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by carsongross 9y ago
It's a goofy name, but I really like the three-zipper configuration of the Mystery Ranch Urban Assault: http://www.mysteryranch.com/urban-assault-pack Makes it really easy to get down into the pack.
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by carsongross 9y ago
Java is a decent language for its time, with a bad default tool set and a development culture that leans very heavily towards J2EE-style verbosity (javascript is trending that way now too, w/ angular, react, etc). The JVM, however, is
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by carsongross 9y ago
I have bipolar depression and was already in a bad place mentally, so I found myself feeling crushed and hopeless My sense is that, in this post, we are getting one of many, many sides of this story.
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by carsongross 9y ago
NB: the US already spends more on socialized medicine than any other country except Norway: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_hea... The US spends more on socialized medicine than countries l
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by carsongross 9y ago
If you have any social media presence (or know someone who does) some signal boost on my against-the-grain front end library would be much appreciated: https://github.com/LeadDyno/intercooler-js I have some articles up
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by carsongross 9y ago
For a more serious intellectual argument in favor of monarchy over democracy, see "Democracy, The God That Failed" by libertarian theorist Hans-Hermann Hoppe. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy:_The_God_T
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by carsongross 9y ago
Let us set aside the fact that value is subjective and the reflexive problems that entails when discussing humans being "obsolete". 120 years is too long for any of these experts to have any skin in the game. Let us see what they
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by carsongross 9y ago
There were entrepreneurs in the United States before Obamacare. Some of them were moderately successful. Some even came to the United States because it was perceived to be entrepreneur-friendly. I appreciate both sides of the argument aro
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by carsongross 9y ago
Despite?
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by carsongross 9y ago
> get adopted are simply sets and heuristics which make the group benefit the most from "just how it is." "Group" is a slippery thing, though. There is always a tendency for individuals and sub-groups to cheat on w
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by carsongross 9y ago
Human ethics transcend nature, where might makes right. Ethics is meaningless if it is "just how it is." That's not to say that nature and natures way can't inform ethics, or to commit to any particular ethical outlook.
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by carsongross 9y ago
The problem, for those of us inclined towards universal humanitarianism, is that ethnocentrism works, evolutionarily speaking: http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/16/3/7.html This is a very tough problem.
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by carsongross 9y ago
My layman's take on this is to take each philosophical school on its own terms and not try to either resolve the differences unless there is an obvious symmetry. Like most americans, I grew up with a fairly pragmatic analytic outlook,
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by carsongross 9y ago
Females drive 70-80% of all consumer spending[1]. I can't think of a much more market-driven, focus group and A/B tested industry than video advertising. Hmmm. [1] - https://www.forbes.com/sites/bridgetbrenna
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by carsongross 9y ago
I wonder if Kalanick saw the writing on the wall and is getting out of the way of the oncoming train wreck, in order to set up a Jobs-style comeback at some point...
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by carsongross 9y ago
Well, intercooler.js is 20 years behind its time: https://github.com/LeadDyno/intercooler-js Does that count?
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by carsongross 9y ago
The author buries the main point under a lot of kvetching about Assange's personality and motivations: This is where censorship begins. No matter what one thinks of Julian Assange personally, or of WikiLeaks’s reckless publication pra
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by carsongross 9y ago
In other news, if you want to be tall, play basketball.
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by carsongross 9y ago
We need to re-moralize the language around debt and bring back the concept of usury. There is a reason the European middle ages were so hard on the matter, it came from the experiences of the late roman empire when debt consolidated wealth
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by carsongross 9y ago
> To be fair though, I'm assuming a situation where you don't have kids, a house payment, etc. Exactly. "You" means different things. On average, even smart people (maybe especially smart people) aren't cut o
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by carsongross 9y ago
There's a lot of survival bias, self-marketing and old economy steve in this post. Statistically, you can't do it, and you'll waste a lot of time, money and prime earning years figuring that out. That's not to say you s
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by carsongross 9y ago
;)
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by carsongross 9y ago
This is quite concerning indeed. I'm glad that no one who I agree with politically would use such underhanded techniques.
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by carsongross 9y ago
True, but fake news can be quite expensively produced as well.
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by carsongross 9y ago
Nassim Taleb has written on this phenomenon: https://medium.com/incerto/the-most-intolerant-wins-the-dict...
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by carsongross 9y ago
As I have said before, if the goal is to convince people who are skeptical of any aspects of the anthropogenic global warming narrative, sites like this are not effective.
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by carsongross 9y ago
Sure, but suing companies that don't have enough female engineers is certainly a lucrative future direction to pursue. I do not expect nursing programs to be affected.
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by carsongross 9y ago
The sunk cost fallacy fallacy: you have perfect knowledge of what other options you have, all specific knowledge and experience acquired in your current course of action is worthless and persistence never pays off. Given how prevalent the s
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by carsongross 9y ago
The treatment of Christopher Alexander by the architecture faculty at Berkeley is very high on my "Why I don't donate to Cal as an alumni" list.
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by carsongross 9y ago
If the façade is complex and interesting, it affects people in a positive way; negatively if it is simple and monotonous Humans prefer humanistic architecture, with fractal visual complexity and natural materials. Modernism tossed it all

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