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by jordanpg 11y ago
I'm sure most public defenders are marvelous public servants. But are you arguing that those who are forced to use the PD because they can't afford a lawyer are getting the same deal as someone hiring a professional defense team?
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by jordanpg 11y ago
No. The analogy I made was very appropriate. Shoring up the system with lawyers and investigators doesn't change the fact that those who can't afford professional representation are getting second-tier justice. Period. Similarly,
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by jordanpg 11y ago
Usually we only hear this from the disgruntled. It is valuable to hear this perspective from someone who perceives themselves as happy and successful. > because I know how they were obtained. This is similar to one of the reasons I left
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by jordanpg 11y ago
That public defenders have scarce resources to do their job is about as surprising as the fact that people living in poverty don't invest in the stock market. > My clients, like the millions of other people in the United States who
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by jordanpg 11y ago
I think it's pretty clear from context that the author is referring to junk scholarship, or something pretty close to it. If a book really is written and then forgotten by the world, it was never a serious part of the discussion. And
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by jordanpg 11y ago
I wonder how much of this is simply a function of the massive overpopulation of graduate programs and the growing need to fill out CVs with publications? I know that this has been happening for years in the form of obscure journals that no
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by jordanpg 11y ago
Wow -- apparently The Guardian actually has a recurring section called "Academics Anonymous"??? That seems like an interesting story in its own right. Well done pointing this out. This supposed academic, is doing palpable damage
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by jordanpg 11y ago
Does anyone seriously doubt that the use of prolonged solitary confinement will be listed in the history books alongside other examples of state-sponsored torture, slavery, and terrorism? I'm not going to make any cliched remarks about
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by jordanpg 11y ago
It is nauseating because it's a 1000 word humblebrag. Look at this guy's bio: > Max has a degree in mathematics from Yale University where he received multiple awards from the math department including the Barge Prize and the
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by jordanpg 11y ago
The lottery (and gambling generally) is also a disgusting side-effect of free-market economies. It enables those 5% of ticket buyers who are buying 54% of all tickets to experience a false sense of economic security or maybe possibility. I
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by jordanpg 11y ago
I don't understand marketing either, but I doubt a company like Google makes a change like this until it's been focus-grouped and A/B tested ad nauseam .
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by jordanpg 11y ago
I'm not making an ethical claim here. I'm simply saying that I'm not interested in there being ads in my field of view, ever. This is my own personal point of view. I consider them to be toxic, sort of like secondhand smoke
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by jordanpg 11y ago
As is typical, this doesn't address my biggest concern, which is that I absolutely don't want any ads alongside my content, ever. Now and forever, I reserve the right to read documents that I'm interested in, without any ads
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by jordanpg 11y ago
Well, I suppose the question is what do you think about the word? I'm saying that if I wrote anything that I felt was worth reading and posted it to the internet, that I would never call it content. I'm saying that, to me, that
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by jordanpg 11y ago
Umm, who is Venkatesh Rao and why should I read 30 essays by him?
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by jordanpg 11y ago
I agree with the sentiment. Off-topic suggestion, though. Want people to value your "content"? Consider abandoning the word "content" forever. Those same people analytics people you deride use it in their spreadsheets.
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by jordanpg 11y ago
In sum, capitalism churns away normally in the the United States. The magic internet hasn't been able to revolutionize away any of the basic realities of economics. In other news, I hear that Amazon just turned a profit for the first t
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by jordanpg 11y ago
All of the objections along legal and moral lines are missing the point. While those objections are valid in many cases, the point is that this flag is the symbol of the moment. A rough analogy is the way in which marriage equality has be
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by jordanpg 11y ago
I don't disagree with any of this. My point is more about the sorts of stories and claims that a beginner will encounter while poking around the usual sites. One could be forgiven for wondering if most HN commentators are 60 year-old
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by jordanpg 11y ago
I wasn't suggesting that beginners not use books (or other "guidance"). Only that there are personality traits that are more useful to a beginner than detailed explication in any piece of writing.
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by jordanpg 11y ago
I just don't see it. No one would ever recommend learning Spanish and Mandarin at the same time, for any reason. All of the things you said are true, and yet the beginner has only so much time, so much patience, so much learning to do
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by jordanpg 11y ago
The only important trait I see that matters for either of these groups is a willingness to try things, push buttons, see what happens. A beginner worries about breaking the computer and doesn't yet understand that any question they hav
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by jordanpg 11y ago
Concur. A charming read that plays on the reader's generally inaccurate assumption that the military is just like "Full Metal Jacket". I too had to memorize these and then once the screaming stopped, I never saw them again.
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by jordanpg 11y ago
As others have indicated, you're presenting a false choice. Surely, "solving problems" and "getting..code out the door" are the same thing. Top developers are identified as such because they are getting results, by
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by jordanpg 11y ago
I'll speak up for one "religious" viewpoint: it is plausible that a breakthrough in theoretical physics could lead to a technological revolution in ways we can't even imagine. Warp drives, teleporters, etc. If we acc
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by jordanpg 11y ago
While I am as convinced as you about the urgency of these issues in the context of physics itself , a crisis it is not. Not for physicists and certainly not for civilians.
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by jordanpg 11y ago
This article strikes me as having lost its focus in editing somehow. One can hardly blame theoretical physicists for exploring above and beyond what the experimentalists are doing. It's not like there's a large body of more pract
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by jordanpg 11y ago
> Deeper responses are available from most candidates. Occasionally. Very occasionally. I would submit that these interviews are really only useful to the extent that they let candidates demonstrate their leadership style or possibly th
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by jordanpg 11y ago
In principle, yes, but not when the means of media distribution (campaign ads, debates, etc.) are controlled by parties with obvious conflicts of interest. In other words, the debates will always be pathetic so long as they are run by comp
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by jordanpg 11y ago
I cannot agree more. The manner in which voting decisions are ostensibly supposed to be made can only be called juvenile. The questions in play are among the most complex in human history. The stakes are high. All the way high. And stil

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