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by gruseom 13y ago
Isn't this a just-so story? I don't see any reason to believe that more good companies do things this way than don't.
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by gruseom 13y ago
Part 2: http://blog.modernmechanix.com/houdinis-mystifying-magic-stu... Part 3: http://blog.modernmechanix.com/houdinis-master-magic-tricks-... Their site search is actually pretty good.
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Exposing Houdini’s Tricks of Magic (1929)(blog.modernmechanix.com)
86 points by gruseom 13y ago|11 comments
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John Heartfield, the original culture jammer(dangerousminds.net)
1 points by gruseom 13y ago|0 comments
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by gruseom 13y ago
NPR at its best.
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The Dark Roots Of 'The Nutcracker' And The Man Who Wrote It(npr.org)
6 points by gruseom 13y ago|1 comments
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by gruseom 13y ago
I like this bit of English wit from the article, on Uruguay's cannabis legalization: "This is a change so obviously sensible [...] that no other country has made it." The Economist doesn't normally bust loose like that.
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Dostoevsky Up Close and Personal(berlinbooks.org)
1 points by gruseom 13y ago|0 comments
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by gruseom 13y ago
That is a pretty striking finding. Has it been reproduced and is it accepted outside the work of that one researcher (and his students)?
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by gruseom 13y ago
Presumably you could set the details up however was necessary to satisfy investors. What I'm really interested in is the conceptual structure. Joining as an associate, proving yourself, and working your way to a possible partnership se
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by gruseom 13y ago
I've often wondered whether the structure you describe, which is also used by law, consulting, and investment firms, could be adapted to startups. It seems like it might be a way out of the employee/founder dichotomy. The key conc
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by gruseom 13y ago
This is great! I always thought he sounded like an interesting person.
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by gruseom 13y ago
Perhaps he will, if he ever swears an oath to defend the Russian or Chinese constitutions.
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by gruseom 13y ago
Mass surveillance of foreigners vs. citizens is a red herring anyway, since the national agencies can easily get around such restrictions by swapping data, or by declaring data "foreign" when it travels over international networks
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by gruseom 13y ago
The word "hacker" has been ambiguous in the same way since its beginning. Its earliest appearance in print had to to with breaking into phone networks at MIT (sorry, no link handy but it's easy to look up). The two meanings o
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by gruseom 13y ago
allow me to quote Mahatma Gandhi Gandhi never said the "first they ignore you" thing. It's been traced back to a speech by a union activist in 1912 or so. Lots of previous discussion about this on HN.
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by gruseom 13y ago
To me that is an argument in favor of basic income: it would force workplaces to suck less, since they'd have competition at the bottom end.
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by gruseom 13y ago
I lived in the Mission (24th and Potrero) for years during the dotcom bubble, when I was a grad student. Gentrification was just as controversial then as it is now. As for mean-spirited auras, look at the "Mission Yuppie Eradication Pr
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by gruseom 13y ago
"My real point is that there is nothing to be gained by modeling circuit components or even circuits as objects" That directly contradicts how SICP teaches it: Our computational model of a circuit will be composed of objects that
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by gruseom 13y ago
"Never ever try to teach about objects as representations of real-world things" I hear this from time to time—it seems bizarre. Representing real-world things as objects is a fine design approach for many problems and is well wort
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by gruseom 13y ago
You make it sound as if the author's stance is trivial, but I have the impression that it's controversial and that she has taken a professional risk in publishing it.
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by gruseom 13y ago
How reflexive a dismissal this is can be seen in how you pooh-pooh the author's 30 years of experience, yet don't pay enough attention to read her name. Edit: I'm afraid the "historical perspective" you supply is no
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A psychiatrist thinks some patients are better off without antipsychotic drugs(washingtonpost.com)
79 points by gruseom 13y ago|65 comments
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Mandela and Tolstoy(nplusonemag.com)
3 points by gruseom 13y ago|0 comments
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Maverick of the Russian Masters(irishtimes.com)
2 points by gruseom 13y ago|0 comments
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by gruseom 13y ago
I agree with you and have often thought that this dynamic drives programmer psychology as well. It explains a lot about, e.g., programming language adoption, that is puzzling otherwise.
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Organic Milk Enhances Nutritional Quality by Shifting Fatty Acid Composition(plosone.org)
1 points by gruseom 13y ago|1 comments
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by gruseom 13y ago
It could well be that such approaches weren't available to his department until recently. Cultural shifts lag technical ones.
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by gruseom 13y ago
Snowden's only other option was to go back to the U.S. If you think he was hypocritical for not choosing that, fine -- make that case, and don't neglect to point out how everyone with credibility as a whistleblower (Ellsberg, Drak
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by gruseom 13y ago
Heh. Nice try! But no, orders of magnitude worse. Which international media sensation did Klein set off? It's true that Klein obliged the Toronto stereotype of the redneck Albertan (and, shrewd politician that he was, used it to score

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