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by jaibot 13y ago
You are absolutely right - thanks for pointing this out, I probably would have gone on making the same mistake for years otherwise.
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by jaibot 13y ago
Powershame: Publicly precommit to being productive; your friends will get a timelapse of screenshots when you're done. It's cool because I'm using the pre-alpha version to get myself to work on Powershame, sending out timela
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by jaibot 13y ago
It' focused on inequality along a particular axis and inherits from a historical tradition which has focused mainly on the disadvantages faced by one side of that axis. By way of analogy, there are tools to optimize loops during compli
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by jaibot 13y ago
I don't think anyone's saying men are to blame - this is a systematic problem. The important thing is not to blame someone, but to _fix it_. This post offers insight into the problem so people have a better shot at _fixing it_. So
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by jaibot 13y ago
Hypothesis one: Women are a majority of the population; Their absence is more surprising, and the number of people interested in changing it is higher. Hypothesis two: There is a perception that the absence of women in tech is more a functi
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by jaibot 13y ago
Another difference: You don't need a gun to perform the most basic of functions securely. They occupy exactly opposite quadrants on the useful/dangerous axis.
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by jaibot 13y ago
40% of transgendered people have attempted suicide. Assault is pretty common. There is a lot of life at stake here.
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by jaibot 13y ago
There's also the matter of how long you expect to maintain certain things, and how fast you're changing stuff around. The cloud is optimized for changing things really quickly, where hardware is optimized for long-term cost effect
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by jaibot 13y ago
If you have a plan to fix the entire American political system, I will happily listen. I just spent 2.5 years working tech in US politics and it did not fill me with optimism. When you have eliminated the implausible, whatever remains, howe
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by jaibot 13y ago
It may become easier to reform healthcare if/when people see that PPACA doesn't Ruin Everything Forever.
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by jaibot 13y ago
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1149.txt
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by jaibot 13y ago
It's very likely Dropbox has changed some things since then, having grown to the point where many problems have likely gone from "just buy more hardware" to "let's make this more efficient" in solution-space.
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by jaibot 13y ago
Fivethirtyeight has its origins on the very-political DailyKos, where he wrote political statistical analysis under the name "poblano".
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by jaibot 13y ago
Switching to Linux Mint fixed this for me.
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by jaibot 13y ago
Seattle is home to a pretty progressive culture, and is much more amenable to pronouns outside of the traditional gendered binary breakdown.
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by jaibot 13y ago
Singular "they" is a real thing. People who get upset about it are the worst.
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by jaibot 13y ago
Eternal September comes to all communities, in time.
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by jaibot 13y ago
This is also how fiat currency works. Which is all well and good.
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by jaibot 13y ago
Side note: This is among the reasons free parking is terrible.
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by jaibot 13y ago
If you think that cryonics is more likely to let you enjoy another day of life than being buried or cremated, there is a point. Doesn't it seem weird to go from "This part of the problem seems unsolved to me" to "this id
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by jaibot 13y ago
Yes - it is the case that most countries that implement National ID aren't first world, because most countries aren't first world. It's also the case that most first-world countries implement national ID. A list of countries
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by jaibot 13y ago
So, the US would actually be significantly behind the global curve on this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_identity_card_policies... _Most_ first-world countries already implement this, mostly without disastrous
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by jaibot 13y ago
Caja.
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by jaibot 13y ago
Right, I think the Soylent people mostly agree with you. The thing is, they say, most people aren't having 21 emotionally enriching delicious meals a week. Sometimes you are just eating to get things done, and that's where you throw in a so
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by jaibot 13y ago
Yeah, meant to say "Highline". I believe traversing the NYC Skyline is reserved for Spider-Man.
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by jaibot 13y ago
Two cases: Dense urban areas and sparse lightly-trafficked areas. In lightly-trafficked areas, you're absolutely right about the cost limitation. In the dense urban case, where "elevated pedestrian walkway" means "getting people away from c
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by jaibot 13y ago
Behavioral economics. People are willing to pay $50 for 24/7 access to 40 channels, but they won't pay $1 each for the 50 things they actually watch.
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by jaibot 13y ago
WIth DC and NYC both implementing similar programs, I can now dream of a day when the entire Acela corridor has a federated bikeshare system.
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by jaibot 13y ago
I'm guessing Ez is referring to the Many Worlds Interpretation.
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by jaibot 13y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publication_bias

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