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by drb91 8y ago
So what would you call the meaning of the low GPA? It is clearly meaningful to you. How would you describe the candidates you’re rejecting with this heuristic? It could mean anything from “i can’t read” to “i dropped out to form a business”
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by drb91 8y ago
But a low gpa isn’t inherently meaningful at all. What do you mean “make up for” a low gpa when you shouldn’t be hiring around gpa in the first place? Like it’s not some debt to be paid; it just means they attended class sometime in the pas
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by drb91 8y ago
> That’s surely an exaggeration. Not as much as you mught think! See: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-intellectualism_in_Amer... .
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by drb91 8y ago
I realize this isn’t a problem for everyone, but apple maps has no offline maps support beyond your current route.
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by drb91 8y ago
Well, that’s the rational consumer side of you. What about the side of you that’s a member of a community—how do you start caring about externalities?
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by drb91 8y ago
I am unfamiliar with patent law, but the traditional discussion about it is whether it actually reflects these supposed values. Consider the major innovations of our time. Did patents play any role? As far as I can see, the best innovations
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by drb91 8y ago
It already is better than a car. It has a higher throughput and lower cost. If you value luxury, pay more for private transit. This isn’t contrary to a city that invests in public transit. SF is practically undrivable during the week rush h
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by drb91 8y ago
> bad public transit is 10x worse than just sitting in a bit of traffic, or dropping a few bucks on an Uber/Lyft. How can this be true? Public transit allows your attention to wander and typically is much, much faster than traffic.
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by drb91 8y ago
Opting in implies a choice.... often times the “choice” is “give up your personal information or you can’t get the service at all”, even if the service is, say, a water utility. A large part of the problem is that companies can pretend to u
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by drb91 8y ago
You’re referencing indexes of various health systems metrics, not perception of health systems, which would be the salient facet here (and might not change anything about your point).
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by drb91 8y ago
I don’t see any reason why Amazon would have difficulty here. There’s already regulation in place and generics are designed to be interchangeable—getting an off brand alternative would be a win to the consumer, so long as the choice is clea
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by drb91 8y ago
Well I'm still terrified of wolves, so I don't get your point. Did you misread the parent comment? Fear isn't dictated by technology. We still fear things that can't really hurt us easily.
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by drb91 8y ago
> deciding to insert ads into Siri or WatchOS would be indescribably stupid. Most notifications are just ads to use an app. I'd say the ads are already here.
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by drb91 8y ago
Haven’t you heard everything needs picture stories now, if not video? Text is so outmoded.
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by drb91 8y ago
sel4 is also absolutely tiny on purpose. Imagine the man hours needed to verify Firefox.
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by drb91 8y ago
> It's likely that they can fix this problem for all customers faster than I can fix my problem for myself. And it's not like I'm crippled when Slack is down. Well, you can probably infer the former from the dependency on
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by drb91 8y ago
What if I just want to hang out with my friends? It’s easiest when everyone actually uses the same thing—people literally complain if I text them. The result is I lose touch with people because it’s exhausting keeping track of all the place
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by drb91 8y ago
It sounds like you need to meet more people or you need to provide evidence. Otherwise it’s just a lazy assertion providing no value to the conversation.
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by drb91 8y ago
All this is ridiculously silly compared to making it a useful site in the first place, notably by removing ads and using a chronological timeline. To make myself a broken record, I would certainly pay for such a useful social network. Faceb
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by drb91 8y ago
You seem to simply prefer effectively permanent waste over energy use. Many do not.
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by drb91 8y ago
> instagram is just how you write messages these days, as if this was totally obvious and not a side feature of instagram. At times, I just give up on my ability to participate in society because of shit like this.
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by drb91 8y ago
What makes you attribute this to Zuckerberg instead of Facebook?
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by drb91 8y ago
SF is conservative in some ways, liberal in others, just like.... everything. However, if you look at the money in the area, it’s not hard to see how the culture will eventually clash with leftists.
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by drb91 8y ago
I dunno, I think it’s an expression of the internet that’s better than the average.
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by drb91 8y ago
> Either Koko could communicate complex thoughts, or she was just spamming nonsense and the trainers are deceiving us. If there is a worldview where it makes sense to structure thinking of communication as a dichotomy between "compl
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by drb91 8y ago
Why assume at all?
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by drb91 8y ago
What makes you think that language is binary? That strikes me as absurdly unlikely.
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by drb91 8y ago
Well, that’s what you get for interpreting idioms literally.
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by drb91 8y ago
None of the languages mentioned are whitespace sensitive or look much like YAML at all.
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by drb91 8y ago
Ironically, the biggest evidence of this here might be the idea that the ego should be kept as small as possible. Whether or not it's a real thing, it still needs maintenance (arguably a huge benefit of meditation), and there's pr

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