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by dbatten 8y ago
I'm getting a Google Drive permission error on several (but not all) charts... not sure if that's a problem on your end or theirs, but you might want to look into it. Thanks for this! Very interesting stuff.
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by dbatten 8y ago
It's also preposterous. Wealth isn't a zero-sum game. Compared to our ancestors in, say, 1000 BC, the vast majority of humanity is far, far, wealthier while the few who are arguably no better off are not worse off either. That&#x2
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by dbatten 8y ago
Yes, this is exactly the sort of intelligent conversation we can have when we stop using sarcasm to dismiss serious positions we disagree with.
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by dbatten 8y ago
You've basically just described a libertarian economic philosophy. We can have an intelligent conversation about whether that's a good idea or not, but it's a very serious political philosophy that lots of very intelligent pe
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by dbatten 8y ago
Rather than trying to force some particular vision of "the good life" on people, what if we tried to price transportation and other things appropriately? For example, get rid of the gas tax. Toll all state and federally funded roa
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by dbatten 8y ago
The point is that anybody from any background could have gotten into the same advanced degree program and done the same work/study arrangement that I did. In fact, the program was super diverse in terms of race, gender, and socio-econo
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by dbatten 8y ago
I don't disagree with any of this being a reality, so thanks for the post. At the same time, I'm not sure it quite addresses what the New York Times piece was getting at, or what I was trying to get at. (Sorry if I was being uncle
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by dbatten 8y ago
This raises two questions in my mind: I admittedly come from a very privileged background (in terms of both an upper-middle-class family and genetics), but how have so many people found themselves in places where it's so hard to make e
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by dbatten 8y ago
Same problem on Firefox for Windows here. To make matters even worse, there was a bug where the back button just kept me cycling between two different sections of the page. I kept hopping back and forth no matter how many times I hit back,
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by dbatten 8y ago
Depends what you're going for. Maximizing your financial returns? Possibly. Not dealing with the hassle of shoe-shopping every 6 months? Totally worth the money. And time is money too. Also, get factory seconds and you'll pay WAY
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by dbatten 8y ago
My solution to this with shoes was to start buying really high-quality shoes. Bought some Red Wing Heritage chukka boots that look nice with jeans and business casual attire. I've been wearing them every day at work for over two years
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by dbatten 8y ago
Parent is correct. The worry is AT&T giving preferential treatment to their new Time Warner content on their own network...
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by dbatten 8y ago
Do you allow for this to work both ways? For example, when the company tanks, the shareholders take the brunt of the losses, while most of the employees (at least the types of employees that are on HN) likely move on to another job at anoth
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by dbatten 8y ago
Can you show me an example? Most of the examples I've seen are cases where people are using the word "literally" in a hyperbolic sense, which I would argue is perfectly legitimate. For example, suppose somebody says "I&#
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by dbatten 8y ago
Cool idea, but super frustrating that your site breaks my back button. There's basically never a justification for this.
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by dbatten 8y ago
Somebody should build a service for this. My wife and I recently moved and, while we ended up somewhere we like, there was one particular street right next to our old house that we always wished we would be able to get a home on. When we ta
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by dbatten 8y ago
Telcos charge for connecting phone calls and routing voice packets. Even robocallers have to pay those fees.
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by dbatten 8y ago
Thanks for the feedback. I think that's fair. One of the things I remember most from my sociology classes in college is that America has, in general, been getting safer for decades now, even though everybody thinks it's been getti
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by dbatten 8y ago
My company is in the process of launching a screen-free, non-phone LTE device (think unlimited range walkie-talkie with extra features) intended to let kids stay safe while having more freedom. I'm genuinely curious - how would you fee
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by dbatten 8y ago
Wasn't there some article a while back about how MoviePass was trying to have a big enough market-share in terms of movie-goers (read: popcorn and soda revenue for theaters) to be able to start pushing theaters around? In other words,
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by dbatten 8y ago
Two things: 1) You don't take your number when you find it. I guess my brain assumed "find" meant "find and take with you to prove you found it." Perhaps a better term might be "encounter." 2) Here's
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by dbatten 8y ago
Thank you. This is a MUCH better resource.
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by dbatten 8y ago
I'm confused... "Before the first prisoner enters the room, the prisoners may discuss strategy—but may not communicate once the first prisoner enters to look in the drawers." And, in the example given, "That prisoners 5
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by dbatten 8y ago
"They analysed 79,241 malignant brain tumours over 21 years, finding that cases of GBM in England have increased from around 1,250 a year in 1995 to just under 3,000." ~2000 new cases per year in a country with 53 million people?
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by dbatten 8y ago
There are 8 billion people on this planet. The people that think MacBook Pros suck are likely very often not the same people that use them. And, when they do overlap, it's likely due to technology lock-in (they use Final Cut or whateve
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by dbatten 8y ago
Source? My gut tells me this is not true, but I'm willing to be convinced.
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by dbatten 8y ago
I'm glad to see someone else shares this view. I've been saying for years that both a single payer health system and an actual free market system would be preferable to the heavily-yet-poorly-regulated mess of a "market&quo
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by dbatten 8y ago
The author seems to be bending over backwards to make the buyers look like evil masterminds that profited from running Toys R Us into the ground... For example, he notes that they'll have to write off their investment in Toys R Us, but
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by dbatten 8y ago
I second this. I'd also add that the inputs are way too sensitive. Moving my mouse only a couple of pixels completely inverts the visualization! It's basically impossible to exert any fine-grained control.
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by dbatten 8y ago
Why should those of us who don't choose to live in the country have to subsidize the lifestyle choices of those that do choose to live in the country? And, before you go thinking I'm just the radical conservative, recognize that

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