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by csense 8y ago
I think the rules should be simple: If the government ever mentions any part of a standard in any law or binding regulation, that standard becomes public domain, forever. Because the law must be publicly available. This would effectively b
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by csense 8y ago
40-50 years ago, a young person fresh out of high school could get a job that allowed them to live the middle class life -- own a house and support a family with only one spouse needing to work. Nowadays even college graduates struggle to a
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by csense 8y ago
Part of the problem is that the rules are complicated and there's no feedback loop. Maybe once every week, 1/52 of the bins should be checked manually before being dumped in the truck. And the owners informed if there are problem
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by csense 8y ago
Americans have been told that globalization was the key to prosperity. And yes, today we have wondrous cheap smartphones and all manner of goods made overseas. But if you ever visit the Rust Belt, you'll quickly realize that entire lo
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by csense 8y ago
You have to find every group of humans trying to build an AI, and either convince or force them not to do so. This seems hard, given: - (a) The cost of starting an AI venture is minimal (perfectly within reach for a small group or a smart i
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by csense 8y ago
What are the technical obstacles to growing artificial organs outside the body, perhaps from the patient's own cells so rejection isn't an issue? Are artificial organs effectively impossible due to some law of biology or design of
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by csense 8y ago
I have a few thoughts on these issues. - Hygiene hypothesis: Cleaner environments and changes in social patterns (for example, less undirected outdoor play, fewer siblings) are leading to being exposed to less germs as kids, which causes t
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by csense 8y ago
Fascinating article. The obvious research question: Is there an assignment system where the best strategy is to list your true preferences, and is Pareto efficient (no win/win trading of assignment is possible)? What's wrong wi
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by csense 8y ago
I'm sure this is bill sponsored by some of the finest Congressmen money can buy.
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by csense 8y ago
The obvious flaw in a time-based lockout is that it needs a trusted measurement of the current time. If law enforcement wants to bypass this, the obvious approach would be to just remove the battery (to remove power from any internal RTC ch
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by csense 8y ago
> a housing market so expensive it’s throttling one of America’s biggest urban success stories. Decades ago, these tidy homes were cheap enough for schoolteachers and firefighters. Today, most cost at least a million dollars, and what wa
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by csense 9y ago
I'm sure that the bill's sponsors, if aware of this problem, would reply that either: - Existing VC's should find a way to buy out or otherwise get rid of their Chinese (or other foreign) LP's. - New firms whose partners
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by csense 9y ago
So Amazon's business brings a bunch of low-skill jobs to depressed areas of the country that have been hit by decades of job loss and wage stagnation. (Driven in recent years partly by the Internet's effects on retail, led by Ama
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by csense 9y ago
This advice is good only for certain kinds of people. It's not for me.
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by csense 9y ago
The sentiment behind COPPA is understandable, but the practical logistics never made sense to me. It basically makes every website that has any kind of account feature add a box that says "Are you over 13?" and if you click &quot
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by csense 9y ago
I submitted this a couple months ago [1], let's hope it gets more traction this time. The enormous half-mechanical behemoths of the past had a majestic charm in their size and cost, the complexity, the sheer number of things going on
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by csense 9y ago
So how do we reverse this trend? How do we get more educated people to choose to move to, or stay in, the Rust Belt?
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by csense 9y ago
Kidnapping may be relatively simple to pull off in dirt-poor third-world countries and lawless war zones. But shouldn't it be harder to kidnap targets in an industrialized country with a functioning local police force, effective cont
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by csense 9y ago
I'm disappointed he didn't say anything about the frequency stabilization issue. A system based mostly around turbines has the inertia of thousands, maybe millions of tons of spinning metal across the entire grid, which buffers en
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by csense 9y ago
It's a tough problem. In the late 1990's, there was a big wave of accounting scandals (Enron, Worldcom, etc.) Which led to heavy regulation (the Sarbanes-Oxley Act). The Act was a well-intentioned attempt to protect retail in
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by csense 9y ago
Hyper-targeting? The author says specifically that he avoided any such thing; instead he > decided to target everyone in each of the three states between the ages of 28 and 44. No political affiliation sliders, no audiences, no Facebook
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by csense 9y ago
Amazing website, I'll have to keep talent.works in mind next time I'm looking for a job!
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by csense 9y ago
Basically, there are two different explanations for why black students find it hard to get into college. (1) Racism. The white people in charge of college admissions just don't like black people, and let too few of them into college.
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How Lying to My Students Helps Them Find Their Voice and Pursue Truth(heterodoxacademy.org)
3 points by csense 9y ago|0 comments
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by csense 9y ago
Learning how to put the video game down is just as big a life lesson as many of the things the actual gameplay teaches you. I think maybe 4 is a little young to ask a kid not to let their emotions drive them. But by the time they get to ag
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by csense 9y ago
This is the dumbest thing I've ever heard. The reason for having a performance bonus is to reward employees for doing their job well. The theory is that the employees will continue to do their job well, because they feel a sense of o
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by csense 9y ago
Previous discussion from 2014: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8365061
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by csense 9y ago
> someone who is against racial diversity but isn't remotely racist One way I see this working is a person who believes in individualistic meritocracy with libertarian leanings. In this post I'll try to lay out the point of vi
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by csense 9y ago
At a lot of companies, it's hard to telecommute unless you get your foot in the door by working with them for a while and becoming invaluable, giving you enough leverage to demand it in the next time you negotiate employment terms. Thi
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by csense 9y ago
TLDR, a bunch of people lost their money placing a bet on a number that comes out of a complicated formula involving stock prices. The article's handwringing because their number might have included "novice retail investors"

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