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by madair 16y ago
There are rational arguments, mostly coming from evolutionary psychology and similar domains. The arguments tend to fall apart under rational scrutiny when used to shape human behavior rather than simply explain it. A couple recent articles
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by madair 16y ago
Privacy being such a gentle word to describe what's at stake.
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by madair 16y ago
There was something fishy about that Forbes Project Vigilant story the other day, Greenwald followed up, quite shocking really.
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Project Vigilant and the government/corporate destruction of privacy(salon.com)
17 points by madair 16y ago|7 comments
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by madair 16y ago
We evolve, or we die. Truism that. Sometimes it might take awhile, but its not less true.
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by madair 16y ago
Short version: "I'm so awesome, don't you know it! And plus plus!!!! I totally haz ever3lol on teh intertubezzz"
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by madair 16y ago
Enjoyable humor of life, conflicts, and all that....and what's more even better when well known people who put a lot work into their public projects and writings worry about people tarnishing their work and image ;-D P.S. at the point where
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A big little idea called legibility(ribbonfarm.com)
4 points by madair 16y ago|1 comments
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by madair 16y ago
Before throwing our hands up in despair we should consider that some simple reforms of the prosecution system in the U.S. would make a huge difference. There are a lot of shakedowns going on in the U.S. system (it's hard to call it a justi
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by madair 16y ago
When everyone is a lawbreaker enforcement becomes selective, you could say arbitrary.
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by madair 16y ago
Heh, I think that should be titled "Ruby's YAML::load changes my data unexpectedly"
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by madair 16y ago
Short version: You're a journalist if you've been to j-school and if you pass all of Jolie O'Dell's subjective tests. Too bad there aren't hardly any journalists at all who can pass that test, including most likely Jolie herself. For fun ma
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by madair 16y ago
I'm sorry that I posted that in response to your comment, it really wasn't directed at you, I appreciated your comment, it just sparked me to action because I wanted to expound on the topic further.
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by madair 16y ago
Totally. But the kicker is scorched earth makes a lot of money . Those projects they canceled, and the craptacular ones that somehow managed to make it into production, maybe for 30 years , those are the decisions that are making a lot of
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by madair 16y ago
I posted this article because I wanted to hear smart responses backed by informative sources and unclouded as much as possible by preconceptions. I'm sad that this is none of those, including the article that you linked to, pragmatic, writt
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Untangling skill and luck - How to think about outcomes [scribd](scribd.com)
2 points by madair 16y ago|0 comments
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by madair 16y ago
Also http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2010/07/deficits-do-matter-bu...
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Nine deficit myths we can't afford(newdeal20.org)
1 points by madair 16y ago|3 comments
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by madair 16y ago
A deconstruction would look more at things like subconscious signaling, cultural values and biological influences. For a funny play on the less interesting distractions that a lot of deconstructionists of the last century embarrassed themse
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by madair 16y ago
Nice one :D
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by madair 16y ago
Well, my point was also not clear in that people may presume that I'm criticizing the developers themselves. I work with a lot of developers, some of them very good at software, but most not, but they are very good coworkers, hard working,
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by madair 16y ago
Programming as a discipline is still a largely of an experimental nature. This is not a value judgment one way or the other. But padding out books in order to look more comprehensive is an old trick and is not really the same discussion top
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by madair 16y ago
This explanation, while popular, always seems to willfully avoid taking social capital into account. "There's there door, you can leave any time" isn't an answer to the people who are invested in a community and actively seeking ways to ens
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by madair 16y ago
I agree with what you're saying, however I was unclear and my intention was the point out that it's the corporation that is satisfied and even prefers factory-style workers for large numbers of positions. I'm talking about corporations for
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by madair 16y ago
It's a good article but something I've been surprised to find out is true since I've spent some time at a very large corporation for the first time is that a place like this has a large contingent of developers that they seem to prefer to n
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by madair 16y ago
I was hoping for an article on the deeper semiotic meaning of why programmers and which ones with what experiences were drawn to the ideas of jQuery when they were. That's an interesting topic for any programming language that achieves succ
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by madair 16y ago
This is a very weak contribution to the question of whether science can truly consider itself amoral, as in, does the march of progress outweigh all other concerns, which many people believe is the case. In this case the author wants us to
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by madair 16y ago
There will be a backlash.
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by madair 16y ago
Most people on HN belong to another ~10x crime group: Americans, all those bombs and guns blowing up stuff all over the world to 'protect' capitalism...50% of American's taxes makes us individually responsible
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by madair 16y ago
Short version of this blog entry: I heard someone say somewhere once that it seemed to lower their creativity and it totally makes sense doesn't it!!!!

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