cosinepi

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by cosinepi 17y ago
Participatory democracry perhaps? What if sites like these became the democracry? What if your vote on sites like these actually decided policy rather than simply informing your representatives about how you think? Then the government itsel
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by cosinepi 17y ago
It's a work in progress. A voting system is extremely effective in preventing trolling here but only because PG put time into instilling the principles he wanted in the community through constant repetition, like training a dog. That requir
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by cosinepi 17y ago
Lower participation and, as a result, maybe lower advertising earnings. On the other hand, the cost of not controlling bad content could be much higher both in monetary and non-monetary terms.
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by cosinepi 17y ago
Anonymity creates a low barrier to entry, facilitating free participation. But at the expense of requiring manual moderation. I don't know how much time has been spent on troll moderation on HN. But let's say you have 100 small sites - mode
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by cosinepi 17y ago
Do you accept the argument that this will not affect the majority of applications on App Engine? I had the impression that large numbers of apps were already exceeding the existing quotas.
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by cosinepi 17y ago
Am I reading that right? They're dropping from 10GB free outbound transfer to 1GB?
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by cosinepi 17y ago
"That's what won't happen to most of us. Rather than filling out the form for food assistance, we will be filling out recruiters info sheets describing "a time I worked as part of a team" and rating our C++ skills on a scale of 1-10." Did
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by cosinepi 17y ago
Unless my eyes are deceiving me or you're joking, I still don't see any contact info in your profile.
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by cosinepi 17y ago
Regarding your last point, you don't seem to have an email address in your profile. Is this job on the east or west coast (or somewhere in between)?