gimeq | 13 years ago | on: The Lie Hollywood Loves to Tell
It's OK. Most Hanks/Ryan movies are the same story with different set dressing.
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gimeq | 13 years ago | on: The Lie Hollywood Loves to Tell
Yeah, just be tall, good looking, confident, and comfortable conversing in contrived situations like bar/cafe meetings with strangers.
Wonder why guys can't figure that out?
gimeq | 13 years ago | on: The Lie Hollywood Loves to Tell
That's actually a common problem, for Jewish people or other people in inward-focused culture X
X person meets a non-X, they get along, and then X's parents turn the screws, ruining the relationship.
gimeq | 13 years ago | on: The Lie Hollywood Loves to Tell
She became a girlfriend after she broke it off with the guy from Match.
gimeq | 13 years ago | on: The Professor, the Bikini Model and the Suitcase Full of Trouble
"That would bring an enormous sense of fulfillment, quite apart from the Nobel Prize"
The part you are objecting to was definitely not part of the quote, it was added/paraphrased by the author, for the audience's sake.
From the wording, it seems clear that the author said something like "You could win a Nobel prize for something like that", and the professor retorted with "enormous fulfillment"
gimeq | 13 years ago | on: The Professor, the Bikini Model and the Suitcase Full of Trouble
The Glim-dropper scam involves the mark trying make money by inserting oneself as an intermediary who provides no benefit, concealing his true intentions. Outside of HN, that is considered dishonesty.
gimeq | 13 years ago | on: Soviet College Admission — My Dad's Story (1970)
Under ethnicity-agnostic admissions standards, those percentages may be even higher.
Note that Stanford's and MIT's percentatges are notable lower than UC's. Why?
gimeq | 13 years ago | on: Retired lab chimps see the sky for the first time
Gratitude is the least of it. Deepest apologies, corrections, and reparations are more like it.
More specifically, you can join a petition, deadline March 22: https://secure.humanesociety.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&#...
More general: http://www.humanesociety.org/issues/biomedical_research/help...
gimeq | 13 years ago | on: The Startup Legitimizer
I love it.
It is a complete and utter mockery, yet it provides real value to the the users it is mocking.
gimeq | 13 years ago | on: Amazon stops selling Sim City V over game issues
SimCity 2000/3000/4 still work perfectly, and are available for free.
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