through which the naive progress as they encounter the underbelly of reality.

A link between wealth and breeding

colins_pride — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 23:35:55 +0000

Article URL: http://www.economist.com/sciencetechnology/displayStory.cfm?story_id=14164483

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=746687

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by colins_pride in "Ask HN: edit history for HN comments?"

colins_pride — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 21:33:13 +0000

Yeah, it doesn't make any sense to be able to edit a comment that has a reply

New comment by colins_pride in "The Top Entrepreneurs of the Last 100 Years"

colins_pride — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 16:54:32 +0000

Where's Ambani at?

New comment by colins_pride in "YC/HN: Name a problem, any problem, you'd like to see someone solve."

colins_pride — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 18:32:22 +0000

Does showing a large subest of the pages that point to it, default ordered by something that's roughly equivalent to pagerank, with the ability to then search within those results capture the essence of what you're getting at?

New comment by colins_pride in "Where to hide your money - advice from a burglar"

colins_pride — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 12:44:25 +0000

You just have to remember which books you put the money in. Every now and then I open a book that I haven't read in years and there are five 20s pressed between the pages.

New comment by colins_pride in "Ask PG: Would it be possible to do an A/B test on HN?"

colins_pride — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 12:41:00 +0000

Doesn't changing only one metric at a time tend to lead to getting stuck in a local maximum?

KnownSenderFind Program for Finding Spam False Positives

colins_pride — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:48:39 +0000

Article URL: http://www.josh.com/KnownSender/index.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=736358

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by colins_pride in "21H.001: How to Stage a Revolution"

colins_pride — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 07:06:35 +0000

I would read even more recent stuff. I agree on Che. How about reading about Kevin Kelly and Louis Rossetto? Bob Hunter created Greenpeace out of nothing. Petraeus revolutionized the most powerful military in the history of the world. It's through a mix of ancient literature, philosophy and political economics that one gains perspective on human nature. And human nature does not, has not, and will not change. But the structure of the world evolves, making modern revolutionaries much more interesting. When I know what Kolakowski had to say about Marxism, I'm going to go move past Marx and spend more time on Popper who hasn't really been rebutted (to my knowledge) yet.

Kolakowski -> http://www.economist.com/obituary/displaystory.cfm?story_id=...

Congress Just Buying People Cars Now

colins_pride — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 05:40:05 +0000

Article URL: http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2009/07/congress_just_buying_people_ca.cfm

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=736034

Points: 17

# Comments: 28

When Novelists Sober Up

colins_pride — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 03:48:40 +0000

Article URL: http://moreintelligentlife.com/content/tom-shone/when-novelists-sober

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=735947

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by colins_pride in "Why the dollar is going to collapse"

colins_pride — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 21:26:31 +0000

It took a lot of self-restraint to keep me from downvoting-this-because-I-disagreed-with-it

New comment by colins_pride in "Portland, Oregon, is (one of the) most entrepreneurial towns in the world"

colins_pride — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 22:44:43 +0000

Right, it is not tech focused, because his point is not so much Portland as the actual cultural distinction between good places for entrepreneurial people and good places for starting up.

New comment by colins_pride in "I have comments, but no spam in my comments. Here’s why."

colins_pride — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 21:28:43 +0000

I agree that filtering out the worst junk doesn't necesarily raise the overall quality to an acceptable level. It seems like there are two issues, which are related: [1] comments are too small-d democratic and [2] there doesn't currently exist a good mechanism for aggregating comments.

With the exception of a few places like HN, the best comments are treated about the same as bad comments. The absence of incentives leads to the absence of quality.

The other issue is related in the sense that if there was a good mechanism for aggregating comments across sites it would almost certainly serve to recognize and reward the best comments. Solve the fragmentation problem, and you get resolution on the first one for free.

The News About the Internet

colins_pride — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 13:20:10 +0000

Article URL: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/22960

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=724378

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by colins_pride in "Netflix Prize Update: New Team in First Place (deadline tomorrow)"

colins_pride — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 12:46:05 +0000

Yeah, the timestamp right there next to BPC is 07-25

New comment by colins_pride in "Bill Gates quits Facebook over 'too many friends'"

colins_pride — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 03:34:12 +0000

It's tough to feel sorry for the guy