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by dbatten 8y ago
How about this, then... I live in North Carolina. North Carolina is one of the 10 biggest states in the country (actually, #10, I think). 10 million people live here, consuming government services all day - healthcare, roads, parks, welfare
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by dbatten 8y ago
Wow. That's larger than the budget of many US states... let that sink in for a minute.
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by dbatten 8y ago
Surely, you're not serious about this? I work (in an office, not remote, mind you) at a tech company in the Research Triangle area of North Carolina. Most of the people I know also work in tech companies. In fact, outside of state gove
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by dbatten 8y ago
So, the media reports on rare, interesting things, not mundane everyday things? I'm shocked!
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by dbatten 8y ago
Your point is well made, but it's amusing that you use "proven phonics methods" as an example of something that's obviously the best way to learn something... Apparently, there's very heated debate on that subject.
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by dbatten 8y ago
Undoubtedly... hence why I said "or ends up in a landfill if it can't be recycled." I'm certain a lot of the stuff I put in a recycling bin doesn't get recycled. But I would be flabbergasted if it's being dumpe
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by dbatten 8y ago
Where does all this come from? I'm admittedly not the biggest saint on the sustainable living front, but I also don't see how all of this is getting into the oceans? AFAIK, any plastic that comes into my house either ends up in th
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by dbatten 8y ago
Obvious corollary: if you're lucky enough to love doing something useful that most people would hate, you're likely well situated to get paid a lot for doing that thing.
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by dbatten 9y ago
If you eat something that even remotely resembles a healthy diet, you probably don't have micro-nutrient problems anyway. You might be obese, but you're getting your vitamins. I used to wonder if I should take a daily multi-vitami
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by dbatten 9y ago
Serious question(s) from a father of 2 under 2... How do you get the cloth diapers clean? Like, really clean so they don't still smell after they've been cleaned? My wife and I were planning on cloth diapering. We bought some high
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by dbatten 9y ago
Came here to ask if this was a zero sum game (verbatim, actually). So, thanks for this. Given how much human conflict has erupted over access to rivers and other water sources, I can't imagine it will go well if a lot of countries star
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by dbatten 9y ago
Not quite. Labor force participation counts those that are employed or _want_ to be employed...
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by dbatten 9y ago
Commenting on wrong post maybe?
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by dbatten 9y ago
For anybody scrolling through... the Lockharts Lament link is worth the read!
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by dbatten 9y ago
Yes and no. It's not insane from Facebook's perspective. If you're wasting money on Facebook ads, why would they want to give you a tool that helps you figure it out? What mystifies me is that people haven't demanded mor
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by dbatten 9y ago
Facebook now offers the ability to run rigorous controlled experiments on your advertising spending - you basically randomly divide your audience into treatment and control, run an advertising campaign that only the treatment group can see,
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by dbatten 9y ago
Not sure if submitting my own blog is discouraged on here, but I'm hoping to get the word out and get this shut down.
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Google Calendar should prevent spam by default(daynebatten.com)
173 points by dbatten 9y ago|67 comments
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by dbatten 9y ago
This is particularly true for things like soda. Soda does absolutely nothing to help you feel full, but it's pretty calorie dense due to the sugar. Cut out added sugars (and therefore soda) and BOOM, you're immediately eating less
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by dbatten 9y ago
> Increase corp taxes on large corps (say over 100 billion) and decrease on smaller ones. Heck, I'd settle for tax reforms that didn't give large corporations that can afford an army of tax accountants/lawyers and a host o
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by dbatten 9y ago
Again, what do you mean by that? Most (all?) Facebook ads already state which business page they're associated with. (I'm admittedly not on Facebook, but I have trafficked some ads for work.) If you're asserting that Facebook
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by dbatten 9y ago
What do you mean by that? Filtering billions of posts, trying to figure out which ones are "real news" vs. "fake news," and which ones come from well-meaning vs. nefarious actors, AND doing so in a way that is not only p
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by dbatten 9y ago
Can someone change hacking in title to interfering with?
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by dbatten 9y ago
Does anybody have any insight into the "reading wars," why phonics has fallen out of favor, and why it might still be important in certain contexts? All of this intrigued me in the interview and I was very disappointed that none o
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by dbatten 9y ago
Biannual is fine. I think you're confusing biannual and biennial. Biannual and semiannual both mean twice a year. Biennial means every other year.
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by dbatten 9y ago
Yep. Plus pretty much everything at the airport.
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by dbatten 9y ago
It would be interesting if security forces were all aware of this and used it anyway... You'd have an effect on criminals who assumed it worked, plus it makes for great security theater.
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by dbatten 9y ago
Unrelated to the content of the story, but interesting nonetheless... While reading the article (which was low quality with a flawed attention-grabbing headline, as others have pointed out), I noticed 3 consecutive articles linked on the ri
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by dbatten 9y ago
It's further concerning that he appears to have written his own example code for the speculative dark patterns, presenting it alongside real code from insurer websites, which I found misleading at best and downright deceptive at worst.
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by dbatten 9y ago
I don't disagree with you that "fake news" started out as a reference to a very specific phenomenon... it's just interesting that the term very quickly became a political cudgel. I think the transition from useful, speci

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