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by j_baker 13y ago
The federal government is incredibly good at finding reasons to charge people. It makes me wonder exactly why it is that the government wants to keep this secret. I'm sure they have a good (ostensible) reason to do so. But at the same
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I'm not convinced that the brainscan patterns uniquely identify psychopaths. There are lots of things that frontal lobe dysfunction is also correlated with: ADHD, Bipolar disorder, and psychopathy. I suspect comorbidity (meaning: how l
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I don't even think that this is even a case of that. The writer is obviously not a programmer (he even uses the "Some of my best friends are x " line where x is some type of person you are trying to convince people you don
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by j_baker 13y ago
You cannot not market something. Even a lack of marketing is a form of marketing ("Customers perceive marketing as being scummy! Let's not market!"). The fact is, customers make decisions based on perceptions rather than on r
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by j_baker 13y ago
I don't understand why companies would want to prevent employees from selling stocks. Most startup equity is worth very little. Giving employees more options to sell said equity makes it worth more which also makes it a more effectiv
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by j_baker 13y ago
Content-Security-Policy is a tricky one. For starters, enabling CSP if you're using Angular causes a 30% slowdown[1]. Secondly, a lot of performance optimizations can be gained by inlining JavaScript. The latter one can be circumvent
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by j_baker 13y ago
I suppose that's true in principle. But in practice, the CEO has to be pretty flagrantly acting against the shareholders' interests (embezzling, "cooking the books", etc) to be held legally liable. The case law here is p
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The CEO most certainly does not represent the shareholders. The shareholders elect a board to represent them. The CEO represents the company's management, and is responsible for attaining the goals the board sets for him/her. It&
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That's really the question when it comes to having a separate president and CEO role (and often times having a separate CEO and chairman role). Who's really in charge, and what does the person who's not in charge do? There
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by j_baker 13y ago
You know, coffee and chat and conferences and whatnot are to the startup world as meetings and hierarchy and process are to big companies. They're both excuses not to get anything done.
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I think the point is: you should measure success by the things you've gotten done. Thinking has no value if it doesn't lead you to do anything. If stopping and thinking leads to a better product (and I think it usually does), then
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by j_baker 13y ago
This isn't my interpretation of Cat Sense . The author clearly compares how cats treat each other and how they treat humans and points out the parallels. But the author really seems to be of the opinion that cats are more affectionate
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I don't see what the big deal is. I've never owned a server either. But as a Googler working on Google's cloud platform, I do like the positive press.
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That's not much different from any other form of word-of- mouth advertising. If anything, it's worse. "Did you hear about restaurant x ?" "They suck. Don't go there." If you've only got one friend wh
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by j_baker 13y ago
Some people take their Yelp reviews too seriously. I've been to several places that I went to because of their positive score on Yelp only to hear them upset because of the one negative Yelp review they got. I have to say: getting upse
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by j_baker 13y ago
No, I think it's pretty much a CVS/SVN "Why are people still using this crap?" type of situation. I don't see much actual debate or argumentation happening around this.
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by j_baker 13y ago
It really depends on who you're sharing an office with though. If you get trapped with one loudmouth, it's much worse than being in an open office because they're more likely to be right next to you.
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Meh. I see where you're coming from on this, but we as a society do this kind of thing all the time. Do you think Martin Luther King Jr would have approved of every anti-racism campaign that's used his name? Do you think he would
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by j_baker 13y ago
It's nice to see that important national issues have been reduced to social media campaigns. It's going to take more than Twitter messages and Reddit comments to take down the NSA though. Something tells me that Aaron would be pis
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by j_baker 13y ago
I don't understand your complaint. NYT is a news source. HN/Reddit/Digg are content aggregators. The two things serve different purposes. It's like complaining that your faucet hasn't kept up with watering things li
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by j_baker 13y ago
I'm curious: why are lower numbered benchmarks on the openbsd machine so much slower than higher-numbered benchmarks? Clearly, the machine is older and less powerful than the others, but I wouldn't expect that to alter the timing
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I don't get it. Why Unicef and other aid groups? I mean, foreign leaders I can somewhat understand. But what do we have to gain from spying on aid groups?
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I don't think you should hire a sysadmin until you have a larger set of developers. Still, I think there's a good point here: you should think about deployment early on. Having things automated will allow your early team to spend
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by j_baker 13y ago
How long have you been married? Don't be surprised if you find yourself wanting to at least be 1.5 people as your marriage goes on.
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It's simply not possible (or even preferable) to have zero secrets from your spouse. I mean, I agree it's generally preferable to be open, but I think you're exaggerating. Do you tell your spouse everything about your lif
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by j_baker 13y ago
I don’t recall the exact wording of the email, but the gist of it was that the governor of Lagos West constituency, Bola Tinubu, had hidden around $1 million in a secret bank account to avoid taxes. The money had been stolen from public fu
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by j_baker 13y ago
Desoxyn is kind of a "drug of last resort" for ADHD. Most of the time Adderall is sufficient, but there are some people who just don't respond to anything else.
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I take steroids for allergies. Did you know that methamphetamine is also an effective ADHD drug? Cocaine is a great painkiller for facial/nasal injuries. Then again, there's a whole class of illicit drugs that make effective pain
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According to wikipedia: """ Totalitarianism or totalitarian state is a term used by some political scientists to describe a political system in which the state holds total authority over the society and seeks to control all a
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by j_baker 13y ago
The US has really always been "practical" when it comes to Civil Liberties during times of war or disaster, going back to the Alien and Sedition Act: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_and_Sedition_Acts It&#

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