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31 Years Later, Cherynobyl's Wild Boars Bring Radioactivity to Sweden(qz.com)
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by kevmo 9y ago
It is a little bit of a stretch, but not so much of one that it is not a useful mental model. I talked to 1000s of people from many different walks of life about that election from 2014-2016 - top comment accurately describes how most middl
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by kevmo 9y ago
I wish "Black Like Me" were mandatory reading in public schools: Black Like Me, first published in 1961, is a nonfiction book by white journalist John Howard Griffin recounting his journey in the Deep South of the United States,
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"If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you." -Lyndon
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He is suggesting that you not make 1-sentence comments that basically just call someone a sociopath. There's no real analysis there. Everyone who bothers to read your top comment basically just got their time wasted. So what the mods
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"Corrosion"? It sounds like high school debate started relatively recently, in the 70s, and basically went downhill within a few years. So it's always been a sewer. I enjoy "intellectual discussion", so I went to
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Yeah, that is pretty crazy. The ball is usually already firmly in the employer's court. This kind of information greatly diminishes the already most-diminished's bargaining power.
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Haha, as I said - The non-profit competitive salary question is one which people endlessly debate!
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by kevmo 9y ago
The avalanche I'm referring to there has to do with whether the company itself is for-profit or non-profit, and the legal, institutional, and PR ramifications thereof. The non-profit competitive salary question is one which people endl
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Thanks! Will do. We applied to YC Winter 2018 batch - waiting to hear if we got an interview. WSJ profiled us last month if you're interested in reading more: https://www.wsj.com/articles/for-struggling-consumers-
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by kevmo 9y ago
The overlords of Silicon Valley need to do a bit more to turn America's best minds towards solving serious social problems. Personal anecdote: Right now, I am building software that automates the process of filing super-simple Chapter
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That's what prefaces often sound like. It's the author introducing themself and their claim to authority that will make you take their following content seriously. This author is just explaining why they cared so much as to writ
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by kevmo 9y ago
What an amazing idea. What sorts of research you doing internally? Anything on long-term storage? I assume you're at least collecting periodic data. Congrats on your good work and execution!
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by kevmo 9y ago
DuckDuckGo has gotten a lot better and is now a pretty decent alternative. You lose some features and the UI is less visually pleasing, but you can always go back to Google when you know you want a specific feature.
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That's what my momma said, too.
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by kevmo 9y ago
I agree, but you're still gonna have better odds with someone the judge doesn't feel like shit for siding with. A good example of this concept is Rosa Parks. She was not the first person arrested on the bus seat charge by any mea
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by kevmo 9y ago
I grew up in the Deep South, and you can really change the way people feel by being unflinchingly friendly. People who hold controversial opinions generally know that they do (if they aren't crazy) and expect people to recoil at firs
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by kevmo 9y ago
This isn't that haunting. It's just another iteration of well-funded standard lawyer games. CEO foresaw this kind of stuff before he undertook the action. If you're looking for a sympathetic plaintiff, Nazis aren't a g
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I can live with that.
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> “I live paycheck to paycheck and I’m deeply in debt,” she > said, including from car repairs and a hospitalization for > food poisoning. While there are many iterations, it is always this same story. Medical debt, job loss, an
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I'm cool with that critique of my answer and will be more specific next time I post such a critique.
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by kevmo 9y ago
This is a book full of good questions and poor answers. Or, as the biologist Max Perutz more scathingly put it, "Sadly, a close study of [Schrodinger's] book and of the related literature has shown me that what was true in his boo
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by kevmo 9y ago
> It sounds like you have a lot of experience with teaching people to code well enough to become employees, as coders. And that it's really hard and many will not succeed. Is this a correct reading on my part? I have a decent amount
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> Isn't the fact that in my estimation at least 80% of those Americans could theoretically learn to code within 6 months (for the remaining 20% it may be too difficult) and with minimal (or no) financial backing capture some part of
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Because she rattled the existing power system at a fundamental level. A lot of established institutions and companies talk a big game, but they aren't serious about effecting real social change. They do little things at the margins, t
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by kevmo 9y ago
Yeah, I recently went full-bore over to Firefox and DuckDuckGo. I was been surprised by how easy the transition was. Firefox is way better than it was a few years ago.
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What percentage of programmers at Google have compsci degrees? What's the split like within that subset?
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The mere fact that <X> was damaged because <Y> happened doesn't necessarily mean Y was a bad thing. We live in a dynamic world, and society reshapes itself constantly.
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I just had an incredibly similar thing happen with a slightly misleading headline. My legal tech company[1] was in the WSJ[2] on Monday, and the byline was "A nonprofit has developed an online program designed to help people prepare a
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Yeah, I am just talking about how you start to generally approach the problem. Government is always going to be an ongoing, adaptive process with back-and-forth struggles and adjudication between interested parties. Maybe we'll evolve

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