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by bjhoops1 13y ago
Although it should be noted that the Latin itself is a translation, since this quote is attributed to Socrates and would have originally been in Greek.
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"Who watches the watchmen" would have been simpler and spared me a google search.
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I wonder if it would be possible to generate a DDoS attack by reporting that a site is experiencing a DDoS, causing people to flock to the site to see if it is down.
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by bjhoops1 14y ago
Private would be huge for me. I wouldn't think of using it without it.
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Quite typical. It strikes me that legislative bodies have nothing that resembles a Quality Assurance effort. A law is passed, and then we just assume it works the way it was intended. Even in cases where it quite obviously did NOT (such a
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Jesus Christ...
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I would agree to the degree that "News" refers to shallow news reporting. News on TV? Undoubtedly detrimental. Long form journalism? Lots of merit. Sensational coverage of a kidnapping? Waste of your time. Coverage of the political pro
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"... of my class of 1400 graduates from Yale, forty percent took jobs in finance." This reminds me of an interview with the President of Iceland, where they let their megabanks fail. Speaking of the downside of having a huge banking sector,
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by bjhoops1 14y ago
I suppose if you really are convinced a poll is harmful. Maybe a more apt analogy would have been knocking that Triple Whopper out of someone's hand before they clog their arteries? :P
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Not sure what's more ridiculous - that you took the time to skew a perfectly reasonable poll, or that you expected anyone to understand your tortuous logic in doing so. Just because you personally don't like coffee doesn't mean you should g
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by bjhoops1 14y ago
While I understand that for entrepreneurial CS students, interning at a startup or building something awesome over a summer is ideal, I think that 1) the vast majority of students would be unable to find a sexy startup to work with and 2)
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by bjhoops1 14y ago
> I guess the Office team would rather work on the metro ribbon. Zing! Thank you for that.
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Suppose a society in which a few families owned and controlled essentially all wealth. I don't imagine that society could be said to be egalitarian or equitable no matter what laws or "rights" its citizens had, do you?
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> The economy is also not a theoretical abstraction. Yes, thank you. Irritates me to hear people pontificate about the importance of "incentives" in the system, with the only real concern of economists being the overall increase in pro
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by bjhoops1 14y ago
Income inequality is a useful statistic for more purposes than just describing the strength of incentives in a system. Surely it is also one measure (amongst many) of the fairness of a system; a measure of how truly egalitarian a society
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by bjhoops1 14y ago
You're allowed to mock a class of people who earn 380 times more than the average American workers . :) For $12.9 million a year, I'll let people be as condescending towards me as they want! http://money.cnn.com/2012/04/19/news/economy/c
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by bjhoops1 14y ago
sleeping through the night? Please say yes. 3 months is my "If I can just... make it..." mark. Apparently that's when you can start letting them cry it out?
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by bjhoops1 14y ago
Great post. Reminds me of Neil Postman's Technopoly - written just before the advent of the internet. The main premise there was that we live in an age of unprecedented amounts of information, yet our ability to parse that information and
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by bjhoops1 14y ago
And don't forget in the shower! If I hadn't taken a break during which it occurred to me that I was doing it all wrong, there are problems I'd still be working on!
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Ha yes, I've noticed that - my 13-year old brother is giving my parents hell right now. I would not trade places with them.
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Thanks!
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My last semester of college, our capstone course saw me at the head of a team of 5 CS students building a video game. Some of the other teams frequently pulled all-nighters trying to meet the course's ambitious deadline, but the whole seme
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by bjhoops1 14y ago
God, I hope this is true! Wife and I just had our first kid a month ago, and I can tell ya it's hard to find (or justify) time for side projects with that little bugger* wreaking havoc on my shut-eye ! :) * I do so love him It's total
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by bjhoops1 14y ago
Actually, knowledge workers are even more affected by >40 hr workweeks. Read this fascinating history of the 40-hour workweek and its demise: http://www.salon.com/2012/03/14/bring_back_the_40_hour_work_... One of the author's (more
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by bjhoops1 14y ago
It’s a pleasant delusion to believe that all our problems require hard solutions. Love this! So true. I'll never forget my first job out of college, a Senior Developer told me something along the lines of "Nothing we do is cutting edge.
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by bjhoops1 14y ago
I did not call you any name (unless you count "reader"), nor was I attacking you. I was merely sarcastically expressing my frustration at a trend I've observed on HN in which the top comment on an article which I highly enjoyed is almost i
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by bjhoops1 14y ago
Hey, what a surprise - the top comment on a HN post comes from a reader who dismisses the post outright despite failing to actually read it in its entirety.
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We the People white house petition, anyone?
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David Cay Johnston covered this in one of his chapters in The Fine Print . If you're looking to be incensed by more cases of corruption between corporations and government, it's definitely worth a read. You'll also get to find out why w

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