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by hawkice 12y ago
I am intrigued by the "nothing to hide" = "nothing to lose" equivalence. "Nothing to lose" has always been a primarily mental phenomenon, but I think this clears away some of the potential dishonesty around cla
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by hawkice 12y ago
Or, to add in the more specifically measured element: 40 hours is the peak of the Laffer curve [productivity being inversely proportional to hours worked a week]. I have absolutely no data on variance for the peak of the Laffer curve (if yo
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by hawkice 12y ago
> wouldn't sell for a mere billion and change Worth pointing out that's a lot of money -- if it becomes a large cultural force, they'll still get credit, if there's more money on the table... some people don't ca
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by hawkice 12y ago
I'm pretty familiar with the lean methodology and I'm a bit confused how you could use it to scale up to 100MM/year losses. If they had a repeatable and scalable business model, surely they should either (1) be making money o
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by hawkice 12y ago
This is a fair distinction that doesn't get spoken about here on HN that much. There are a lot of people, seeing the remarkably high quality content and PR, and assuming that being good at communication is somehow duplicitous or manipu
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by hawkice 12y ago
So, this is a bit off topic on a super click-bait-y story, but I think the notion of child labor laws is that we specifically include child labor as statutory abuse, in the same way the basic speed limit law ("don't drive too fast
907.
by hawkice 12y ago
Was watching as it displayed the exact correct time. What kind of black magic is this?! Hahaha. Very cool widget.
908.
by hawkice 12y ago
Let's be clear: "However, only up to approximately 8.5% of all active users used third party applications that may have automatically contacted our servers for regular updates without any discernable additional user-initiated acti
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by hawkice 12y ago
I'm opposed to lying, I don't imagine that's controversial. If the slope is so slippery smooth there has got to be a point in between changing the details of an arbitrarily complex sort and filter default on a social network
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by hawkice 12y ago
Every business that makes sense will try to make its customers happier. Showing people bad news to get more engagement has roughly the same moral standing as the evening news. I guess I don't get it. [It must be wrong because they lear
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by hawkice 12y ago
Might be a subtext here. Consider that there are people (in the general thought-o-sphere, not in the article or on HN) saying that 'poor people are just too lazy to be rich'. Re-read the article. Some things will stick out, I beli
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by hawkice 12y ago
The use of "literally" in a title about using a new metaphor to understand something is... regrettable.
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by hawkice 12y ago
12 * 7 * 2 = 168 total hours of commitment for a program I know nothing about, except that if you ask me to do something I believe is a waste of time I have to burn five figures in billable hours to ride it out and get the refund or sacrifi
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by hawkice 12y ago
It's impossible to tell how serious this is, but for those who are sincerely curious: monopoly money isn't a currency. Worth noting it's not virtual, as far as I can tell, either.
915.
by hawkice 12y ago
I think the general idea is that asm.js is both well understood and not something a human should ever generate, so why would anyone but a transpiler writer care?
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by hawkice 12y ago
The major problems with email are over-communication and a lack of contextual priority. Facebook, of all companies, seems most likely to make these problems substantially worse.
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by hawkice 12y ago
For the ambitious youngsters: do not wait until there's a Hacker News story about how easy startups are in <Scenario X>.
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by hawkice 12y ago
This has the potential to actually start people asking whether "free market solutions" make any sense in issues of public good. There are reasonable points to be made on this specific public parking issue (few of them shared with
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by hawkice 12y ago
Half of all people with my IQ or higher have extreme social disorders or schizophrenia. This happens at this end of the bell curve. Notably, these were not included in the list of potential confounding factors, nor do they appear in the stu
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by hawkice 12y ago
The rising cost of education coupled with systems that work best with future-low-income-earners will likely push the smartest people out of schools. I am concerned that making it all the way through a degree program has already started to i
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by hawkice 12y ago
For all those who love the not-quite-on-point value propositions of modern (primarily San Francisco-based) companies hungry for venture capital: a new way to pay exorbitantly for extremely tiny conveniences.
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by hawkice 12y ago
[Link isn't working?] "Back fire" is an interesting choice of words. Would you prefer we endeavor to improve children's self-esteem by telling them their failures are out of their control? I am concerned this both hyper-
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by hawkice 12y ago
So, I'd like to maybe focus in on three points you bring up. Specifically: (1) If you are unmotivated, hearing you can accomplish great things would lead people to believe their behavior is what is preventing them from doing so. (2) L
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by hawkice 12y ago
I'm baffled at the seeming nonchalance of startups developing "high security" banking apps, certainly. But I think the interesting part here is that the way customers see them (due to their marketing, of course) -- as a hyper
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by hawkice 12y ago
I'm confused by the notion that using nicknames mean you're substantially closer to someone than you would be as members of a team. This is, actually, extremely surprising to me, given my previous experience on sports teams! Sport