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iterationx

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I recommend this religious video for you. It changed my life. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cn9t0m6eG4Q
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iterationx··on DDG now searches HN for stories and comments
That's it. First hit.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3787375

iterationx··on DDG now searches HN for stories and comments
Can't find what I'm looking for.

I saw a comment on a hn BitCoin article. The comment said that we've got 100 years of experience with [this type of monetary system], and we know how to break it, and then he listed a bunch of trading algorithms, including one (I'm pretty sure) named "sawtooth".

Tried: hn duckduckgo sawtooth bitcoin :|

iterationx··on Number of job listings with the term “ninja” have increased 2,505% in past 6 yrs
>>sadly, none was for actual mercenaries trained in martial arts—the analysis found.
iterationx··on Facebook's numbers
Where's Eduardo Saverin?
iterationx··on A $20 Trillion Rock That Could Turn a Startup Into Earth’s Richest Company
>>4. You either need to bring back the entire asteroid, which would require a massive amount of delta-V, or you need to mine the asteroid, which would take a massive amount of equipment;

I was thinking they'd crash it into the far side of the moon. Is that an option?

iterationx··on Peter Thiel (PayPal co-founder) has a solution to the global crisis
>>Inequality has only been ended through communist revolution, war or deflationary economic collapse.

Is the closing line. If the economy collapses or we are run by a politburo there will still be inequality.

iterationx··on Ask HN: What service would you pay me 10$ a month for?
I tried to use twitter to aggregate this data, following relevant things related to minneapolis, but it was a complete failure.
iterationx··on Help me Hack the Lottery or, the worst $90 investment ever
Not every lottery, but it does happen. http://articles.businessinsider.com/2011-08-11/news/30004911...

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/02/02/statistician-crack...

iterationx··on France announces crackdown on people reading extremist Web sites
If we do not believe in freedom of speech for those we despise we do not believe in it at all. -Chomsky
iterationx··on The NSA Is Building the Country’s Biggest Spy Center (Watch What You Say)
NPR said they are building it there because Utah has the most linguistically talented population in the country due to Mormon missionary work. eBay is building a call center there for the same reason.
iterationx··on JPMorgan Sees Clients With Less Than $100,000 Unprofitable
Everytime a debit card is swiped they get a cut, so its hard to take this seriously.
iterationx··on How To Be Happy Anywhere
I would say that one must remember that knowledge isn't an end in itself. If you waste your Saturday reading Wikipedia or Quora without purpose, that will make you unhappy, because you are wasting time. So some portion of the happiness equation comes from acting purposefully.
iterationx··on Microsoft to Google: Please Don’t Use Patents to Kill Video on the Web
Kill video on the web. Maybe then the artifice of software patents will come tumbling down.
iterationx··on Your doctor doesn't want you to see this -- diagnosis using AI
I used WebMDs version of this last year, and then the page started flashing "Seek medical help immediately", my appendix was taken out that night.
iterationx··on When will experiences replace movie theaters?
When we build the Metaverse.
iterationx··on How to Make It on Craigslist
Shouldn't post stuff like this, it invites competition.
iterationx··on SOPA is dead: Smith pulls bill
I suspect they will split the functionality of the bill into sub-pieces and and pass each one under a different name or as part of a totally unrelated project.
iterationx··on The Cost of College is Probably Going to Keep Going Up
No discussion of college pricing is complete without this graphic, http://www.collegescholarships.org/research/student-loans/
iterationx··on How I got into MIT when I was 14
So you're point is homeschooling couldn't produce this result? This kid was home schooled and he got in at 12. http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2003/demaine-0226.html
iterationx··on Library computers can block porn—but Wicca? ACLU says no
Maybe she should browse the stacks of books that surround her for information?
iterationx··on Paying teachers more results in higher pupil performance
I found the conclusion of the movie "Waiting for Superman" interesting basically the major obstacle for improving education in the US is that you can't fire bad teachers because of union contracts.
iterationx··on Godaddy's official position on SOPA - Just Posted
If the singularity happens and I become immortal, I will boycott Godaddy until the heat death of the universe.
iterationx··on Dear Internet: It's no Longer OK Not to Know How Congress Works
Dear Internet, Its called The New World Order. They're not uneducated, its a conspiracy.

Oh, look! our Congress is sooooo dumb, they decided to do away with the Bill of Rights on the 222nd anniversary of its signing, and declare that disagrees with them is a terrorist and that "terrorists" can be held indefinitely without recourse.

From childhood we are told that we are smart and politicians are stupid. But maybe, just maybe, the average netizen is so prideful he believes that he cannot be manipulated by a powerful combine of men, pretending to act stupidly, but in truth acting maliciously.

iterationx··on Dinosaur Denialism
OP agrees with the standard model of history taught in public schools. Not sure what exactly he's skeptical about.
iterationx··on Ask HN: Please Review My Startup: What Do You Really Think About Me?
How is this superior to sending someone a private email or speaking to them frankly in person?
iterationx··on "I would dial the 300 baud dial-up number, and scream the carrier tone."
Order a pizza from the campus online computer, crash computer, call inquiring about the status of said pizza, receive many apologies and a free pizza. Not proud of it anymore though.
iterationx··on So how many readers _actually_ read a blog post?
You have about 300 ms of my time where I scan the first paragraph and decide whether or not to continue. Maybe that indicates I have terrible reading skills or maybe it means I have an advanced pattern recognition filter.
iterationx··on My site got "cracked"/defaced. how do I find the root cause/method?
You could perform penetration testing with Metasploit going forward.
iterationx··on Show HN: What do you guys think of our beta landing page?
I think you should enumerate what kind of events you mean.
iterationx··on What would Jesus Hack
>>ready to challenge models of proprietary control, competition and even private property.

Many Catholics, myself included, will tell you that modern Jesuits are Marxists.

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