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Ask HN: Online Advertising Book Recommendations?
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Ask HN: It's deduction day: Do you practice Effective Altruism?
2 points by ljw1001 7y ago|1 comments
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by ljw1001 7y ago
IDK Reasons, but the Economist is a great news source.
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by ljw1001 7y ago
Ignorance is bliss.
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Sorry, but you're comparing rotten apples and oranges. When RT criticizes Putin the way the Times criticizes Trump or BBC criticizes Johnson, lmk. Actually, I already know when that will happen - after Putin is out of office and the ne
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by ljw1001 7y ago
Getting your politics from twitter is a horrible idea. Even if it wasn't full of trolls and bots specifically intended to mislead, it would still be an endless spew of pointless, often fake, outrage where the only thing that matters is
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by ljw1001 7y ago
Yeah I used to struggle through Le Monde in French. It was eye-opening to get a very different perspective on everything: art and culture as well as politics.
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by ljw1001 7y ago
i guess I'm a moderate then, because I wouldn't waste my time with either Drudge or Huff-post. The latter i've found amusing at times in a Yeah-I-Hate-That-Too kinda way, but you just can't take it seriously.
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by ljw1001 7y ago
Great news content. Very rupert-murdoch-driven editorial bias
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by ljw1001 7y ago
It wouldn't hurt to have some idea of what's going on, though. Ignoring politics entirely isn't likely to lead to political action.
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by ljw1001 7y ago
Trying to understand politics by watching the Web stream go flowing by is pointless. You need high-quality, big picture stuff that requires effort to produce and consume. In the US, the NYTimes and the Washington Post are the best sources.
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by ljw1001 7y ago
This is why we can't have nice things. Like democracy. But I also have to limit my exposure to political news. Otherwise I get too depressed.
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by ljw1001 7y ago
The 'best' software productivity metric I've ever seen is one I created and tested on a large code base. It only measures coding, but it's better than the other metrics for that. It is based on information theory and cre
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> The people in most governments are quite cheap... Have you seen our budget? <wink>
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> My dad would probably say increasing business activity is the central goal of the govt That's a deeply sad, but I suspect increasingly common view of the role of government
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by ljw1001 7y ago
I was just on Smithsonian Magazine and it's a disgrace. See https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/20-best-small-towns-vi... Is this not the magazine for the US's main national museums?
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by ljw1001 7y ago
yeah, but then you'd be Las Vegas.
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It's pretty clear that Boeing's leadership could have had better info than the NYT, yet they either didn't, or they ignored/hid what they knew.
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by ljw1001 7y ago
I think the problem is both broader and simpler. There's an economic term for it, but i don't recall what it is. Basically, the whole of capitalism depends on the idea that individual incentives (for employees) can be aligned with
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>Delivering business value is a more desired and compensated skill than raw programming ability Not so much. First, great programmers are very well compensated, and second, most tech companies are organized to keep great programmers from
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by ljw1001 7y ago
Not even close to everything wrong in the tech industry
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> If you don't see 10x programmers after the startup phase, that's the fault of corporate mgmt. Tall poppy and all that. Actually, it's because building a real product is 10x harder than building a prototype.
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by ljw1001 7y ago
the problem is that it's never enough. One day you have kids and your expenses go way up, another day you buy a bigger house with a bigger mortgage, next thing you know 15 years is 40.
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by ljw1001 7y ago
Keynes, also, looked forward to a time with widespread idleness without poverty.
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by ljw1001 7y ago
Hype and cliches are eating the world. You heard it here first.
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The sad thing is that this is only an issue now, when the product is unexpectedly killing people in the short term. It's clear that killing people in the long term is part of their business model. For example: They created flavors clea
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by ljw1001 7y ago
> The decline in life expectancy is occurring in part due to deaths from despair. From 2007 to 2017, the mortality rate from drug overdoses increased 82% This is a perfect example of how corporate greed (and a political system that now m
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by ljw1001 7y ago
> If you presumably want a European-style healthcare system in America and a job market that doesn't only favor employers... This doesn't stand up to the least amount of reflection. There are immigrants in Europe. If you look a
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by ljw1001 7y ago
Yeah, but can it really be good if you can't load the motherfuckingwebsite because your IT department blocked the website because it has a dirty word in it?
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by ljw1001 7y ago
A statement like "most statistics don't actually tell most people anything" demonstrates both a profound lack of understanding of statistics. So why comment? As the old saying goes: "Better to remain silent and be though

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