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by icambron 13y ago
You're missing Throwaway's point entirely. The context from higher in the thread: > I'm not sure what they are supposed to show. In other words, "in the context of what argument are you presenting this data?" Throwaway is saying that th
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by icambron 14y ago
I don't disagree with your point, but your hyperbole does you no credit. 99.999% implies there about 3000 American Indians in the US. There are closer to 3 million (depending on exactly what you count), or about 1%. The US census has the
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by icambron 14y ago
I actually had the same thought, but decided I was just being unfairly regionlist. I'll continue to hold my judgement on that count.
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by icambron 14y ago
That it is actually illegal in some jurisdictions doesn't make it any less sad that people have to wonder about it.
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by icambron 14y ago
> Yes, it is legal. It saddens me that this needed to be clarified, that anyone would wonder whether putting a page on the internet without going through the "proper channels" was legal. Not surprising, but sad.
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by icambron 14y ago
The thing is, they're not real life consequences. They're totally artificial consequences, established by the school without adequate rational basis. You could do this basically anywhere but a school, and nothing would happen to you (think
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by icambron 14y ago
The charges may well get dropped when cooler heads prevail. The expulsion, I'm guessing, won't be, which is shameful. Ruining a kid's life because she put some chemicals in a bottle and didn't hurt anyone is heinous.
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by icambron 14y ago
I wish that had been my experience with it. I did well in the class, but I didn't learn nearly as much as I should have. To be clear, that was entirely my fault, not the class's; I was lazy and got away with a lot of shortcuts. And even whe
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by icambron 14y ago
I think this misreads the tone in several ways. > As if the argument for women is based primarily on opinion. I'm not sure I buy the article's notion that hackathons aren't based on opinion, but your swing misses the mark in the other d
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by icambron 14y ago
It would also be very surprising if he didn't outright loathe the employment regulations that are strangling Spain. He is an economist, after all. I'm not Krugman accolite, but the "there are bad things happening so Krugman is wrong" logic
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by icambron 14y ago
I'm not sure HN has ever agreed on anything enough to be described collectively as defending it. I suspect the members of the HN community that defended that viewpoint may be college freshman who just discovered "Atlas Shrugged". I don't
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by icambron 14y ago
The stream is working for me, it's just that a lot of the radio traffic about Watertown has moved to "channel 1"
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by icambron 14y ago
Sounds like most of the Watertown stuff moved to a different channel to free up regular traffic. Do you know how to stream that?
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by icambron 14y ago
Something big definitely just happened. I have never seen so many police cars drive so fast in the same direction. They were all heading north on Mass Ave from me, which is consistent with that location.
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by icambron 14y ago
There are things at play other than life or death. Let's say you work on campus. There's a shooting and you're freaking out and there all kinds of rumors circulating about what you should do. When's it safe to leave? Should you evacuate? et
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by icambron 14y ago
Seconded (2000-2004). And I've lived near campus ever since, and nothing like this has happened. Some shootings in Central Square, but never on campus. I'd say this is a pretty big deal. And HN should care - Stata is full of CS people. Edit
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by icambron 14y ago
Until I read all of the context and the later article, I had the same interpretation as you, but it just doesn't hold up. From the article I quoted: "But a few pessimists, notably Stephen Roach of Morgan Stanley, argue that we have not yet
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by icambron 14y ago
I think you're looking at this through too narrow a use case. I agree you shouldn't be taking individual people and guessing what their genders are. And you should minimize the instances where gender is even relevant in your application. Bu
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by icambron 14y ago
I certainly agree about the maturity/lots of small patches to existing packages part. I would guess that LOC growth in Node is (proportional to, say, Ruby) even higher than the package growth for exactly this reason: not only are there a lo
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by icambron 14y ago
I'm actually incredibly confident in Boston on this count. People here are scared and angry, but the reactions here have been brave and largely rational. Nobody's going to start avoiding the Back Bay or staying away from the subway, or on t
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by icambron 14y ago
Ah, yeah, that's a good addition. A lot of not needing to reinvent the wheel conceptually.
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by icambron 14y ago
My cell service has also worked all day. I'm a bit confused about the status of the network, but I've tried to keep off the phone for most of the day to avoid flooding it.
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by icambron 14y ago
It's marketing, but it's not cynical marketing. It's the kind of marketing that should, in an ideal world, totally work. You prove you're a good, friendly company by doing good, friendly things.
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by icambron 14y ago
To speculate a little about the huge rate of package growth (none of this should be taken as critical of the article, which makes no claims about this): 1. Reuse - a lot of NPMs also work in the browser. There are good reasons to make your
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by icambron 14y ago
It does sound that way. Here's Krugman in 2005 reconsidering: "Nobody thought the economy could rely forever on home buying and refinancing. But the hope was that by the time the housing boom petered out, it would no longer be needed." He d
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by icambron 14y ago
I think you're being too hard on yourself. I live in Boston and have friends who were in very real danger, and I still had that same thought go through my head. On the merits of the the thought, we should not accord much weight to the "it
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by icambron 14y ago
We Americans suffer from flag inflation. We mostly don't even notice them anymore, so people have to put bigger and bigger flags to prove how patriotic they are. I was at a baseball game last weekend and only noticed midway through how many
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by icambron 14y ago
See here for the list of early accounts: https://api.github.com/users
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by icambron 14y ago
Yup, I understood. I was just adding a thought about how it was even more impractical than your comment suggested. Wasn't arguing against your point itself.
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by icambron 14y ago
Assuming they didn't, you know, disconnect you while you were doing it. There are actual people up there; presumably they have manual overrides.

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