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by mrxd 13y ago
> But I have an equally hard time believing that the internet or pharmaceuticals wouldn’t have come to market if government had nothing to do with them. The argument is that the private sector invests for shorter time frames. VCs look fo
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by mrxd 13y ago
From my readings, I don't think it was a central doctrine. Here's the relevant writing from Berg: http://pubs.xfamily.org/text.php?t=156 He seems uncertain about it and couches it more as a possibility. The predic
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by mrxd 13y ago
The average salary for a UX designer in Mountain View is 7% less than an engineer. http://www.indeed.com/salary?q1=User+experience+designer&l1=...
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by mrxd 13y ago
So you want to remove rent control and exclude hundreds of thousands of people from living in the city just to make it easier for you to find good roommates. To borrow the words of master spy Sterling Archer: Do you want anarchist protestor
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by mrxd 13y ago
You don't personally want to live with the poors -- that's fine, you should get to live with whomever you want. I just think that using public policy to create a city-wide filter based on class and income just so you can get to in
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by mrxd 13y ago
So you're saying that the main disadvantage with rent control is that poor people can afford the rent?
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by mrxd 13y ago
Yagan's personal views don't really matter. In fact, Eich's views don't matter either because in politics, perception is reality. Yagan contributed to the growing perception that holding anti-gay opinions is socially una
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by mrxd 13y ago
Agreed. Other advantages: A dedicated device means everyone in the household can use it without the friction of having to help everyone find the app and register with the same account. People without phones (like kids) can use it. It's
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by mrxd 13y ago
I didn't see anything in the article that was negative or hateful about the 1%, but it sounds like you're reading it that way. Do you think the 99% have a reason to hate the 1%?
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by mrxd 13y ago
> Good thing the Seattle City Council is essentially shutting Lyft down in the name of safety and ‘protecting me’ from this company. Sorry to see this kind of misinformation about why the Seattle City Council acted. Taxi drivers pay comm
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by mrxd 13y ago
> My uncharitable interpretation for this class of responses is simple laziness What does this mean? If I was uncharitable, I'd say it sounds like he wants designers and developers to work nights and weekends. If there's a busi
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by mrxd 13y ago
Here's another graph showing that the recent rise in tuition in Michigan is due to declining state education appropriations. http://i.imgur.com/5gYHQK5.png
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by mrxd 13y ago
Well, Page is arguing that private companies should be beneficiaries of charity. In the transcript, he says Google employees should donate money to the company.
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by mrxd 13y ago
> The author appears to have a philosophical issue with the DSM itself I find that hard to believe. He argues that some cases of ADHD are caused by bipolar disorder and depression, which have DSM definitions.
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by mrxd 13y ago
Yes, there's a link to that at the bottom of the original link. There's also a comment: "if you examine it carefully I think you will see that it actually does little but evade the issue." I found that to be true.
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by mrxd 13y ago
Are you saying that a movie where the villain is a character called Lord Business, and who is the president of the country and CEO of the largest corporation that makes all history books, voting machines and owns all TV and radio has nothin
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by mrxd 13y ago
That's not how its used in UX design. A mockup is essentially a screenshot: non-interactive, visually accurate. A prototype is an interactive simulation of the system. The term encompasses simulations which are very far from the final
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by mrxd 13y ago
> We need to consider, seriously, the possibility that avoidance of high tech in favor of health fields is a very rational choice Why does this only apply to women?
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by mrxd 13y ago
> both of those situations are better than sitting at home and thinking "I'm never going to get a job anyways, I might as well not apply". This just shows that fatalism, whether positive (things will definitely work out) o
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by mrxd 13y ago
Terrible design. “20 to go for the reply” is comically bad UI writing. And then hiding it in a corner in grey text when the user is fixating on the field they are typing in? Not surprised at all it didn't work. And the "nuclear op
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by mrxd 13y ago
> The mere fact that you feel like it's up to you (or anyone else who makes comments) to decide "ok that's enough" really does not make any sense. Actually it does. Consumers are allowed to make decisions about purcha
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by mrxd 13y ago
> You get this uncomfortable feeling when you see that hire stroll in first thing in the morning… They get under your skin even though they haven’t done anything 'bad' quite yet. I'm no lawyer, but I wonder whether saying
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by mrxd 13y ago
> Well, there are some ground rules… A while back I noticed some people use this phrase "ground rules" to talk about rules without making them seem so rule-like. Another one is "rules of the road". Thank you for demon
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by mrxd 13y ago
If that were true, we'd expect to see wages rise.
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by mrxd 13y ago
The comments on Slate just show how little people understand about the culture of EDM. The debate about whether Daft Punk is "stealing" or passing off other people's work as their own misses the point. Daft Punk (and many oth
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by mrxd 13y ago
Here are three responses to your question: 1) It's not always true that users lack insight or imagination into new possibilities. Many of our best futurists aren't technologists - Gene Roddenberry, for example. On the opposite sid
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by mrxd 13y ago
Author of the article here. On Lean, I'd recommend a book called "Notes from Toyota-Land: An American Engineer in Japan" that is in part about the dark side of Lean and its impact on workers. Or just read an interview with th
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by mrxd 13y ago
See also the CIA's role in promoting abstract expressionism during the Cold War: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/modern-art-was-cia-w...
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Worldwide inequality has been rising continuously since the 1820s http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gini_coefficient#World_income_G...
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by mrxd 13y ago
If your explanation were true, we should expect tuition to immediately shift to students when federal loans and grants became available in 1965. But in fact, the data shows that state tuition subsidies for public 4-year colleges have declin

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