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by mberning 7y ago
Usually talk of astroturfing on HN gets you and admonishment from the powers that be. Let’s see what happens.
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by mberning 7y ago
What's worse is when the article touts all of the variables that have been controlled for as if the issue has been completely ameliorated.
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by mberning 7y ago
Yep. And this story is some “John Tesh Radio Show” tier fluff.
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by mberning 7y ago
People claim this is a huge problem, and at this point I suppose it is, but it was not always so. The government should get out of the business of giving and guaranteeing education loans and this debt should be disposable in bankruptcy. The
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by mberning 7y ago
Very apt. I think people are also forgetting “the bad old days” where you worked on a large-ish cpp or java app for a year, nothing worked right, schedules slipped, and then the whole thing was scrapped and teams disbanded to work on other
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by mberning 7y ago
I like do describe it as ergonomics. It doesn’t really matter what I am doing, I generally enjoy doing it in Ruby. I also enjoy teaching using it. Students seem to pick up concepts very fast.
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by mberning 7y ago
Thanks. I have not had occasion to use them so was curious if they were a newer or just less known feature.
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by mberning 7y ago
Very cool. Does anybody know when this was added? I tried looking in the ruby doc but didn't see. That is one nice thing about javadocs in comparison. They usually say “since 1.6” or whatever.
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by mberning 7y ago
If you go and spectate any marathon or half marathon you will realize that well over half of the participants have no business being there. Yet it is a very popular thing to do and it is a growing sport. I don’t think any amount of shoe tec
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by mberning 7y ago
Agreed. Super impressive. I really like Crystal and hope it continues to get traction.
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by mberning 7y ago
"The bottom line: Per the Washington Post, California's homeless issue is related to soaring housing costs, mental health and substance abuse issues and "legal hurdles to getting people off the streets — all issues that could
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by mberning 7y ago
Very smart. Even if Apple only take a small bite out of carriers it is still a huge amount of money. They could end up being Netflix to Verizon and AT&Ts blockbuster.
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by mberning 7y ago
I like the idea. From the demo I could not tell but what measures exist to prevent actors from falsifying information?
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by mberning 7y ago
These guys sponsor the street beefs channel on youtube. I find the company and their guerrilla tactics fascinating.
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by mberning 7y ago
I think your attitude is a great example as to why many people remain unconvinced. The idea that people who have doubts about climate science are generally too stupid to understand simple graph is ridiculous. It is possible and highly likel
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by mberning 7y ago
It seems to me that most people intuitively know that there is a large amount of chance and “unknowns” in life and the universe. The find out the opposite is true would be a very big deal.
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by mberning 7y ago
I am OK with the thought that the the universe sprang into existence, and through some form of randomness or chance, things played out on this planet that allowed for life and for me to exist on it. Now go back to step one and assume that,
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by mberning 7y ago
“Should we discover that quantum theory is not fundamentally random” This would be a terrifying revelation on a personal and existential level.
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by mberning 7y ago
Could he really say anything else given his current position? Car manufacturers and VCs have pumped enormous cash into this space for over a decade and have what amounts to vaporware to show for it. Assisted highway cruise and crash avoidan
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by mberning 7y ago
No way that is an economy cabin. And they chose a very petite model to sit in the chair. Economy is only going to become more miserable over time as people become taller and wider and airlines continue their war of attrition for low fares.
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by mberning 7y ago
Yeah, a blog and an ER anecdote is not compelling evidence, whether it’s from Harvard or not. They assume the conclusion they want a couple paragraphs in and then spend the rest of the time backing in to it. For example “For minorities, the
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by mberning 7y ago
This is such a common trope nowadays. If the question “what is the evidence to support that conclusion” is even asked, the answer is almost surely a casually observed correlation and little more.
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by mberning 7y ago
You should consult a dictionary
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by mberning 7y ago
That is a very bad argument, along the same lines of “why do you need privacy if you have nothing to hide”.
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by mberning 7y ago
Hopefully never in the west. Using the power of the state to silence people is decidedly illiberal.
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by mberning 7y ago
It is a curious phenomenon. https://womenintheworld.com/2018/02/27/study-finds-women-in-...
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by mberning 7y ago
Here’s a link for all you haters https://news.slashdot.org/story/04/01/26/1128246/tivo-buys-s...
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by mberning 7y ago
It reminds me of that startup where each of the founders gave themselves a goofy title like 'Cheif Cleverberry' or something like that. I wish I could remember the details. I think it was ex-blackberry employees starting a phone c
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by mberning 7y ago
The branding and aesthetic of this truck is so untesla it is alarming. Trucks are very expensive nowadays so this could be good market for them. Especially if people buy them for the novelty. As far as actual work is concerned I feel that
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by mberning 7y ago
It is unfathomable to me how the iOS ecosystem has so many features that don't work well eve after years of being in the wild and being available on millions of devices. Things like handoff, continuity, personal hotspot, etc. still do

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