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by jerrya 14y ago
Thank you for posting this.
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Why the Atlantic's Scientology Advertorial was bad(incisive.nu)
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by jerrya 14y ago
I don't want to seem snarky, but that first picture you have there, the one of a collection of books where I have to tilt my head to read them and that book on the left is called "Design of Everyday Things" and talks about designing things
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by jerrya 14y ago
I'd like to see way more signatures than 25,000. President Obama can ignore 25,000 nerds. But 50,000 will be a petition unlike many others. 200,000 people have signed a petition on gun control. I'd like to see 50,000 signatures on this peti
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by jerrya 14y ago
And yet, we are told by law professors, and cops, never to speak to the police: http://boingboing.net/2008/07/28/law-prof-and-cop-agr.html As well as the ACLU http://www.aclu.org/drug-law-reform-immigrants-rights-racial... And flex your
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by jerrya 14y ago
I don't understand the "sponsored" content gambit, but I do recall reading various print magazines that had bundled content inside of them that looked very much like "real" articles but were basically sponsored ads. But I don't understand i
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by jerrya 14y ago
Here is a similar piece of content, from GE, makers of nuclear weapons and microwave ovens and former owners of NBC (now Kabletown) http://www.theatlantic.com/sponsored/ideas-roundtable-workin...
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by jerrya 14y ago
I keep looking to see the April Fools disclaimer or any indication this is a joke, but I am not seeing it. Perhaps I am a victim of Poe's law.
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by jerrya 14y ago
Computers, communications, and various corrupting incentives have made it easy and painless for government organizations to hammer the protruding nail.
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by jerrya 14y ago
I was thinking last night that to make it easier to make yogurt in a crockpot, it would be nice to be able to buy an alternative crockpot lid with one or more aquarium type heaters attached to the lid. (Crockpots are nice as big container
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by jerrya 14y ago
He is. And he certainly says that a lot. But whenever I read him at the Volokh Conspiracy, inevitably he seems to come down on the other side. Check out some of his GPS / 4th Amendment analyses. For a guy that claims to be a civil libertari
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by jerrya 14y ago
Yeah, I clicked okay on McAfee Installation, and he showed up 45 minutes later, with a teenage hooker and a ton of drugs. He had good booze, but otherwise, sort of an asswipe. Sent the girl home with a police matron.
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by jerrya 14y ago
Oh gosh, I am so sorry to read this. I communicated with him once or twice re: rss, and I enjoyed his postings at photo net. He was young, bright, witty. This is terrible. I will miss you Aaron, I had such hopes for you.
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by jerrya 14y ago
Various pricing schemes: Price what everyone else is charging ($5, $10, $20 per month) Price according to value (you're saving people 200 labor hours per year, price it at 200 * hourly wage) Price at the ideal price (good luck
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by jerrya 14y ago
My problem with the word hater, seeing how it's used at other sites, is that it stops any dialogue and dismisses even valid argument with a permanent label. So earlier, I posted how I would like to know more about their business plan, becau
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by jerrya 14y ago
Yeah, but 1) there's no down-kudo, and 2) kudos are mysterious, what's a kudo, and then SURPRISE, it's a 0-click rollover vote. I find kudos deceptive for both those reasons. That's not what subtle should mean.
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by jerrya 14y ago
Congratulations to Svtble for their funding. I am curious as to what their business plan is, especially for a blog network that strives to minimalism, having an ad presence would seem anathema. And to that end, I am curious why anyone would
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by jerrya 14y ago
For the sake of argument, I'd say that if the car was registered in the corporation's name then yes, the corporation was present in the car. Reasoning: if the car had been involved in an accident, who would be sued? Just the driver alone, o
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by jerrya 14y ago
Also, your first paragraph is ambiguous, I'm guessing it means: drd is a guide to 'derailing' tactics used on forums, that is itself used to... Yes, thank you.
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by jerrya 14y ago
"Oh, this is (candidate), but let me save us some time. I thought this was going to be a technical interview." That guy bombed the interview right then and there. I didn't tell him that, though. I let him dig the deepest hole he could imag
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by jerrya 14y ago
There are a wide variety of takes, pro and con, on the gender wage gap. It's clearly very political, and so for every report X you can easily find !X out there. It's also useful to know how this wage gap is calculated. So as you search, see
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by jerrya 14y ago
Okay, well thank you, then for the information.
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by jerrya 14y ago
On the other hand, and I certainly don't know how this works, I don't think the CEO or President of many firms personally okay each ad in a campaign. They give the marketing department a budget and say, there, go, spend that money. So the i
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by jerrya 14y ago
Good Point: Marketers, who in this case are predominantly male, are using hyper-sexuality to promote their image and their ad and are being insensitive to women, thus abandoning 50% of the possible customer base. This is a stupid, of cours
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by jerrya 14y ago
Easier to say if you're not the one getting 81 cents to the dollar. That point has been debunked for just about forever now, including from Robert Reich, former Secretary of Labor to Bill Clinton, and about as feminist friendly as a man c
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by jerrya 14y ago
What does this have to do with "women in tech"? The ad was created by a female marketing puke and her advertising team that put together this promotion. It wasn't created by engineers, or physicists, or software developers, or occupations t
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by jerrya 14y ago
Can you talk about the age range of the students of your Hacker School and your understanding of the age range of the students at other Hacker Schools? The pictures all show a bunch of well, young and attractive people. Regardless, coming o
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by jerrya 14y ago
Hmm, actually tried that later, and scribd still tried to make me pay to read this pdf. A pdf that according to the author he is selling and that scribd has no permission to be distributing and is not sharing their profits with him. It turn
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by jerrya 14y ago
I can't help but notice how much you read into and objected to w1ntermute's statement "At least that's how I see it", and yet you end up with the very similar "as far as I can read". Anyway, you would've made a hell of a TV detective.
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by jerrya 14y ago
Yeah, derailing for dummies is a guide to tactics that people on forums use to ensure no questions are asked, skeptics are silenced and shamed, reasonable questions are avoided, and the speech is carefully policed. In this case, no one is a

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