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by blackbagboys 12y ago
Could you perhaps explain what you found interesting? It's an angry screed very revealing of its author's personality, but not particularly insightful about the article.
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by blackbagboys 12y ago
"Jail", then.
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by blackbagboys 12y ago
To extend and correct your analogy, if you accuse your neighbor of stealing your vase, I would hope the cops spend some time investigating whether a) there was actually a vase to begin with and b) he actually took it, before they haul him o
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by blackbagboys 12y ago
I read Michael Lewis's article in Vanity Fair about this case back in 2013, and I remember being struck by this excerpt in particular: [Goldman] called the F.B.I. in haste, just two days before, and then put their agent through what a
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by blackbagboys 12y ago
I think you're misreading the article. The poll wasn't "attached" to any news story, a portion of the polling was conducted after the story broke. It is also completely possible to carry out representative polling over t
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by blackbagboys 12y ago
This attitude is pervasive on HN, and I find it a little baffling. If someone took advantage of a lax property-management company to successfully burgle an apartment complex, I can't imagine anyone being so cavalier about pursuing the
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42% of Americans Oppose Private Drone Ownership; 28% “Not Sure”(reuters.com)
6 points by blackbagboys 12y ago|5 comments
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by blackbagboys 12y ago
Ta-Nehisi Coates's commentary is explicitly political and ideological, and those ideological affinities defined the limits of acceptable discourse in his comments section. You may or may not be sympathetic to those politics (I am, to a
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by blackbagboys 12y ago
It would be trivial for the government to keep a 24/7 watch on any given individual. If you're talking about someone who has already been convicted at trial, there's no technical or legal barrier to monitoring Ulbricht both p
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Stop Equating Women in Tech with Engineers(medium.com)
14 points by blackbagboys 12y ago|4 comments
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New Rules in China Upset Western Tech Companies(nytimes.com)
70 points by blackbagboys 12y ago|46 comments
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by blackbagboys 12y ago
My favorite anecdote in this vein is that John Tyler, President from 1841-1845, has two living grandsons (although I think one may have passed on in the last year). http://www.snopes.com/history/american/tylergrand
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by blackbagboys 12y ago
Considering that two US states with a combined population exceeding many European countries have a more comprehensive legalization program than anything happening in Europe and more states have similar measures in the pipeline, 'such a
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by blackbagboys 12y ago
Additionally, manifestations of paranoid schizophrenia and other psychiatric disorders change with culture; during the Cold War, it was a common delusion that one was being monitored by the CIA or the KGB; nowadays many sufferers report tha
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by blackbagboys 12y ago
Indeed, better that SeanDev have suffered a lifetime of loneliness and social anxiety than an attractive woman suffer through even a single socially awkward moment. God knows their lives are hard enough already.
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by blackbagboys 12y ago
He knows what systemic means in this context. yummyfajitas's shtick is to try to dismiss or derail any discussion of social issues by repeatedly posing disingenuous semantic questions
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What makes an entrepreneur? (1998) [pdf](andrewoswald.com)
7 points by blackbagboys 12y ago|0 comments
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by blackbagboys 12y ago
I'd be interested in seeing an accompanying article by the author or another developer laying out how you would solve the same problem if you were an "experienced" developer; I have done a little of the same type of programmi
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by blackbagboys 12y ago
No, he is saying that if you understand recursive algorithms, you should be able to apply that reasoning to reason yourself out of a career on software, since it is a given that most developers will be forced out of engineering by a certain
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by blackbagboys 12y ago
The interpretations you've suggested go far beyond interpreting PG's argument in the strongest possible terms, running instead to interpreting it as a completely different argument. (Although I suppose that's not very charita
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by blackbagboys 12y ago
Do you have a source for this? I'm just curious because while it sounds reasonable, a quick inspection of the light boxes on Amazon shows that many of them advertise that they filter out nearly all UV light.
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by blackbagboys 12y ago
I suppose it would be a gross overreaction to rush out and try to get to tested for this virus?
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by blackbagboys 12y ago
I am not a practicing scientist, but I'll venture the hypothesis that your difficulties in the job market may be partly a function of your personality.
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by blackbagboys 12y ago
"Creativity" is correlated with higher IQ. I understand the urge to resist reducing humans to a single numerical measurement, but the fact is that "IQ" or "g" or general "cognitive ability" or whateve
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Project Cybersyn and the origins of the Big Data nation(newyorker.com)
44 points by blackbagboys 12y ago|13 comments
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Larry Ellison Bought an Island in Hawaii. Now What?(nytimes.com)
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by blackbagboys 12y ago
The New Scientist article notes that four of the seven human subjects who consumed three to four sachets of sweetener a day saw a significant change in their gut bacteria. As someone who has consumed significantly more than that for a very
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by blackbagboys 12y ago
In a similar vein, one of my bosses at a major investment bank would gleefully tell interns about how, in undergrad, while working part-time for a Congressman, he would call up the Congressional Research Service and commission reports that