Hyena

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by Hyena 15y ago
Why even bother with the state? Just get the postal code. Hell, just let the user write in the postal code and use their IP address to match it with the country of residence. They can put any number in there and you can match it to some loc
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by Hyena 15y ago
That's not true. Expanding market share can mean selling at lower price points, which in turn means lower margins and potentially lower ROI. Moreover, the simple ways around this, like keeping older product lines longer, have risks in the t
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by Hyena 15y ago
I think this is inaccurate both in its presumed comparison and in the premise which underlies it. First, grinding (really farming, no one outside of Korea grinds anymore, which I'll get to) in an MMO or playing Farmville is pretty low inten
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by Hyena 15y ago
The article mentions that there is a weird problem among African American students at Berkeley: the middle of the SAT distribution and low end of the income distribution were doing better than the high ends of either. They chocked this resu
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by Hyena 15y ago
I knew several Asian students who did this, even in the engineering department it was rampant.
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by Hyena 15y ago
You mention LessWrong, very nice; then you know they were forced: any time you deploy the Dark Arts to manipulate someone's behavior, you undermine their free will. "Choice" wasn't part of it, or at least not the largest part.
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by Hyena 15y ago
"I don't think it takes much to fix education; it's so broken that any young person today with an appreciation for gaming could probably figure out something better than what exists now." Why so?
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by Hyena 15y ago
Or they felt trapped by their agreement to participate in the experiment. They made an offer to annul the contract, which would indicate that they were following through with what they had agreed to do. Moreover, the situation they were in
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by Hyena 15y ago
It should just be rewritten to: "the importance of being lazy". If you can automate a task, you're an office hero and "a miracle worker" in most places. And just like a "miracle worker", you may have come near an auto de fe more times than
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by Hyena 15y ago
"Offline streaming" is kind of a kludge term. To me, if I don't own the songs and they're not immediately accessible to my other software, "syncing" seems slightly inaccurate connotatively. So I went with "offline streaming" because it seem
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by Hyena 15y ago
Wouldn't our evaluation depend a lot on your model of how invites would spread across the social graphs of users? I'd think that the user base would expand until the sub-marginal user had been invited. Given that the value of the network is
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by Hyena 15y ago
Maybe you just like cities and prefer the available amenities to additional space?
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That's the article's point: for the last decade companies have been talking up creativity and innovation and hiring like it was 1959.
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by Hyena 15y ago
Yeah, this is the only real problem: they lack some artists with extremely valuable back catalogs.
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That's probably why Spotify looks almost precisely like iTunes and syncs to un-networked mobile devices.
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by Hyena 15y ago
Spotify lets you download songs into iPods and phones for offline streaming. This is an obsolete complaint.
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by Hyena 15y ago
For a simpler long term fix, we could just change how we do college admissions. For example, if we raised the entry requirements for 18 year-olds and kept the requirements re people in their mid-20s and up. That would eliminate lots of libe
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by Hyena 15y ago
Oh, I agree that this is a problem, but you have to admit that attempting to patch workers is a far better medium term solution than trying to besiege the education system for 20 years.
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by Hyena 15y ago
The article addresses this at the end: Kurzweil, et al are banking on dramatic changes in medicine on the level of the introduction of antibiotics. Right now we're possibly at the farthest end of the antibiotics-and-surgery technology suite
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by Hyena 15y ago
This isn't going to help us. The "reform the education system" model is usually an incredibly stupid idea. The issue is that you're essentially farming: you take 22 years to grow a new crop of skilled workers. In the education reform arena,
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by Hyena 15y ago
My point is that when DBAs were new(ish), you had a lot of people you had to train to become them. We don't see this as a problem now because we're past that point in the database arena. The people I knew who ran databases when I was in hig
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by Hyena 15y ago
Most businesses take about 6 months to train people, it seems, from informal polling of acquaintances.
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All companies need unskilled people: you train them so your business can expand. That's where global supply chain managers and database programmers came from originally--and in many cases still do--they don't fall from the clouds. The issue
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by Hyena 15y ago
I think the article does a pretty good job. I've figured several times that there is no "talent shortage" but a "training shortage": companies want people with skills they learn on the job but are unwilling to actually train anyone. So you'
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by Hyena 15y ago
Not much to show, sadly, since it's not ready. :( The feature I'd really like to see in something like this--for QR or NFC, etc.--is for the app to know when you scanned a code and when you took a photo. For example, I take a picture of pos
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by Hyena 15y ago
The Apple Store, so far as I know, has some built in unsustainability because it supports update paths but doesn't have a way to charge for that service. In the long run, it will need either a new revenue source or a "trust" created by init
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by Hyena 15y ago
I guess the obvious question not asked is whether Google set the "real name" bar artificially high in order to slowly work out where the edges of the issue are. It might simply have been more efficient to wear down a draconian rule than to
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Sure they do: get another tablet. It's not necessarily Apple's responsibility to be an open platform, is it?
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Let's assume that there was a clear-cut way for Google to do that. Would it be simply wrong of Google to try to make money that way? Would it be any more wrong than charging users directly or putting ads up?
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It will get hard for me to keep playing this game because, as I suggested, I disagree with Apple here. However, it's a fun exercise. Say that you go to a grocery store and reach an agreement: you'll be selling apples, you'll pay $100 in ren

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