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by evanlivingston 13y ago
One concern is that jobs are generally located in the city. It's unfortunate that people who cannot afford to live in the city must also often make long commutes into the city. It'd be a shame if we said it was a luxury to avoid l
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by evanlivingston 13y ago
Talk of obligation and responsibility requires further philosophical grounding than mere outright claims.
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by evanlivingston 13y ago
http://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/Facebook-Salaries-E40772.htm
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by evanlivingston 13y ago
Can we take this to mean impoverished people are less entitled to some of the enjoyable aspects of life?
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by evanlivingston 13y ago
You make a few points which stand on pretty dubious ground. "Your own life matters most" - In what sense? More than that of others? "What's good for you does not come at the expense of other people." - Do you have e
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by evanlivingston 13y ago
To clarify: Pulitzer Prize-winning author Junot Díaz annotates three paragraphs from his own novel on Rap Genius.
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by evanlivingston 13y ago
This site is a good example of the interpassivity in activism I find so frustrating. Without actually doing anything except clicking a few buttons, we are made to feel like we are active in solving problems. https://en.wikipedia.
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by evanlivingston 13y ago
HN is one of the leading tech news sites. The recent events clearly demonstrate that citizens need to be more involved in the political process, or at least less blasé. As leaders of the tech community, do we not have an obligation to act r
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by evanlivingston 13y ago
Bertrand Russell does a good job picking apart why we use innovation to make ourselves work harder rather than life easier. http://www.zpub.com/notes/idle.html
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1 points by evanlivingston 14y ago|0 comments
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by evanlivingston 14y ago
That's a somewhat difficult questions to answer, and it depends on which aspect of EC2 you're interested in. EC2 isn't really a thing for which there are tutorials because EC2 is essentially a server to rent, It's how you use EC2, and there
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by evanlivingston 14y ago
Stories about Iceland crowdsourcing it's legislation keep arising, but I have yet to see any authors talk about Iceland's incredibly small population of 300,000.
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by evanlivingston 14y ago
I worked in high-end restaurants for a number of years where where there is a practice known as staging. Many restaurants allow cooks to come work for a few days to a few months, generally without pay. One of the biggest advantages of this
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by evanlivingston 14y ago
Doesn't this PR work underline the darker side of TaskRabbit, or at least clearly demonstrate that TakRabbit is leveraging income disparity to profit? That is, some people either want or need money enough that they are willing pull a 90 hou
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by evanlivingston 14y ago
Wait, Is there really a picture of blonde girl standing in front of a bunch of Asians with the title 'Make it meaningful'? What message is being conveyed here?
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by evanlivingston 14y ago
No, it's really me, I suppose it's fairly difficult to prove. 1) No reason 2) I recently redesigned my site to be more minimal / wanted to build it from scratch using vim. 3) I would like to develop my own software / I want to continue lear
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by evanlivingston 14y ago
see response @moron
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by evanlivingston 14y ago
Oi, I didn't initially ask for outside opinions on my intelligence. The comments thus far have only exacerbated my moral dilemma. Living in a country where we must pay absurds amount of money to obtain an undergrad degree, the consequences
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by evanlivingston 14y ago
This was a fear I had before posing the question. Isn't it funny that me asking a question would have a negative impact on my life in the future?
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by evanlivingston 14y ago
Can you please provide arguments for this course of action?
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by evanlivingston 14y ago
@novalis, your points are a little unclear. I am unclear what "Differentiation is intrinsic to identity" means. A bot with my name and image would not render me non-existent, but it might seriously compromise my online identity. I view that
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by evanlivingston 14y ago
I'm still a little caught up in the "identity theft" thing. Names and appearances are not the limits of one's identity. If this were the case, halloween would be the criminal's holiday. The trio, perhaps inadvertently, point out a fundament
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by evanlivingston 14y ago
I don't think anyone is bragging about the algorithms here. No one claims it passes the Turing test. The AI isn't the real point. Furthermore, since when does someone's name + picture pass as their identitym That's exactly what this trio is
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by evanlivingston 14y ago
I find these guys extremely likable. Its obvious that they're aware Jon is upset and they're toying with him. They are challenging his desire to use flimsy social media to represent himself. They also challenge his right own his online iden