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Comment · 9 years ago
Where were you in Colombia? I have been day dreaming of an extended trip there and would love to know about your experiences.

My email is my username at gmail if that's easier for you.

Thanks in advance

Comment · 9 years ago
For example the v8 interceptor will outlive all those so called "smart cities"
Comment · 9 years ago
First things first
Comment · 9 years ago
Uncaught RangeError: Maximum call stack size exceeded
Comment · 9 years ago
I think the TurboExpress had most of these killer features. I wanted one soooooo bad when I was a kid
Comment · 9 years ago
Pointing out someone is a quack is also a great way to keep differing opinions out of a discussion and thus make sure that rational discourse is avoided on issues that are useful to the person pointing.

It's always useful to think of these situation in circumstances where you don't have any emotional involvement because otherwise you mind can play tricks on you.

For example imagine you are a European Scientist who really wants to fit every animal onto tree structure with mammals over here and squid here and all the animals fall into some easy to understand structure that makes total sense to you.

And some weird guy comes back from Australia with natures most awesome animal the platypus. A furry creature that lays eggs with poison feet. Your simple identification chart is totally jacked. It way easier to say he is a quack that evaluate the evidence you don't like. Heck it's totally inconvenient that your life's work is wrong, it's going to cost you money and esteem.

tldr; pointing out a quack is a great excuse for avoiding evaluating their arguments but refutes none of them. Everyone's time is valueable and figuring out what adventures to spend it on is important. Confusing that reasonable justification of where to spend your time with their argument being false is a dangerous habit to get into. You end up always thinking you are right and avoiding things that challenge your beliefs.

Comment · 9 years ago
I'll make sure and call her and tell her I love her!
Comment · 9 years ago
Do they make you sign a contract or can you put 3% discount for person to person sale? That way they are paying their agent if they decide to use one.
Comment · 9 years ago
The money from the seller isn't free. For example there is a chance that I could get them to sell the house to me for less than what I am buying it for. If for example the seller met me half way on those fees that's a decent amount off of cash.

When I was buying my home the loan person I worked with is family so she helped me more than my realtor. Looked into neighborhoods for me etc. It could be that they were looking out for me more than normal.

I am in a market where houses sell instantly, more or less you look at a house and make an offer within out 24 hours or else it's gone. Which is crazy but the realtor didn't even get much of a chance to look into things here for us.

Comment · 9 years ago
I can see some of the expertise coming into play on the selling side.

Can you give me a few examples of what kinds of value one gets while buying?

From what I can tell the main service that my realtor offered when I buying my place was access to the MLS. We found the houses we wanted to look at and he gave us access. Dollars per hour he was doing very well working with me, although I might be an exception.

Comment · 9 years ago
Do you think Disney creates characters to help with toy sales? I know that was a thing in the days of GI Joe.
Comment · 9 years ago
Agreed. If we address poverty it will remove most racism. Most racism is classism in disguise. Heck, most people confuse the two when they are being discussed.

//edited to remove an extra 'in'.

Comment · 9 years ago
I was building an app that worked like this on top of Flowdock when I used to work for Rally. Fully integrated work management communication application. If you have a small collaborative team it was awesomely powerful we had used it on the team that built it for about 6 months before the project got cut.

If someone wants a tester or feedback on something they are building I'd love to help. I badly miss that thing :(

Comment · 9 years ago
I also like to think that since we have no evidence of any of these effects they might be beneficial too. Perhaps being exposed to a vaccine makes you jump higher and better at Asteroids. Since there is no way to tell it these magical unknown effects could be good instead of bad.

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