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by Mz 9y ago
It is of course possible I'm massively mis-estimating the potential userbase. That is largely irrelevant. Do you have a marketing plan? Because "build it and they will come" tends to work poorly. If you have no marketing pl
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by Mz 9y ago
I was arguing against simply throwing kids off of public computers willy nilly. I was not advocating actively promoting the pursuit of such activities. There is a difference.
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by Mz 9y ago
and I'm hesitating a bit before pushing it over the line. I think I'm scared of having lots of users. A) What is "lots" of users? (Give me a number) B) What makes you think you would suddenly have lots? Cuz most things
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Court to billionaire Martins Beach owner: Open the gate(sfgate.com)
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by Mz 9y ago
From the article: The parents seem to have some vague concept that spending hours each evening on Facebook and YouTube will impart, by some sort of cybernetic osmosis, a knowledge of PHP, HTML, JavaScript and Haskell. And you posit that t
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Seeing without eyes – the unexpected world of nonvisual photoreception(theconversation.com)
1 points by Mz 9y ago|0 comments
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World's biggest bike parking garage opens in Utrecht – but Dutch dream of more(theguardian.com)
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Extreme heat in Europe decimating crops and stoking drought(seattletimes.com)
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Study finds climate change altering Europe’s river floods(washingtonpost.com)
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by Mz 9y ago
Playing games and other "frivolous" activities are a primary source of learning computer literacy for children. If you say poor kids can't play games on a public computer, you are putting them at a serious disadvantage compar
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by Mz 9y ago
Your library has terrible policies. Good libraries have policies in place for allotting computer time fairly in order to adequately serve all members. Your library may also be underfunded. This is an issue for a lot of libraries.
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by Mz 9y ago
That's just your opinion, which not everyone will share, and it is rather gauche to say it here. It is possible to compliment mefi on HN without insulting HN in the process.
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by Mz 9y ago
As a rule of thumb, people who aren't so thrilled tend to stop showing up.
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Communicating with Strangers on the Internet(micheleincalifornia.blogspot.com)
2 points by Mz 9y ago|1 comments
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by Mz 9y ago
Explicitly so, if there's any history of sexism and prejudice. Actually, they need to be implicitly welcomed, not explicitly. (For clarity's sake: http://micheleincalifornia.blogspot.com/2016/07/less-
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The Little Known Bear River Massacre(1001histories.blogspot.com)
1 points by Mz 9y ago|0 comments
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by Mz 9y ago
Mathieu's Newsletter. Want it shorter and easier for people to pronounce? Mat's Newsletter. It worked for Craig's List. And it has the benefit of allowing you to do whatever you want with it, even pivot it. If you give it an
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by Mz 9y ago
and it discriminates against a lot of people (including women). My assumption is you aren't a woman, but I thought I would stop in and ask if you are. If you aren't, what is the basis for your idea that his communication style w
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by Mz 9y ago
You cannot please all of the people, all of the time. Trying will make you crazy.
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by Mz 9y ago
She says she realized tech wasn't for her when she realized doing IT in her off-hours was unpalatable. Here's my question: Why? Because she is actually extremely competitive, something typically thought of as a male trait: Whic
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by Mz 9y ago
To be clearer about what I mean, this is something I wrote recently: http://micheleincalifornia.blogspot.com/2017/07/public-priva... I wrestle a lot with such questions.
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by Mz 9y ago
I was in the throes of a brief, doomed romance. I had attended a concert that Saturday night. I answered the question with an account of both. The guys stared blankly. Then silence. Then one of them said: “I built a fiber-channel network i
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by Mz 9y ago
Give me a break. He is playing fast and loose with terminology and it is disingenuous because he is twisting lifestyle business to be whatever he wants it to mean while dissing startups and not giving that term the same flexibility to b
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by Mz 9y ago
In America, a lot of Vietnamese restaurants have Pho in the name because it is a dish they serve, then the rest of the name makes it sound like some English word. One variation: Pho King. I have seen it said that Pho is pronounced Fuh, so F
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by Mz 9y ago
On the one hand: It isn't aimed at a French audience. On the other: I, also, am hearing dirty words in my English-default brain and wondering where they got the name and what they were thinking or intending it to mean. This might be ad
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by Mz 9y ago
First, figure out how to make actual intelligence safe. This is not a solved problem. Then, use lessons learned there to deal with AI constructively.
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Curious case of the model, the fantasist, the Dark Web and the Black Death gang(thenational.ae)
1 points by Mz 9y ago|0 comments
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Fact vies with fantasy in 'Black Death' model kidnap case(abcnews.go.com)
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More than half of women who got an abortion last year were using contraception(marketwatch.com)
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by Mz 9y ago
My assumption is that meritocracy would apply at work, not to society as a whole. If you assume we are talking about a country, sure, it is all kinds of fucked up and broken and will never fly. But, currently, women, people of color, etc, s

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