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by gyardley 13y ago
If that was the case, I'd expect the 'buggy-whip' bookstores to be money-losers and the Nook division to be doing well. However, it's exactly the other way around.
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Is there the slightest evidence he was, other than 'some other guy in Russia was murdered with polonium once'? You already know that the person who claims an extremely rare event occurred is the person who has to show up with the
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by gyardley 13y ago
And what would that show, exactly? That donors are more likely to donate to politicians who agree with them? In order to be interesting, you'd have to demonstrate that a donation caused the politician's stance and was not just
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by gyardley 13y ago
This bottom-quintile to top-quintile measurement is annoying. A 'low mobility' area could be largely due to less upwardly-mobile poor or less downwardly-mobile affluent, and thanks to the researchers' weak choice of metric
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by gyardley 13y ago
The government of Canada isn't doing this to set an example for the United States to follow. They're doing this because they want to grow the Canadian economy. In fact, they'd be quite happy if the United States doesn't
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by gyardley 13y ago
I assume you meant billion, not million.
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by gyardley 13y ago
Severance doesn't reward the incompetent employee, it penalizes the incompetent employer. Writing too many severance checks? Figure out how to improve your hiring process.
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by gyardley 13y ago
It's perfectly possible to dislike the government and vigilantes simultaneously.
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by gyardley 13y ago
Autoforward everything you get to it to one of your custom domain emails, and set up an autoresponder that says you're no longer using GMail, points to your new email, and tells the sender you'll stop checking GMail soon? After ab
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by gyardley 13y ago
There's a fair amount of gloating around Cryptocat, but it protected people's communications from me, because I didn't know how to break it. So that's better than nothing. Not if 'nothing' is "don't
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by gyardley 13y ago
Don't look for customers for your AI / NLP technology, look for customers with problems that can be solved with your AI / NLP technology and then sell them a solution to that problem.
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by gyardley 13y ago
Huh - it looks like Oregon's government has designed a rather nice hedge against inflation. As long as fixed-rate loans are still available, this smells like a bad deal.
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by gyardley 13y ago
The best way for you to be useful to the world is to be a good child to your parents, spouse to your partner, parent to your child, and friend to your friends. You don't have to embark on some quixotic 'save the world' quest
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When Privacy Jumped The Shark(nymag.com)
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by gyardley 13y ago
So, if I set up a back-and-forth conversation where I asked five questions and got sent five responses, would that count as one text or ten texts towards the monthly limit? I can think of a case or two where the pricing might make sense. Bu
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by gyardley 13y ago
It's inventive and clever, extremely well-written, and the combination of a hyper-rational character in a fantasy world setting is unique. Don't let 'but is it literature?' questions deprive you of an enjoyable reading e
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by gyardley 13y ago
Culture is a big part of it, yes, but often 'nation' does include aspects of ethnicity. Like I said, the term is complex. Nationalism is something people seem to naturally do. Whether it has a 'point' or not in 2013 is p
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by gyardley 13y ago
Silicon Valley can be plenty narcissistic, yes, but it doesn't strike me as more narcissistic than the rest of our society.
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by gyardley 13y ago
Nationalism applies to a nation. Some nations have governments, and some don't. Some governments govern over multiple nations peacefully, and many others don't. Some nations without governments have aspirations to form them, while
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It'd be a well-meaning technocratic mess - a lot of ambitious plans and actions, but most with unintended consequences that end up being worse than the problems they're trying to fix.
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Ah, right you are.
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A country minus the government is usually more than 'just people' - it's often a group of people with a shared history, culture, and language, what's often referred to as a 'nation'. When people talk about thei
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by gyardley 13y ago
The government most certainly can define what's considered 'treason' in the criminal code and then prosecute accordingly, so I understand where you're coming from. But words can and do have meanings independent of any on
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by gyardley 13y ago
Sure - but the majority for the decision is already there.
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What you want to happen will happen through the judicial branch, and the composition of the House and Senate will be irrelevant. I'm guessing three to five years.
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by gyardley 13y ago
I assume the writer's trying to sell the company on the strength of the team, getting them (and him) jobs and hopefully returning his investors' money. This is a good goal to have when your original plans don't pan out, but t
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by gyardley 13y ago
I assume that the exact same reasoning will eventually be used to overturn state-level laws. There's nothing in the majority's decision that persuasively argues that their reasoning should only apply at the federal level.
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by gyardley 13y ago
Not necessarily. Lots of things are normal when they do happen but don't happen every time.
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My guess is that something is up at the company that you don't know about, because no one in management talks frankly to the rank-and-file. The project manager has been put under pressure that he can't deal with, so he's lash
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I had a job interview with Fab's CEO once. He impressed the hell out of me - charismatic, strong vision, ambitious - but it was blatantly obvious to both of us that I wasn't a good cultural fit for the company, and that was as far

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