ditonal

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by ditonal 14y ago
I disagree, I think timr is correct, and despite him being criticized for poor socialization, he is in fact picking up the subtle but obvious social and language cues that you and dmor either fail to notice or choose to ignore. This is clea
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You're not the first person to glorify volunteering and charity work over monetary donations, but I think it's misguided. It's my impression that most charities could use money a lot more than volunteer time, especially because it's easier
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I got interested in sports mostly coming from a gambling background (and then fantasy, which hits most of the same psychological buttons as gambling), a hobby I think nerds tend to be slightly more likely to care about. Betting money on a g
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by ditonal 14y ago
I've only been to one hackathon (Angelhack NYC), but I've heard that other ones have a similar problem - short demos. If you are evaluating a project in 2 minutes, you aren't evaluating anything except a team's ability to pitch. Granted, pi
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by ditonal 14y ago
It's in everyone's best interest to have fair, just economic systems. Good systems where wealth is more strongly linked to economic output rather than birthrights lead to more prosperity and justice for everyone. Too much wealth inequality
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I'm surprised you found that rebuttal strong, I found it exceedingly weak. She complains that the original author used a few of her own unreviewed studies, fair criticism, but doesn't present any evidence that it was wrong. She complains th
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I find it amazing you talk about mindsets that keep us in the status quo, and then you disparage IDE users and write a post full of hacker news groupthink regurgitation. I've noticed the type of person who hate IDEs tend to fall much more i
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by ditonal 14y ago
You are missing the point. The author claims to focus on the best product from a functionality standpoint, but he fails to convince us that the "best" wallet is actually any functionally better. His arguments for why it's better are based o
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Those meaningless low level problems are the basis for higher level skills. Studies have shown that students who are more capable of doing arithmetic without a calculator do better in college level math classes.* This is not the first time
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It's a theory in the colloquial sense of the word, and it is unsubstantiated in the only sense of the word. You are also working under the assumption that marijuana users experience "burn out" and trying to distinguish cause from correlatio
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I agree that this is a political discussion probably worth removing, however I can't resist responding. You want hard data to show whether or not marijuana use goes down, in order to combine that information with your totally unsubstantiate
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My whole point was that my standard of living went up compared to Maryland. I'm making more and my bills didn't increase as to offset that. I have more money for vacations, going out, etc. It's true that the big house and car lifestyle may
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I wasn't just talking about street foods, I specifically mentioned the markets that have cheaper produce and meat than what I paid in Maryland. For household items there's dollar store type places with pretty cheap general products. You do
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I personally think the "cost of living" argument is bogus a huge portion of the time, at least it was for me when I moved from Maryland to NYC. Sure, rent is expensive. That's about it, and even then if you're willing to live in the right p
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This attitude, and the casual "reverse" racism of this author, sets back social progress against institutional racism against blacks/hispanics so much. I totally accept that blacks face more racism in many aspects of society today, especial
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He was in a treatment program for marijuana. Most would agree that marijuana is portrayed by the US government and its law enforcement as being far more dangerous than it actually is. I wonder if someone who hears this portrayal of marijuan
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My anecdotal evidence based on an aunt/uncle who work there is that it's VERY much a bureaucratic nightmare where most people work as hard as possible to work as little as possible. Then the minority of extremely smart researchers the NSA r
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What are you talking about? I did a phone interview and two on-site interviews, and the only feedback I got was a generic form letter that my background was not the right fit, which clearly isn't the whole story because there's no need to p