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by apatters 8y ago
Absolutely, this discussion always devolves into good vs bad and understandably so because it's very frustrating when your work environment doesn't facilitate your performance. But the typical knowledge worker actually functions o
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Just to clarify, you can also be imprisoned for criticizing the current King, as well as any of the late Kings at all.
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It's definitely changed and it happened slowly so we didn't notice at first. In the 90s and the early aughts the social fabric of the Internet was comprised of a number of small communities, each of which had a distinct membership
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> One cool way to engage users is about using muted autoplay and let them chose to unmute (see code snippet below). This line really illustrates how poorly Google understands the role of the browser. The browser's job isn't to
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I think the answer here is that religion was much more fundamental to American identities in 1776 than it is today. In US history and still today in other countries there are lots of examples of people being violently persecuted for believi
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by apatters 8y ago
Well maybe religions should receive the same protections as Nazism, which is to say, not many beyond those which are provided for free expression in general. Pedophilia is a special case versus other sexualities because pedophilic sex acts
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by apatters 8y ago
During the Revolutionary War both sides committed a number of acts that would be recognized as war crimes today. Washington destroyed Iroquois villages, true, but keep in mind that the Iroquois supporting the Loyalists were outright scalpin
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Perhaps it's not. AMZN is a for-profit entity. Their shareholders come first. Profit comes first. The more interesting question is, how does this influence our engagement with Amazon, as members of the tech community and the business c
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by apatters 8y ago
Just because the feature isn't valuable for your personal use case doesn't mean it isn't valuable. I share my location several times a week. It's especially useful in areas where street addresses don't follow a logi
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> So we agree medicine cannot be managed as a business, right? No, we don't all agree with this. In a well-regulated and competitive market, businesses can opine about their fantasy product and scheme about how to extract maximum re
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by apatters 9y ago
One dissenting opinion of note mentioned in the article is the Harvard School of Public Health's recommendation in favor of a daily multivitamin: https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/multivitamin/ I d
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by apatters 9y ago
If the established players promote regulation which make it harder for new entrants to gain a foothold, that's cartel-like behavior and it hurts consumers. In general, regulations should promote competition because competition results
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Bill was certainly a ruthless businessman whose tactics caused all kinds of frustration for corporate IT departments and even stymied the development of the web for a few years. But in hindsight that all seems a lot less evil to me than wha
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The ones doing the implementing are the browser vendors and it's a competitive disadvantage for them to not render every site on the web as best as they can. Consumers who come across a broken site will blame the browser and switch to
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by apatters 9y ago
The article is ranty but I thought she made an interesting point. I'd like to exercise more but fitness fanatics--OK I'll be polite, enthusiasts take it all really, really seriously. The gym is not fun to me, all the structure i
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by apatters 9y ago
> Change in China will not and cannot come from foreign companies operating there. It can and it must. These companies can and should lobby their governments to place tariffs and restrictions on Chinese companies and their products/
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by apatters 9y ago
I think the advice in this article is good advice from a VC's perspective relative to that VC's returns in the companies he invests in. Is it just as good for the company founders? That depends on whether their true goals align. T
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by apatters 9y ago
This approach is super goofy because refined sugar and corn syrup are already heavily subsidized by the federal government. Instead of adding another layer of distortions to correct the first one we should start by looking at why the curren
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by apatters 9y ago
In Thailand, where medical care is both cheap and good, most of it takes place in hospitals. You can still find clinics, but people usually go to a full-blown hospital when they have health-related issues. Inpatient treatment is much more c
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by apatters 9y ago
What's your source for this? If there's no statistical correlation between the minimum wage and the unemployment rate (and I thought I had read otherwise) then I suspect the statistics aren't telling the whole story. Your exp
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In triage a medic would address the dismemberment first, and only address the broken leg when time and resources permitted. So it still seems to me like you're saying men's issues are less important -- in your analogy they're
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by apatters 9y ago
You come across in this comment like you're trying to have your cake and eat it too. In the first paragraph you say that everyone's issues are "valid," but in the second you say women's issues are more "signifi
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by apatters 9y ago
I have no problem at all with websites using browser mining as an alternate monetization strategy to ads, as long as: 1) Permission is requested first 2) The UX is good (it stays out of my way and doesn't slow down my device) 3) The mi
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by apatters 9y ago
People are charging $175/hr for WordPress? This makes me wonder what the hell have I been doing with myself for the past 8 years. My agency charges $50/hr for WordPress devs who know what they're doing. (My email is in my pro
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The notion that cryptocurrencies would displace fiat in our lifetimes was always a red herring. This is the real impact they will have in the long run: the technology will greatly expand the set of people and organizations who can issue a c
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Nationalized production is usually something to discourage for the same reason monopolies and oligopolies should be discouraged--they are insulated from competition in special ways, and as a result in the long run they tend to become ineffi
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On the contrary. Antitrust regulation is an essential function of the government which it has performed for a long time. If the government is failing to carry out essential functions, that suggests a radical change in government is likely
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by apatters 9y ago
> Damn difficult to meet genuine folks after college (Would love any suggestions on where to find them... Definitely not facebook :/ ) This may not be very popular advice around these parts, but it works. Go to the local pub, have a
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by apatters 9y ago
Anecdotally, the only change I've noticed is that Facebook seems to be showing more ads (almost always for something I'm not interested in) in my news feed.
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Can you elaborate?

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