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by mkempe 8y ago
Sounds good, if you enjoy it (if not, ask yourself why). Make sure you are proud of your acquired knowledge and related achievements. Worry about management goals as a later pursuit; you don't need MBA to learn management, only to ente
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by mkempe 8y ago
Most crucially: why are you doing it? Second: what will it add to your life and to your business abilities?
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by mkempe 8y ago
State at 25: Pursuing a PhD, in large parts because I won a non-negligible prize for my Masters thesis and the non-PhD billionaire prize-maker encouraged me to pursue academics instead of business; also, nobody in my family had ever pursued
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by mkempe 8y ago
Two simple questions: How can the FBI request FISA surveillance of an American who recently worked for the FBI and helped catch Russian spies, while hiding that fact from the court? Further, more than two years later, why is it that this su
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by mkempe 8y ago
I can't fathom anything worse than all the awful things that have already been revealed (or alleged) in the last 10-20 years about abuses of government power, blatant disregard for the welfare of the people and wealth of nations, and e
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by mkempe 8y ago
The lasting message will be that if, as a private person, you help people reveal State Secrets of the most powerful countries on Earth --especially including evidence of war crimes, illegal spying, and assorted abuses of power-- you will be
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by mkempe 8y ago
Why? "Lenin Moreno was once a wealthy businessman and politician. But in 1998, he was shot in the back as gunmen stole his car from a parking lot in Quito. He was paralyzed from the waist down. Moreno overcame intense pain and bouts of
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by mkempe 8y ago
Good question. My sense is that in the 60s and 70s the militant or idealist response to anthropocene doomsayers was a call to brotherly love and return to nature, e.g. raise kids in a commune or on a farm.
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by mkempe 8y ago
I disagree with the point of view expressed in this NYT opinion piece, for many reasons, but find it interesting that it is becoming an increasingly vocal one. There was a similar piece in The Guardian, fairly recently.
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Raising My Child in a Doomed World(nytimes.com)
1 points by mkempe 8y ago|3 comments
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Naming units of measure after noteworthy scientists, since 1861(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by mkempe 8y ago|0 comments
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by mkempe 8y ago
I used to think the same. In my experience, documenting and reporting to HR does not solve the problem. You're more likely to be further hurt and disappointed.
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by mkempe 8y ago
If this person is not leaving, you should leave asap. For your own sanity and safety. I've never seen sociopaths get better, I've only seen them hunt and hurt other people.
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by mkempe 8y ago
The article doesn't depict pebbles but stones with a diameter of 2m. Your suggestion does not make sense given what is known of such "kettles".
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by mkempe 8y ago
... or the main developer is not a marketer.
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by mkempe 8y ago
I think you can write plugins for Vienna, maybe that would allow you to integrate that service. Fever is mentioned by a (main?) developer in one of the issues (dated 2013) https://github.com/ViennaRSS/vienna-rss/is
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by mkempe 8y ago
Have you tried Vienna? I've happily used it for the last several years now. It's open-source. https://github.com/ViennaRSS/vienna-rss
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The First Men on the Moon: The Apollo 11 Lunar Landing (1969-07-20)(firstmenonthemoon.com)
2 points by mkempe 8y ago|0 comments
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by mkempe 8y ago
It is in Boulder, Colorado. The bike paths are generally cleared of snow separately and before the roads.
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by mkempe 8y ago
I always welcome and only consider facts and scientific evidence.
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by mkempe 8y ago
The claim that, for instance, the Great Barrier Reef is dying due to massive bleaching is based on selective data and contradicts the evidence : "Monitoring data collected annually from fixed sites at 47 reefs across 1300 km of the GB
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by mkempe 8y ago
There are wide varieties of corals and of their symbionts. To claim that they are all simultaneously going extinct in all seas and microclimates is absurd, and contradicts the evidence of their repeated adaptations to past climate variation
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by mkempe 8y ago
We're not currently witnessing a near-extinction.
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by mkempe 8y ago
One should maintain some perspective: Coral reefs have gone through enormous variations in extent and location, and near extinction, many times since 500 million years ago. Not even the last Ice Age or CO2 levels 10x higher than what we hav
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by mkempe 8y ago
Why should one judge any book by the gender or geography of the author, editor, or blurb writer?
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by mkempe 8y ago
Are we to take umbrage at every Easter-eggy homage?
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IEEE Patent Policy Revisions: An Empirical Examination of Impact(papers.ssrn.com)
1 points by mkempe 8y ago|0 comments
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by mkempe 8y ago
"Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision. Their goals differed, but they all had this in common: that the step was first, the road new, the vision unborrowed,
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by mkempe 8y ago
First, one swallow does not a summer make... Second, I notice you joined in July 2013. Sam Altman took over in February 2014, and PG's retirement had started earlier, so I wonder how much you experienced of HN before post-PG.
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by mkempe 8y ago
The negativity became dominant post-PG. Unfortunately and disappointingly. [added] To elaborate: his regular essays were thought-provoking and challenging, in a way that generally drove HN commenters to think and contribute. Nowadays there

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