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by czep 10y ago
In the age of fake news, denial and misdirection would work in Putin's favor. All he needs to say is let's send a team to conduct an “impartial, objective, honest investigation.” Meanwhile, the US collapses. I mean sure we can sa
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by czep 10y ago
Certainly Putin wouldn't dare to announce "hey I'm going to start a nuclear war, ok?" However, an ICBM launched from a sub in the Atlantic would reach NYC in, well, less time that it would take for the guys watching the
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Duck and cover, kids. This ain't gonna be pretty.
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What are some good tips for controlling or at least mitigating trolling on sites that depend on user generated content? Moderation, flagging, downvoting, IP address rate limits, keyword blacklisting, are these effective?
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I hate sans serif, everytime I see "AI" in a headline I wonder who is Alan?
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Practical CSS Grid: Adding Grid to an Existing Design(alistapart.com)
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I've thought long and hard about this very question as I often wondered how I'd maintain my skills when my kid was born. I remember reading the Preface of some technical book where the author said he's glad he never had kids
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by czep 10y ago
These conspicuous consumers are only fooling themselves. If my neighbor spends 4x on his car compared to me, it certainly doesn't make me feel inferior in any way. If anything it makes me feel sorry for him -- must be overcompensatin
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by czep 10y ago
A lot of the author's criticisms are about UNIX utilities not gracefully handling filenames containing special characters. But seriously, who puts a newline in a filename? Instead of wasting time writing scripts that meticulously han
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by czep 10y ago
Please edit title: the date is 2012, not 2001.
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"Senior Software Engineer"... "2 years experience."
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by czep 10y ago
Imagine if the world's nail salon workers could spend their time curing cancer, fighting hunger or homelessness instead of the useless primping of rich people's hands and feet. If we only had an economic system to allow everyone
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by czep 10y ago
> Just wanted to say that was an awesome essay! Thanks! Honestly, that makes it all worth it. However, I don't feel crucified or a victim of groupthink, I put this on the web and anyone can feel free to agree or disagree. I think
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by czep 10y ago
> these "introversion explanations" are annoying and likely part of the reason the industry has problems with diversity. Excellent point, thank you. The changes we've seen in the industry even in the 5 years since I wrote
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by czep 10y ago
> this guy really needs to take it down a few notches Author here. Man, if I took it down a few notches, I'd bury myself under my own hubris! I'm nobody, certainly not worth PG's time or perhaps yours, I'm trying to
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by czep 10y ago
I wrote the piece, yes, but I didn't submit it to HN. Get your facts straight. I'm not interested in self promotion. I'm only commenting here to address some misleading interpretations of my original intent. I wrote this 5
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by czep 10y ago
I looked at this very question with the help of the General Social Survey. I found that software engineers tend to hold more extreme political views than the average for the population, but it was equally split leaning to the far right as
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by czep 10y ago
> Marketing doesn't create value; it distributes and sells it. But that value doesn't exist until marketing "unlocks" it! The example discussed is marketing finding a new vertical which then expands the profitability
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by czep 10y ago
The author, arrogant and verbose though he may be, takes issue with Graham's casual assertion that the best hackers are libertarians, and attempts to deconstrust the psychology underlying this connection. What's so illustrative i
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by czep 10y ago
There's probably some element of the Prisoner's Dilemma at play here. I'd join a union if I knew that we'd all have normal working conditions, no forced or coerced overtime, guaranteed health care, a pension plan, and a
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by czep 10y ago
> for "Make America go back in time 50 years again" Or 100 years. There were culture wars in the 1910s that were as fierce as those today. That's how we got the Harrison Narcotics Act for one example. I certainly don&#
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"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal..." "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free" I think these words contradict your assertion and are more repre
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> "Muslim immigrants as a group consume more in societal resources than they contribute in taxes or skilled labor." There are several issues with this type of justification. 1) We do not value human beings based on whether they
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> It makes me sad that politics has made its way to the top of HN. Yes I'm sad about this too, but we can't turn our backs on this, it's just too big. We can't just pretend it will go away and the world will sort its
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by czep 10y ago
Contribution to climate change shouldn't be the only criteria for evaluation of an energy source. Shouldn't we also keep in mind pollution? Coal burns, it releases fine particulates into the air that cause cancer in people'
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> The difference between 2000 and 2015 is so absurdly radical it begs disbelief. I don't disagree, it does feel very surreal to reflect on life in the 1990s. But put in context, a lot can happen in 15 years. I mean, imagine living
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by czep 10y ago
When Republicans talk about supporting innovation and removing "burdensome regulations", and this is the kind of protectionist agenda they support, it's clear they have no real interest in true innovation. They merely want t
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by czep 10y ago
High rent and home prices in SF have in recent history been driven by the finance industry, not tech. This trend has been ongoing since the mid 1980s. Articles and popular sentiment calling out the tech industry divert attention away from
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by czep 10y ago
Comcast is simply the example here. Yes you can look for another employer, but if they are doing the same thing -- requiring disclosure of salary history -- then in aggregate this will put more negotiating power in the hands of employers a
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No, a free market is not defined by absence of regulation! Even fervent laissez-faire economists admit the necessity of appropriate regulations: contract enforcement rules, avoidance of monopolies, a system of law and order for handling di

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