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by crusso 12y ago
Where did I blame poor people? Why do discussions like this on HN have to be so twisted and toxic? If anything, I would blame the political elitist class that uses shiny beads to buy power and then perpetuates the misery of their constitue
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by crusso 12y ago
That's a bit of a leap to say that the cops helped start the riots because there are a couple of incidents of cops throwing something. From the video on the link you referenced, it looked like the cops were in full retreat from a wild
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by crusso 12y ago
It's not just about the police. It's about an entire society that has self-assembled into a caste system by treating some portions of the society as wards of the state. The wards of the state aren't expected to be independen
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by crusso 12y ago
Sadly, perhaps Russia. http://news.yahoo.com/russian-ships-old-arctic-nato-set-alar...
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by crusso 12y ago
That's the problem I had with the article as well. You might as well ask the average person what his ideal LDL to HDL cholesterol ratio would be. I'm not prepared to accept the importance of the intuition of the average person in
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by crusso 12y ago
Right. In order to "debunk the myth of the 10x programmer", I'd expect to see research that shows that the phenomenon isn't true - not just that research wasn't modern enough or wasn't completely relevant to m
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by crusso 12y ago
You stated: "There is an inherent moral flaw in having exclusive licensing over life saving technology." I simply asked you to consider for the sake of argument that more lives may be saved under an exclusive licensing framework.
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by crusso 12y ago
It would be nice if the human mind were flexible enough to use different spoken languages the way that we use different computer languages. Would we discover that like computer languages, certain languages are just better at expressing some
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by crusso 12y ago
It's not, inherently fallacious. It may be counter-intuitive to you, but that is by no means a fallacy.
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by crusso 12y ago
What if having an exclusive license statistically saves more lives in the long run?
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by crusso 12y ago
Any non-trivial bureaucracy will develop these degenerate use cases, with or without automation. It's a matter of will, not available neurons that could solve the problem if properly motivated. If the story's author files a compl
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by crusso 12y ago
It wasn't my fault that your statement was easy to refute. After that, I just chalked the poorly-worded obscure sport reference up to poor communication skills.
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by crusso 12y ago
"I am so tired of seeing visual evidence dismissed..." We know that humans and many other animals recognize faces in a heavily biased way. It's the evolutionary reason why some butterflies and fish have eye markings. Their
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by crusso 12y ago
If you don't know what it is after "Like Dropbox, but behind your firewall. File Sync and Share for the enterprise", you aren't their target market anyway.
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by crusso 12y ago
Oh, sorry, that latter sentence of your original post made absolutely no sense to me. First time through, I had even read it several times but figured it was some obscure sport reference and I just stuck with stuck with my contention of yo
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by crusso 12y ago
"unconscionable" that banks should be expected to understand security well enough to know that not using any verification was stupid? It was mandatory 4 weeks before the launch, so it's been 6 months since then... and yet we&
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by crusso 12y ago
What is Cricket? I googled "apple cricket" and nothing interesting came up. I'm not sure what point you're trying to make.
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by crusso 12y ago
In this thread there are two accounts describing how some banks require extra verification before their cards can be added to Apple Pay... and sombe banks don't. Apparently, Apple gave the banks the hooks they needed to eliminate the t
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by crusso 12y ago
Like many disruptors, Apple isn't offering a 100% complete business and technological model for their partners. They're offering a new way of thinking about traditional services and a family of integrated computing products with
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by crusso 12y ago
And let's not kid ourselves. It's all very difficult, what our public servants do. Yes, it's very difficult to raise that much money to destroy your political opponents while balancing all of the donor favors against what y
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by crusso 12y ago
No, you constructed a straw man. I didn't claim that voters got what the median wants. I claimed that the main driver in the complex cycle of perversion of the function of government is the bad choices of voters. Without an informed c
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by crusso 12y ago
I think that saying "it's all the voter" tends to shut down thinking about the real alternatives for fixing problems There are plenty of real alternatives for fixing problems that involve the voter: Education, access to in
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by crusso 12y ago
Well, we don't have perfect information - but I think it's pretty obvious that we have abundant information that voters don't avail themselves of. The drive to use even the information available seems to be lacking.
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by crusso 12y ago
The industry shapes the culture, but worse, the law and the market. As you say, it's not so simple. Industry is just a part of a cycle of perversion of the goal of effective government. Industry isn't forcing politicians to crea
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by crusso 12y ago
The problem with finding a job when you have a PhD that isn't from one of the top schools is an individual one. The problem of the lack of diversity in the educations of the leaders of academia is a systemic failure that can undermine
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by crusso 12y ago
I'm with you both in the fact that I started from engineering and learned about many other disciplines as I went along. Also, I'd agree that most other disciplines don't bother to learn engineering/programming. When you
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by crusso 12y ago
Learning a little programming isn't any harder than learning something about management or sales - it's just that most people don't bother to do it. My mom was 60 when she started learning HTML and javascript. She does just
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by crusso 12y ago
"toxic" is such a great word in this context. I've seen this kind of disrespect for other parts of the organization take down a small company that was otherwise performing just fine.
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by crusso 12y ago
The real tragedy is, learning business is not hard. Any programmer can do it. As a person who's switched back and forth between the technical person, the manager, and the business developer - I can tell you that all of the roles in t
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by crusso 12y ago
It looks like an algorithmic leveraging of the Dunning-Kruger effect.

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