chrissam

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by chrissam 8y ago
The objective of sit-ins was to protest, not to buy lunch. If you wanted lunch, you'd go to a place that would serve you and the status quo would be maintained. It's immaterial whether people participating in sit-ins had money o
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by chrissam 8y ago
Maybe you're right - maybe Facebook is doing all this bad stuff and Walt Mossberg happened to notice and decided to follow through. But I'm skeptical - I think the more traditional news media (aka the folks who write stories and c
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by chrissam 8y ago
He probably quit Facebook due to Facebook being constantly defamed in the media - and now the media is reporting on him leaving. It's like that Jake Gyllenhaal movie where he starts off as an ambulance chasing freelance reporter and e
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by chrissam 8y ago
> I don't get the scare mongering in this discussion. People are saying to always boil the water, to not cook with hot tap water, etc. Don't these people bathe in hot tap water? Don't they drink cold tap water? Do they all
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by chrissam 8y ago
> Some people just want to write a book...and have it be read as a book, not a sociopolitical statement. Call it the "craftsman ethos", if you like. I've read My Brilliant Friend. I liked it a lot (I'll probably read
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by chrissam 8y ago
> Google got the market share purely based on its good reputation and sure also with a good product but mainly because of its reputation it was given a chance. The exact opposite is true. Google's market share came, first and foremo
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by chrissam 8y ago
This is exactly how I look at it. To quote Orwell: "Ultimately there is no test of literary merit except survival".
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by chrissam 8y ago
It seems like a bad decision to pay $500-1000 for a smartphone if you can't pay upfront. My sense is that people push their financial situation to the limit in order to get more stuff faster. You might say "if they had more money
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by chrissam 8y ago
ES2018 introduces named capture groups. They're available today in Chrome, unsure about other browsers.
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by chrissam 8y ago
Your argument boils down to "everything is political". I understand that some people think this -- but I don't. I believe the goal of this writing is to convey to the reader the scale of the bombings and some fraction of the
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by chrissam 8y ago
I think the Assange/wikileaks indictment is a misstep by the justice department/current administration. My understanding is that it's far from clear how a case again Assange/wikileaks would play out in court. Like the ar
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by chrissam 8y ago
> Why do we keep selling weapons to such a repressive regime? Realpolitik. The US (and UK, I guess) are closely allied to the Saudis in order to counteract Iranian influence in the region. The theory is that the world will be in better
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by chrissam 8y ago
You know what's even more straightforward than "metacognition"? "Thinking about thinking".
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by chrissam 8y ago
This sentiment is as old as religion: it's the good old millenarian instinct. People constantly think the world is on the precipice of something transformational (good or bad). We'll see. My money is on things chugging along pre
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by chrissam 8y ago
> There's a fairly simple explanation: in egalitarian societies femininity is socially acceptable even in "traditionally male" occupations. So women don't need to act "masculine" to make progress in those jo
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by chrissam 8y ago
My experience is that "you either have it or you don't" is more accurate than not. > I'm pretty good at what I do, and when people tell me they're jealous of my talent, and kind of hint that it's innate, I g
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by chrissam 8y ago
Being an activist implies that one proselytizes or at least takes an active role. I do neither so I'm not an activist.
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by chrissam 8y ago
You might call it mild stupidity - and that may be accurate - but I'd call it being human . Humans react differently to the same information based on how it is presented. It seems to me that activists - specifically those on the left
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by chrissam 8y ago
A lot of this seems valid. At the same time, I think massive customer misuse/misunderstanding is the reality for almost all widely used software. Maybe I'm projecting, but the "solutions people" at the company where I w
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by chrissam 8y ago
He did resign. Specifically, he resigned due to protest/pressure relating to his 1000 dollar donation in support of prop 8 (which would have banned gay marriage in CA). It seems inconceivable to me that his resignation was unrelated to
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by chrissam 8y ago
Because geniuses are often precocious. Here's a critical review from Steven Pinker that criticizes the kind of reasoning Gladwell uses in this article: https://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/15/books/review