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by longerthoughts 9y ago
This is a little beside my point, which was that competition will remain as long as schools remain selective ("selective" defined for the sake of this argument as accepting less than 100% of applicants). Even if there was a broad
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by longerthoughts 9y ago
>Why should a college even choose the highest academic performers? It's an educational institution, not a contest. It will inherently be a contest as long as admission rates are below 100% and schools' reputations are non-unifo
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Ask HN: Sources for acquisition data?
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by longerthoughts 9y ago
It's worth stressing your point on perceived limitations of financial upside. I work for what is effectively a fintech business within a large financial firm and this is a constant hindrance to innovation because investment tends towar
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by longerthoughts 9y ago
If suspicion of planned obsolescence is as common as the article presents it to be doesn't that make the search data less compelling? If it's a commonly held belief and I own an Apple product that's being phased out, I'l
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by longerthoughts 9y ago
Interested to see what the HN community thinks about this. I'm looking at the linked studies for evidence that the relationship is causal but nothing yet. I'm wondering if preference for isolation is only another symptom of some o
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Social Interaction Is Critical for Mental and Physical Health(nytimes.com)
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by longerthoughts 9y ago
You can skip the paywall through facebook. Append the article url to the end of this: https://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=
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by longerthoughts 9y ago
I think you'll find that a lot of people who enjoy wildlife photography are also those who stand for the preservation of all things wild. If demand for wildlife photography creates a profitable market for raising animals in captivity,
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by longerthoughts 10y ago
> Most people don't realize there's a difference between shyness and introversion. This is clear from a lot of the comments here. A person can prefer solitude (i.e. be introverted) and still carry on just fine in social situati
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by longerthoughts 10y ago
That's definitely true for now, but shouldn't the goal be improving gesture control to the point where the difference is trivial? Might make for a less versatile product today but a better product down the road.
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by longerthoughts 10y ago
> The major downside is the interaction: "air-clicking" is not great and the gestures to trigger various actions aren't very reliable. It really needs hand controllers like the Vive has. I agree on the gesture reliability
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BlackRock's Larry Fink Is Now a Modern Art Exhibit(news.morningstar.com)
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BlackRock's largest mutual fund sours on Google(reuters.com)
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by longerthoughts 10y ago
Regular shuttles for interplanetary travel timed with periodically favorable orbital positions?
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by longerthoughts 10y ago
A similar argument could be made for concerns over rising water temperatures as a result of climate change - what might be considered a dramatic rise to climate scientists and marine biologists would likely have little impact on a datacente
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by longerthoughts 10y ago
> b) Isn't marine biology highly sensitive to heat pollution? Impact on the marine environment is briefly mentioned in the last couple of paragraphs of the article, although they're a little dismissive and don't provide an
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by longerthoughts 10y ago
Agreed. I also think it's hard to make the "I forgot" defense without demonstrating an effort to comply. "I tried to help but can't remember", while still suspect, is more compelling than "I can't rem
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by longerthoughts 10y ago
Thanks
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Would like to see distributions of desired experience levels for jobs in each city. Unless they're fairly consistent, these numbers will all be skewed by the relative seniority of available roles. I'm not convinced they'd be
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by longerthoughts 10y ago
Worth checking out the response article from the NYTimes. Predictably defensive on climate change but interesting to see both sides of the story. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/07/science/2015-climate-st
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by longerthoughts 10y ago
Would be interesting to see how well different industries are represented on Glassdoor with respect to number of job openings (or how well Glassdoor has penetrated different industries, more accurately). Given that the three rating criteria