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by brownbat 8y ago
That's tenured academics. A lot of academics are still struggling to make a name for themselves, which means more like: pick an interesting problem. If it gets any attention whatsoever, work on it and its variations for years. Maybe dr
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by brownbat 8y ago
Huh. Cliffs are real. I want an index that invests in the 11th, 21st, 51st, 101st, 501st, and 1001st largest companies, betting that they are probably undervalued for falling just outside some arbitrary range. (Or that random mergers might
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by brownbat 8y ago
There's just a blurb there, maybe consider using the included link. https://www.rollcall.com/news/opinion/the-truth-about-tolls-...
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by brownbat 8y ago
Most people are thinking of this from the GitHub perspective, but MS Office is bigger, and random document editors could benefit a lot from smarter, easier version control. That's just one example, but I'm honestly most curious if
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by brownbat 8y ago
US workplace deaths have fallen 70 percent since OSHA was formed. It's not exactly like children losing arms to looms and being locked inside enflamed textile mills. The fact there's still some work left to do doesn't imply w
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by brownbat 8y ago
I'm still hanging on to Microsoft centralizing Skype, Apple trying to smother mp3s, and Googling killing (your favorite side project here). Follow a company long enough and they'll break your heart. Also, we old geeks really know
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by brownbat 8y ago
Or even "thing made of glass for eyes for reading."
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by brownbat 8y ago
Tech scandals from the archive... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9786545 But now they're partnering with Signal so maybe that's a good case about how things change over time: https://signal.org&#x
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by brownbat 8y ago
Hmm, of those, if I could specify "pick one of these 20 DNS resolvers at random for each query" I might... Sorry, tangential thought, I agree with your main point, and the others are much tougher.
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by brownbat 8y ago
Jelly raised this above too. Pasting my reply at the end here. But I agree with you that values are central. I'd back more investigations to uncover corporations with internal cultures more like Enron and root out bad actors in such pl
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by brownbat 8y ago
> Those most in need of the labor rights and respect unions traditionally afford are often those who have almost no access to the legal system. This seems like a powerful concern in theory but the facts make me more optimistic. I haven&#
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Putnam Questions Archive(kskedlaya.org)
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by brownbat 8y ago
Tried to address that a few comments up. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17218381 Sorry it's a wall of text. I suck at brevity. In my defense it's a complex topic and I'm trying to credit some good point
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by brownbat 8y ago
> someone standing up for your rights and asking for compensation to do it They sure would be awfully fine institutions if that's how they actually worked.
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by brownbat 8y ago
> I realize that some hate unions but some things on this world literally could not happen unless we respect people, their time, and their families. The cornerstone of the case against unions isn't that we should stop respecting peo
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by brownbat 8y ago
Huh, neat. Pretty sure it was independent, but not sure about timing... I think we used this when Ravnica first hit. When was that... oof, Google says 2005? Seriously? Wow. David Sirlin independently endorsing a method I also thought up is
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by brownbat 8y ago
Reminds me of Whit Stillman's Metropolitan, where one of the more bourgeois characters suggests to his middle class friend that he not worry so much about the less fortunate, and instead consider he might be one of the less fortunate h
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by brownbat 8y ago
> autoimmune reactions on societal levels (ie. humanity seen as an organism attacking itself) Tiger salamanders, when facing overpopulation in crowded communities, will have a few larva spontaneously develop larger frames, bigger jaws an
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by brownbat 8y ago
If something goes wrong with an entity dealing with over a hundred million dollars, the CEO is expected to respond relatively immediately, as in, on call 24/7, because a hundred million represents the interests of a lot of people most
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by brownbat 8y ago
Also, they say "60 per cent of people don't actually bother to climb it," as if that's a lot. That means they were denying a preferred option to forty percent of their users, that's a hell of a minority cohort.
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by brownbat 8y ago
I didn't mean to imply hail corporate completely fixed anything, at its worst it's unsubstantiated allegations. Just pointing out that true names didn't inoculate Facebook, which doesn't even get as far as that problemat
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by brownbat 8y ago
Recent declines are largely attributable to opioids. After that, suicides and alcohol are major contributors. https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/9/20/16338996/dr... But yeah, the opioid epi
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by brownbat 8y ago
It's funny that was a Facebook scandal, while Reddit has movements like hail corporate trying to self-police dishonesty and manipulative behavior. It seems like anonymity should be more of a driving force, but seeing both good and bad
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by brownbat 8y ago
We once wanted a quick timekilling card game for three players that had some symmetry, but didn't knock one player out to sit around bored while the other two dug in for some long war of attrition. Enter "Lifeboat" Magic. Thr
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by brownbat 8y ago
I wouldn't want to confuse popularity with quality. Reality shows and daytime television are popular, that doesn't make them the best version of the art form. HN flies a little under the radar. I don't think that's a fai
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by brownbat 8y ago
Funny that that site announces it's using cookies in a pop-up that blocks much of the text before a click, per another EU reg. Not that we got the best UX from that one, where I'm constantly reminded cookies are a thing, via a lar
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by brownbat 8y ago
Digg is actually pretty good now that it's 100% curated. Killing the community was one of the best moves they could have made.
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by brownbat 8y ago
Hmm, maybe it's bad in different ways for different viewers. For me, it seems so ruthlessly risk averse that if I watch one video, it fills my queue with every single thing that person ever made, to the detriment of other interests. Do
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by brownbat 8y ago
There used to be a mashup of random YouTube comments on one side, and random metafilter comments on the other testing, really validating, this theory. The difference was pretty stark. I could only find breadcrumbs: https://metata
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by brownbat 8y ago
Funny how the cryptocurrency values were crashing in advance of this news...

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