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YouTube responds to complaints that its Restricted Mode censors LGBT videos(techcrunch.com)
5 points by msabalau 10y ago|2 comments
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by msabalau 10y ago
Lack of opportunity in NH? The unemployment rate in New Hampshire is 3.8% It was two and change last year. I grew up in NH. it's a small place. No suitable job in your town? Drive. You know what would help with addiction? Universal
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by msabalau 10y ago
I have a Home, and have bought three for family members. I find the random insertion of an irrelevant ad to be shocking because it is dumb and annoying. This is very early days, and I'm really surprised that Google, having been alm
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by msabalau 10y ago
Is writting a particularly representative example of cultural production? Back in the 40's only a quarter of the adult population even had a high school degree, now nearly everyone who has the temperament and interest to write can be
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by msabalau 10y ago
Thus protecting the country from having to endure the sort of people who can't help but ignore the pragmatics of a question.
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"Ultimately the root of any conspiracy theory is a strong desire to believe that someone, somewhere, is competent at what they're doing." -Amy Dentata
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Deterrence and retribution are typically seen as the purpose of incarceration. Presumably the threat of a month in prison might deter other drone operators from behaving recklessly and seriously injuring others. There are 2.2 million priso
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by msabalau 10y ago
According to the article he left for failing to disclose the circumstances of his departure from Google. The article further documents that he acknowledges that he left under this cloud. As the article notes "having Singhal at the he
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Uber denies involvement into Susan Fowler research(businessinsider.com)
2 points by msabalau 10y ago|0 comments
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Kenneth Arrow Has Died(nytimes.com)
158 points by msabalau 10y ago|26 comments
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MakerBot lays off 30% of its staff as company’s scope narrows(techcrunch.com)
27 points by msabalau 10y ago|9 comments
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by msabalau 10y ago
I agree that it is good to be able to question the status quo. It's less clear why we should accept that people dying in exactly the way they happen to do at the moment is the correct and only possible solution--as opposed to, say, th
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One of the worst comments sections on the internet is shutting down(techcrunch.com)
2 points by msabalau 10y ago|2 comments
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I look forward to Republicans acknowledging what they said before, and working cooperatively with democrats to end the Trump presidency, impeaching him for violating the Emoluments Clause cause of the constitution. “We’re on the verge of ha
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by msabalau 10y ago
To be fair to all of us Americans, nationality, even when when you understand what the term means, is still a sloppy concept, with porous boundaries inviting people to contest any particular usage. And that's putting aside aside any (
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by msabalau 10y ago
Britain has a culture, despite being composed of the English, Scots, and Welsh nations as well as many immigrants. One can, of course, feel entirely free to use words in arbitrary ways. But to correct someone (who clearly understands the c
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by msabalau 10y ago
The term "nation" typically means a collection of people with a common culture and ethnicity. The "Poles" are a nation, Poland is a state. That's why the the term nation-state exists, and contrasts with, say, emp
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by msabalau 10y ago
Well, I guess you've gotten to see how HN can spin this into something negative. I will note that Uber could make these people look very foolish by joining the NY taxi workers strike against this policy. Eventually, after a long stream
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by msabalau 10y ago
"Before enlightenment chop wood, carry water…after enlightenment chop wood, carry water."
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by msabalau 10y ago
Fair enough, but for many people love for Apple has always been a combination of admiring the solid design of an individual product alongside the brand of "think different" innovation. If you feel that Apple hasn't really do
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by msabalau 10y ago
Population mobility has decreased over the past decades, the median american lives 18 miles from their mother, and only 20% of Americans live more than a couple hours away from their parents. (NYT Upshot 12/23/15). Perhaps the fac
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by msabalau 10y ago
Given that the 20th century is the century of genocide, it seems less than certain that the long term trend is "increasingly vitriolic".
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If the problem is "too much downside in being distracted by people's opinions about my opinions", some options would seem to be: * publish anonymously, putting the ideas in the discourse, albeit without them getting the signa
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by msabalau 10y ago
"Wearables and VR are good gimmicks, but even if they become ubiquitous, it's not a revolution, just an extension of the use cases that the iPhone revolution bootstrapped." Smartphones seem a heck of a lot more derivative of
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by msabalau 10y ago
Maybe. Of course killer apps don't have to spring full formed as launch titles. Visicalc arrived two and a half years after the launch of the Apple II. I don't think we can count out people coming up with something remarkable in
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by msabalau 10y ago
It's almost like there was some risk in starting something new...
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Yeah, Google is only selling Google Home for $50 less than the Amazon Echo, and only have 87% smartphone market share for Android where Google Now can be installed, and only over a billion people using the Google Play marketplace. They hav
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by msabalau 10y ago
Surely trust can be achieved through consistent identities which aren't real names, or by allowing the option of (but not mandating) user names which are real names.
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The author identifies "resetting sugar-addled taste buds" and becoming mindful of how many foods have added sugar as benefits. Having gone without sugar for a month, I can affirm that both of these things were true. And, of cour
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by msabalau 10y ago
Unlike the suburbs you valorize, Cambridge hasn't shut out the poor, makes large investments in public housing. 45% of Cambridge students take free or subsided lunches. What the MCAS results actually show is when we take kids of out

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