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by maldusiecle 11y ago
A shame this is being downvoted, it's concise but in my opinion on point. I enjoyed several of Houellebecq's novel as an undergraduate, but when I revisited them recently I was surprised how superficial their social critiques are.
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by maldusiecle 11y ago
This is such a bizarre argument to make. An analog synth is typically going to be far more expressive than Pd: most if not all of its settings are immediately available via a physical knob, where with Pd you have to configure a mapping for
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by maldusiecle 11y ago
It's a particularly vicious kind of law and order conservatism, to invent the punishment before one invents the law.
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by maldusiecle 11y ago
A photo caption from the article: "Silicon Valley vs Mad Men — who would you rather be?" But Mad Men is a show largely about its characters' bad behavior--their casual bigotry, crass money-grubbing, etc. If you're wearin
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by maldusiecle 11y ago
Letters and manuscripts have, besides their obvious historical and aesthetic value, a pretty clear economic value. The first example the author cites is a single letter which went for over $500--not a fortune, but when applied to a whole ma
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by maldusiecle 11y ago
> articles updated at most once every four years That's not what this article says. "In exactly four years—or earlier if research has moved on significantly." Four years is the maximum time an article will stay unchanged,
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by maldusiecle 11y ago
I don't think this is much of a response to the piece's argument. Yes, high-level tech classes are a use-case where MOOCs work. But MOOC companies have repeatedly presented them as useful for intro-level and non-technical courses-
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by maldusiecle 11y ago
Surprisingly little talk here about the degree to which Google has abused its search market position in ways that push other players out. I would have expected more. Antitrust laws exist for a reason. If Google uses its dominance in searc
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by maldusiecle 11y ago
One problem with this line of reasoning is that even cultural products released on looser terms tend to be captured by corporate behemoths. It's not uncommon for large labels to buy up rights to independently-released music, for instan
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by maldusiecle 12y ago
Naturally the hypothetical ignorant office manager is going to be a woman. This is ycombinator, after all.