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by abrahamepton 9y ago
Depends on the person, I suppose. Most people go into voting booths fairly poorly-informed, so really any research you do is great. I don't think normal humans will do homework before voting, since normal American humans vote pretty in
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by abrahamepton 9y ago
Yes, I quite agree - reading the news once a week can lead you to be incredibly well-informed. But since the OP was asserting that one oughtn't read the news at all, I find "once/week" to be a rather different propositio
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by abrahamepton 9y ago
I don't think it's true at all that paying attention to the news once/month would render you informed enough to vote for more than 1-2 offices. (If in US:) President, Congress, sure. But probably not Governor, Mayor or any lo
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by abrahamepton 9y ago
Hey, Chris! I largely agree with you, and think reading things like the Economist on a weekly basis is salutary - it's weekly, so building a reading habit around it doesn't lead to constant panic. It's broad, covers a lot of
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by abrahamepton 9y ago
Maybe, except the college kids who just give all their money to mutual funds will make more money. The day-traders won't "learn how markets work," they'll learn how to lose money by making dumb trades based on less infor
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by abrahamepton 9y ago
River North is also an unusual neighborhood in Chicago - there are dozens of walkable little downtowns in other neighborhoods across the city, but RN is an abomination and I usually try to get out of it quickly whenever I find myself there.
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by abrahamepton 9y ago
I think the author is right, for the simple reason that it's irresponsible of us as technologists to support a product like this. We're training an entire generation that it's a good idea to pay companies money so that those
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by abrahamepton 9y ago
> If that's what people are viewing and if that's where the discussion of the news was happening then google should reflect that. Nope. Nooooope. Nuh uh. Not at all. Could not disagree more profoundly. Google has a responsibili
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by abrahamepton 9y ago
I'm sure there's a lot of truth in the given explanation: the terms that were returning this 4Chan result had basically no search history beforehand, and all of a sudden this post was probably getting a lot of links, traffic, what
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by abrahamepton 9y ago
I worked at Google News for 5 years, and completely agree w/Alexis. Google promoted 4Chan as a top result for people who wanted to know about Las Vegas; that's a fail, period. It is a fail. It should not have happened; it should n
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by abrahamepton 10y ago
This is one of the most HN comments ever. Without getting into the nature-vs-nurture debate for the trillionth time, "Actually, mostly a matter of genes because this is by far the biggest influence parents have on their kids" is a
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by abrahamepton 11y ago
Having lived in our society and been educated by our schools: Yeah, there are societal problems and educational problems. Big, big, big problems. Having gotten my ass kicked intellectually repeatedly by black and hispanic students: no, thos
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by abrahamepton 11y ago
I read it as someone lamenting that they have it so easy - nice chair, free snacks, reading code all day - while the author's loved ones are really struggling. And at the same time, the author isn't really rich by the standards of
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by abrahamepton 11y ago
Kinda. Depends on the neighborhood. I live in a neighborhood in Chicago that has crime stats on par with just about any "safe" suburban neighborhood. But I'm white and make pretty decent money, so that's a big reason why
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by abrahamepton 11y ago
Perhaps they do both.
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by abrahamepton 11y ago
I think that's why they're defaults? Not hardcoded unchangeable values?
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by abrahamepton 11y ago
My guess, from having worked on statewide campaigns and following politics for my entire adult life (which is to say, I have no fucking clue but am happy to posit my opinion): his campaign knows their base includes a lot of young tech-savvy
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by abrahamepton 11y ago
I feel similarly about Facebook. I feel it with some justification, but I'm probably wrong. To do what they do at the scale they do it, for it to even work let alone work pretty much perfectly, pretty much all the time for pretty much
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by abrahamepton 11y ago
Yeah this is all pretty wrong. >> upset that Greece might actually be forced to pay its bills and what that means for the welfare state model the EU has built itself on. 1) Those aren't just Greece's bills. Steve Waldman put
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by abrahamepton 11y ago
No, because every time I interact with something they make, it's a crappy experience. Documentation is awful. Everything they do is crazy verbose and feels overengineered and underengineered at the same time, somehow. Windows is unplea
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by abrahamepton 11y ago
Sounds like maybe she should work full-time, because perhaps she wants to, and you should work part-time or not at all, as you clearly sound like you would prefer.
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by abrahamepton 12y ago
If you ask for a lawyer and don't have one, (I THINK) they're obligated to either get you one (public defenders are free) or wait for your lawyer to arrive before interrogating you. You can refuse to answer police questions, and t
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by abrahamepton 12y ago
> The two are not bijective. You can be a very interesting person to most people while still finding most other people not very interesting. Indeed, that theoretically can be true. In every instance I have ever heard of, witnessed or bee
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by abrahamepton 12y ago
It's a bit pie-in-the-sky to say, "everyone has a fascinating story of some kind and you just have to get it out of them." I think that's largely true, but I understand why you might disagree. That said, I think you need
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by abrahamepton 12y ago
Having grown up in Chicago's Loop, it is vastly - vaaaaastly - more fun/exciting/busier afterhours now than it ever was before (or at least, in the 80s/90s when I lived there.)
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by abrahamepton 12y ago
This is a $100 billion idea? Maybe, sure. But how is this, as opposed to Oculus or Glass or Magic Leap or or or, worth $100B?
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by abrahamepton 12y ago
I find python by far my favorite language to have used, but I basically agree with this. No language is perfect for every use, nor could there ever be such a language (until computing changes dramatically, anyway; quantum computing maybe?)
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by abrahamepton 12y ago
Congratulations to you for having memorized many unnecessary-to-remember things then, I guess. I have a good memory for detail and have "spent a lot of time in the DOM" and most of the questions I skimmed I had no off-the-top-of-m
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by abrahamepton 12y ago
These questions make me angry by being so fucking dumb. No I don't know off the top of my head what splitting on an empty string does and if you give a shit whether I do that tells me all I need to know about whether I want to work for
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by abrahamepton 12y ago
I don't think the author meant "technically privileged" as "those unfairly given an advantage for whatever reason". To me, it read more as, "folks who grew up immersed in this stuff" vs "folks who com

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