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by abalone 8y ago
I think this post is really just arguing for some kind of ranked choice voting system to better support third party candidates. You’re criticizing a specific implementation of ranked choice, but I think the author was just using IRV to re
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by abalone 8y ago
The author appears to be talking about comparative literature exclusively. It’s truly a misleading title. Comparative literature (or “critical theory” or “dept of rhetoric” or whatever fanciful name they’re using) is indeed the cultiest fie
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by abalone 8y ago
> Interview day. Show up. Turns out future manager, that is the main person I should have been talking to, wasn't even there. What do people recommend doing in this situation? Walk away? Reschedule? Insist on explanation? Or is it
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by abalone 8y ago
The financial incentive is much more pedestrian: hot take clickbait for struggling news organizations.
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by abalone 8y ago
> the company also has analytics based on a consumer panel of more than 70 million people in the U.S. — 10 million of whom that have opted into always-on location sharing. I don’t believe it. 10M people opted in to be tracked? What exa
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Foursquare partners with TripAdvisor(techcrunch.com)
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by abalone 8y ago
That's because the Pixel uses an AMOLED display. The iPhone XR uses LED which is cheaper but thicker. My point stands: Lightning's space savings are essential to the iPhone XR. Also, the iPhones do support universal charging (Qi).
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by abalone 8y ago
You don't need a specific cable for your iPhone. You can charge it wirelessly. Regardless, USB-C would not be nicer than keeping the iPhone XR as thin as it is. Lightning really makes it possible.
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by abalone 8y ago
This article is mostly about overcrowding but another important consideration is carbon footprint. The carbon footprint of tourism is a big blindspot in the "liberal" mindset (speaking as one). On the one hand travel is supposed t
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by abalone 8y ago
> The obvious benefit for adopting USB-C is compatibility with other devices. Not an obvious benefit for a largely wireless device. For the vast vast majority of people it’s only used for charging and that’s moving to wireless too.
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by abalone 8y ago
USB-C is considerably bigger than Lightning while offering arguably no major benefit for an almost entirely wireless device. Think size doesn’t really matter that much? The iPhone XR actually pushes the lightning port down slightly off cent
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by abalone 8y ago
Even if they were legally obligated to pay him, they were not obligated to protect him. They had nice parting words for him and invested in his subsequent venture. They could have just kept their mouths shut and cut off all contact. They
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by abalone 8y ago
I think Facebook is juicing their DAU metrics by gaming people with "friend suggestion" notifications. My usage is way down and I barely check it, maybe once in a couple weeks, but after I check it I get a sudden uptick in notific
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by abalone 8y ago
Honestly this just read like an attempt to link Ozzie's name to this guru's "branded" concept of "slow hunch innovation".
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by abalone 8y ago
Oh cool, I have a 1997 edition of the first children's book inspired by this ( Ducky , written by Eve Bunting). Wikipedia didn't know about it so I just updated the page, giving her the due credit as the first author to publish on
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by abalone 8y ago
There were a lot more cubes in the olden days and people hated those as well. Please, don't forget that historical knowledge. But open plan is not better. I think what happened is, very basically, we saw that water cooler / hallwa
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by abalone 8y ago
Gruber doesn't get posted on HN much for some reason but he found a great tidbit on this: The reporters were flippantly dismissive of the (strong and repeated) company denials.[1] Jordan Robertson was on TV saying companies have no &qu
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by abalone 8y ago
No, South Africa ended apartheid when the international business community and their governments mostly decided to boycott them (after public unrest). It turned businesses that supported apartheid into pariahs.
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by abalone 8y ago
I said the increase in homelessness was caused by the tech boom. Glad we agree on that. But it’s weird how you think “tolerance” for camps causes homelessness. Last I checked SF was short on shelter beds.
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by abalone 8y ago
I love that Wilson gives examples of ethical LPs like pension funds and educational endowments. Much of the criticism here is “well if you refuse to take tainted money then the world economy will grind to a halt.” But think of it... if the
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by abalone 8y ago
SF homeless aid workers did not “create the problem” of increased homelessness. Skyrocketing housing costs due to tech boom did. Funding has never been enough. SF spends only $3.8K per homeless person. Cost of keeping people housed is enorm
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by abalone 8y ago
Inelastic demand. Even with full throttle development, when you have a whole country (nay, world) of tech industry professionals would want to move to the heart of their industry in a boom time, you may not see much movement in price. Consi
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by abalone 8y ago
> given homelessness levels, and given as SF is has one of the highest ones (slightly lower only than NYC) the conclusion seems to stay - expense level is very high. That doesn’t follow at all. NYC spends 10x what SF does on homelessne
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by abalone 8y ago
This is a separate question. Thanks for your thought. There are other possibilities. Like, say, insatiable demand from around the country and world from people who'd love to move to SF to make their play in the tech boom. But the fact
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by abalone 8y ago
First of all this is a common error. SF spends only about $3.8K per homeless person.[1] You can't just divide by the homeless population because a huge portion of the budget goes towards homeless prevention . Things like subsidies to
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by abalone 8y ago
Yes.. earlier you said the entire transaction amount and a double tax. That’s probably not accurate. As for adjusted revenue, do we actually know for certain that gross receipts applies to net revenue and not adjusted? Or is Dorsey just “hy
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by abalone 8y ago
> they would be effectively "double taxed" since by definition a tax on "gross receipts" would be a tax on the entire transaction amount once and on the ~2.9% transaction fee again. Citation please? Dorsey said they
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by abalone 8y ago
That is a misrepresentation of a lot of pro Prop C people (probably most) who advocate for more affordable housing. What they fight for is higher affordable housing requirements, as they don’t see market rate development in tech boomtowns a
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by abalone 8y ago
I’ll bite.. increased housing demand raises rents, the “main culprit” in the recent homelessness increase.[1] [1] https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2017/11/06/west-coast-home...
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by abalone 8y ago
Still doesn’t answer my question. The insinuation that the SF system is “corrupt” is based entirely on the apparently invalid comparison. We actually spend less per homeless person than NYC. If you’re not going to answer that’s fine, but pl

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