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by essayist 8y ago
You might also like [1] Sharon Drew Morgen's Buying Facilitation Its message, "buyers don't know how to buy", helps make sense of some of the controversy in this thread. If you're hiring 100 software engineers, god
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by essayist 8y ago
Feedly does OPML import/export now. It worked for me the other day. I'm just a (non-paying) customer. https://blog.feedly.com/opml/
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by essayist 8y ago
Situations where a long and nasty url is printed, say in a church bulletin, and so has to be transcribed by eye to be useful. E.g. imagine a non tech savvy person having to read and type in https://m.signupgenius.com/#!&#x2F
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by essayist 9y ago
We mostly agree, see my last paragraph. Further, "collecting" a group of scattered folks with common interests can be good even if their common interest isn't. E.g. I know that there are "cutting" and self-harm webs
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by essayist 9y ago
Clay Shirky pointed out a while ago that the power of the Internet to connect previously isolated individuals with common interests can have the downside of making that common interest seem more normal to those people. E.g. if I'm the
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by essayist 9y ago
Arguably, mobs have gotten a bad rap.[1] Bond argues that mobs end up being the way we see them on video largely because of how they are treated (ringed by armored cops with shields and bombarded with tear gas, say). FedEx, firefighting tea
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by essayist 9y ago
Don't know why this got downvoted. The archeological record demonstrates that the first agriculturists are worse off than the Hunter-Gatherers who preceded them.
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by essayist 9y ago
Fair point. I mostly get to these because someone I trust has pointed to them. I don't go through my feed (ever, really), but certainly not to find worthwhile tweetstorms. Life is too short.
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by essayist 9y ago
Agreed on all counts. I generally skip "it's all in the video" unless it's a very high quality production. For tweetstorms, threadreaderapp.com is a life-saver.
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by essayist 9y ago
Yes. What the article and the GP miss is the importance of design. Tailing off benefits gradually makes the most sense from the perspective of providing an incentive to work and earn more, but (a) government seldom looks at how the incentiv
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by essayist 9y ago
Right. Many things get easier, but "everything" is not easy, especially not in comparison to every-other-thing. And +1 for pointing out that drudgery-for-the-sake-of-drudgery is hardly the solution.
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by essayist 9y ago
The article confuses a variety of perspectives. First, how do I, an individual, use convenience in my life, without getting drawn down bad paths? I commute by a McDonalds on the way home, when I'm hungry and exhausted. Perhaps I make a
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by essayist 9y ago
Had that happen to me. I'd "electronically signed" a PDF of a contract, and returned it to the other party with some minor questions. The other party marked up the PDF I had signed with some changes, based on my questions. A
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by essayist 9y ago
So on the one end, you have the manager who wrestles with Powerpoint, Project, Word, Kayak.com etc.and spends only 20% of her time working as a systems designer, her real area of expertise. On the other, you have the manager who dictates hi
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by essayist 9y ago
And so the question becomes: who drives those fears, and what makes the fearful ones resistant to new information?
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by essayist 9y ago
Let's argue in the realm of "should" for a bit. Justice: What should a society permit itself in punishing prisoners (and let's stipulate that the ones we're talking about are guilty as charged, even though many many
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by essayist 9y ago
It's not unique to commercial prisons. My friend has been incarcerated only in state prisons or regional jails, and you still have to rely on Jpay, ConnectNetwork, and other pay systems for most contacts.
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by essayist 9y ago
Thanks, and I'm so sorry about your friend. The Twilio magic is basic: buy a Twilio number that's as local as possible to the prison (say 999-#######), have it forward to the contact's real landline or cell (say 444-#######),
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by essayist 9y ago
I'm the point person for a church parish group supporting an incarcerated prisoner who'll likely be in for another eight years and this is what we deal with all the time. Combine the ambivalence that people will feel about most of
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by essayist 9y ago
Earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14411624
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by essayist 10y ago
What was Feynman's point? I've got Pi/Listen going in the background, and it's quite pleasant, so I'm doubly interested.
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by essayist 10y ago
If nothing else, because people who screw up should have better manners. You step on my foot, I notice and ask you to get off, and you immediately do and say "sorry" -> I forgive, forget, move on. You step on my foot, I notice
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by essayist 10y ago
There is a free Markdown-based collaborative editing website I use. Wonderful stuff. Free (did I mention that?). Signing up enrolls your user email into a drip marketing thread, from "Joe", the founder. He asks "how's it
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by essayist 10y ago
This suggests that in many "Big Data" analyses, validation is an afterthought, because the interpretation of results is "obvious".
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by essayist 11y ago
Fun. Johnny555 is right of course, and it was the Jeep hacked on the Interstate last year that first inspired me. The airplane scenario may be more likely, but I liked the additive nature of so many cars, cars a bit like insects. (You could
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by essayist 11y ago
I've been itching to release this terror movie plot into the wild: It's 2025 and more than 10% of the cars on the road in the US are self-driving. It's rush hour on a busy Friday afternoon in Washington, DC. Earlier that da
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by essayist 11y ago
There is a UCLA academic who has 50+ police departments enrolled in his statistical effort to understand and correct policing inequities regarding race. http://www.npr.org/2014/12/14/370792960/taking-on-r
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by essayist 11y ago
Ruth Ellen Miller's dissertation, Enhancing impact assessment with extrapolative fiction [1], explored the use of science fiction for projecting technology scenarios. For instance, she found SF stories that described the kind of socia
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by essayist 11y ago
Six and a half years ago, my wife was diagnosed with cancer. I'm fairly level-headed, and there was initially all the project management of tests and doctors' visits and insurance company stuff and test results to deal with, which
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by essayist 11y ago
I'd agree that a sales tax on Internet-based purchases will be imposed at some point, and that seemingly going industries can be remarkably unprofitable in the long term [1]. Don't know about the long term viability of Internet ad

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