calambrac

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by calambrac 17y ago
Do you think your links constitute a fair representation of that data that's against me? Go read them again. The foundational study was with 5 year olds who got a ribbon. Follow on studies were college students in creative writing course
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by calambrac 17y ago
The fact that it's common doesn't make it less stupid. It's not actually a zero-sum game, that's just something you pulled out of your ass. Quoting social scientists as if they were bearers of truth doesn't really seem like a winning strate
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by calambrac 17y ago
I didn't say or imply humans were rational about money, I was pointing out a case where one was being irrational, and noting that the scenario they brought up didn't actually map to the issue at hand anyways. And the reason it didn't map?
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by calambrac 17y ago
Really? You'd pay WoW less if you were paid (and there were no other difference)? That makes no sense. Saying "I like to hack for free" is not the same as saying "I like to hack twilio apps on a deadline for free." If twilio were saying,
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by calambrac 17y ago
Suddenly? DF has been around for years, and it's been Gruber's only source of income since 2006. The irony of bitching about histrionics...
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by calambrac 17y ago
You're implicitly giving a lot of credit to the stories he calls out as 'claim chowder'. They're pretty much always unsourced bs speculation from hacks and trolls who would never call attention to their own mistakes.
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by calambrac 17y ago
Their customers pay it, their competitors don't undercut it, and they get an increasing profit margin out of it. Sounds like they've found the magic number to me... I'm also curious how you know that their numbers would actually let them d
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by calambrac 17y ago
The map mentioned in the article: http://www.softhook.com/sanfran.htm It's, um, not very helpful, actually; seems like it could be done a lot better. Maybe use the yelp api to average user ratings across the city?
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by calambrac 17y ago
Dunno if I'd personally hold up a story that speculated on a Google/Apple merger (because, ya know, Eric Schmidt) as a martyr for the sanctity of journalism.
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by calambrac 17y ago
The study you mentioned describes a different situation, suicides within a media coverage area when the media hypes an initial suicide. That's hardly a similar situation to a college campus, where the administration can respond by making c
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by calambrac 17y ago
Of course, but is the marginal cost of adding a few trays of ice really more expensive than running an air conditioner? The problem is so under-specified at this point it's kind of silly to pretend we could get a meaningful answer yet. Are
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by calambrac 17y ago
No doubt there's still an additional cost, I just don't think it would be high enough to make it more expensive than running an air conditioner, given that you're going to be running the freezer regardless (depending, of course, on how much
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by calambrac 17y ago
You had to expend the energy to freeze the water. You probably did that with a freezer, which runs using a compressor just like an air conditioner, except that it has to get a lot colder. I think you're still right that it comes out cheape
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by calambrac 17y ago
I've never crunched the numbers myself or seen any formal studies, but the perception that the second income in dual-income families usually goes right into costs that would have been avoided had someone stayed at home is pretty widespread.
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by calambrac 17y ago
The New York Times and other media companies are filters. They pick the stories that go on their front page, they decide where to dedicate news-gathering resources, they have an editorial voice...
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by calambrac 17y ago
Why? The two projects have been swapping the performance lead back and forth since the start of this current period of insane browser development, and it would be an enormous undertaking to make the switch.
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by calambrac 17y ago
If you're going to be sensitive about being called a troll, you should stop acting like one. It would have taken you 30 seconds to click the 'About Us' link at the top of the page and learn that Sunlight Labs is "an open source development
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by calambrac 17y ago
You're completely missing the point. Like, by a lot, to the point where I'm pretty sure you're trolling, but I'll bite anyways. First of all, the analogy with Costco is false. Data is free to copy (esp. govt data which should not be subje
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by calambrac 17y ago
I like how you ignored the part about lying to illiterate people about their debt, that was awesome.
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by calambrac 17y ago
I completely disagree, I think it all works really well together, and just the right things are popping out.
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by calambrac 17y ago
I meant the first interpretation. If you think post-Civil-War sharecropping meets the standard of "completely voluntary", you need to do some reading. You can start here: http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-3590
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by calambrac 17y ago
Wow, you really think he might lose his job over this? I hadn't even really allowed myself to dream such a thing. That would be peaches, though. Let's be clear: Dvorak isn't just some guy, he's a professional troll. We're not picking hi
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by calambrac 17y ago
All the other "Charlie Foxtrots" (btw, wtf?) that he's perpetrated up until now, he doesn't have to live with those? How many inflammatory fuckups does a person get to commit before its fair game to point out that they're a jackass?
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by calambrac 17y ago
It takes more than one bad story to establish yourself as a complete jackass. Dvorak finished the necessary legwork for that designation years ago.
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by calambrac 17y ago
When in doubt, always remember that John C. Dvorak is a complete jackass.
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by calambrac 17y ago
I don't think the analogy to sharecropping itself is offensive, I think including the picture that makes it clear we're talking about the post-Civil-War, legalized slavery version of sharecropping is what crosses the line. Without that, I
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by calambrac 17y ago
Atwood linkbaiting? That would never happen.
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by calambrac 17y ago
Wait, what does that even mean? Corporations can use Stack Overflow, for free, just like anyone else. Why hire a consultant or invest in training when you can just drop a question out into SO? I didn't realize SO's karma was that magic b
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by calambrac 17y ago
Oh, my bad, I should have realized that, when you called out failing to capture the technical difference between rasterization and half-toning in a whimsical name for a service used to make dorm room posters by saying it was the same thing
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by calambrac 17y ago
I think 'urban slang' obviously refers to the language of a particular socio-economic group, and that avoiding using it in an inappropriate context is just as simple as not swearing in front of your grandmother or not blurting out to every

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