dsjoerg

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by dsjoerg 13y ago
The history of other countries usefully expands the set of experience we can collectively call upon when trying to understand how institutions of power behave and interact. You said "state and local governments [...] most abused people
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by dsjoerg 13y ago
It would be interesting to make the male equivalent of this ad. Would we find it equally offensive to have an attractive man in cocktail attire in an engineering ad? My guess is it would be seen as weird but not a bannable offense.
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by dsjoerg 13y ago
Why would you let someone else's poor moral standards lower your own?
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by dsjoerg 13y ago
Do you have any links handy to some of this research? I'd be interested to check it out.
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by dsjoerg 13y ago
Thanks, the phrase "origin circle" did not suggest that meaning to me at all. I thought maybe it meant that it had to be at the origin, but i couldn't figure out where that was.
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by dsjoerg 13y ago
The text following your quote substantiates their claim, you should respond to it: "their biggest previous single, 2000’s One More Time, peaked at No. 61 on the Billboard chart in the U.S., and they had limited Internet presence and no
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by dsjoerg 13y ago
Men are pigs!
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by dsjoerg 13y ago
Trust me, backing up your assertions is important.
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by dsjoerg 13y ago
Fair enough. I was annoyed because I have found those particular authors hard to connect with, and now some random dude wants me to trust him that they're good for no stated reason. But yes, the principle of charity should always apply
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by dsjoerg 13y ago
"Trust me" is shorthand for "Without any supporting argument whatsoever, please believe". When you are tempted to write "trust me", please reconsider and think of why your readers should believe what you'r
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by dsjoerg 13y ago
Because single points of failure are a big KICK ME sign. http://bit.ly/ZwhmHB
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by dsjoerg 13y ago
The companies who enthusiastically picked up NeXT machines by the hundreds did it because the development environment was a decade ahead of its time. However there weren't enough of those companies, so NeXT was forced to reverse-takeover A
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by dsjoerg 13y ago
As an experienced developer and a git noob, this article makes much more sense to me than the plea to use rebase all the time.
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by dsjoerg 13y ago
You write with great confidence but... have a look at some detailed and interesting arguments for and against at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Advertisements
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by dsjoerg 13y ago
This is clearly madness.
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by dsjoerg 13y ago
Agreed, twitter should shut you down.
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by dsjoerg 14y ago
I wonder what Tucker will say Bitcoin is teaching us if it falls to $40. Bitcoin is very interesting and agree with Ezra Klein's piece on it. However, the importance of Bitcoin is not in its exchange rate to other currencies, but in all it
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by dsjoerg 14y ago
the right answer depends on whether you suspect others have already figured it out as well. many discoveries are nearly simultaneously made by others because the components to the solution become available. remember that powerful countries
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by dsjoerg 14y ago
Looks like someone has a bad case of the Mondays. On Tuesday.
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by dsjoerg 14y ago
You are under arrest for jaywalking!
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by dsjoerg 14y ago
very nice idea. when/if this supports git push i'll come back and play some more. i'm a total git noob, git makes me crazy and maybe this will help clarify things for me.
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by dsjoerg 14y ago
Unfortunately, the basketball study cited in the article had no control group. So we do not know how much of the performance improvement is attributable to the placebo effect and the Hawthorne effect. Perhaps all of it? If anyone can post
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by dsjoerg 14y ago
This. People who are already giving the max to GiveWell-supported charities should not divert their funds to Watsi. People who have more to give and want maximum impact should follow GiveWell's recommendations. However, many people have not
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by dsjoerg 14y ago
This would be more interesting if the authors provided anything to suggest they were capable of making more than a video.