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by apatters 8y ago
Here's what I think is going on. So let's say you're an influential shareholder at a big company, this company has been successful because it did a few things well, and there are a bunch of other shareholders with their own a
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by apatters 8y ago
This is an amazing and thought provoking point. Nation states seem to go through two major phases on the road to a high level of development; the first is Peace & Health where violent conflict declines and some basic health/educati
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by apatters 8y ago
There's plenty of speech which is non-political, non-substantial, has little or no intrinsic value, and I'm simply not interested in reading it. For instance if I wake up one morning and feel like telling you that you're a pi
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by apatters 8y ago
You could write about non work stuff that interests you, and only do it on occasional instances where you feel like writing, and pay someone like wordpress.com a pittance to handle the tech. This is what most web logs were like in the begin
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by apatters 8y ago
Like, why? Am I being too cheeky if I point out that setting up a droplet with a WordPress blog on DigitalOcean takes three minutes? :) (They have a premade image for it)
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by apatters 8y ago
Well, many developers probably aren't in the best health because the job requires sitting all day. Everyone wants to be healthy so there will be a natural demand for articles about it amongst developers.
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by apatters 8y ago
This is 100% true, and furthermore, the process you just described is still too complicated for millions of businesses. They just make a Facebook page (or maybe a Shopify/Wix site) instead.
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by apatters 8y ago
There's a somewhat confusing summary of the degree of mobility in the US on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_mobility#United_State... I think a roughly accurate statement is that over half of Amer
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by apatters 8y ago
I tend to feel the same way (in principle though not convinced it will be because of "Dweb" tech). I've been using searx.me for a year or so. This is a metasearch engine based on open source software, anyone can run an instan
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by apatters 8y ago
I thought the pre-edit version of your comment was more interesting. Debate is a very different thing from scientific research. I think debates have better outcomes when you follow a few rules (civility, charity, a focus on possible solutio
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by apatters 8y ago
Please try to be charitable, not adversarial, toward the counterparties in a discussion on HN. I will try to do the same. I was characterizing what the parent appeared to be saying, so that I could discuss it (that greed is a part of human
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by apatters 8y ago
I don't see anything in the parent's comment indicating that he supports unfettered self-interest. As far as I can tell almost everyone nowadays supports the idea of having markets which are partially free, but subject to some r
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by apatters 8y ago
It seems like you're lamenting what is basically an immutable biological trait without proposing any solutions. I don't think this adds much to the discussion.
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by apatters 8y ago
There might be other reasons the majority of people have gone this route. Maybe (probably) we're genetically programmed to perpetuate the species even at the cost of our personal happiness. Anyone thinking of taking this advice and sta
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by apatters 8y ago
Google incentivizes all kinds of online content to engage in this behavior as well. Articles that rank well are long and filled with keyword-rich exposition. Concise, bulleted summaries of facts don't give Googlebot as much information
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by apatters 8y ago
This discussion should never be framed as a choice between legal solutions and technical solutions. They are complementary. The legal approach is correct and easy for the public to understand. Explained correctly it is also popular. The gov
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by apatters 8y ago
This is a very old story. Musk has become a celebrity. Everyone knows who he is. He dates famous singers, models etc. He has a drug dependency. He increasingly is making bizarre statements. Dude needs a handler. His continued success probab
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by apatters 8y ago
The argument for free speech is fundamentally the same regardless of whether you dislike the speech in question, or many people dislike it. The argument is that it's better for society when those who disagree engage in dialogue instead
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by apatters 8y ago
The quote is a reply to your statement about what Damore said. You make a distinction between "good" speech and "bad" speech. The point of the quote is that you are not really pro-free speech unless you support the speec
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by apatters 8y ago
"Goebbels was in favor of free speech for views he liked. So was Stalin. If you’re really in favor of free speech, then you’re in favor of freedom of speech for precisely the views you despise. Otherwise, you’re not in favor of free sp
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by apatters 8y ago
I'm going to have to give an upvote for this because I agree that calling 340 calories a meal is misleading
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by apatters 8y ago
I love this idea. It occurs to me that the category of non-shelf stable, just add water meals is really interesting. You are going to be able to produce something more high quality and authentic. And I'd guess that large companies who
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by apatters 8y ago
A quick cooking hack when you're out of buttermilk at home is to add a tablespoon of vinegar or lemon juice to a cup of milk. So I always assumed the sourness/acidity was the defining feature of buttermilk. It would be interesting
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> What fraction of Indian immigrants spend over 10 dollars on a meal The very first product they feature on the homepage, the "Out of Office" pack, is $23.50 for 3-4 meals.
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Well it actually is both of those things, if you sit in it long enough you'll melt, if you breathe it in you'll die, so maybe they're smarter than you think :)
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I think what he's really doing is downvoting you and being snarky toward you because you're a Google employee. Maybe what he's doing is immature, but a growing number of people feel that Google is bad for society and that aid
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by apatters 8y ago
What if positive discrimination triggers retaliatory bias? Have you really done more good than harm? Positive discrimination is like bombing a village known to harbor terrorists. Sure, you may kill some terrorists and drive the rest undergr
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by apatters 8y ago
If you look at the adoption pattern and growth rate of Mastodon, it has around 1.5M users, the majority of which have arrived via three big waves. The first wave was people with left wing identities who were tired of being harassed on mains
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by apatters 8y ago
I hope someone takes your advice so that we can dump the slow bloated resource hog that is Slack :)
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That's a hilarious joke, made me LOL. If you want your product to be used though you have to think about what users already know how to do and try to build off of that. This is why baby bottles and skeumorphic design are popular and ef

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