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by jmckib 11y ago
As someone who relies on online movie ratings (not Fandango), how do you choose movies then?
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by jmckib 11y ago
> If governments were actually useful to us, they wouldn't have to take our money by force. We'd be happy to pay for their services voluntarily. Not always, take a look at tragedy of the commons: https://en.wikipedia
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by jmckib 11y ago
Most of the best coders I know would fail a drug test. It's just plain stupid. Even though I would pass one, I would never work for a company that does it.
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by jmckib 11y ago
It sounds like he knew what a linked list was, but he was confused by the interviewer referring to it as a "list".
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by jmckib 11y ago
Here's an anchor link directly to the plan language summary. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD010856...
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by jmckib 11y ago
> The article also points out, "Another 2009 review[link] by the Cochrane group clearly shows that fluoride toothpaste prevents cavities, serving as a useful counterpoint to fluoridation’s uncertain benefits." I think you under
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by jmckib 11y ago
To me it looked like he linked the wrong video accidentally, since it didn't match up with the text at all.
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by jmckib 11y ago
How does an accountant make that kind of money?
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by jmckib 11y ago
Yeah, this article is written as if the hard part of creating Spotify was figuring out that people wanted cheap streaming music (obvious), and then building it (difficult, but many groups could replicate it). I suspect that it was much hard
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by jmckib 11y ago
They address this issue in the paper, "Voting Squared: Quadratic Voting in Democratic Politics", page 32: > QV works best with a large number of voters: the more voters there are, the more accurately the system works. QV’s effi
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by jmckib 11y ago
Thanks for answering my question! I hadn't thought of using random samples. So maybe a good solution is QV for representatives, with only a small random sample of the population being able to vote. The representatives should also use Q
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by jmckib 11y ago
Hi Glen, I mentioned this in another comment, but copying here because I'd like to hear your thoughts on it: > If enough people are participating in a vote, then the cost of voting (e.g., research + going to polling station) outweig
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by jmckib 11y ago
Tyranny by majority is important, but I wonder if quadratic voting would address another important issue: if enough people are participating, then the cost of voting (research + going to polling station) outweighs the benefit (changing the
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by jmckib 11y ago
Try googling "in vitro meat" and you may find some answers, but I don't know if this problem is solved yet. This article mentions algae as a possibility: https://blogs.discovermagazine.com/crux/2012/
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by jmckib 11y ago
Nah, I'm pretty it will be more efficient to just grow meat in a lab.
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by jmckib 11y ago
>WSJ: Hold up. How can I get a free plane upgrade? > MR. HADNAGY: Airports are always stressful. These ladies are always getting yelled at. If we make someone happy before we can ask for a free upgrade, that could work. So now the que
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by jmckib 11y ago
I've talked to a bunch of them about Pizza Hut, and none of them have it, but I'm currently using TangoCard.
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by jmckib 11y ago
Ironically, I feel like PizzaHut is now the most outdated of the pizza chains when it comes to web technology. I've been working on a fun project where I need to order pizza gift cards, and PizzaHut is the only chain that doesn't
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by jmckib 12y ago
Ha, how ironic, not commenting on being downvoted is a community guideline. Thanks for letting me know.
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by jmckib 12y ago
We may have to agree to disagree here. To me, the comment was clearly sarcastic, and therefore negative. I personally did not find the observation that bicycles exist to be interesting at all. Community guidelines may also be uninteresting,
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by jmckib 12y ago
I understand. Can you explain why I'm mistaken though? His comment came off as fairly sarcastic to me, and didn't seem to contribute in any way. Surely most of us know what a bicycle is already.
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by jmckib 12y ago
I feel like this is a good time to remind you of HN's new guideline to avoid gratuitous negativity. :) Maybe I'm misreading, but you seem to imply that the creators of this device have never heard of a bicycle. Does that add to th
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by jmckib 12y ago
Buddy, you are not the only one! Many of us have struggled with things that appear so easy to others, like job interviews or finding a girlfriend. I don't know you well enough, but like somebody else here has said, I think the key may
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by jmckib 12y ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskLEO/comments/2ys2cb/is_it_ever_j... Here's the conversation with the NZ officer that responded: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskLEO/comments/2y
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by jmckib 12y ago
Just to add my own data point, I'm 26 years old: - Facebook is alive and well, even among the < 20 crowd I know. I love using it. - Several of my friends use Tumblr, but I don't get it. It looks like a mess to me; I have troubl
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by jmckib 12y ago
Buffer's app is one example, but I'd like to see others. https://open.bufferapp.com/buffers-y-combinator-application/
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by jmckib 12y ago
Where did you find it? I've always wanted to try it since reading about it in a Jules Verne novel.
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by jmckib 12y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_quoque EDIT: Maybe I should clarify, I'm not agreeing with OP. I just like to point out a logical fallacy when I see one.
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by jmckib 12y ago
I don't disagree, but where do you see the moat? $12m could be spent on developing hard-to-copy technology eventually, but I don't know if that explains the current valuation. Also, I believe Amazon has strong economies of scale,
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by jmckib 12y ago
Counsyl is doing great work in genetic testing. https://www.counsyl.com/careers/

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