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by genericpseudo 10y ago
There is no such thing as "just words". That's a position only sustainable from privilege.
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by genericpseudo 10y ago
"2 years after a jury found that Ellen Pao" ... found that Ellen Pao could not prove her case on the balance of probabilities. That's not the same thing as you just said.
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by genericpseudo 10y ago
Which means any user who has used any service which uses CloudFlare, right? At least in theory.
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by genericpseudo 10y ago
Apparently the second happiest song on OK Computer is "Fitter Happier". (A pig / in a cage / on antibiotics.) So much of Radiohead's bleakness is in their use of irony.
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by genericpseudo 10y ago
Cute! But, well, this is obviously bullshit: > the cheeriest, 15 Step The title line: " fifteen steps and then a sheer drop ". A song which makes explicit references to, well, execution by hanging is... (And "you used to b
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by genericpseudo 10y ago
Yes, exactly. Nothing should be off the table if this is nearly as wide-ranging as alleged, up to and including Travis Kalanick's termination for cause as CEO.
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by genericpseudo 10y ago
There is very little good that can happen when a company serves or provides mind-altering drugs to its employees. That includes alcohol.
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by genericpseudo 10y ago
> satisfies anyone actually drinking. If your culture is one where that's necessary then the entire management chain should be fired.
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by genericpseudo 10y ago
News is not monetizable because real, actual news is depressing and no-one wants to run ads for chocolate next to pictures of starving kids. It's always been the fluff which drew the ads; the lifestyle and sports content.
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by genericpseudo 10y ago
Local ad networks masquerading as news organizations. Record labels and newspapers have a lot in common; they were global logistics companies first (the core competence of Atlantic was shipping highly-processed petrochemical discs around th
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by genericpseudo 10y ago
That came with local loop unbundling, neutrality rules, and two competition authorities (local and pan-European) with real teeth.
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by genericpseudo 10y ago
This is a bad thing how? Serious question. The US would be a much happier and healthier place if it were more like the EU.
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by genericpseudo 10y ago
Question the source.
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by genericpseudo 10y ago
Energy efficiency. Rural living cannot be made energy-efficient and as such is, ironically enough, catastrophically environmentally unfriendly.
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by genericpseudo 10y ago
By volume numpy is mostly assembler written to the Fortran ABI (it's a LAPACK/BLAS-etc wrapper).
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by genericpseudo 10y ago
It strikes me that maybe the best analogy for your financial model is old-school 19th-century shipping (as in; the reason London is London, more or less)? You're taking a trading risk on illiquid goods but your holding times are reason
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by genericpseudo 10y ago
They're real-estate market-makers. Market-making is one of the most reliable strategies for making money in financial markets. This is really smart as long as you can pull it off (and you have the network to get the capital and debt
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by genericpseudo 10y ago
This is impossible to respond to without engaging in political analysis (particularly around equality of opportunity), but the reason that a small number of people do the research is largely that it's both expensive and requires a lot
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by genericpseudo 10y ago
The thing is, anything past abstract algebra is (at some level) politics.
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by genericpseudo 10y ago
> the world is fundamentally and inescapably political Thank you for saying this. It feels like what we're seeing here from HN leadership is denial - or abdication – of moral responsibility. That's a choice you can make, and it
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by genericpseudo 10y ago
Haskell's type system is clearly political dialectic.
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by genericpseudo 10y ago
> Even if you don't come away agreeing with the conclusions of Marxist economists, etc., understanding it is worth the time it takes Yes! It's a useful lens – just as Hayek is. No-one has a monopoly on absolute truth in the so
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by genericpseudo 10y ago
And another partner is a member of the presidential transition team...
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by genericpseudo 10y ago
> those with the means of production have hoarded the benefits And, behold, we see someone rediscovering the central tenet of Marxist economic theory. (Entirely serious; not an insult. HN readers could really do with a more balanced eco
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by genericpseudo 10y ago
Nice to know I've not completely lost my physical intuition. (Used to study solid-solid phase transitions.)
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by genericpseudo 10y ago
This is very much not my area of physics (I worked in condensed matter), but from what I know I'm not seeing anything which looks outrageously implausible. I think the intuition is something like this, and I'm going to be really i
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by genericpseudo 10y ago
It's not so bad, actually; you have to file FBAR, which will take you a couple of hours, but that's about it.
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by genericpseudo 10y ago
Oh, England and France are entirely about the narcissism of small differences. (Also England and Scotland, hence the Auld Alliance of Scotland and France.)
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by genericpseudo 10y ago
I won't work for any of them.
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by genericpseudo 10y ago
Life's too short to work with pollutors. And yes; I want working with Thiel to be a large net economic loss, because I believe that's the language he understands. This is the only effective tool I have to try and do that. It'

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