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by dcre 7y ago
It is part of the wood itself. Apparently wood is about half carbon. All known living things are made of carbon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wood#Chemistry_of_wood https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C
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by dcre 7y ago
Lots of interesting and worthwhile detail, none of which undermines reporting about what goes on in warehouses in which the author does not work, nor does it undermine the argument that paying $30,000 a year for full time work in California
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by dcre 7y ago
To the extent what you describe about depth and breadth is true, it’s true of all knowledge and all subjects. I highly recommend Nathan Ensmenger’s The Computer Boys Take Over for a look at the history of the so-called “skill gap” (which is
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by dcre 7y ago
It's not personified, it's almost the opposite — to insitutionalize the mindset in the form of law is precisely to depersonalize it, take it out of any individual's hands. The reason this pattern seems so common to you is bec
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by dcre 7y ago
There's no such thing as an IQ rate.
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by dcre 8y ago
JS is also a server-side language.
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by dcre 8y ago
Like the other commenter said, people realized that separate languages does not necessarily mean separate concerns. Once you start modifying HTML from JS enough, you start to realize the JS counts as view logic just like the template does.
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by dcre 8y ago
It's like an 8000 word review. Ironically it's you who refuses to read.
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by dcre 8y ago
This is a kind of anti-fallacy. You take the mere presence of these comparisons to undermine the rest of the substantive argument that their claims are wrong. Just a couple of examples: the framing leaves no room to consider how historical
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by dcre 8y ago
That's not what the review does at all. That's one or two sentences of it.
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by dcre 8y ago
For a counterpoint, read this scathing review by Moira Weigel of his book The Coddling of the American Mind: Like Trump, the authors romanticise a past before “identity” but get fuzzy and impatient when history itself comes up. “Most of th
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by dcre 8y ago
Very dishonest headline. It failed to increase employment among people who are already unemployed, which no one expected it to do. It also did not decrease their number of working days. https://twitter.com/MattBruenig&#x2F
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by dcre 8y ago
They really are irrelevant to the vast majority of software jobs. It's nice to be able to go deep when necessary, but that is very different from knowing a bunch of algorithms off the top of your head that you'll never have to imp
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by dcre 8y ago
If they quit they don't have leverage at Google anymore. This is why unions exist: they can threaten to quit, extract concessions, and not quit.
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by dcre 8y ago
They are not removing the like button.
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by dcre 8y ago
This story is not true. https://twitter.com/TwitterComms/status/1056913093471670273
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by dcre 8y ago
Interfaces should probably avoid working on the threshold of human perception.
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by dcre 8y ago
Tech is not really a narrow niche.
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by dcre 8y ago
How much do you think it costs to employ 30-40 of the following people for 5 or 10 years? “reporters and junior reporters, data journalists, researchers, copy editors, line editors, and an assistant managing editor. Graphics editors and des
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by dcre 8y ago
It's neat, but I'm not familiar with this use of the word "tab". I'm not sure what I would call this — maybe a zoomable grid.
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by dcre 8y ago
A critical take on Fukuyama's new book: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/09/03/francis-fukuya...
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Have elite US colleges lost their moral purpose altogether?(aeon.co)
24 points by dcre 8y ago|0 comments
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by dcre 8y ago
re: the portfolio line — wow.
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Democrats Must Reclaim the Center by Moving Hard Left(politico.com)
9 points by dcre 8y ago|3 comments
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by dcre 8y ago
This used to work better than it does today due to the rise of very high salaries in the past 30 years. It used to be that very rich people didn't work. Now there are quite a few people who just get paid a ton. Though the question of w
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by dcre 8y ago
If it's not simple, it might be incorrect and you'd never know until it bites you.
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by dcre 8y ago
That doesn’t really undermine the idea that this is a set of citizens who systematically block egalitarian social change. There are many mechanisms through which that happens — local government and real estate just as much as elite academic
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by dcre 8y ago
"total freedom" — never heard of it
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by dcre 8y ago
Full preprint available here: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2018/04/13/295964
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by dcre 8y ago
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2018/04/13/295964 (I searched it on Google Scholar.)

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