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by knowtheory 10y ago
> Print media provides a common landscape. So does Hacker News. A major differentiating feature between Hacker News and Reddit was subreddits, and that has resulted in substantially different cultures (for better and worse).
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by knowtheory 10y ago
Yeah, this is a narrative challenge in reporting. Often skewedness of a data set is a(n important) piece of background context, and figuring out how to get that detail into a story without being like AND HERE IS A BIG CHART WHICH YOU WILL
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by knowtheory 10y ago
Yeah, i'll serve as a counter-example if you'd like. I've been on the site for a long time, and there are things i love about HN, and many many things that i strongly dislike. Blind-spots for politics (either with a capital P
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by knowtheory 10y ago
Yeah. <3 your motivations, but i think this is just doomed to stifle important/legit conversations. The idea that it's not possible to be thoughtful and political at the same time (and thus we should just cut out all/most
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by knowtheory 10y ago
Okay. I'll bite. What should be done about posts on 18F? Or tech policy in the government? What about stories about legislation on encryption? Are those all in the vein of things you think we should take a break from?
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by knowtheory 10y ago
Hey Dan, This seems like a dramatically misguided attempt to rectify conversational tone. You can't de-program or disregard people's politics, it's shot throughout everything. Politics frame the foundational approach to reco
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by knowtheory 10y ago
The AP's feed isn't free (please remember to pay journalists). News orgs like the NYT, NPR and others pay the AP a decent amount of money to manually go out and collect the results. The AP has writeups of their process too: http
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by knowtheory 10y ago
My wife & I traveled up to Big Trees State Forest (north & west of Yosemite) for the first time two months ago. I was astonished at the number of dead trees. Talking with the park rangers, i found out that the state of the park is
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by knowtheory 10y ago
Yeah the internet is a crowded place. "figma design" works as a search query for it. Also "figma" is pretty easy to figure out how to spell and say according to the phonological rules of English, so that's all hel
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by knowtheory 10y ago
What challenges does Twitter face that Disney doesn't already have to contend with via ownership of or stakes in ABC News, ESPN or Vice? Twitter doesn't host video of substantial duration or audio, and comment threads everywhere a
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by knowtheory 10y ago
Disney is a machine that monetizes fandom, and Twitter is pretty good about fan communities (modulo the conversation about abuse). The conversation about whether twitter will be successful at streaming live content is interesting, but proba
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by knowtheory 10y ago
This is unlikely as demonstrated by things like Disney's stake in Vice
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by knowtheory 10y ago
Are vending machines really that analogous? Vending machines are all about placement & location, and the ability of a vendor to find high traffic locations to put machines. Machines get placed based on info about locations whether it&#x
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by knowtheory 10y ago
So, the problem in Canada is that those policies are left up to each hospital or health unit to decide, and there doesn't appear to be a consensus (which is weird) http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/hospital-er-cal
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by knowtheory 10y ago
Except your food expenditures are a sunk cost, and you can't replace them with fuel expenditures. This is literally comparing apples and gasoline.
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by knowtheory 10y ago
Hey! You're right, i'd missed https://nirc.nanzan-u.ac.jp/nfile/2921 I guess i'm super conservative about sourcing when reading arguments made about historical topics (and academic papers at least tend t
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by knowtheory 10y ago
for what it's worth, there are a bunch of combat tai chi practitioners out in the world: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcc0jNJwgJA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HQnuWY13ac https://www.y
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by knowtheory 10y ago
So, the only academic paper in the sources in the post is a PhD thesis which appears to be the entire argument undergirding this post. If you're interested in the subject, that might be a good place to start: https://open.li
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by knowtheory 10y ago
> anonymous testimony Okay then, how about these: https://hypatia.ca/2016/06/07/he-said-they-said/ https://medium.com/@nickf4rr/hi-im-nick-farr-nickf4rr-35c32f... https:/&#
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by knowtheory 10y ago
Yeah! I dig it. So, I honestly wouldn't change anything about the interface, except to wrap the entire thing in an outer shell with something that represents what GTD software might call a context. And depending on context, different
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by knowtheory 10y ago
Hey! Tried it out, bought a copy :) The thing i'm noticing most (and i can hack around this probably) is that there are some things that are productive in certain contexts (monitoring twitter after launching/announcing a thing) an
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by knowtheory 10y ago
Just downloaded it and fired it up, and immediate first impressions is that there's a lot to like in the app so far. I'll be curious to see if I can build gentle nudges back on task if i'm off in the woods, or how i can bette
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by knowtheory 10y ago
Given that our courts are publicly funded and have limited bandwidth and throughput, your suggested solution faces serious resource constraints. Additionally, Thiel is altering the normal course of how these cases would have gone and specif
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by knowtheory 10y ago
It's really not lip service. The budget sequestration deal in 2011 resulted in 10% across the board cuts in 2013: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_budget_sequestra... Likewise, if you look at how Congre
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The Technology Behind Making the Internet Archive into the Worlds Worst DVR(slifty.com)
101 points by knowtheory 10y ago|14 comments
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by knowtheory 10y ago
Donald Trump, well aside from the content of his speeches, has been noted for his rhetorical style. As i stated, this bears some resemblance.
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by knowtheory 10y ago
I could quibble with the conflation of correlation w/ causation for a lot of the comments this post makes about es6/babel or coffeescript. But each time i re-read this post, the cohesive point that pops out most is that this post
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by knowtheory 10y ago
Maybe you could send them a note? Do you know anybody who's still working on the project?
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by knowtheory 11y ago
Non-profits are mission driven. Most people who work for non-profits are doing it at least in part because of belief in the mission (especially since non-profits typically pay less than market rate). The problem with technology non-profits
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by knowtheory 11y ago
Yes, but your analysis discounts vehicles striking pedestrians and cyclists.

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