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by jleader 13y ago
"better subversion comes through acting normal and engaging people closer to their own terms." But the "better subversives" need someone to point to, to say "you think what I'm suggesting is unreasonable and di
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by jleader 13y ago
Thanks, I just entertained myself for several minutes imagining jwz's reaction to being told he's "not a real hacker on HN"!
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by jleader 13y ago
Boy, talk about "the perfect is the enemy of the good"! Is salary negotiation a branch of particle physics now? Yes, this survey is much less valid than if we could magically collect all salary data for all developers in the area. But I don
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by jleader 13y ago
There's a couple ways to look at this. 1. If the end bucket has more responses than the next bucket, you're probably cutting it off too soon. In this case, on the low end, the "15 or less" bucket currently has 17 points, the "15-30" bucket
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by jleader 13y ago
The US doesn't use imperial gallons. I think Canada used to use them, and I know the UK did, before they converted to liters. I don't know a specific name for the system of units of measure that includes US gallons.
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by jleader 13y ago
The response said they're working on changing the regulations to allow businesses to only label in metric if they prefer (today, mostly they can choose between either traditional-only, or dual-labeling, aside from things like pharmaceutical
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by jleader 13y ago
How would you enforce something like that? The company could argue "we made you chief architect; it's the chief architect's job to convince the technical folks to pay attention to him." Somehow, I doubt a chief architect's job would be made
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by jleader 13y ago
I'm hardly representative of "HN's opinions", but describing Nelson's ideas as "unfocused" and "vague" is kind of like the student who complained about Shakespeare's works being "derivative and full of cliches". Sadly, Xanadu never became t
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by jleader 13y ago
>>> Yet here the author claims that believing something can be morally wrong even if it is a true belief? No, the author is claiming that belief in a statement can be morally wrong in the absence of definitive proof or disproof
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by jleader 13y ago
The whole thing strikes me as the ad agency trying to do something clever that will impress other ad industry folks, and not really trying to address any real issues. Basically, "here's some clever technology, how can we pretend it solves a
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by jleader 13y ago
"21x8.5 inches +40mm" on the wheels. Gotta love the auto industry's ambivalent relationship with the metric system! Too bad they didn't try a little harder, they probably could have expressed one of the dimensions in micro-furlongs.
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by jleader 13y ago
As someone in his 50s, I can tell you that my generation was criticized for lack of motivation. The generation before mine was criticized for lack of motivation. You can find criticisms of the younger generation's lack of motivation (and la
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by jleader 13y ago
When conditions change, and the community would be better served if some of those restrictions were changed, is it easier to change municipal zoning codes, or to change individual contracts and deed restrictions? From what I've seen, it's n
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by jleader 13y ago
Browse around his blog some more, I guarantee you'll find images far more painful than mere green text on black! That said, his recent "SOMA Nature Walk" series would appeal to people into big engineering.
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by jleader 13y ago
Airborne lead from exhaust? I take it you're not in North America, where the governments banned tetraethyllead in the 1970s through 1990s, or in the EU, where it was banned in 2000 (most individual countries banned it earlier), or ...? Even
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by jleader 13y ago
Do you have a citation for that lethal dosage? http://www.inchem.org/documents/pims/chemical/nicotine.htm#P... claims the lethal dose is estimated at 30-60mg for adult humans, citing Gosselin 1988. That's 0.3% of the dose you quote. I was
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by jleader 13y ago
Doesn't the 2nd-hand vapor contain nicotine, just as the vapor inhaled by the user does? Maybe less than from a cigarette (or maybe not?), but still some. Nicotine is an addictive, potentially toxic drug, with some possible beneficial effec
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by jleader 13y ago
Aren't all (interesting) philosophical questions about reality, or at least some extended or modified version of reality as we know it? "What can be known?" "Do we have free will?" "Does God exist?" (hint, any question that starts "Do we...
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by jleader 13y ago
I suspect the GP is thinking of this or similar studies: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perceptual_adaptation#Experimen...
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by jleader 13y ago
The only redeeming factor, such as it is, is that he appears to have died before the bombings. So Reddit caused his family great pain, but probably wasn't a factor in causing his death.
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by jleader 13y ago
When was this article written? The last time I worked in an office with 10Base2 cabling (aka "thin ethernet", using RG-58 coax about 5mm thick with BNC connectors) was 1995. The last time I saw 10Base5 (aka "thick ethernet", using an extra-
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by jleader 13y ago
To address your final sentence first, I don't think anyone here has tried to argue against the importance of replication. And yes, I'm familiar with the JIR. I was introduced to it about 35 years ago by my high school's astronomy teacher, M
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by jleader 13y ago
Your #1 is false. A single unreplicated study is much less meaningful than several successful replications, but it does have some meaning: "this result looks interesting, someone should try to replicate it and expand it". If the the first s
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by jleader 14y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if Eric Schmidt has forgotten more about the implementation details of TCP/IP than most of us have ever known. Keep in mind, he ran software development at Sun, which means he was in charge of one of the major teams
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by jleader 14y ago
When I was in high school in the late 70s, my school canceled their support contract for their PDP-8e, and supposedly that year's support contract money was sufficient to buy a handful of Apple IIs.
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by jleader 14y ago
"people mostly sittin down can't get into too much mischief" Except the psychological stress of sitting quietly near where a bomb just went off is probably much worse than heading for home. I imagine that the police manpower needed to actua
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by jleader 14y ago
If person A came from a privileged background, and got straight As, and person B came from a much less privileged background, and had to overcome many hurdles just to get into school, and continued to fight to stay in school, and got Bs, wh
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by jleader 14y ago
The one with the bird looks like Peregrine Falcon nesting boxes I've seen on skyscrapers around here; I suspect the bird's sleeping.
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by jleader 14y ago
If you think Perl 5 is still where it was a decade ago when Perl 6 got started, you might be interested in looking at Moose. It's an awesome, robust OO system, with a fully thought-out MOP and quite clean syntax. It's pretty mature, but sti
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by jleader 14y ago
Except aren't the "spammy" links the ones Google doesn't show in search results? So is your prospective domain not showing up much in Google because there aren't many links to it, or because there are tons of spammy links to it?

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