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by ignostic 13y ago
Regarding the author's original intent let's be honest: we simply don't have enough information to go on.
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by ignostic 13y ago
Desktop: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6159712
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by ignostic 13y ago
That may well be, as I'm not a physicist or mathematician. I take issue with the claim that the universe and the interactions therein can be described mathematically. That seems to imply that you can explain it to a human mathematicall
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by ignostic 13y ago
It also makes little sense to call most phones "phones." They're also cameras, camcorders, MP3 players, maps, browsers, etc. As devices converge it may someday no longer make sense to have more than one device with serious pr
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by ignostic 13y ago
As someone who doesn't like admitting I don't understand things, it pains me to say that I can make no sense of the final diagram.
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by ignostic 13y ago
-People notice that downtime posts end up on the front page. -Those who care about fake internet points see downtime messages as "easy karma." No thought required. -The mad rush to submit the "news" for easy karma result
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by ignostic 13y ago
Based on the speed with which the post received votes, I suspect most of the "votes" came from people trying to submit the news that had already been submitted. I agree with you, OP, but it seems there were a lot of people jumping
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by ignostic 13y ago
This is a CEO issue, not a "new building" issue. The new building is a symptom, not a cause. When experienced managers and leaders start trying to manage beyond their competence it's more often a result of arrogance rather
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by ignostic 13y ago
I've read a few in the LA Times "How I Made It" series, and I'm not impressed. It's not BAD stuff: I, too, hate passive aggressive signs. It's just that the article doesn't describe how anyone made anythin
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by ignostic 13y ago
This philosophy doesn't sit well with me. Physics at a particle or even mass scale can be described mathematically, I'll give you that. That said, if you are to understand the relationship between one particle and another, you nee
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by ignostic 13y ago
Yes, but you "have to live with" every decision your company makes, and you cannot make them all. This is control-based thinking: the sort of thinking that leads foolish managers to try to control coding decisions they don't
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by ignostic 13y ago
Why was management involving themselves in decisions about carpets and walls? Surely this was a poor use of time in area where they are not experts. An architecture or interior design company would be one thing, but engineers and management
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by ignostic 13y ago
You wouldn't really call lab-grown meat "genetically modified." We're not actually altering the genomic information at all (yet). You would certainly not call the process "natural" though. It really would be gr
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by ignostic 13y ago
You may be right in this case (I couldn't find their methodology online yet), but it's just a MVP. They could easily make it without touching a cow beyond the initial cell sample. It's possible to feed the cells a synthetic c
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by ignostic 13y ago
> "When the public doesn't agree with you, or just doesn't care that much about your issue, it doesn't mean they are lazy uninformed idiots. That is a sophomoric way of looking at the world, it's not true, and it
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by ignostic 13y ago
This is what happens when you have bloggers writing exclusive news rather than journalists who know how to verify facts. Don't get me wrong: blogging has generally been a good thing for the spread of information and exchange of ideas.
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by ignostic 13y ago
I was recently reminded in a conversation with my in-laws how far we have to go. Not only do they not really understand what the NSA is doing or why it matters, but they still see both Manning and Snowden as "traitors." Coming out
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by ignostic 13y ago
Not bad for beer lovers. I like that it lists the beers each brewery makes. Since it already seems to be pulling the info from a site like beeradvocate, I'd love to see them integrate the ratings for each brewery and beer, too.
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by ignostic 13y ago
The majority of those supporting Manning/Snowden maintain that neither man did anything wrong. This seems to be a much more reasonable and fair-minded approach. > "Mr Manning’s public-interest defence is especially thin: he lea
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by ignostic 13y ago
IP-based pricing is in itself not illegal in any jurisdiction I am aware of, but that doesn't mean you're in the clear. Legally, you may not charge one protected class more than another. For example, you cannot charge a racial min
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by ignostic 13y ago
That's not entirely true. I release 2 people from contracts they had signed just this month, even though their notice was far short of 30 days. I've worked at several companies that will give refunds to customers even when we don&
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by ignostic 13y ago
There may be something that the United States can do to help your country in this area, but there are also things that your country can do to help itself. Why have your lawmakers decriminalized or legalized the growth and distribution of
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by ignostic 13y ago
Honestly I can think of way more interesting ways to visualize the data than through pie charts. Perhaps they fear showing too much data, but it actually seems quite poorly done with so much interesting data. I'd be really interested t
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by ignostic 13y ago
I suspect you missed the sarcasm. (The author is PIH)
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by ignostic 13y ago
Calling it a "thesis" is awfully generous. It really doesn't matter if it accomplishes the same, but I have a hard time believing that the author was so deliberate. The simpler explanation is that he was just emotional and co
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by ignostic 13y ago
An open letter to Jeff Bezos, and it's practically worthless to a CEO. If the point is, "stop hiring contract workers," the letter should get to that point rather than complaining. Let's look at the merit's of the a
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by ignostic 13y ago
I'm not joking when I say there's a body of research. You can find a lot of it in journals that deal with organizational behavior, strategic management, and strategic HR. I mentioned specifically the oft-used unstructured intervie
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by ignostic 13y ago
The author starts off with some data, but it's far from complete. $15k in lost productivity for a 50k hire? Sure, then there's the retraining costs, potential hits to morale, and then the opportunity cost. Opportunity cost for a b
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by ignostic 13y ago
I kind of rambled around the point, but I was trying to say much the same thing. It's also very possible that the slide traded some simplicity for accuracy because it was being presented to a group of people who didn't really care

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