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by hammerzeit 14y ago
Leaving aside one trolly user, most of the conversation here is either referencing data mentioned in the article or asking questions/having discussions about semi-related points. I'd hardly call the argument over language speed a 'flame war
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by hammerzeit 14y ago
This headline is a little misleading, in that it suggests Abe went from being an engineer at Google to being an engineer at the Tribune. My memory is that Abe was in a technical specialist role at Google -- deeply involved in technical thin
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by hammerzeit 14y ago
You're clearly more of an expert than I am on this (although your tone seems unnecessarily condescending), but I was hoping you could articulate in a clearer way: What's the accepted explanation behind the vast racial divide in scores? Is i
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by hammerzeit 14y ago
I'm a little scared to post here, given how abusive HN has become over the past few days. As someone who's been reading Aaron's writings for years, it's clear he was a student of civil disobedience. It seems like the JSTOR act was a delib
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by hammerzeit 14y ago
There have been rumblings for a while that advertising is one of Amazon's upcoming long-term bets like cloud services were 3-5 years ago. I feel like this is a little bit outside of HN's normal areas of interest, but it's worth stressing th
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by hammerzeit 15y ago
I guess a lot of this comes back to the fact that this was published in the New Yorker. The New Yorker stakes their brand on the quality of their fact-checking, which to me requires less upfront disclosure. If this story was in fact fabrica
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by hammerzeit 15y ago
It's totally appropriate to raise questions about a story as detailed and important as this one, but this article seems more tendentious than the evidence suggests. The claims against his character that the journalist makes at the beginning