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by klenwell 11y ago
Welcome to the 2010s, where credit unions now run additional services for employers and HR departments. My company regularly uses The Work Number from Experian. Interesting. I've always suspected something like this existed and have
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by klenwell 11y ago
I had the same question. Is taking a whole day to set up an authentication system for a web application unreasonable? That's a pretty critical component and not necessarily simple. At my, erm, last company, it took multiple developers
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by klenwell 11y ago
> The sad thing about the metrics-driven performance culture the Times describes at Amazon is studies show overworked people perform worse. I'm glad the author made this point and backed it up with a reference. It reaffirms someth
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by klenwell 11y ago
I remember moving to a new office building in a new city a few years ago and puzzling where to find the recycle bins for the complex. I started asking around and I think I ended up calling the city and discovering that the city murfed[0] al
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by klenwell 11y ago
I think your first line is a great generic response and sufficient in itself: Our process has a high chance of providing false negatives, so just because we are not offering you a position doesn't mean we are convinced you are not qua
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by klenwell 11y ago
The word "damning" seems a bit strong. "Qualifying" might be better. The author, Richard Bernstein, concludes: in extrapolating from the experience of Ms. Ren to make assertions about that “vast majority,” the paper has
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by klenwell 11y ago
The first paragraph describing Tao's musings on the explosive potential of water reminds me of a singular experience I had not too long ago. One evening I was going to pour myself a glass of lemonade. I put a otherwise ordinary ribbed
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From what I've read, shorting stuff is complicated. What about a site, say the web 2.0 version of longbets.org, where users can make predictions just using karma (or HN points) and user results are published? Does anything like that ex
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by klenwell 11y ago
Say I wanted to put my reputation or money where my mouth is with some predictions like this of my own. Are there any online prediction markets that support this? This was the idea behind Intrade before it folded, no? I remember hearing abo
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by klenwell 11y ago
I agree completely. The other side of this is: I, or my kid, is doomed anyway, so what have I got to lose? I guess the answer is: individually, maybe not a lot. (One of my favorite Futurama jokes: "Look, do you want false hope or not?&
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by klenwell 11y ago
Why would you expect an increase in STDs? Are you assuming that free IUDs and implants are encouraging more teenagers to have more sex? Is it leading to sexual behavior that displaces other safer forms of sex (that were leading to teenage p
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by klenwell 11y ago
I got excited when I saw the cover of Thinking Fast and Slow. But he failed to mention what I found to be one of the most insightful parts of that book: interviewing. He kinda touched on it at the end with #1: "Know what you're lo
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Why Aren’t We More Scared of the Bird Flu?(newyorker.com)
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Site's down for me, but the epilogue of Michel Houellebecq's novel The Elementary Particles[0] laid out an elegant program for accomplishing this. Although it often goes unremarked in critiques of the novel, I thought it was the m
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by klenwell 11y ago
I recently started reading Philip E. Tetlock's Expert Political Judgment[0] and Ehrlich gets namechecked pretty early in it. For me, this article proved timely. Ehrlich gets credit in my book for making concrete falsifiable predictions
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by klenwell 11y ago
Since the US has essentially no social safety net to speak of, the primary source of welfare ends up being workplace injury-related benefits. This produces a powerful secondary-gain situation that incentivizes injury for those who work phy
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by klenwell 11y ago
If you enjoyed this article, I highly recommend Daniel Kahneman's Thinking Fast and Slow, in which Thaler and insights like the one highlighted in this article feature prominently. I also happened to stumble across this gem yesterday:
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by klenwell 11y ago
It seems to me the two complexes reinforce one another. Something akin to Sinclair's observation: "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his job depends on not understanding it." But that is in interesting
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by klenwell 11y ago
Taking your familiar conceit to its logical conclusion here, it makes me wonder whether the only jobs that ultimately won't be automated for all those people unequal to the daunting feats of adaptation or innovation expected of them a
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by klenwell 11y ago
If you like some of Harry Shearer's more notable character roles (Derek Smalls, bassist of Spinal Tap, probably foremost among them), or the sharper edge of the Simpsons, I highly recommend his radio show/podcast Le Show. It'
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by klenwell 11y ago
Have you seen the New York Times haikubot? (Maybe you wrote it?)
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by klenwell 11y ago
As someone who was drawn back into programming by the NLTK while in a creative writing program, I say bravo! This one especially moved me: Amorite and the Girgasite And the Hivite and the Arkite and the Sinite And the Arvadite and
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by klenwell 12y ago
I have to say. Her writing is forceful, her passion palpable, and her grammar appears sound, in a Latinate legalistic sort of way. Her diction, though, is for the ages.
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by klenwell 12y ago
The choice of library names in Go makes your comment here sound like a scene out of Mad Men.
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Why We Let Prison Rape Go On(nytimes.com)
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A Math Problem from Singapore Goes Viral(nytimes.com)
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by klenwell 12y ago
I was looking into this recently. Here's what looks to be the canonical Stack Overflow post on the subject: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10040954/alternative-to-g... Questions of this nature seem to usu
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by klenwell 12y ago
We both zeroed in on this same point in this article. You could be right. Have we identified a new class of suckers (which I see as a necessary condition)? Anyone have any data to support or refute this hypothesis?
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I'm generally with the naysayers and the skeptics, but this point makes sense to me: This though, is why concern one — the lack of access for retail investors — is arguably a firewall against this truly being a bubble. This seemed to
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by klenwell 12y ago
I upvoted this for sarcasm. But upon reflection I think maybe I missed the point. I guess a lot of it hinges on your interpretation of the words "competitive" and "parity". I'm hoping that it means the expression &q

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