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by Kapura 13y ago
I hate to derail this topic to talk about 4chan, but I think that 4chan is many-faceted (and, indeed, the level of anonymity has varied across time and from board to board on the website) so I'm not certain an informed opinion could ev
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by Kapura 13y ago
If 4chan.org has taught the world anything, the first thing that people will do with total anonymity is decay into the behaviours that they WANT to express, but society deems unacceptable. That forbidden fruit of being able to shit-talk wit
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by Kapura 13y ago
This article resonated deeply with my own experience. Like Rohlf, I learned to program TI-Basic in middle school, and like him, I've had the ability to see several different teaching paradigms when it comes to computer science. In the
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by Kapura 13y ago
1. The biggest issue that we're going to encounter this decade onward is continuation of automation of jobs that real people used to have. As computers and machines continue to upend more and more of the labour market, we'll incre
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by Kapura 13y ago
What is "bro"gramming?
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Bangladeshi Workers More Concerned with Low Salaries than Poor Safety(npr.org)
2 points by Kapura 13y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Is Google responsible for returning 'fair' results or 'good' ones?
3 points by Kapura 13y ago|2 comments
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by Kapura 13y ago
I thought that this was a joke digital currency. Literally the only other place I've ever seen it mentioned was on 4chan.org, where the threads about it made very clear that the point of dogecoin was to try to get speculators to drive
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by Kapura 13y ago
I mean, of course they're against this law because it's hurting their bottom line. But sometimes business interests and personal freedom align. I would say that data collection is bad for both the businesses and the people whose d
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by Kapura 13y ago
Joe Lieberman lost the Democratic Party's support in his 2006 senatorial race by not being a Democrat. He ran as an independent and won. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Lieberman#2006_Senate_elect...
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by Kapura 13y ago
I, too, kind of wish that these revelations had taken place before the elections. Not that politicians promises mean anything, but a positive rhetoric is often the first step towards positive change. I don't think that Obama should be
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by Kapura 13y ago
I find it hilarious that the Obama White House doesn't seem to be taking the tech companies' position seriously. In fact, the White Houses's almost complete non-response to the NSA revelations has damaged their credibility in
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by Kapura 13y ago
I think that's absolutely the truth with me. My team was smaller by Amazon standards, but the role of the team was such that a very large number of responsibilities fell under their scope. I wasn't involved in much of the other st
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by Kapura 13y ago
After reading this story, it's remarkable how much it reminds me of my own experience. I worked for Amazon.com as an intern for 3 months, then at the end I wasn't offered the position. They said that I showed "excellent techn
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by Kapura 13y ago
This is the flipside of Riot's agreement: Riot can be reasonably expected to hold up their end of the deal. The details on how pro-esports teams are supposed to make a living and pay their bills are still up in the air, but generally t
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by Kapura 13y ago
A term only "wins" when you let it. I don't like the breadth of the term "MOBA;" I think ASSFAGGOTS better describes the specific subgenre that includes LoL, Dota, HoN, and Smite. To me, the separation is similar to
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by Kapura 13y ago
The players will only need unions if the companies insist on these sort of anti-competitive contracts. I don't think that a company like Valve would insist on such a clause for competitive Dota, which might make it more attractive to p
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by Kapura 13y ago
College Sports have some strange rules regarding what they can do concurrently. Of particular note is the case of Jeremy Bloom[1], who was an excellent college football player and an Olympic skier. The NCAA really seems pretty anti-students
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by Kapura 13y ago
I remember back, maybe ten or 12 years ago, there was another difficult online game/puzzle called, if memory serves, notpr0n.com. It was pretty difficult, requiring lateral thinking, some amount of technical skill, and some strange tri
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by Kapura 13y ago
I was going to reply with just this. Detroit ran out of money because it was routinely overpaying pensioners for decades. The people who are suffering are the people who've not yet received any pension that they were promised. Many peo
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Fixing my Internet/Life Imbalance & Related Depression(medium.com)
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by Kapura 13y ago
I'm disinclined to continue responding if you continue BELIEVING that I am lying to you about the FACT that I am an atheist, that I have no religion, that I don't believe in God. If you presume that I am so wrong on every poin
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by Kapura 13y ago
I'd prefer this discussion continue on this site rather than the other, if you've no preference. ;) >The value offered by religion has absolutely no bearing on the truthfulness of the religion I don't disagree, but I argue
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by Kapura 13y ago
That's a more than valid point. If you allow your faith to stifle scientific thought, you are at fault. But I truly feel that there are questions that tear at the heart of a person, like "what is my purpose" that no amount of
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by Kapura 13y ago
I don't know your first name, but I'll call you Alex (al1x ~= alix ~= Alex). Thanks for responding Alex. I'm glad that you have. You've brought up a number of points which I'd like to address. 1) You say "relig
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An Atheist Defends Religion(medium.com)
6 points by Kapura 13y ago|19 comments
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We Are Living In The Future(medium.com)
2 points by Kapura 13y ago|0 comments
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by Kapura 13y ago
Ultimately, as many, many, users are pointing out, this is not a controlled lab experiment despite its rigour. I applaud the author for taking initiative and I'm so happy that people are looking at drugs that are anecdotally supposed t
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by Kapura 13y ago
I think that there's a lot of subtlety that gets lost talking about the corporate structure in Amazon. The levels were more or less correct, so far as it goes, but it's not the full story. For instance, a senior developer could be
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by Kapura 13y ago
What a beautiful concept. It's sad that it met such an unnatural end. I think it's more than possible that this game could have lasted much, much longer (perhaps even years). Stupid webhosts. Why doesn't everybody use AWS? ;)

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