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by VSerge 6y ago
Excessive hyperbole, aka crying wolf, does make it less likely that if horror happens, it will be taken seriously. But this is not that. China has jailed over a million people from a single targeted ethnic group. Rapes, forced sterilization
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by VSerge 6y ago
Consider the last sentence : "I think most men and people in general like to think of themselves as non-biased so most of this happens as subconscious actions." Pretty sure this commenter thought of themselves as non-biased. Irony
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by VSerge 6y ago
I second this wholeheartedly, it is a very positive story, albeit with a cheeky title. The article explains how a person in a "higher" position (director of design) made the active choice to change career path and start again as a
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by VSerge 6y ago
I was not planning to fly on a 737 Max for at least a few years without crashes, just because there's no point taking what still seems to be a risk when there are so many alternatives. Reading the Verge article and the senate report fi
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by VSerge 6y ago
I've seen first hand how well it works in a study with 40k kids in the US, Norway, and France. The study was led by the Center for Game Science, Washington University. Paper: Zoran Popović. Achieving 96% Mastery at National Scale throu
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by VSerge 6y ago
Journalists can do great work, provided the incentives are lined up right. One of the only French newspaper that is consistently in the black is an investigative weekly paper called "le canard enchainé". It is read by pretty much
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by VSerge 6y ago
Actual great learning games do exist, but the real awesome ones are rare. See this 2012 thread on a truly awesome algebra learning game, and this stays relevant to this day. To the best of my knowledge, it is still the best and fastest way
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by VSerge 6y ago
The focus is wavering and it is hard to make sense of much that is being said beyond: Soyuz kept bringing cosmonauts into space for 9 years - true - and SpaceX / the US would do well not to bury them just yet or disparage the accomplis
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by VSerge 6y ago
It's interesting to read about accountability (just scroll down a bit on the page). 99% of the officers involved in a killing are not held accountable. It could mean that 99% of killings were lawful, or it could mean impunity, and that
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by VSerge 6y ago
I believe this is called a nationalization. And here I was, thinking nothing Trump could pull would be surprising, but actually Trump nationalizing Twitter would do the trick.
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by VSerge 6y ago
MS not having the basic decency of reimbursing his travel expenses is also shocking, as well as incredibly petty. What a broken way of dealing with someone who dealt with MS in good faith and brought value to their ecosystem.
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by VSerge 6y ago
Erich Fromm's "Escape from freedom". It is very well written and the subject matter is truly mind-bending: how can an educated people decide to throw their freedom away and give power to a dictator? E. Fromm was German psycho
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by VSerge 6y ago
Thanks for the recommendations. I would in return suggest Braintrust by Patricia Churchland. It looks at how morality and ethics arise from the needs of social animals such as ourselves to exist within a group that won't tear itself ap
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by VSerge 6y ago
I'll second that. After reading the history of sexuality by Foucault in college, I remember coming to the frustrated realization that the point of this jargony disaster of a book could have been made in a couple pages, possibly less. I
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by VSerge 7y ago
Oh the pain of biochemistry! Thanks to the author for making this available to everyone, and reminding these of us who ran screaming from the labs why our decision is not among the ones we might regret. Joking aside, I hope this molecule ca
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by VSerge 7y ago
I share your sentiment. This seems to be a great engineer, storyteller, and a person able to make a complex technical story accessible to a layperson with only minimal dumbing down (except if I'm too ignorant to perceive the magnitude
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by VSerge 7y ago
Looking around, a number of widths exist for these systems, and installing what is called pre-cast units would start at about 10k$ for the smallest (4ft in diameter), and go up from there (see EPA paper below for additional details). Mainte
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by VSerge 7y ago
you will find below a 2018 article (in French), it lists a 23% rise in injuries, though fatalies appear stable year on year. Experts are cited as expecting a sharp rise of both with the increasing numbers of "trottinettes électriques&q
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by VSerge 8y ago
These anti-tax activists seem to be playing the role of Useful Idiots for the much more substantial reason 1, bearing in mind that the very existence of such companies making tax filing easier does indeed destroy point 2 entirely (in additi
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by VSerge 8y ago
Found this piece in which Lyft boasts that they had more driver upon coming back to Austin, and where RideAustin states that their numbers have dropped from 50k weekly rides to 20k rides, which is their minimum number to remain relevant. Dr
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by VSerge 8y ago
US military spending was at over 600 billion dollars in 2017. This is more than a third of worldwide military spending. It is also more than the combined spending of at least China, Saudi, Russia, India, the UK, France, and Japan. See the w
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French foreign ministry website hacked – personal data stolen(reuters.com)
2 points by VSerge 8y ago|0 comments
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by VSerge 8y ago
TL,DR, my main takeaways are: - it's all about the team (what every VC will tell you) - don't start a company with friends you haven't already worked with and really tested - first mover advantage won't help if you move
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by VSerge 8y ago
"[it is the] Berezina" is something us Frenchies say when something is a total and utter catastrophe, and it refers to Napoleon's disastrous loss in Russia. Usually Napoleon is remembered more positively for what he did in th
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by VSerge 8y ago
Thanks a lot for posting this, I had never encountered Poland in history classes (French edu system) except for the 20th century history parts, and had no idea about either the Union in itself or its political system. We heard a lot about t
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by VSerge 8y ago
First off, I am not certain it is such a bleak personal experience to work for these companies, an engineer friend at Space X HQ is usually pulling around 40-50h work weeks, which seems sustainable if a little intense. Some industries oper
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by VSerge 8y ago
I find regrettable that the reasoning is still explained/oversimplified in terms of "electric potential tells body to do this". This is utterly nonsensical determinism, unhelpful when trying to understand hugely complex and d
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by VSerge 8y ago
Compound this and the likelihood that many line counts are counting method artefacts, and the end ratio is probably more around 3:1. For anyone writing non-fiction, I would highly recommend the book "on writing well" by William Zi
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by VSerge 8y ago
The columnist is actually a Fox news commentator.
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Facebook Identity Theft Reporting Is Broken(medium.com)
2 points by VSerge 9y ago|0 comments

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