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by hawkice 12y ago
> The litigation goal, you may recall, is to compensate the aggrieved for losing his job over failure to join a criminal conspiracy. So, that's what the document claims. 'grellas makes the point that this isn't just a norm
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by hawkice 12y ago
Compare/Contrast: I worked at a startup where I was the only direct report to someone who spent the overwhelming majority of his day watching videos of women exercising (file this under "things I wouldn't have to know if we d
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by hawkice 12y ago
Sensationally worded?!? You're saying there's a chance the headline "When Roombas Kill" could have even a single trait in common with linkbait? Outrageous!
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by hawkice 12y ago
Indeed. It's somewhat durable, too -- while I certainly experience a lot more luxury since I left Davao, I'm no longer comfortable with even LA-without-a-car level extravagance being treated lightly. I think it's worth pointi
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by hawkice 12y ago
Instead of [deleted] it'll say [flagkilled].
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by hawkice 12y ago
Very possible it's pictures the author of this tool took personally, which would explain why tineye doesn't know about them, how the author found them, and how they had the patience to annotate them all. Also, best to just assume
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by hawkice 12y ago
"Comedy writer" isn't quite how I'd describe it, but I'm surprised no one has mentioned that Urbit is run by the guy who writes/wrote under Mencius Moldbug, who is perhaps one of the more controversial people t
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by hawkice 12y ago
So, the census needs maps (and best we are able to double check that, as it is used to apportion representatives). But also: the modern nation-state is, in many ways, founded on the notion of maps. A nation exists not just by itself but ins
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by hawkice 12y ago
Their model for dom composition is substantially more complex than I would prefer. Angular, at it's core, is something like a re-imagining of the dom + js-event-loop that is hackable and modifiable. Good goal, but the complexity doesn&
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by hawkice 12y ago
So, on one hand, yes. As a clojurian, I feel as if I should add an additional level of condemnation (the whole syntax of my favorite language is good old-fashion data structures, as is almost every construct within the language). That being
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by hawkice 12y ago
> if the trend continues, and the Series A replaces the B, we can finally state with confidence that the Series Seed is new Series A, which would imply a very substantial change in industry dynamics. Sounds like a "very substantial
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by hawkice 12y ago
So, let's tease out a couple ideas here, that way I can address your core idea at its best. >They are so easily reverse-engineered and repurposed to attack you You probably meant just third parties here. No one is checking governmen
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by hawkice 12y ago
I don't disagree with the thrust of what you are saying, and I am particularly amused that in the age of almost infinite variation deliverable through the internet there is a kind of odd counter-signalling effect to avoiding that (I al
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by hawkice 12y ago
To give a concrete example of your excellent point: You could hack into missile guidance systems and have the missiles all route to the Pacific ocean -- having the boards fritz-out is a MUCH less powerful weapon, blowing up the factory for
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by hawkice 12y ago
I'm no fitness master myself, but, far from begrudging the paleo-crossfit-organicos out there on their latest PR (am I using the lingo right?), I'd like to say, from those of us nodding and smiling: Being healthy is great! Keep it
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by hawkice 12y ago
Perhaps a better example: Censorship in Google China. The "don't do evil" vs "don't be evil" was almost exactly how they pitched that conversation.
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by hawkice 12y ago
Also worth noting the reason Yelp's reviews are obviously manipulated is that a lot of Yelp's money comes from people paying to be able to manipulate the reviews. Not hard to get better review accuracy than that.
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by hawkice 12y ago
Grandparent mentions "greater fool theory", which is perhaps a clearer counterpoint to your (quite correct) point. It's also worth saying that upside risk is typically coupled with downside risk (which is something you'r
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by hawkice 12y ago
I guess I don't get it. When you terminate the account you can stop accepting payments and auto-trigger a pro-rated refund. Then the consideration is "the service, while you used it" or "the money, while we accepted it&q
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by hawkice 12y ago
So, I was going to make the point that this is only true for the controversial bills (a point worth making -- most laws are tremendously boring), but scrolling through the laws passed by this congress I found an example that makes your poin
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"More common" might be a bit tricky, because it's always been a race once patches go out. But modern systems can hit every IP address and quite a ridiculous number of domains extremely easily. There are more targets, so while
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by hawkice 12y ago
Indeed. It's hard to even say we have had popular rule of law given things like Korematsu, but these days we have legitimately challenging legal questions (about whether a human has to see something for it to count as a search, for ins
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by hawkice 12y ago
Can someone give me the real skinny on corporate board seats? I hear they are basically the rich people equivalent of a blow-off class in the University of Soft Knocks, but few people who sit on boards seem to directly address this question
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So, it's worth pointing out that it may not _just_ be about whether or not it's economical to get everyone in a room and giving them photo IDs. You mention it's been politicized -- that's probably a large source of argum
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> But those others haven't managed to convince too many that hey are "not Evil" or some like that bullshit. The "American Hospital Association" probably has very few people who think it is evil.
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It's surprising to me how seriously this is taken. Not many people would identify anti-workplace-discrimination laws as burdensome regulation. Most people (at least among the intelligensia) would just not discriminate and be done with
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by hawkice 12y ago
> We're curiously macho about this, as if 14 hour workdays are a unique point of startup pride and not a very common characteristic of systems designed to acculturate young men into professions via hazing. Curious indeed. I've
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by hawkice 12y ago
Hahaha so, not sounding like a native so much as adding r sounds everywhere, which makes you sound a little silly in the south independent of how good you are. Imagine a four year old speaking in a southern drawl here in America, it'd
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by hawkice 12y ago
So, my thing about Pimsleur is that I assume they intend for you to supplement it. For instance, given what you've learned already, you can probably say, "I would like to order two beers." but CANNOT, if you rely solely on Pi
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I've been told by Americans doing business in China that, even if you have pretty good Chinese, you don't have good business Chinese unless you specifically know that you do. So you'll get a translator anyway. Understanding t

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