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by majos 7y ago
Well, here are the key bits: > Branding experts are forever telling us that this scenario simply isn’t possible; eventually a negative popular image will crush your business. If that’s the case, how do we explain Spirit? > Sure, there
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by majos 7y ago
Defense of the Ancients, originally a Warcraft custom map, now it's own game. Two teams of 5, you level up and train and try to kill the other team's base, a good game is maybe an hour. "Pub game" is short for public gam
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by majos 7y ago
Reminds me of something I read in Impro (recommended by someone on HN, and a readable-if-totally-anecdotal collection of writings on status): a marker of friendship is the ability to deliberately and enjoyably play status games.
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by majos 7y ago
+1, I used to play random DotA pub games and got a huge kick out of the occasions when a team of strangers would click and work together. I sort of replicated that with pick-up basketball but topped out at below average. If anybody has team
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by majos 7y ago
I remember this essay, the author’s main argument was: Wikipedia seemed fine 10 years ago with 5% of its current money, so the increased spending (and calls for donations to cover it) seems unjustified. I side with the author in requesting
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by majos 7y ago
I’m a big fan of Wikipedia. It’s not perfect, and plenty of pages are outright bad, but repeatedly clicking “random page” [1] is a great source of entertainment to me. There’s so much info out there, yet I reliably get something surprising,
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by majos 7y ago
I find Google’s search on Reddit to be much better than Reddit’s.
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by majos 7y ago
It could be an old one. Wikipedia claims [1] they hang around for decades. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AGA_cooker
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by majos 7y ago
> you get nowhere in politics without studying and understanding foundational liberal arts skills such as rhetoric, persuasion, and public debate I’m skeptical that attainment of political power is easily attributed to a good liberal art
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by majos 7y ago
Source? I can’t find any other info about this.
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by majos 7y ago
Here’s a slightly different question: the article mentions that Ethos is paying to take over PIR, thus taking over .org administration as well. How transparent is this transaction? Viewed uncharitably, it looks like ICANN built a separate e
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by majos 7y ago
I think they're arguing that the real contribution of home ownership is the incentive to regularly invest in an appreciating asset, not the fact that the asset is a house. I don't think they're arguing that the incentive is i
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by majos 7y ago
ACM and IEEE don’t review either, that’s all coordinated and done by volunteers, at least for every conference or journal I’ve reviewed for. Typesetting also seems irrelevant, I read a lot of Arxiv papers and have never found typesetting ba
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by majos 7y ago
May as well ask here: do air purifiers have meaningful health benefits for generally healthy people? I get that you change the filter and it's filled with grey muck and that's gross, and that the filters change particulate content
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by majos 7y ago
It seems like it shouldn’t be legal to misrepresent another business’ prices like this. If it is legal, then what’s to prevent competitor x from circulating fake ads with fake sales from competitor y, getting competitor y a bunch of angry w
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by majos 7y ago
One possible distinction is: does the work reveal anything beyond the solution itself? The work might, for example, give one instance of a class of problems for which the tool is useful (bonus points for a formal statement to that effect).
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by majos 7y ago
I'm confused, the headline and start of this article claim "people no longer believe working hard will lead to a better life", but I can't find the supporting data anywhere in the article or the survey itself [1]? The su
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by majos 7y ago
+1. I think there is a level of fame, possible even for niche heroes, where you'll attract people because of your fame and not the thing you did to build up that fame. And interacting with people who appreciate you for your fame and no
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by majos 7y ago
Police do have such a legal obligation. The whole point of a police force is to maintain public safety. You might argue that this has been corrupted into “arrest people” by quotas or bad culture or civil forfeiture or revenue-based policing
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by majos 7y ago
The bit about “so” seems wrong. You said > it should really not be a requirement, and work should be structured in such a way as to not penalize people who are remote: around written communication, with infrequent teleconferencing which
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by majos 7y ago
> It's worth pointing out that Go is a purely mathematical game. You don't need a board at all to play it, especially not if your memory is good enough. Chess Grandmasters don't need boards to play Chess, for example; they
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by majos 7y ago
That still happens. The top 5 players make $30m-$40m, but they’d probably make closer to $50m+ in an open market. After all, the best players still get multiple teams trying to get them on max contracts. The current effect of the cap is mos
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by majos 7y ago
Why do you think people avoided time off?
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by majos 7y ago
The problem with principles is they don’t tell you much about consequences. We might all agree that we should help very poor people in region X, but what will actually help most? Micro loans, micro loans with coaching, unconditional lump su
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by majos 7y ago
Can you link a source for this?
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by majos 7y ago
Even once a doctor is 35 or 40? They shouldn’t be paying off these loans for decades?
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by majos 7y ago
Thanks again. Another question, just to figure out how medicine is an odd industry: how inelastic is doctors’ preference for an upper middle class lifestyle, especially at the cost of 70-hour workweeks? I can see why hospital administration
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by majos 7y ago
Thanks much for writing this. One point that confuses me: > This plays directly into government willingness to expand on training positions. The government has a budget to hit; in fact, CMS is required to do studies showing that any chan
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by majos 7y ago
Is this in the US? I would think that US malpractice laws, and the corresponding malpractice insurance costs, make this impractical.
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by majos 7y ago
It and Padmapper are two services I occasionally use almost entirely because they have cute mascots. I’d probably even buy t-shirts with them.

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