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by apatters 10y ago
> I'm going to classify him as the used-car-salesman that says whatever he has to say to get a signature on the line below. Well, this is both his best and worst trait. It's infuriating when you're trying to work out what
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by apatters 10y ago
> To the extent that coastal areas might have more sway as a whole because they have more people, isn't that the whole point of democracy? But the United States was never intended to be a popular democracy. In their wisdom the Found
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This comment strikes me as an example of race reductionism that does more harm than good. The war on drugs unquestionably has a racist component and racism contributed to its origins, but it's not solely an issue of race and affects mo
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Since your response to him contained a racist stereotype which you used to justify not engaging in further dialogue, I certainly hope you do change your viewpoint in the future. I continue to be baffled by this idea that it's okay to u
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by apatters 10y ago
I'm sorry but this idea that there's mysterious knowledge of hardship which white, male members of the middle class automatically don't possess is garbage and is exactly the sort of thing I was hinting at in the last sentence
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The main thing this guy seems to want to do is curtail abuse, or in other words he wants to restrict the ability for people to say things to you that you don't want to hear. Given that, I'm surprised he's advocating a distrib
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by apatters 10y ago
If you get angry enough or you feel threatened enough the facts don't matter, all that matters is winning. America went from a melting pot to a tossed salad to a powder keg.
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Google has simply gotten too big and too impersonal. If they were smaller, only did one or two things, and locked you out of those things because of a ToS violation it'd be frustrating but it wouldn't be catastrophic. Similarly if
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by apatters 10y ago
I think to socialize with random other individuals most people need alcohol or a pretense - pubs provide the former, temples provide the latter. There are societies where this concept is pretty foreign. I live in Thailand and when I tell Th
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Bingo
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This was actually something we had to do to comply with Thai labor law. Feel free to contact me (website in profile) if you'd like the details.
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by apatters 10y ago
If I was looking for glamour I would have raised money, started the type of business described in the blog post, and probably gone on to make many more of the mistakes it lists. I guess the point I'm trying to make is if you're an
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by apatters 10y ago
Hello, founder of a bootstrapped WordPress theme & plugin development business reporting in. Been running a profitable "startup" for 5-7 years (depending on whether you count my first two years as a solo freelancer). Can confi
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by apatters 10y ago
If it's as bad as you say, then leave and take the best people with you to go do this the right way. If the people won't go with you, think carefully about whether it's really as bad as you say.
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by apatters 10y ago
The credit rating industry in the US is very heavily regulated. Setting aside whether the regulation of that industry is good or not, there is really only one US credit scoring system and it's effectively controlled by the government,
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by apatters 10y ago
The chief concern I have about being "submerged under the waves" of the 'net, as this article puts it, is that we will lose the lone creative genius. Hard to have a lot of truly original thoughts when you spend every waking m
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by apatters 10y ago
True, but these are privately owned communities and if you disagree with their standards you can go join some other community or start your own. A Chinese citizen can't exactly go start their own competitor to the Communist Party.
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by apatters 10y ago
If there's ever been a great opportunity to open source something in the Windows client, it's WSL. A number of popular User Voice feature requests were closed recently as not in scope, which is reasonable on the part of the WSL te
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by apatters 10y ago
The study presents imperfect data. You have presented no data. Which is more credible? Why do comments like this get upvoted so much?
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by apatters 10y ago
Did you try making a demonstration of anger at the parties who were thrusting these things upon you? This actually can be the correct course of action sometimes.
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A thousand times this. Making similar arguments, Tim Ferriss introduced concepts he called the "media fast" and "low information diet" when he published The 4-Hour Workweek back in 2007. The overarching idea was that you
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The phenomenon described here is one of many side effects of what I think is the greatest disturbance in the zeitgeist since at least 9/11: the disintermediation of information itself. We live in an era where authorities of all kinds a
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by apatters 10y ago
Another area where Dropbox seems to be slipping is customer support. DB stopped working on one of my machines after an unscheduled shutdown. Submitted a ticket along with a thorough description of the problem and error log, and after nearly
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This is certainly an interesting idea, but is there a body of research behind it? (How does one prove that anxiety is caused by "existential suffering" anyway?) What is the amount and quality of that research? Even if CBT is flawe
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by apatters 10y ago
Not only is Forbes a publication which forces people to disable ad blockers and then serves them malware-laden ads, but they have also written a headline here which is misleading through omission of crucial details. At least I assume the he
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The most interesting and useful piece of information in this story is buried towards the end: there is an app which implements a gamified version of ABMT therapy. The BBC didn't even mention its name! From searching around it appears t
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I encourage developers to wait for a more open platform before jumping on the VR bandwagon. We don't need Google to curate VR apps for us. The PC did just fine with anyone being able to develop and distribute whatever kind of app they
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You could say the same about Coke vs Pepsi, but that doesn't stop either one from trying to maximize their market share. I think the dev tools in Firefox and Chrome are much more distinct from each other than Coke vs Pepsi, though. The
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That would depend on which country you're talking about. I think some countries like Sweden get away with being more progressive because they're more homogeneous. People in these countries have fewer differences of opinion and a h
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This article convinced me personally to switch back to Firefox, but I'm disheartened by seeing a number of comments here which amount to "Firefox is fine," "Firefox is just as good," "The Foundation is fine,&qu

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