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by klenwell 12y ago
What explains this odd way of scheduling? You can find an answer in another New York Times article I cited here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7089531 (I find that thread interesting, in part, for the spirited defe
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by klenwell 12y ago
Could they figure out how to do it in less than 5 minutes if the stakes really mattered? I agree calculating averages is a pretty basic skill that I find has many day-to-day applications. But this also smells like a lighter version of the t
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by klenwell 12y ago
Sorry to hear this. I always like whocalled.us. I thought it a useful service. I used to Google strange numbers I didn't recognize that called my cell phone (until I just started ignoring them all together). I didn't really care w
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by klenwell 12y ago
Surprisingly, the most thought-provoking film I saw last year may have been Nightcrawler. I knew the outlines of the film's subject going in: the sensationalization of the news, the woeful deterioration of local news standards, not to
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by klenwell 12y ago
I like to think of self-righteousness as a drug. A subtle but lingering high. I know I get off on it from time to time. Post anything online and there's a chance you'll be someone's next fix.
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by klenwell 12y ago
Here's the real-world case involving the East German Stasi that I remember first hearing about years before this article: http://www.npr.org/2012/10/08/162369606/piecing-together-the... Why such reg
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by klenwell 12y ago
I agree that wiki is probably not the best platform for this. I thought years ago Twitter, with the appropriate search capabilities, could serve this niche. In my experience, it hasn't. It would be interesting to have a service that co
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by klenwell 12y ago
Good suggestion. I actually am subscribed to my local subreddit. It's occasionally interesting but generally pretty slow.
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by klenwell 12y ago
As someone who blissfully retired from Facebook years ago (for all the usual cranky reasons regularly cited on HN), I really hope Facebook doesn't come to fill this niche. But I can see how it would be a natural Schelling point[1] for
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by klenwell 12y ago
I'd really love for this to succeed. Periodically I'll remark to a friend: "The one thing the internet seems to be missing is a reliable place to catch up on a bit of local scuttlebutt or legend that has caught my attention.&
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Coffee Meets Bagel founders reject largest offer in Shark Tank history(inc.com)
3 points by klenwell 12y ago|0 comments
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by klenwell 12y ago
I heard a story on the radio years ago (Marketplace, IIRC) that pointed out that American fast food chains were popular in parts of Asia because of their cleanliness and relative high standards. Still didn't prepare me to discover, whi
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by klenwell 12y ago
The level of unconscious racism in this thread is amazing. Whenever the subject of race comes up and someone sites a statistic purporting to demonstrate "African" or "black" intellectual inferiority, I suggest he imagine
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by klenwell 12y ago
Not a challenge I expect to ever really face, but if I were in a position to face it, I'm guessing my answer is: The person with the most shares. I suspect that that's about the only way I ever even get a chance to accept this cha
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by klenwell 12y ago
"I can't understand the fascination with Serial." Think JFK assassination for the Reddit generation. I know I'm hooked.
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by klenwell 12y ago
Your comment puts me in mind of my new favorite spectator sport, timed professional cooking competitions (specifically, Chopped on the Food Network -- there's a collection of 25 shows available on Netflix), where I find this dichotomy
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by klenwell 12y ago
Reminds me of first Bush Treasury Secretary John O'Neill's emphasis on safety when he took over at Alcoa in the 80's. It was part of a broader strategy that he referred to as habitual excellence." I first came across it
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The Tech Company Swallowing the Porn Industry(slate.com)
3 points by klenwell 12y ago|2 comments
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by klenwell 12y ago
One of my favorite articles on MMOPG economics and social behavior. It's usually behind a paywall so I thought I'd take this opportunity to post it here today while paywall is disabled. It pairs interestingly with this HN thread f
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Pimps and Dragons (2001)(newyorker.com)
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by klenwell 12y ago
Title (article's own) makes it sound like this is some sort of trend. But unless I missed something, this is just one unfortunate host's struggles with a jerk tenant.
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"Finally, finally, finally": A Review of Web Series High Maintenance(newyorker.com)
1 points by klenwell 12y ago|0 comments
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by klenwell 12y ago
Then you'll probably enjoy this. The Trixie episode of High Maintenance: http://vimeo.com/56895025
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by klenwell 13y ago
Worried about having someone steal your invaluable Twitter or Instagram username? The solution is obviously to immediately litter all your social media accounts with such foul loathsome toxic content that no one else would want to touch the
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by klenwell 13y ago
Interesting article. I'm kinda fascinated by the hidden life of small storefront businesses. There was a little cafe that I used to patronize on the weekend because it about the only place within walking distance that I could get a dec
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by klenwell 13y ago
What leads me to believe we'll do better with new regulations? The belief, as chimeracoder suggests, that regulation can done right. One point that caught my attention in an NPR report[1] on this dispute last week: IHS's Broughto
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by klenwell 13y ago
The U.S. House of Representatives, driven by the GOP Tea Party faction, threatened to default on US debt payments last year. You didn't find that destabilizing? Who is driving the Tea Party? I would contend economically disenfranchised
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by klenwell 13y ago
For my primer on this question, I look to The Moral Animal by Robert Wright, one of the first popular science books to introduce evolutionary psychology to a mainstream audience back in the 1990s. To boil down a lot of interesting reading (
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by klenwell 13y ago
I found one of the simplest and most insidious examples of the effect of today's technology on today's jobs in this New York Times article: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/28/business/a-part-time
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by klenwell 13y ago
I agree. I use it for the same reasons. To give me a simple bird's eye view of my finances and to watch out for fraud. It's even more helpful with my grandmother's finances. My grandfather had handled their finances all his l

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