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by hoopd 11y ago
In the ad-based business model all the people who use Google's services aren't Google's customers, they're Google's product. Google's customers are the companies who pay for advertising. We lost the opportuni
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by hoopd 11y ago
It's almost ridiculous to bring up government intervention in labor markets, and I'm not just saying that for effect. A million things skew the labor market away from the theoretical: people are irrational, information is wildly a
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by hoopd 11y ago
This seems to be how Uber's pulling it off: the costs of a worldwide Uber-dominated oligopoly are far away and intangible while the costs of the current atomized regulated oligoplies are present and clear. When Google was picking up st
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by hoopd 11y ago
> It's not a natural condition. The natural condition of a free market is an equilibrium between supply and demand. That's the natural condition of a theoretical free market, real markets are not theoretical. As Keynes said, t
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by hoopd 11y ago
I think you're being partially blinded by a complex definition of science. A more intuitive notion of science is that the strength of an idea is based on evidence alone. The philosophers will hate you but science will make more sense
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by hoopd 11y ago
In physics, chemistry, materials science, etc. quantitative is orders of magnitude better than qualitative. In the social sciences the two may be the same quality but that's largely because they've had such little success with qu
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by hoopd 11y ago
http://ethanwiner.com/adultbeg.html > HTTP Error 400. The request is badly formed. edit: google has it cached, it's a good read
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by hoopd 11y ago
The Lisp languages usually do Imperative right out of the box, at least going back to the 70's with Scheme. Python has multiple paradigms...it seems more common for languages to handle both Functional and Imperative than to just choos
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by hoopd 11y ago
Wow, that picture is not something that happens in the U.S.! I think it's hard to be a "healthy" losing player because there aren't many good reasons to keep doing something that's costing you money when the whole p
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by hoopd 11y ago
If you gamble regularly and lose money regularly, it's very likely it's addiction that's bringing you back. It's hard to be a "healthy" semi-regular losing player, the ones I can think of off the top of my head
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by hoopd 11y ago
1) Have a good idea X. 2) Reach out for funding and technical knowledge. 3) Investors and new co-founders want "Facebook for X" 4) Good idea is now a social network embedded in X's problem space.
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by hoopd 11y ago
I'm not sure P<.01 helps overall, though I wouldn't cry if it happened. 1) small p-values require larger n's which will price some real studies out of happening, 2) it only makes dishonest research marginally harder and a
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by hoopd 11y ago
There are also limits on the limits of speech. The current state of reddit includes a large group going around trying to be offended and then bringing the outrage back to home-base so the group at large can also get that outrage-dopamine
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by hoopd 11y ago
> It added that it defines harassment as "systematic and/or continued actions to torment or demean someone in a way that would make a reasonable person (1) conclude that reddit is not a safe platform to express their ideas or
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by hoopd 11y ago
I'm not "them" anymore but I'll try to explain what I can. Safe space used to be a term for a very small group of people who agreed to be positive and nurturing towards one another no matter what . This is important fo
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by hoopd 11y ago
It's funny (actually funny, not being mean funny) that you consider the digg exodus period as 'the good old days' of reddit, because those of us who had been there a few years were really pissed off and nostalgic for how it h
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by hoopd 11y ago
My address bar knows me too well: "r" and "n" are enough for autocompletes. Reddit's blocked in hosts and HN is getting really close to going back. Reddit pretty much ended the period of my life where I read books
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by hoopd 11y ago
I tried to make it clear that I think feminism should only be blamed for things it's responsible for. Really. Victimhood is almost always relative and I've spent my entire life hearing about how society victimizes females as com
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by hoopd 11y ago
I can't figure out why I keep seeing this comic in conversations like this.
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by hoopd 11y ago
> When people talk about flaws in science, they're often focusing on medical and life sciences, as Horton is. But that might simply be because these fields are furthest along in auditing their own problems. Many of the structural pr
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by hoopd 11y ago
Not everything has to be a "but the conservatives are worse!" Even if they are, it's no excuse. I don't know the individuals from the article but I've witnessed what he's talking about and I think he described
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by hoopd 11y ago
Why would I get downvoted here? I'm not the one who described the social structure of the hackerspace as 'extremely violent.' It was the professional sociologist who said that. I'm just trying to help people understa
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by hoopd 11y ago
I never said he was fired, I said he was coerced. It's one of several subtleties that are apparently lost on some.
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by hoopd 11y ago
Being a French sociologist he would probably find the U.S.'s definitions of anarchism and libertarianism a bit quaint :) It sounds like his version of French culture is less savage? He was saying he found the American hackerspace to b
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by hoopd 11y ago
So the clickbait title is pulled back in the first sentence, then reasserted through the rest of the article? This looks to be another philosopher airing out a personal grudge against science in general and Richard Dawkins in particular.
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by hoopd 11y ago
Eich was actively coerced into leaving under threat of boycotts and continued disruption of his business by the "social justice" community. You don't get to hold a witch-hunt and then shrug your shoulders when the witch you w
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by hoopd 11y ago
You know what else goes beyond Mozilla? The work they do, the open internet they've spent over 15 years fighting for. The problem in this case is the LGBT community apparently feels like the most special of the snowflakes with the mos
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by hoopd 11y ago
Pointing out that feminism has been damaging to men and the male psyche is accurate, your movement has had collateral damage and you need to deal with that. It's impossibile to stand up for masculinity as being a natural and good thing
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by hoopd 11y ago
You could put a minimal amount of effort into charitable readings of the comments of others. Feminism has gone so far as to brand the men's rights movement a hate group, they've gone out of their way to characterize men's rig
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by hoopd 11y ago
What sucks is if a men's movement has to accept the same B.S. underpinnings as feminism because feminists can't handle others disagreeing with them. The whole patriarchy critique is a biased philosophical position of a particular

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