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by Lagged2Death 9y ago
The World Bank specifically and the neo-colonialist world-view it embodies have both been severely criticised in pretty much this vein since not too long after the bank was founded.
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by Lagged2Death 9y ago
Dexter Palmer's 2016 novel Version Control had imagined something rather like this in a near-future United States, where phone calls and video screens would occasionally be interrupted by a message from the president. I had thought i
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by Lagged2Death 9y ago
What kind of planning and permitting process does a project like this require? Or would it be legal for me to just go and release a cloud of mosquitoes myself?
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by Lagged2Death 9y ago
Wage stagnation began at the same time the number of women in the workplace started to grow ... The rate of the growing female workforce itself started to stagnant around the 90s and 2000s... Have a look over here: https://www.
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by Lagged2Death 9y ago
When a topic like self-driving vehicles comes up, the Hacker News crowd is mainly in favor: “Creative destruction! Disruption! Go go gadget robots!” Not surprising. How many Hacker News readers drive trucks or taxis for a living? How many r
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by Lagged2Death 9y ago
Look at my horse. My horse is amazing.
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by Lagged2Death 9y ago
In fact, the very pro-Democratic plans are more gerrymandered than the very pro-Republican plans, including the plan in question. The chart shows districing plans with larger efficiency gaps but the article does not offer any of the rea
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by Lagged2Death 9y ago
http://chainsawsuit.com/comic/archive/2016/07/07/all-houses-...
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by Lagged2Death 9y ago
I am reminded of a quote that made an impression on me years ago but which I'm unable to attribute: "If you don't believe ownership matters, you're not playing capitalism anymore." Really, you shouldn't need to
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by Lagged2Death 9y ago
Critiquing a hypothesis is part of the scientific process, not "anti-science". "Critiquing" the same hypothesis by sea-lioning ("We're just asking some questions," when the questions have been well answe
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by Lagged2Death 9y ago
Explaining to you how to do it the right way is not an obligation of anyone that says X article is wrong? I wouldn't expect an explanation, I wouldn't say the author is obliged to that kind of effort. I did sort of expect a l
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by Lagged2Death 9y ago
If you have a systematic approach to achieve safety and counter terrorism, without monitoring citizens, then please state it briefly. I personally have no idea how to prevent without close monitoring. Why shouldn't the burden be on t
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by Lagged2Death 9y ago
So now if my CTO gets drunk and does something stupid, there is zero tolerance and my investors will demand his termination. Or you could hire a female CTO maybe. ... business could be torpedoed. Your CTO could be hit by a bus at any mo
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by Lagged2Death 9y ago
If the 3x slowdown from the infrastructure were eliminated, each round-trip-time being 3x faster would affect all the protocols above, and we could immediately cut the latency inflation from ~37x to around 10x, without any protocol modific
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by Lagged2Death 9y ago
So how do the Russians know that the code they see is the one generating the binaries sold in Russia? Maybe this is more about training and retaining Russian tech talent, creating friction for foreign vendors, and spreading a proto-fascis
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by Lagged2Death 9y ago
Mirroring = doing whatever others are doing / fitting in. It's a natural guess, but no. Check out: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror_neuron
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by Lagged2Death 9y ago
“‘Microtargeting is trying to unravel your political DNA,’ [Gage] said. ‘The more information I have about you, the better.’ The more information [Gage] has, the better he can group people into "target clusters" with names such a
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by Lagged2Death 9y ago
So the top comment here on HN is the one that minimizes the possibility of the incident being rooted in sexism. What a shock. There's a strange mindset at work here. Everyone perfectly well knows sexism is a real thing that happens in
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by Lagged2Death 9y ago
So it is an easy thing to do to at least equal Intel with their vast experience after only a few years... ARM will be 27 years old this year.
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by Lagged2Death 9y ago
"Uber for dogs" has been around for a few years. https://wagwalking.com/ So it's not just real, it's actually bordering on passé. Now, does that make the essay sillier or does it make it scarier?
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by Lagged2Death 9y ago
The Obama administration was pro-solar, so the GOP had to be, has been, anti-solar. Remember the Solyndra "scandal." It's not about "annoying the environmentalists" per see, it's about motivating those voters w
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by Lagged2Death 9y ago
Soccer Moms' Revenge https://grassrootsmotorsports.com/articles/soccer-moms-reven... Once we unloaded our gear, luggage, tires and a bunch of other junk from the same Honda Odyssey—a minivan, remember—that had ju
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by Lagged2Death 9y ago
I thought the whole deal with startup investing was: Invest in a few dozen companies and hope you get one hit so big it makes up for all the others, which you expect to all go down in flames. That can work if you have millions to spend and
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by Lagged2Death 9y ago
The story and so much of the discussion about it seem to exclude the boring possibility: Valve is not run by benevolent entertainment angel-saints, but neither is it run by mustache-twirling villains. The things they do have both upsides an
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by Lagged2Death 9y ago
Isn't this bizarre? If she couldn't monetize it and make it profitable in eight years, maybe it's for the best that someone else gets a shot. I'm guessing the vast majority of modern patents are held by enormous multin
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by Lagged2Death 9y ago
Many Chinese goods traditionally have had a reputation of low quality. Maybe that reputation is outdated or perhaps it was never quite accurate (?), but either way I don't think it's reasonable to label a reference to that reputa
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by Lagged2Death 9y ago
I know that "killed" and "murdered" etc. are hyperbole, but I wonder if they might be toxic, bad hyperbole. Flickr is still bigger and more important than anything I'll ever be able to take credit for. Any random re
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by Lagged2Death 9y ago
This doesn't add up for me yet, because I don't understand what the supposed motive is. Authoritarians (like cops, broadly speaking) have always tried to spy on people who might subvert their own authority and the status quo, li
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by Lagged2Death 9y ago
Many channels are seeing their revenues plummet as big companies pull their ads out of fear they will be shown in more controversial videos ... Strictly speaking it isn't censorship when Youtube removes a channel for being politically
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by Lagged2Death 9y ago
I've only shipped one or two little things with WPF. I think the author makes plenty of good points. And some points which I'm not advanced enough to understand. But I actually like writing XAML by hand. The GUI-based GUI designer

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