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by hodwik 11y ago
Glad for the FBI. Getting something like this in place is a massive undertaking. These organizations are all clamoring to get this sort of thing in place, it's a serious game changer, but it's frankly hard as hell. I hear a lot of
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Do you have data on inequality across the EU? I would wager it is much larger than in the US, as you have very wealthy states like Norway and very poor states like Bulgaria. If you only look at inequality PER COUNTRY it will look lower tha
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Care to explain the relevance?
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>"Inequality has grown in the United States since the 1970's too and poverty has increased there since 2000." Inequality is not a good metric for whether or not things are getting better. As Thomas Sowell said, “Now the hi
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At most of the places I've worked, especially outside of tech, "professional relationships", "aren't grinfucking you" and "willing to debate something honestly" are the three criteria for being instan
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>"If your leader is toxic enough that everyone would rather quit than work with them, how are they supposed to function as a leader?" No one said toxic. They said jerk. I quite like working with a bunch of opinionated assholes
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So your definition of the "rock star dev" is the guy who isn't the rock star dev, but thinks he is? I don't think that's how language works.
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At my company the "rock star devs" are the probably-autistic guys who knows the answer to everyone's archaic legacy and interoperability questions, are the only guys who actually know assembly, catch the subtle mistakes at co
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I actually think that's where flatness works best. Rather than being whoever can kiss the most ass and not upset the boss (the usual system), a flat system ends up being a battle for leadership which puts the smart and commanding at th
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So now we know BusinessInsider is lurking on HN.
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If Banksy isn't trying to produce camp he is officially the worst artist of all time. http://www.fecalface.com/news2/1-11-11/banksy.jpg
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The world of music shows that inexperienced audiences will flock to loud novelty over quiet depth and substance every time. The decline and death of classical music illustrates as much. The barrier to entry for the subtle works of the old
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I'm not so sure it's tongue in cheek anymore. The problem with post-modernist design is that eventually it just becomes codified cool. Look at the Terry Richardson shots for American Apparel, the works of Banksy, or Miley Cyrus&#x
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At least where I am from "Working Class" implies skilled labor like Electrician or Carpenter, and some white-collar jobs like realty agents, nurses and teachers. People who make $35k-$60k. People making $20k, like landscapers, jan
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>" longer given the high levels of genetic diversity seen within local SIV populations." That is them ruling out that it came from humans.
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>" a working class family with an income of $20,000-$40,000/year" A "working class" family doesn't have an income of $20,000. That would put a family in the bottom 12% by income. Median family income was $67
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Absolutely, so we as community, seeing these problems, need to be pro-active in helping government discover more effective ways to protect the people of this world from extremists. The hands-up "Well, terrorism happens. Nothing to do a
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Rights are established and protected by constant legislative and judicial battle. There are obviously a lot of people who think that hard-encryption shouldn't be available to the public. If you're not willing to engage with them y
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Not really relevant, the day will come when no terrorists communicate in the clear. I'm not suggesting we outlaw encrypted communications, but I do wonder how law enforcement is supposed to track terrorist communications after they go
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Targeted ad talking about targeted ads, so meta.
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>"You prefer them to starve and/or rebel and trash all our progress, or shall we just skip that bullshit and go straight to something better?" Irrelevant. Technological progress does not erase work, it merely changes what
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"whatever strikes my fancy" is very likely not something we need to survive on this planet as a species. Do you have any idea how much mindless, painful, miserable work the people of Earth do to allow you to have a computer connec
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>"wanted to be a pianist" >"builds RC planes" Like I said. People don't want to work. You just changed the examples of not working to be more elitist. Who tars the roof? Who wades through clogged sewer lines?
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I think you have it backwards. If all jobs got roughly the same remuneration, most people would take the easy fun job, as much as they claim otherwise. People don't leave their jobs as parking lot attendants because they're not ch
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Because most work sucks, and 99% of people would rather be screwing, drinking and watching TV all day long. If you remove the artificial incentives to work, no one will work.
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Most things we need people to do are not enjoyable. There has to be a way to get people to do the work that sucks. The two methods we have found are physical coercion or financial coercion.
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I'd argue that the memory of a smell is as visceral as the memory of a color or sound, which is not very. The difference is that smell is so much more powerful in reality that we see through the memory-representation for what it is, an
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by hodwik 11y ago
No, not at all. Smell is the least synesthetically described sense. Generally with smell we call a smell for exactly what produces that smell: "oak-y", "fecal", "flowery", "smokey" and so on. That is
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Synesthetic metaphors for sensory experiences are the norm, even among sight and sound. Colors are usually described as "loud", "quiet", "cool", "warm", "hot", "soft". This morning
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There's a little tonality in there.

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