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by ap22213 10y ago
I know all the history books say it was PageRank, but that wasn't the only reason. As I remember things, Google gained adopters as much from its interface being super fast, dead simple, and easily shareable.
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by ap22213 10y ago
Are there any companies that are still innovating in search? Google is so broken, it's almost worthless for at least half of my searches. At least, I have to modify my search terms at least 10 times before I can narrow the search res
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by ap22213 10y ago
After pondering self-described conservatives and liberals for decades now, I've recently concluded that they're more or less the same. Both groups seem to highly value their families and seek to promote their interests and protec
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by ap22213 10y ago
I don't mind subsidizing the rural areas (the fact is that a great majority of my state and county taxes do go to help those areas). If they need the help, I'm happy to help. I just find the situation a bit ironic given the rheto
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by ap22213 10y ago
I am a non-academic who reads a lot of academic papers. I love arXiv, and I probably spend too much time on there. Here's my 10-minute take on scirate (from viewing it on a mobile browser). Overall, I don't immediately see any ad
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by ap22213 10y ago
Quantitatively, how much more secure would using two factor authentication be over what the author is doing? Edit: Assuming that someone only crafts 9-plus-character passwords that don't show up in dictionary attacks and aren't re
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by ap22213 10y ago
Totally agree. In 95% of the cases, you won't go wrong starting with PG.
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by ap22213 10y ago
The only issue that I have with this top-most comment is that it presents PG as a silver bullet. But, there are a lot of different types of databases for a reason. For instance, at my current startup, we employ at least 7 different databas
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by ap22213 10y ago
Puzzled (but also fascinated) at your motivation to post ignorant and seemingly inflammatory comments like this. But, there's probably a CBT treatment for it, right? Please let us know how the treatment goes.
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by ap22213 10y ago
Unfortunately, I haven't kept up on my data for about 15 years, but back then two of the most strongly correlated factors of a student's performance were 1) how many books were in their home, and 2) how many college educated adult
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by ap22213 10y ago
I had never had heard of Holacracy. But, this also commonly occurs in traditional organizational structures: the multiple bosses pattern. It results from a lot of different types of system dynamics, and although it inefficiently organizes
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by ap22213 10y ago
Got to be careful with urban farming in those areas - lots of lead ended up in the ground during the 20th century. That said, I'm in on the concept. For a few months a year (at most), I just need a small, private, quiet room with net,
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by ap22213 10y ago
Just FYI, I know some great people in Cleveland. West Cleveland is a fine place to hang out and think in reclusion. I've camped out there several times, and if you wanted to stay longer, you could find a decent house to buy for under
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by ap22213 10y ago
Why would anyone be against promoting a technique that has demonstrated a real reduction in fatalities? Sure, in some implementations, there has not been as much reduction. But, I didn't read anything that said the risks increased .
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by ap22213 10y ago
Note that the situation has evolved over the last 20 years. During the first tech wave, general employees actually made decent money when the company got sold. I know a bunch of people that walked into early retirement in the 90s. But, in t
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by ap22213 10y ago
But, each wave of new jobs requires more specialization and training than the previous, and the period between each wave decreases. Unless we can figure out how to retrain the redundant workers more quickly, we are going to inevitably have
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Yes, it's happening, but inexpensive tools aren't widely available or integrated into a lot of content, and content isn't yet being widely developed with dynamic content in mind. There needs to be work in how 'teachers
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by ap22213 10y ago
Could you give some examples? I've seen blue collar workers who excel, and I've seen white collar workers who don't. I haven't noticed any correlation either way.
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Interesting stuff, especially the part about knives. I wouldn't have guessed that 12% of murders were caused by knives. But, probably that's because I can only think of one local knife murder but countless gun murders. I had to g
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by ap22213 10y ago
Just to be clear, I don't have an argument. I am just a curious observer who's trying to follow and make sense of what's being discussed here. However, since you brought it up, do you have issue with 'smart guns' g
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by ap22213 10y ago
Why did you put designed in quotes? Look - if you like guns, just say you like guns. People are allowed to like guns. But, throwing around an illogical argument as a logical one isn't going to help in persuading people - well, at least
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by ap22213 10y ago
That's quite bizarre logic for someone with that handle. Are you really implying that the great majority of guns were not designed for killing?
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by ap22213 10y ago
I love subjects like this. But, I have a hard time believing its conclusions because it reveals more of our modern modes and assumptions than the prehistoric ones.
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by ap22213 10y ago
Did you really have to give the guy such a dick response?
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by ap22213 10y ago
I mean total compensation. My father made approximately $30,000 a year in wages in 1976. You have to remember that there was overtime pay. He also got high quality free health care, lots of vacation, 100% pension, and lots of other fringe
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by ap22213 10y ago
My job is definitely easier than a 1930s immigrant coal miner's. Is it easier than a 2016 coal miner's? Probably. Maybe. Is it easier than a furniture mover's? No, but it pays a lot more. Is it easier than a 1970s steelwor
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Or, as they say, hindsight is 20/20. Concepts like exponential change and globalization certainly weren't mainstream in the 80s when I was a child. In fact, I'd bet that most adults at the time still worked at the same compa
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by ap22213 10y ago
I get why people think it's hype. The core math and CS for soft AI and statistical machine learning (neural nets, decision trees, unsupervised learning, etc) has been around for a long time, for sure. I did some R&D work with the
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I'm curious as to why you think such a distinction would improve discussions. To me, it seems like an arbitrary distinction to make. But, I suppose it begs a question of why we discuss poverty, at all? I presume it's because som
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by ap22213 10y ago
As a citizen of a democratic country, I love the idea of mandatory sunsets. I hate how easy it is for legislators to pass laws but how very difficult it is to repeal them. But, beyond that, I'd like to see the law be self-repairing.

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