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I'm the opposite, I rarely if ever forget a face and can recognize people who waited on me in a grocery line, walking down the street in a different city years later. I have no idea what it is or what it means, but we seem to be opposite ends of some sort of spectrum.

This whole thing reads weird. From shutting down, to acquisition, to shutting down again and seemingly blocking exports.

However, as this is the internet, until news breaks otherwise I will continue to believe that Hanlon's razor applies here...

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

Pot, kettle, black? ;-)

Excellent this is exactly what I was looking for. Thank you.

This has been a problem for a while, and by this I mean using the term community manager to refer to a business development, social media pr, or event planning role.

There is in fact a job out there that actually entails supporting and nurturing a community and its vitally important to the health of online communities (not firms dressed up as 'communities').

The best example I can think of is the work Heather Champ did at flickr: http://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Nasty-as-they-wanna-b...

It's because of the act of driving itself. Before it was phones it was shaving, doing makeup, or eating. Driving promotes an individualist mentality. Backed up by the fact that cars are designed to remove and protect you from the environment that you're still participating in. This separation leads to many things including road rage and not believing that being on your cellphone is a problem. *IMHO

What about the equivalent of an 'early decision' application like in US colleges?

Yes though not a typical presentation of EE (EoE?). It ramped up dramatically around my 24th birthday and appears to be connected with my body's response to histamines. As such most doctors haven't known what to do with me and we've been feeling our way blindly along. If fasting even partially resets immune response i'd be interested.

As someone with an esophageal autoimmune response I'd be very curious to know this as well.

Is it though? We haven't even arrived in Monaco yet, anything could happen and the drama has been amazing to watch so far. Take tonight for example... Vetel being instructed to let Ricciardo pass and complying, Force India going 3/5, Hamilton and Rosberg dueling, Massa(??) blitzing the field on the start. The president of Ferrari walking out in disgust. That horrendous flip...

This doesn't even get into new arrivals like Magnussen and his amazing debut. This season is far from over and getting more interesting by the day.

I dream of a system that allows me to swap my citizenship with a similarly qualified EU Citizen that wants to come to the US.

Ad space on the bill for movies and tv shows that are coming soon? Not great, but probably more effective than a billboard on Santa Monica...

When you read this, think about how many words an otherwise smart man wrote about something that's completely inconsequential. Down-vote me all you want but please consider how you're spending your brain power.

Yeah, I might be late to the party here, but... I signed up for penflip two and a half hours ago and have received eight emails from you guys since then. This is not cool. I don't care if they're notifications. Auto-on is a terrible default from a user experience stand point in this case.

Edit: Also, I can't easily find where to turn them on or off, and if its available I'm having difficulty figuring out how to delete my account.

Edit 2: Done being blinded email rage, I located the notifications control panel which is relatively obvious (so facepalm for me there), however, having searched the site it does not appear as easy to delete my account altogether.

Gmail Label: Ideas

Mail to yourself. Email subject is the main idea. Each new idea gets its own email thread. Reply to email thread when you have things to add or docs/imgs to attach to the original idea

The whole thing is tagable, sortable by date, and searchable. You can even hide the label from the inbox if you prefer that.

It will, in theory. In the past I would have been ridered or surcharged into oblivion had I applied for individual coverage. Expanding the pool, implementing some checks on costs, and properly operating an exchange would enable coverage for my condition and prevent me from being surcharged more than 25%? when compared with typical healthy person coverage.

That said, we're in an interesting part of the law's implementation. If you live in one of the 26-33(?) states who have currently declined to operate all or part of their own exchange (exchanges in these cases will be operated by the federal government) your state also lost some of the federal funding that was intended for use in spreading awareness and helping people to "navigate" the sign-up and purchasing process of the exchange. The worry thereafter is that if not enough people enroll through the exchanges they may not have enough leverage to keep costs down.

Add to this the idea that some state governments are actively dragging their feet with the implementation of anything exchange related (enrollment starts in October and my state has next to no information out there on the process yet) and we get the potential for messiness.

In my case, I still dream of single payer.

Disclaimer: Typing off the cuff, not a health insurance administrator, etc...

*For those interested in more about how the exchanges are progressing, I find the website of the Kaiser Family Foundation to be excellent:

http://kff.org/health-reform/issue-brief/establishing-health...

http://kff.org/health-reform/state-indicator/health-insuranc...

Yes. It's a hindrance to most life paths that don't involve full-time employment. As someone with a chronic auto-immune condition I'm effectively tethered to an employer or a spouse if I want health coverage.

Should I choose pursue an art as my vocation or start a company I'd have to be willing to endure a lag in my insurance until whatever I was pursuing became successful enough that I was eligible to be covered by a trade group or had enough revenue to buy health insurance.

Guaranteed, affordable health coverage not tied to an employer or a spouse would remove a incredible burden from my life.

As I remember hearing it... Companies are willing to do white label products for trader joe's because of the purchasing leverage of aldi

Most walkable city in the world? Do you have sources to back this?

Serious question... Have we verified that the reason he hasn't been mirandized yet is anything other than the fact that he's in serious condition and may not yet be able to affirm that he is aware of his rights?

And we shouldn't discuss him based on his self-established public persona in a public forum? I worry that we're building a culture of internet builders that excuse boorish behavior because someone has a platform or something we need access to. I may be wrong to call him a dick in general but his reaction in this case can certainly be called 'dickish'.

It would be an ad hominem if I were in an argument with Dave and instead of listening to his points attacked him personally. In this case I'm talking about needing to see the forest for the trees. I'll gladly judge him on his acts a person in the position of being a gatekeeper to a world people build lives hopes and dreams on. You don't have to be a dick to be a good investor and advisor.

I'll say it. We hold up some incredibly deficient people as idols in the tech world.

Just for clarification, I think Wyo is this case is referring to Wyomissing, PA

Are you paying for them to be there for a prescribed time or are you paying them to get the work done?

Avoid a huge debt burden for the sake of prestige and college can be four gap years. Do crazy things for course credit. Take professors in all sorts of your interests out to lunch and ask them questions. Experiment. Mess up. Go around the world in the summer, a semester, or for a year and have it sanctioned. Whatever. All of it can inform your technical or practical pursuits and in some cases change your path. College is Disneyland for hackers and entrepreneurs. If you arrive at this view of it early, there's no reason to delay it.

I can't help but read this and feel that your life priorities and response levels to problems are out of whack

This is the best, most reasonable thinking I've read on this study (From Jay Parkinson, the M.D. behind the startup sherpaa.com) http://blog.jayparkinsonmd.com/post/24488678085/when-i-read-...

I find myself in an even stickier place. As a designer I work in HTML and CSS, borrow and implement other people's javascript to make my interfaces do nice things, and dance around in wordpress php, tumblr themeing, and the superficial code of other content management systems. Beyond that I certainly don't 'code'.

Sure I move around enough in ruby and python enough to make the pretty face I've designed work with the app and I certainly don't consider myself technical if asked, but I seem to be lightyears beyond the business or ideas person on the building side of things.

More than a superficial designer, less than a front end developer is one of the strangest places to be.

$/sqft per year makes more sense when you take into account that most corporate budgets aren't monthly (this isn't an apartment rental) and that most commercial lease terms are several years long