ericdykstra

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by ericdykstra 8y ago
For some people, the mere fact that what they're working on produces joy rather than ??? is worth the pay/security difference, even if the everyday work itself is nearly the same. I can imagine quite a few benefits, to be honest.
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by ericdykstra 8y ago
I don't mean to be callous, but the game industry is one where much of the benefit comes from the fact that one gets to work on games as opposed to B2B SAAS apps or other banal businesses. In exchange for getting to work on games, you
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by ericdykstra 8y ago
I think it's great that a lot of these minor languages get some play in companies. If they're good enough to overcome the problems you mention, it improves things for everyone. If they're not, then the company dies and so doe
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by ericdykstra 8y ago
Disparate Impact is one of the most illiberal policies in America. Companies need to be so careful that their results can't be construed as discriminatory that they need to go out of their way to make their hiring practices discriminat
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by ericdykstra 8y ago
Sleep is one of the three pillars of health. There are also many fitness and diet articles that gain traction. As to why health is popular on HN, it's hard to be interested in the other stuff if you're dead! (I don't actually
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by ericdykstra 8y ago
Agreed! I'd go so far as to say that book not worth re-reading isn't worth reading once. Audiobooks let me spend more time consuming books than I would otherwise, and thus more time rereading favorites.
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by ericdykstra 8y ago
Yes, Spain has been shut out of Google News since December, 2014. It's a good example of regulation that can actually go so far that even the biggest companies will stop doing business in your country.
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by ericdykstra 8y ago
He was the first one to report the decision on Twitter, and was literally livestreaming in that link I provided before the news was reported anywhere. I'm sorry that he's not on your approved list of people to report on this event
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by ericdykstra 8y ago
I disagree, I think it's perfectly fine to want to leave the EU on principle. For example, the principle of not wanted to be ruled by unelected oligarchs who can pass laws like Article 13 which affect UK citizens.
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by ericdykstra 8y ago
I don't believe this is true. Every legitimate YouTube fair use case that I've seen go to court has gone in favor of the fair user. The biggest name one so far is the H3H3 trial.[1] One that looks to be settled soon is Akilah Hugh
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by ericdykstra 8y ago
Yes, the comedian who almost went to jail in the UK for making a joke. A joke about how Nazis are bad, at that.
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by ericdykstra 8y ago
YouTube, the company, will be fine. They'll just ban any content that triggers their enforcement systems. I'm worried about YouTube, the platform, and the bastion of free exchange of information and ideas that is has been until no
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by ericdykstra 8y ago
A couple of YouTubers from the UK went to EU Parliament to make the case against Article 13. Unfortunately, their pleas mostly fell on deaf ears. They discuss the (undemocratic) process here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
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by ericdykstra 8y ago
UKIP and the Green Party joined forces to prevent Article 13 from getting rammed through without a public discussion. It was a good first step, but here we are, 2 months hence, and it was passed with virtually no amendments to the original
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by ericdykstra 8y ago
This isn't a dupe, it was put up 5 minutes before the article on the front page ?!
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by ericdykstra 8y ago
UKIP and the Green Party joined forces to prevent Article 13 from getting rammed through without a public discussion. It was a good first step, but here we are, 2 months hence, and it was passed with virtually no amendments to the original
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European Parliament votes for Article 13(musicweek.com)
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Just based on the title, I was already imagining a self-sorting physical bookshelf using robotics.
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Yeah, there are many, many examples. I just took an extremely biased article from very recent memory to show I wasn't cherrypicking. That's a great resource, though, thanks for the link. You can also use a site like http:/&#
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by ericdykstra 8y ago
Government's primary job is to protect liberty, so I would be in favor of legislation that is strictly anti-censorship (such as Social Media Anti-Censorship Act, check #SMACA on Twitter for the outline).
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by ericdykstra 8y ago
Yeah, just pluggin in the "far-right figure on YouTube" that they highlight under the heading "From fringe to mainstream" into Social Blade, you can see just how "mainstream" this guy is: https://soc
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by ericdykstra 8y ago
This article seems a bit sensationalized. The examples they give are a single video with 500,000 views, and a couple of channels whose views average 20-30k. If YouTube is recommending "extreme" channels so often, why aren't t
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by ericdykstra 8y ago
I’ve read articles about the same phenomenon in Seattle and people say the same thing about Tokyo.
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by ericdykstra 8y ago
Indeed, based on the title I was hoping we would get an analysis of why flaking is more widespread in San Francisco. Instead, it's just an assumed that more people flaking in SF is true, and conjecture and anecdotes as to why that may
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by ericdykstra 8y ago
Millions of priceless artifacts destroyed due to negligence by Brazil and all of the museums that loaned artifacts to a museum that didn't care to protect them.
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You're comparing apples and oranges. What we know about our ball earth and heliocentrism are as close to solved science as it gets. I don't know much about climate change theory, but for the purposes of this conversation let'
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by ericdykstra 8y ago
Indeed, not just not fragile, not just robust, but you might even say antifragile: gaining from disorder.
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It's bad faith to ask for evidence, then when provided with bad evidence, to say that it's bad? I've read a good amount of the literature on this subject, and haven't found any compelling evidence that diversity training
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by ericdykstra 8y ago
The burden of proof for efficacy is on the ones dragging employees into mandatory meetings about non-work-related material. But just for fun, here's another HBR article that shows that "the three most popular interventions make fi
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by ericdykstra 8y ago
Companies give mandatory training for sexual harassment and diversity because it's either a legal requirement or a preemptive legal defense against lawsuits.

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