mbateman

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by mbateman 15y ago
With a track record of comments like this -- > I realize the Sanfran wannebe hipster-crowd here like their shiny iGadgets and want to reaffirm their own worth by appraising the company which they have attached their identity to, but thi
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by mbateman 15y ago
It's hard to tell now that karma listings are hidden, but in the past this was definitely true.
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by mbateman 15y ago
I really hope that the OP is wrong in implying that the matching is in response to that NYT article, which was one of the most churlish things I've ever read.
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by mbateman 15y ago
Your brother is quoting the author of this article, in fact.
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by mbateman 15y ago
On modern buildings of course you want to build a ramp. But the cost of adding ramps to every already-built place accessible only by stairs is extremely high. At any rate, that isn't to say that it shouldn't be paid, in many cases, just tha
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by mbateman 15y ago
The optimal solution is to find or create some tool that lets you bypass these options. This is a bit of a tangent, since that's really not what this post is about, but it's worth mentioning. If you're stuck in a wheelchair, it's good when
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by mbateman 15y ago
Not sure why you're being downvoted. Pretty disgusting how this entire press release amounts to political posturing and taking credit for the Arab Spring, with, what, one sentence about how terrible it is that names are now being released u
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by mbateman 15y ago
Notability is not temporary: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability#Notability...
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by mbateman 15y ago
What difference does it make that you're playing against different people? People engage and justify behavior based on types of action. One punishes a cheater that one will never encounter again partly on the presumption that other people
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by mbateman 15y ago
Grades are not binary. An average grade doesn't indicate worthlessness, intellectual or otherwise. To answer a slightly different question than the one you asked: I don't think a department can care about quality of its students if it marks
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by mbateman 15y ago
Do you or does your department care about the quality of the students you promote or attract? If so, having and reflecting on grading standards is relevant to that. If you just want to be a research department with a minimal or laissez-fair
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by mbateman 15y ago
The incentive for giving a reasonable spread of grades is that your students have incentive to try harder. Thus you get better students. The disincentive for giving all A's is that you disincentivize your students from bothering to put in m
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by mbateman 15y ago
Generally it seems like you're expecting the OP to take on your perspective without really taking his perspective seriously. Just saying you have a "core belief" that waiting longer would help doesn't really seem like a fair point. Why don'
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by mbateman 15y ago
There's a big difference between a moral objection and just not liking ads. I don't have any moral objection to ads, but I share this guy's dislike for them. I never click them and would, for various reasons, generally prefer to pay for a s
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by mbateman 15y ago
From the info box on this story in the print edition of the WSJ article this morning: --- Q:There has been concern about a "credit event" that could trigger payouts on credit default swaps, a type of insurance against default. Will this ha
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by mbateman 15y ago
Yes, there have been many articles and letters written against this law by Arizona police officers and their representatives. I don't understand why one would target the Arizona police of all people. Probably not worth analyzing LulzSec too
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by mbateman 15y ago
This criticism seems like a non sequitur. The author is not claiming to be free of Google genetically, he's trying to free himself from actively using Google services. So what if he had to use Google in the past to build up his knowledge ab
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by mbateman 15y ago
Didn't he explicitly say it was an aesthetic decision? He wants it "human scale" or something like that.
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by mbateman 15y ago
I thought it was a useful summary. The arguments in the original link are by-now-familiar platitudes, even if they are lucid.
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by mbateman 15y ago
Okay, I believe you. Probably being a marketer also made him write the tumblr description like marketing copy, which is part of what makes it seem fishy.
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by mbateman 15y ago
Seems that this is the guy whose laptop was stolen: http://unraveled.com/ Nothing about him working for whoever makes the Hidden app, though it's hard to find info about exactly who makes that app on their web page. I still can't tell if
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by mbateman 15y ago
Why did he blur out the guy's google username?
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by mbateman 15y ago
I interpret this sort of question not as asking for a further step in a causal chain, but rather as demanding a teleological explanation where none is available. While I disagree with almost everything Chomsky says about everything, and I t
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by mbateman 15y ago
Okay but you can at least go some way in translating my point in terms of valuations more generally. Different divisions within large corporations do have a specific amount of value, and are sometimes thought of as assets and even split off
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by mbateman 15y ago
> It is highly doubtful that fair compensation for the privatization of public property is possible even in principle. What? The state-owned dairy farms had a cost, covered by the citizens, presumably in the form of taxation. And they h
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by mbateman 15y ago
He did talk about it. He says that the declarative XML layouts make it easy to iterate the UI, but hard to make it pixel perfect, and is therefore akin to web design.
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by mbateman 15y ago
John Norton (the author) is an amazing historian and philosopher of science. People might be interested in some of the other "goodies" on his website -- http://www.pitt.edu/~jdnorton/Goodies/ -- and perhaps some of his papers as well.
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by mbateman 15y ago
There was a good thread on thsis a year or so ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1503137
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by mbateman 15y ago
I'll grant that this article is light on evidence, but it can be true that every country has a worse immigration policy than the US, and that people tend to return to their home countries to start their businesses. Because every country t
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by mbateman 15y ago
I really hate the fact that you can't just straight up pay for more things and am deeply suspicious of free services. What benefit do you get from me using your service if I'm not paying you? In some cases, like Google, the benefit is that

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