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by greenail 5y ago
"It has to do with refinement of things, games, products and aesthetics. It’s hard to describe exactly WHAT Refinement Culture really means." The author fails to provide any shape to this. He doesn't describe what refinement
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by greenail 5y ago
I'm suggesting that we may be overinvesting in some parts of academia outside the realm of science and that publishing in a journal may not be the best way to measure how to tune those investments. Sokal's work in 1996 was inter
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by greenail 5y ago
Maybe the incentives for universities are all wrong. In the early 1900's only 4% of the US went to university. There ended up being a big push to get more people into college with the assumption that it would benefit society. Eventu
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by greenail 5y ago
We may have to accept there isn't a perfect solution, only compromises and the lesser of evils. The good news is that we can look at attempts to solve this problem and evaluate the results. If we evaluate representative government in
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by greenail 5y ago
Ironically infinite intersectionality of identity leads to individuals.
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by greenail 5y ago
If you can remove the participants who "want to be right" and keep the participants "who want to solve the problem" you might be able to have a more productive discussion of difficult issues. The "assume good inten
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The great suspender pulled from Chrome store
7 points by greenail 6y ago|0 comments
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by greenail 6y ago
this may help. Keys are the rejection of objective truth and other "enlightenment" ideas. https://www.britannica.com/topic/postmodernism-philosophy
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by greenail 6y ago
Learning about the underlying theories of Postmodernism and Critical Theory helped me get a better understanding of some of the "cancel culture" behavior and illiberal-ism which seems to be trending. It has also helped me avoid f
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by greenail 7y ago
So how would you handle this breach with your fastmail alias?
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by greenail 7y ago
I've been vending myself unique email addresses for every online account I use for about 3 years. They are nice because I can reply to them like a regular mail and my actual email account gets stripped out automagically. I've bee
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by greenail 7y ago
D3.js is great, DC.js is amazing. https://github.com/dc-js/dc.js DC combines D3 and crossfilter for multidimensional filtering so you easily do things like click an element to use it as a filter for your other element
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by greenail 7y ago
can you provide a source?
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by greenail 7y ago
you could make such a store with the product catalog api. The actual manifestations are affiliates who pair content with the products e.g a blog style product review with a product buy link in it. I have never seen a pure affiliate storefr
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by greenail 7y ago
The simplest solution for the consumer is to just check the seller and to avoid buying from sellers other than Amazon. No one is forced to buy from an Amazon FBA or 3rd party seller. Amazon customer support generally has more levers to he
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by greenail 7y ago
The 2 amazon mantras that apply here are; more selection is good, customers will never complain about a lower price. If the selection is huge then they need to make recommendations to help people find products. I don't think many user
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by greenail 7y ago
can someone explain why I got downvoted for quoting the community guidelines?
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by greenail 7y ago
Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. That destroys intellectual curiosity, which is what the site exists for.
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by greenail 7y ago
The worst thing to post or upvote is something that's intensely but shallowly interesting: gossip about famous people, funny or cute pictures or videos, partisan political articles, etc. If you let that sort of thing onto a news site,
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by greenail 8y ago
How is buying your own product GAAP? None of the cloud providers can claim their usage of their own products as revenue, it is a cost.
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by greenail 8y ago
I wonder how this relates to the rate of divorce and general healthiness of today's relationships.
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by greenail 8y ago
is Amazon (AWS) really bad at selling to the F500? What are they doing wrong?
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Sentiment over time by category?
2 points by greenail 8y ago|0 comments
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by greenail 8y ago
this is the classic argument around blaming the tool or the user. The gun debate runs along the same lines. Saying "Amazon is Tracking People" is like saying Smith and Wesson is shooting people.
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by greenail 8y ago
The lockin argument alone is a red herring. Every technology implementation creates lockin. The valid question is how hard is something to change. A good architecture balances how easy it is to change something with how optimized it is,
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by greenail 8y ago
it's not about how big the failure was, it is about how much was learned from it that can be used in the future.
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by greenail 9y ago
Don't blame the robots for bad design!
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by greenail 9y ago
Sounds interesting... But the overview doesn't say anything about what problems it solves or how... I think it should give some clue as to why one would read more unless you are only targeting people with this prior knowledge.
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by greenail 9y ago
Some companies may want this feature. Others would not because the regulators (like the SEC) have said that companies can't delete communication data (email/chat) prior to regulated windows. most companies want to delete as soon
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by greenail 9y ago
Assuming gmail and g-suite share technology, I doubt any enterprise customers would be comfortable with the content of the email actually being purged. I'd guess there is some backdoor for corporate compliance and auditing reasons. I

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