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by mhartl 14y ago
Your response is a case in point. Your views on "stakeholders", your belief in "representative democracy", and your faith in the wisdom of the People are fully in line with the progressive orthodoxy that is the bedrock of Western public edu
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Of course, the Left would never use the educational system to indoctrinate kids. In fact, I hear that public education is a bastion of conservatism and that most teachers vote Republican (or worse).
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Faced with tens of thousands of protesters contending that a Beijing-backed plan for “moral and national education” amounted to brainwashing and political indoctrination... Do you find yourself reflexively siding with the prote
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The labels ("strong", "weak") are ironic.
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Under more competitive governance, people could move to places that supported their values, leading to potentially better support for the things you list. Perhaps the confusion stems from mixing two different levels of abstraction. What w
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by mhartl 14y ago
Why would you expect "entrepreneurial solutions to government" to forsake human rights? Were the framers of the U.S. Constitution not political entrepreneurs?
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by mhartl 14y ago
The article makes it sound like Patri, et al., have forsaken seasteading, but this is not true. In particular, Patri is still chairman of the board of The Seasteading Institute ( http://www.seasteading.org/about/staff-board-advisors/ ) and
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by mhartl 14y ago
YC is an investor, putting money into lots of startups. As a result, it benefits from the law of large numbers ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_large_numbers ), so luck isn't as big a factor as it is for individual startup founders.
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Excellent.
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The RSI treatment in The Mindbody Prescription by Dr. John E. Sarno worked for me. See YC partner Aaron Iba's blog post for more information: http://aaroniba.net/articles/tmp/how-i-cured-my-rsi-pain.htm... My experience has been virtual
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by mhartl 14y ago
Just a quick heads-up in case any LayerVault peeps are reading: the post rather badly misspells "David Heinemeier Hansson".
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To apply, you need to sign in using your HN username and password. If you were already signed in, you probably just didn't notice that the form already knew who you were.
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For those curious about the process: making the EPUB and Mobi files was excruciating. I'm currently working on a project that should make it much easier in the future. Stay tuned.
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You're welcome!
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New EPUB and Mobi versions of the Ruby on Rails Tutorial(news.railstutorial.org)
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It's different in that Swype uses one continuous motion instead of discrete taps. (There are undoubtedly other differences as well.) And no, Swype isn't available on iOS. (N.B. I use Swype on Android and love it.)
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I see what you did here. The Little Book FTW!
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He needs to talk to a lawyer.
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I'm sympathetic to your point, but I fear that the worst offenders are among those least likely even to read the guidelines, much less adhere to them.
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I think what radley means is that Flash is an all-in-one solution, whereas to finish a non-Flash project you would have to master HTML, CSS, a back-end web framework, and perhaps some JavaScript as well.
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This is the kind of thing that happens when you don't have a business model.
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The article's essence Your summary has virtually nothing to do with the article's essence. Among other things, the article doesn't state or imply that engineering is superior to other disciplines. Instead, it speaks of creating value , a
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Never take advice from someone who thinks it's meaningful to talk in terms of "what women want", as if there's this undifferentiated mass with a unanimous set of values. Never underestimate the power of generalization. Women are shorter t
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Did you not read the second paragraph of the comment?
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I think he's being ironic. They're "hated" because they're so awesome, yet so very unavailable.
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You're right, of course, but you presuppose that the purpose of the "bet" is financial. It's actually a donation to the Long Now Foundation. Plus, it gets your name on their website, which is kind of cool.
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I'm using "flat" in the standard sense: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_organization
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Thanks for the calc rec. I learned calculus over twenty years ago, so I was flying by instruments on that one.
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I don't think you can have an "informal and spontaneous" hierarchy, or a "flat" one. Those are oxymorons. Hierarchy by definition is a formal gradation of ranks. No? Humans naturally form dominance hierarchies even in the absence of forma
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I taught the physics core curriculum at Caltech for five years, so I'll do what I can to help. For many of the classes at Caltech, we never found a truly satisfying textbook, but when you're learning on your own that's still the route I rec

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