JBReefer

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by JBReefer 11y ago
Hell, I would be actively happy. I really don't like the impact Twitter has had on journalism and on outrage culture. It's too short to be intellectual and seems to encourage the "2 minutes of hate."
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by JBReefer 11y ago
I think that's the crux of the hysterical coverage around this - the media really, really needs Twitter, and no one else cares anymore. Snapchat is a better way to interact with your friends _and_ with celebrites/strangers/co
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by JBReefer 11y ago
I don't think many embedded systems engineers could write a PaaS
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by JBReefer 11y ago
>No building style better represented America’s industriousness, monomaniacal greed, disregard of tradition, and eagerness to attempt feats that more established cultures considered obscene. And while those indelicate traits prompted Ame
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by JBReefer 11y ago
They're web scale
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by JBReefer 11y ago
A. Whataboutism is lame B. The Aral Sea was 10x larger [1] C. I do appreciate the irony of A D. the scale of both is mindblowing, so I upvoted you [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aral_Sea
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by JBReefer 11y ago
It doesn't serve the narrative
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by JBReefer 11y ago
Where do you go? I've hunted around a lot - it's really uncomfortable that they tell you "nothing is connected" and then recommend people you've dated...
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by JBReefer 11y ago
Twitter is the Two Minutes of Hate mixed with memes
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by JBReefer 11y ago
19th richest is not particularly rich, especially when the median household income is only $73,733. Power law distributions are really critical here. EDIT: In fact I'd argue that this supports point that the Midwest is very equal - one
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by JBReefer 11y ago
^ This is why Hacker News is worth coming to. Snark and quick dismissal lead to negativity and thoughtlessness, which rapidly kills communities. Thanks for everything you do, dang.
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by JBReefer 11y ago
A lot of suburbs actively don't want to be cities - though that's changing now that this is negatively impacting house values. I never understood suburbs - why not live in the country if you can't walk anywhere anyway?
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by JBReefer 11y ago
Rail changes behavior, buses don't. Rail builds cities in a way that bus systems never have. It's not a simple optimization problem.
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by JBReefer 11y ago
I would sign up for that tomorrow, depending on how much ongoing costs were. Definitely not at $1600, however.
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by JBReefer 11y ago
I agree, and I appreciate the analogy. Like a blender, people know what a tablet does, what it is good for, and how to compare models. They also know what a tablet doesn't do - they're certainly not the desktop/laptop replace
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by JBReefer 11y ago
But I like writing code, a lot. I like biking and trains and taking pictures and fashion and working out, but why does it always feel like those are given more social credence as a use of time? TBH I'd really like to write a lot of cod
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by JBReefer 11y ago
I'm having a tough time finding it, but there was a really good article that analyzed median performance of law school grads and found that, if law school was a security, it would be below a junk rated bond.
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by JBReefer 11y ago
Their massive stock in tinfoil companies
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by JBReefer 11y ago
You're being downvoted unfairly, because that's exactly what my peer group says about twitter. It just looks like a storm of hatred and noise, with some good comedy and utility in breaking news situations.
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by JBReefer 11y ago
I'm in that horrible demographic (white uppermiddle class New Yorker who lives in a cool neighborhood) that's probably the most valuable in the US, and literally _all_ of my friends use Facebook Messenger as their primary means of
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by JBReefer 11y ago
If you're just scanning, it's not THE Difference Engine, it's a replica: >"To be clear, the museum's difference engine isn't an original built 160 years ago by Babbage, but rather it is a working model pains
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by JBReefer 11y ago
New York had Robert Moses, who fucked the city up so badly that the subway carries half the people it once did, and the population has only just reached the pre-Moses highs. Not all grand visions are for the best.
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by JBReefer 11y ago
Such as?
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by JBReefer 11y ago
To your point, I'm also younger and have very few friends on Twitter. If anything, twitter is old and full of noise. My friends all use fb, Snapchat and IG
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Those things are all fungible, and thus can be exchanged for cash. This would only introduce friction, not prevent inflation.
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by JBReefer 11y ago
Many times in upstate New York, and many more times on my motorcycle
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by JBReefer 11y ago
That's talking about radioactive decay, not fission. The article doesn't do a great job distinguishing between the two, but it's _not_ talking about the process of splitting atoms. >The new measurements suggest radioactive
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by JBReefer 11y ago
The findings confirm what people who talk about urban planning say, but it never seems to trickle into the wider world. You still hear people say that we have to restrict growth to keep costs down, widen highways to reduce traffic, etc. eve
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by JBReefer 11y ago
You need to cite your sources on the US height claim. If you exclude Mexicans (who come from one of the shortest countries on Earth), the US is one of the _tallest_ countries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_height#
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by JBReefer 11y ago
Maybe in SF, but not in the rest of the world. Even here in Silicon Alley, we're a small piece of a very large pie.

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