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by klenwell 11y ago
Interesting advice. I don't really work in a dangerous part of town. But there's a group of shiftless young men who constantly pop up here and there. I refer to them as the Meth Head Bicycle Club (MHBC) as they tend to bike around
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by klenwell 11y ago
My advice for the non-HN crowd (which these sites are clearly aiming for in their carpet-bombing advertising on sports channels): If you want to play fantasy sports, play one of the free non-betting sites that have been around for years. Th
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by klenwell 11y ago
What's the significance of this? I see a definite pattern in the examples provided. Is this a silly new web trend that I'm supposed to be looking down my nose at? Should I be adding a /now page to my site? Edit: It's act
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by klenwell 11y ago
Very cool. I really like the command line interface. I've been dealing with a lot of recruiters over the past year. I even wrote my own Rails app: https://github.com/klenwell/recruiters-on-rails . I have found it p
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by klenwell 11y ago
The way I've seen it done around here (Southern California) is more social hack than technical hack: the enterprising miscreant comes up to you with a gas canister while you're pumping and gives you some sob story how he lost his
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The Year of the Imaginary College Student(newyorker.com)
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by klenwell 11y ago
In my experience, clerks tend to circumvent the issue by simply yelling out, to no one in particular, something like "Next in line!" I've also noticed the acquired habit in more experienced retail staff, when confronted with
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by klenwell 11y ago
I actually come across this scenario quite often in retail outlets with poorly designed queue layouts (e.g. an H&M with with 2-4 registers behind a long counter and a single ad-hoc queue lined up in front of one of them). My reasoning i
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by klenwell 11y ago
The next time someone asks me what love means to me, this is going to be my answer.
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by klenwell 11y ago
They [former employees] say she [founder, Elizabeth Holmes] would become angry and sometimes fire people who pointed out problems. She often spoke as though the company’s technology already existed, they said, rather than as if it were sti
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by klenwell 11y ago
The gambling industry has had a term for this sort of exploitation via microtransaction for a long time: "cherry dribbling". First came across it in this New York Times article from 2004: http://www.nytimes.com/200
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by klenwell 11y ago
Yes, I would expect most officers to take this as a provocation. And the results can be even worse. Listen to this story for instance: http://www.npr.org/2014/08/15/340419821/after-a-traffic-stop... &qu
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by klenwell 11y ago
there's no magic to the Wolf Funny. That's my favorite scene in that movie, too. For exactly the same reason. I only find it comment-worthy here because you're the first person I've heard outside myself make this obser
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by klenwell 11y ago
I make it a point to try to remember the names of everyone around the office and instead of just saying, "Hi" or "How's it going?" as we pass in the hall say, "Hey, Mary" and "How are you doing, Mark?
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by klenwell 11y ago
I've heard this is the reason why Disneyland sets their parking lot speed limit to 14 MPH. I can confirm that it is 14 MPH. Never bothered to confirm that this is the reason why.
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by klenwell 11y ago
If it's on, let's call it my shithub, there's no social contract. Have a just witnessed the moment of inception for a fantastic new word? "Team, we've got to stop all this shithubbing and really start properly tes
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by klenwell 11y ago
Only in the comments on a New Yorker article. Upvotes for everyone!
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by klenwell 11y ago
Interesting personal take on recent California history. But the latent racial anxiety that is an important part of this story (and is ironically captured by the title of this piece) would be outrageous if it wasn't so comical. The auth
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by klenwell 11y ago
In other words, back up your exploitative labor practices with underhanded propaganda tactics. This is pretty thin gruel. What this piece doesn't seem to consider is, who exactly are the hearts and minds Amazon is fighting for here? Th
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by klenwell 11y ago
One HN Poll I'd be interested in seeing: Would you accept a competitive offer from Amazon? "Competitive" here meaning a salary and title as good or slightly better than your current job or next best offer.
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by klenwell 11y ago
You open in rural France in the late 1950s. Andre at 12 is the size of a large adult. The driver has banned him from the school bus, so to get to class he depends on rides from a neighbor, Samuel Beckett, who has a truck. Yes, that Samuel
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by klenwell 11y ago
If your takeaway from this article is "if only I had more time to write an algorithm" or "if only I could get my hands on some better data", you're missing the point here. That geeks with computers were going to wi
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by klenwell 11y ago
This is great. The internet needs more sites like this. Kudos to archive.org for preserving it and @tintinnabula for sharing it here. A propos of music and shopping, I offer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walt_Disney_an
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by klenwell 11y ago
This line from the Wikipedia article is worthy of Bulwer-Lytton consideration: Others had debris hurled at them from the rush of sweet-smelling air.
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by klenwell 11y ago
I suspect the plane trip example is an ideologically veiled allusion meant to bring the mind the kind of digs shows like South Park and Fox & Friends like to take at Al Gore. Just think how many more empty beer cans we could happily tos
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by klenwell 11y ago
I agree. It's a provocative argument, but the logic seems a bit slippery. For instance, Tierney writes: Despite decades of exhortations and mandates, it’s still typically more expensive for municipalities to recycle household waste th
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by klenwell 11y ago
When Mr. Nutter was fighting the soda tax battle, he kept a bottle of Mountain Dew and a container with 17 teaspoons of sugar — the amount in the bottle — on the table in the center of his office. It was a good “conversation piece,” he sai
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by klenwell 11y ago
I'm currently in the process of scheduling my first annual physical in a few years and had narrowed down my choice of in-network providers who are accepting new patients to two physicians. Using the link you provided, I see one receive
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by klenwell 11y ago
Interestingly, this rubric outlined in article applies the advice Daniel Kahneman gives in his section on interviews in Thinking Fast and Slow. As he acknowledges, it isn't perfect but in studies it generally shows an improvement over
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by klenwell 11y ago
Didn't listen to the podcast, but if the thesis is borrowed from Judith Rich Harris[0], then the GP's claim is still valid. To wit, parents' parenting practices have limited impact on their children (vs. peers and genetics) b

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