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by neilk 6y ago
Madison is still correct, in a way. The US Congress has incredibly low approval ratings, as a whole. But each individual congressperson enjoys surprisingly high approval from their constituents. I guess Madison just didn't see that tho
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... literally toxic? Like people ingesting poisonous substances because someone told them it's keto?
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There are good reasons to not be a hypocrite. This isn't one of them. So, the theory here is that if we only purify ourselves enough, we'll finally get climate skeptics to listen? If we only take on all the systemic problems with
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by neilk 6y ago
I see no inherent problem of confusion if this is well managed. Coca-cola has Coke Zero and Dasani in their family of products. Yet nobody confuses Dasani for Coke. Nobody even confuses Coke Zero for Coke. Sometimes it makes sense to have a
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I think the negatives are often underappreciated. I know founders who ruined their credit, destroyed their friendships, ended lifelong relationships, lost their sanity, and in one case, probably committed suicide. Some do move on to other t
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This is fascinating. In passing, they mention how the highly privileged may conspicuously consume 'immaterial' goods for status, and the less privileged do more traditional conspicuous consumption of expensive goods. So if wantrep
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by neilk 6y ago
Perhaps you are not in the intended audience? This is a social science paper. I know a little bit about economics and social science, and for me the phrase "Veblenian Entrepreneur" was immediately meaningful and helpful. It gives
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Facebook is sometimes in a difficult position. But, with respect, I don't think it's correct to say that it's the fault of their critics for putting them in a dilemma. Facebook does not face outrage for "literally remov[
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by neilk 6y ago
I’m out of the loop - where does Google commit to turning off IMAP? Is there any other standard that non-Google mail clients can follow? Will Apple Mail lose Gmail compatibility or can they upgrade to something?
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You or someone else from Pipedream commented on my Twitter thread, the last time I asked about this. Is this a coincidence? How are you monitoring everything? I did see the Pipedream recipe but I believe the concept was to run a function in
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Ask HN: `cron` or `at` for the Cloud?
2 points by neilk 6y ago|3 comments
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When I hear explanations like “space is expanding like the surface of a balloon” it’s always confusing. Because a surface is an object, separate from anything on it, but space is the thing we’re all embedded in, so we’re like drawings on th
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by neilk 6y ago
Perhaps I am being trolled here, but the opposite of neophobe is neophile, not neophyte.
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You should read the article to the end where he explicitly disavows that. Or for that matter, the beginning of the article, where he blames progressives for overly-empowering public consultations. Ezra Klein is indeed left of center by US s
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by neilk 7y ago
2001-2002 was brutal; I'd built a career around a dying language & I wasn't living in a major tech hub. I lived off savings and contract work from a company that was terrible, but had entrapped customers into their terrible so
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by neilk 7y ago
It's an extremely personal choice. Bodies are different. The following are somewhat pricey options. In my opinion the Knoll Regeneration is pretty good. Hermann Miller chairs are also good, but the Aeron is probably the least ergonom
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by neilk 7y ago
I had a sinking feeling when the inventor of the CDO appeared in this article. The housing bubble occurred, in part, because there was optimism that acquiring a certain tangible asset - a house - was a sure path to prosperity for the buyer.
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I took that part out. I don’t really know what is in other people’s minds.
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I don’t think there’s any intention to it at all. Unless one takes extraordinary steps to examine what brings truly brings value, most people interview for clones of themselves. Or worse: their idealized self-image. Google started off wit
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by neilk 7y ago
The cookbooks and recipe formats that we have were never designed for someone in your situation. And if you have a background in a field with standardized parts and repeatable results, the kinds of instructions cookbooks give can be maddeni
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Rabble on the failures of electoral campaign tech work, and the Iowa Caucus app(threader.app)
1 points by neilk 7y ago|0 comments
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Your comment convinced me that I’ll live to see the day when the government bails out Google.
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This is the correct answer
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by neilk 7y ago
Hi. I've been working from home for about 1.5 years and have had spells of working remotely from coworking places. I am very distractible. It was and remains very difficult. However, I think I'm in a zone now where work is a place
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by neilk 7y ago
There's no question in my mind that North America has gotten a lot worse at completing great civic projects. Sometimes, that's for good reasons. We don't have slave labor, we have environmental review, and we allow affected c
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Be able to buy something with it
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I don't see an inherent reason why the middle ground is correct when assessing blame. Or indeed why blame is a kind of conserved quantity and if we give more to one we must give less to another. Look, when I got up in the morning I had
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by neilk 7y ago
I understand how you're struggling with this, but can I make an observation? You seem to have a personal experience that you are vulnerable to YouTube. However, you seem to be concluding that you are NOT vulnerable to YouTube. Not base
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I have heard from people who have gone to conferences with Yarvin that he does talk about racism and his other regressive politics when not on stage, apparently in an attempt to flock together with others with similar beliefs. This should n
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I’m know I’m a dummy when it comes to economics, and an investor in index funds because of that. But it strikes me that index funds are parasitical in a way and depend on price signals from active investors. Some people say that it’s ok, th

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