Benjo

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by Benjo 15y ago
>Rather than take the knee-jerk response that politicians must just be in the pocket of big media, I'm going to look at how some aspects of human behavior make this kind of highly damaging legislation more likely. Maybe I'm too cynical
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by Benjo 15y ago
Founders: in your experience, what qualifications should a "business guy" have? Is the willingness to do what your cofounder can't or what sufficient or do you need a certain business/leadership/social skill?
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by Benjo 15y ago
Anecdote alert: A female coworker who was also a close friend of mine sent me an issue, asking me if it was related to an issue I had debugged. It was, and the issue was not assigned, so I took it and closed it as duplicate. She was pissed.
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by Benjo 15y ago
The social skills were key. Without them I wouldn't have recognized the negativity of my old friends or the positivity of my new friends. Before that I couldn't even recognize the bad state my friends were putting me in. Also, they enabled
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by Benjo 15y ago
I feel compelled to share my current process of understanding and dealing with my own introversion. Maybe this will resonate with others, maybe not. Where I am right now, it's more important for me to be able to share this than anything els
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by Benjo 15y ago
To answer your question literally: Congressmen like credit card companies because of their large campaign contributions. Anyone hoping to disrupt will have to overcome the fact that the rules of the game are being written against them. Payp
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by Benjo 15y ago
Congress doesn't really care about tax dollars so much as individual congressmen care about campaign contributions. So you'd have to convince congressmen that they'll get more contributions by changing the patent system than by keeping it t
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The State of Version Control(media.bitquabit.com)
1 points by Benjo 16y ago|2 comments
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by Benjo 16y ago
Ah, I hadn't considered that reading of it. For what it's worth, I'd want a full stop period or even line break before the second punchline before I'd read it that way. In that way the joke is perhaps much more funny to people who read it t
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by Benjo 16y ago
I was a little jarred that he explicitly mentioned rape. Don't get me wrong, nothing is off-limits for a joke, provided it is funny enough, but this joke is just as funny without the last clause. Including it is just redundant, not to menti
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by Benjo 16y ago
My point stands. She identifies herself as female for the purposes of giving a data point and explain why she wrote the post in the first place. The author left a follow-up comment: my point isn't that that female coders aren't interested
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by Benjo 16y ago
Is there some reason the author should be able to explain the motivation of all female coders? She saw that people were wondering why females weren't showing up, and she gave her personal reasons. She's giving a single data point, not tryin
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by Benjo 16y ago
For more nerd out of water action, there is a Penny Arcade TV episode focusing on Gabe and Tycho's invitation to the Time 100 dinner. Not a lot of footage of the actual event for practical reasons, I'd imagine. http://www.penny-arcade.com/
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by Benjo 16y ago
The finance sector is a perfect example of how an industry influences the government for profit, to the detriment of the greater goals of a society. I don't think lawsuits are a suitable way to deal with the energy problem, but I could be c
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by Benjo 16y ago
I agree. The free market and competition have created more value than any other tool in human history and it's absolutely the best tool for this job. There seems to be a common misconception that free markets will arise naturally and any go
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by Benjo 16y ago
Yeah, the last factor I didn't quite follow. Seems like the original author felt like 8000 was too large, so he needed a bullshit excuse to scale it down one more time.
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by Benjo 16y ago
Actually, according to arstechnica, that lack of hesitation was before the segment was reshot. A human had answered "missing a hand," which created context that means "What is a leg" could be interpreted as "he was missing a leg". Initially
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by Benjo 16y ago
Sounds good to me. Unfortunately, politicians have more to gain by giving tax breaks to successful company compared to helping new small businesses, which is probably why there's not a lot of political will for ideas like this.
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by Benjo 16y ago
Here's the link: http://philip.greenspun.com/bg/
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by Benjo 16y ago
I agree. Incumbents are doing their best to rig the system resulting in further concentration of wealth.
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by Benjo 16y ago
The problem is the distorting effect that wealth has on equal representation in a democracy.
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by Benjo 16y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_distribution Wealth inequality is much more pronounced than income inequality, especially in the bottom quintiles.
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by Benjo 16y ago
How is this different from a politician saying anything else?
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by Benjo 16y ago
I don't think teaching them, or their staffs, to use version control will be the major obstacle. Convincing representatives that they need to be more accountable when it doesn't really help them get reelected will be much harder.
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by Benjo 16y ago
Just curious: what is the better way to teach math? Or is that not obvious?
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by Benjo 16y ago
I don't believe intellectual property is a matter of ethics any more than arguing whether it is right or wrong to drive down the left side of the street. The basis for IP law is to encourage the production of creative works. The moral imper
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by Benjo 16y ago
How do you know we're not just part of a simulation to determine the outcome of Bush v. Gore?
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by Benjo 16y ago
From the article: One of the most crucial IT reforms proposed by Kundra relates to startups. Kundra said the administration wants to make it easier for federal government to work with the small, agile technology companies that are constant
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by Benjo 16y ago
My mistake: fixed.
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by Benjo 16y ago
Not sure how this should shift people's attitudes towards taxes. Do we increase them to encourage charitable giving or decrease them so the rich have more to give? At some level this type of thinking lets government off the hook. Philanthro

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