crusso

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by crusso 10y ago
There are definitely vacuum chambers that form, but I'd be hesitant to generalize the overall effect. Does the increased access to points of view override the insular effect of seeking out like-minded thinkers? Additionally, is it all
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by crusso 10y ago
Blame yourself if you're getting more than relative updates and cat videos from Facebook.
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by crusso 10y ago
Why didn't you tell them that you wouldn't take the job if they couldn't present you with the paperwork that they would be requiring you to sign? And if they presented extra paperwork later, why wouldn't you hold them to
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by crusso 10y ago
State funding of transportation makes up a larger portion of the budget than federal. http://www.vta.org/sfc/servlet.shepherd/document/download/06... Additionally, this measure was kicked off with a vote
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by crusso 10y ago
I didn't realize that California politics was controlled by the GOP.
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by crusso 10y ago
I'd question those numbers: 5 minutes for urban shopping and 2 hours for suburb shopping. So you're saying that in 7 5 minute stops (35 minutes), you're able to accomplish what it takes someone else in a suburban mega-grocer
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by crusso 10y ago
Did it require a 2/3 vote to join the EU?
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by crusso 10y ago
The elder are not silenced, they can defend themselves. You could use that as an excuse for any sort of attack. In general, and especially here on HN, ad hominem is frowned upon.
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by crusso 10y ago
Sadly the question is boiled down to "In or out of EU" instead of "How to make EU better". Sometimes, the best way to force change is for one party to walk away from the table and force a reset. I'm amazed at how
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by crusso 10y ago
Noting that different age groups tended to vote differently is not the problem. Nor is trying to understand why they voted how they did. It's the denigration of the people who were older. This article called them "grumpy",
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by crusso 10y ago
Grumpy old people I've noticed a fairly consistent and unmistakable thread of ageism in the brexit articles and discussions I've seen. It would be helpful if the denigration of classes of people weren't a part of the debat
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by crusso 10y ago
I like your view of it as a beta. I've talked about this brexit as a "refactoring". The EU is a code base that grew quickly and accrued a great deal of cruft in a short amount of time. The UK is simply taking their module o
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by crusso 10y ago
Plus, just getting out of the house and walking can change your attitude.
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by crusso 10y ago
Same here. As with my Rails development ten years ago, I feel like I have some secret weapons that not many have when I'm using Elixir/Phoenix.
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by crusso 10y ago
Of course they meant 'Python' instead of 'Ruby' but hey ;-) I've made the switch from Ruby to Python, mostly for the scipy/numpy/pandas/jupyter support (and performance) - but I don't think I&#
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by crusso 10y ago
Siri integration... getting closer. Another 30 years and we'll have the intelligent assistant. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGYFEI6uLy0
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by crusso 10y ago
The existence of the US government's looking into such a program or even having a small version of it isn't surprising. What would be interesting in a bad way would be if the US government was using it at anywhere near the scale o
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by crusso 10y ago
humans could use more natural attrition What's your evidence that more attrition will create a greater society? If anything, greater longevity of people would allow for the accrual of more knowledge and wisdom. Living longer gives
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by crusso 10y ago
Society doesn't "need" death. It isn't a great leap to think that if we learn to alter our bodies at the nano/genetic level that we can handle our own evolution.
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by crusso 10y ago
If you want just the science and the meditation without any mumbo-jumbo, I'd recommend Sam Harris' Waking Up . http://www.amazon.com/Waking-Up-Spirituality-Without-Religio...
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by crusso 10y ago
Take luck out of the picture. Learn how to meditate. I find that when the suckiness of mortality intrudes upon my thoughts, twenty minutes of meditation clears my mind and prepares it for handling more immediate concerns. Being trapped in
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by crusso 10y ago
While we're at it - thanks, Dang. You do a lot of hard work keeping HN a place worth visiting. I even appreciated the time or two you corrected me personally. The comments sections of most online forums are about useless and I know t
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by crusso 10y ago
aside from some libertarian drivel you picked up elsewhere Please avoid these kinds of attacks on HN. Just make your case without making it personal. Thanks.
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by crusso 10y ago
Shouldn't HN have a policy against posting articles that are behind a paywall? Yes, I know that you can jump to google and search for the article to try to avoid the paywall - but shouldn't a news aggregator make a statement abou
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by crusso 11y ago
As someone with white children applying for college, I can say without question that skin color is used to disadvantage certain people.
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by crusso 11y ago
There are tools and there are users of tools. Which is the computer? Which is the human?
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by crusso 11y ago
"if it can be fixed why not fix it?" If the fix is "lay guilt upon and attempt to disadvantage all people of a certain skin color because some of that skin color have had an easier time in life", then it doesn't see
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by crusso 11y ago
I generally agree that doing a dance entering the crosswalk is unhelpful, but there are lots of cases where you can stand back and wait to enter the crosswalk in order to avoid making a car slam on its breaks.
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by crusso 11y ago
The mainstream medical community's slowness in coming to grips with the role of simple carbs in the diet has been shameful.
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by crusso 11y ago
"California law says I've got right-of-way in crosswalks" That's for the safety of the pedestrian in order to avoid confusion and make liability strictly fall on the shoulders of the party with the 2 killing machine. Reg

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