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by jasallen 13y ago
You think anyone in in research and academia has a clue what real 'authoritarianism' is?
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by jasallen 13y ago
Well, I think there is a lot of confusion in this thread: confusing people who genuinely have serious problems with those to whom the author was referring, those who are simply differently suited than the majority. I'd like to think that I'
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by jasallen 13y ago
"...the bulk of collective social value is produced by people following the pack/tribe" This is stated as fact, but is the most contentious statement you could possibly make. In fact, I would argue that nearly every 'hero' character from b
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by jasallen 13y ago
You miss the point entirely. "Playing a card" is usually in reference to having some condition. The author's point is that anti-authoritarian is no condition . So. If you are anti-authoritarian go tell him to "crunch a biscuit". If you
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by jasallen 13y ago
It truly help a lot when you read things like this. I'm 36 years old now, and have learned to live pretty successfully in society. But as a child that wants to explore and innovate (or for that matter just understand the rules I'm follow
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by jasallen 13y ago
"...I know that degrees and credentials are primarily badges of compliance." Preach it brother.
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by jasallen 13y ago
I love this. In fact, it's older age is a boon as it predates the hyper specialization that leads to none of us being able to do anything 'on our own'. This is practically a mechanical hackers how-to book -- The stuff you need to know to
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by jasallen 13y ago
He's does say that you should build your Initial Product or Service Offering right at the beginning. I think 'start selling' is more like a 1.0, out-of-beta, ready for the pragmatists in the adoption-curve mindset.
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by jasallen 13y ago
yes, that.
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by jasallen 13y ago
Fully on bored with UNICEF, but this article is poorly written. First of all, the entire article says nothing I didn't get out of the headline but it used a lot words to say it. And, the paragraph that quotes Zeynep Tufekci seems to misund
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by jasallen 13y ago
This may be a very unpopular opinion, but: I feel like modern technology has made the 'cluttered' inbox and 'managing emails' more of an imagined problem than real one. I use gmail, and I have a few rules for tags, and use tags for thing
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by jasallen 13y ago
This site is called "Hacker News". Hack doesn't mean 'dirty', it means glorious, better-than-intended, revising-and-improving. And to be sure, the nonsense system that required me to slap '.com' on the end of everything, needed revising
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by jasallen 13y ago
Should the Intersection function not be "how many token 'in common'" rather than just 'how many tokens'? Otherwise I'm missing something. Going to read the code for that function now, but in the article, that wasn't clicking for me. edit:
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by jasallen 13y ago
To provide some further context to ovis' (correct) statements, none of our 'heat', or other energy from the sun comes in the form of conduction. It comes in the form of radiation (light, et al) which the sun has in huge, massive, ginormous
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by jasallen 13y ago
If you email us at previews _at_ fudi.st , we'll be happy to keep you updated.
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by jasallen 13y ago
to eat one thing 100% of the time "is too radical it won't work". yep. To eat one thing as your 'go-to' filler is fine. but neither new nor radical. One addressed one argument, the other addressed a different one.
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by jasallen 13y ago
haha, I really hope you are right about the problem space. I'm currently building a company that hopes to solve exactly the "forget about food and then are starving and make a bad decision" problem. Not ready to say more yet, but again,
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by jasallen 13y ago
Futurama's Bachelor Chow
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by jasallen 13y ago
I think for this parallel to be valid he'd have to be eating McDonalds or what-have-you every day. The point is variety (mostly) ensures we get everything we need from somewhere . I think it's almost assured that in the long run 100% (or
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by jasallen 13y ago
What I actually did was read the article linked. If it's inaccurate shrug , I don't know, but a googling of "girl scout badge entomology" doesn't show much. If there are and they're meaningful, super, I'm pleased and 'part of the problem
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by jasallen 13y ago
It's not that any of us are surprised, it's that that is the core problem with the construct of the educational system. The system encourages this 'number juicing' through whatever means. During the course of a class, if as much educatio
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by jasallen 14y ago
I see a lot of the easy-to-forget-but-we-all-know-we-should-do-them things, so bravo, thanks, and bookmarked.
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by jasallen 14y ago
Burying the lead. The real interesting story is that previously the only science related badges were "science of happiness" and "science of style". Girl scouts: part of the problem.
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by jasallen 14y ago
Days since GitHub hired not-me
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by jasallen 14y ago
I agree with both. I tend to have Red Days and Blue Days. Red Days are coding days, working from my plan, no creativity allowed - that's the enemy of lean code. Blue days are creative days, very little coding - maybe a bug fix if creative
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by jasallen 14y ago
I assumed this was about the grotesque legal abuses Monsanto leverages against independent farmers, and I was horrified. Finding out it was about some GMO scare-mongering...
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by jasallen 14y ago
I'm sure someone can write an optimized algorithm for Node.JS that will be much faster than his (seemingly naive) implementation. Until then, I see a lot of bluster.
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by jasallen 14y ago
My best friend was just put into hospice for metastasized melanoma. He's 35. Where is this stuff? Nothing more useful to add to this comment. Sorry
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by jasallen 14y ago
This is very well said. I kind of think of it like learning calculus - if you aren't an engineer of very particular types you likely aren't using it directly, but the thinking patterns influence your analytical thinking tremendously.
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by jasallen 14y ago
Try adding "flat" to that search criteria, then how many ways do you get?

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