gpawl

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by gpawl 10y ago
the juvenile BS was always there, and was never a threat before?
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by gpawl 10y ago
http://www.consumerreports.org
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by gpawl 10y ago
Relying on return shipping a monitor to China does not seem more convenient to me than reading reviews.
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by gpawl 10y ago
You miss the point of the story. The story is about "calculating" vs "thinking", and how refusing to think holds one back.
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by gpawl 10y ago
There's a widespread effort in USA to teach calculation using multiple algorithms (thanks to Common Core), and the unsurprising result is that parents are howling mad about the "nonsense" their kids are being taught.
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by gpawl 10y ago
Better than telling you to panic, right?
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by gpawl 10y ago
Why?
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by gpawl 10y ago
Intersectionality is hard. https://www.google.com/search?q=ALAN+EMTAGE https://www.google.com/search?q=black+hispanic https://www.google.com/search?q=white+hispanic
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by gpawl 10y ago
HN has diverse commenters, some "progressive", some "libertarian", and some "concervative"
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by gpawl 10y ago
The headline was imprecise; perhaps the author has Alzheimer's.
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by gpawl 10y ago
more at http://www-siepr.stanford.edu/ArrowShovenMay09.pdf Is there a source for that Spencer research?
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by gpawl 10y ago
The weirdest part of your comment is that you have seething disregard for anything resembling socialism, yet you accept without question the synthetic notion of "asset ownership"
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by gpawl 10y ago
Spoiler alert. I think the presentation of "Australia" in that story isn't quite as you describe it. There is another interpretation.
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by gpawl 10y ago
The young male gamer culture isn't so different (with respect to gender issues that affected the election), from older male(+female) conservative culture.
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by gpawl 10y ago
It's absurd to suggest that because User A wants one female to keep her job, that means that User A isn't mistreating someone else in a sexist way.
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by gpawl 10y ago
> putting tolls everywhere > everywhere tolls aren't see the flaw?
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by gpawl 10y ago
The infrastructure upkeep of bike paths and side walks is less than the cost of trying to count it. When is the last time you had to repave the walk in front of your home? Meanwhile, your car is spewing toxic fumes into the faces of those b
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by gpawl 10y ago
No one has a perfectly good option today. They have a pollution-choked, collision-prone, 20%-workday-wasting commute.
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by gpawl 10y ago
Poor exurbanites driving unreliable cars an hour or more to get to work is not remotely comparable to rich suburbanites crowing them out of employment-accessible housing.
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by gpawl 10y ago
Suburban infrastructure is massively subsidized by taxes paid by cities. There was a good article linked from HN last year. https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2011/6/14/the-growth-pon...
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by gpawl 10y ago
Why should we deliberately under-provision transit, and subsidize driving, to degrade the experience of transit until it sucks a little worse than driving? People live far from their destinations, because there are so many darn parking spot
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by gpawl 10y ago
After a long writeup about the treachery of ambiguous problem statements, the article ends with ... a misleading ambiguous statement: > the ukulele-playing and dancing ambitions would affect the probabilities about the sex of his sibling
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by gpawl 10y ago
Sadly, many people will skim the article, including the incorrect first half, and come away from the article with increased misunderstanding.
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by gpawl 10y ago
How would using more confusing terms help?
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by gpawl 10y ago
> Software Architect I found the problem.
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by gpawl 10y ago
It costs Comcast ~$0 whether you watch TV or not. They have no interest in how much or what you watch, only that you want the service. (It was exactly $0 before digital, when you got all the TV in your wire whether you examined the signal
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by gpawl 10y ago
If you have a VHS and a DVD player, you don't need to pay $80 to play those movies.
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by gpawl 10y ago
> The value for my money was there just for 2 day shipping and would keep it for that reason alone, everything else is a perk. If that were true for a large number of customers, the perk wouldn't exist. Amazon is the "Everythi
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by gpawl 10y ago
What you have just described is literally Ticketmaster's modern business model. Ticketmaster scalps the tickets and pays a kickback to the venue and/or artist. Ticketmaster takes the heat so the the venue and artist don't ha
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by gpawl 10y ago
Do you have any evidence for your claim of what the article mentions?

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