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by gruseom 13y ago
I'm in favor of what comes from within, but it's important not just to repeat what one already believes.
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by gruseom 13y ago
Pay is only one reason for work. If pay is one's only reason, long hours for no extra pay are certainly objectionable. But that's a circular argument. I like working long hours when it's work that I want to be doing. If peopl
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by gruseom 13y ago
This is an emotional topic, the discussion of which is nearly always evidence-free. How could one study it objectively?
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Doctors participated in torture of suspects after 9/11, taskforce finds(theguardian.com)
111 points by gruseom 13y ago|63 comments
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Teddy Roosevelt's 'Bully Pulpit' Isn't The Platform It Once Was(npr.org)
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by gruseom 13y ago
I agree that spreadsheets count as programming, since formulas are code. But spreadsheets also add a memory model (cell references) and a UI (rows and columns), and these three things are all smushed together, or rather overlap perfectly, w
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JSBeautifier – Beautify, unpack or deobfuscate JavaScript and HTML(jsbeautifier.org)
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by gruseom 13y ago
Unfortunately, most of the software engineering literature disagrees. We know few things in software engineering. One of them is more code == more bugs. Quite so. I wish there were more research into the consequences of this. And more tea
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by gruseom 13y ago
Yes, and there is a special class of "unpleasant facts" that Orwell was particularly adept at facing: facts which contradict one's preferred ideology. In this he was remarkably strong and remarkably rare; a refusal to face su
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by gruseom 13y ago
Thanks! I've been looking for something just like this and ended up getting stuck in a maze—there are a lot of uncompelling editions out there. I'm going to try to track this one down.
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Oliver Reed on How to Play a Bad Guy [video](dangerousminds.net)
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by gruseom 13y ago
The more I read Orwell's essays of the 1940s the more they seem like a master class in how to write, which means they are also a master class in how to think. The combination of clarity and impact in his style is so powerful that it&#x
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Mr. Chemex: The Eccentric Inventor Who Reimagined the Perfect Cup of Coffee(collectorsweekly.com)
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The Dawn of DIY: When it Was Hip to Stitch(collectorsweekly.com)
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Patrick White: Within a Budding Grove by J. M. Coetzee(nybooks.com)
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by gruseom 13y ago
It's interesting that, according to the Amazon spokeswoman, items with negative reviews sell better than items with no reviews.
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Top Reviewers On Amazon Get Tons Of Free Stuff(npr.org)
44 points by gruseom 13y ago|21 comments
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by gruseom 13y ago
He was the philosopher who influenced Nietzsche the most If you don't count Emerson as a philosopher!
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A plucky amateur dared to question a celebrated psychological finding(narrative.ly)
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by gruseom 13y ago
Yes, we're almost all huddled in a narrow ribbon against the southern border. I never stop being surprised y how temperate Western European climates are at equivalent (or higher!) latitudes to ours. "Surprised" is a bit of a
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by gruseom 13y ago
That means he was at least partly if not mostly wrong. I don't agree. You'd have to look at his reasons for calling it the way he did. Your "betting" objection is a red herring. To identify a bubble does not require pr
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by gruseom 13y ago
Dean Baker called the housing bubble as early as 2002: http://www.cepr.net/index.php/reports/the-run-up-in-home-pri... By 2004 he even sponsored a $1000 contest for whoever could make a good case that there wasn&
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19th Century Emoticons(dangerousminds.net)
40 points by gruseom 13y ago|4 comments
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Restoring F. P. Ramsey(the-tls.co.uk)
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A Computer Program That Hacks Language and Exposes US Secrets(nautil.us)
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Bad Government Software(baselinescenario.com)
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by gruseom 13y ago
Since it turns out to be a Danish proverb, one that Niels Bohr was apparently fond of, the author is asking for Danish speakers to help trace it further.
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“It’s Difficult to Make Predictions, Especially About the Future”(quoteinvestigator.com)
1 points by gruseom 13y ago|1 comments
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by gruseom 13y ago
You can justify anything that way; just find somebody bad who's against it. The reason not to do something bad is that it's wrong. How a dictator feels about it is beside the point.
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by gruseom 13y ago
I'm not having the kind of argument with you that you seem to think I am. I looked at the articles you mentioned. Certainly their criticisms are devastating if, and only if, they are true and fair. Are they? I can't say. I don&#x2

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