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by news_hacker 8y ago
Does anyone have any recommendations for reading up on the Russian Revolution? Books, videos, or otherwise.
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by news_hacker 8y ago
What's wrong with being comfortable though? Why should one be dissatisfied with being satisfied? Is satisfaction ever OK? And if so, when? When can you know for sure that you've actualized your full potential? Is it even something
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by news_hacker 8y ago
Some clarifying info on how the poem is the most misread & misunderstood poem in America, for those interested (it's actually an ironic poem about self-deception to avoid regret rather then a "triumphant self-assertion"):
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by news_hacker 8y ago
I enjoy Palantir's Blueprint. https://blueprintjs.com/docs/
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by news_hacker 8y ago
Although the implications are pretty damn scary and I'm disappointed in Facebook, it helps to remember Hanlon's Razor: "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity." This could possibly be a
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by news_hacker 8y ago
Television and radio are broadcast mediums. Facebook is a different medium altogether and not an apt comparison IMO, since all individuals produce the content... it's a sort of "democratized broadcast content". Facebook can a
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by news_hacker 8y ago
Reneé Girard has some interesting things to say about scapegoating. > "Everywhere and always, when human beings either cannot or dare not take their anger out on the thing that has caused it, they unconsciously search for substitute
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by news_hacker 8y ago
In a sense, making a public Twitter post, blog post, and hash-tag movement is leveraging that donation, even more than it's monetary worth, to advance the NAACP's own incentives. So in that sense, they did indeed take advantage of
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by news_hacker 8y ago
I am not agreeing or disagreeing with you, but this is a low value comment in furthering healthy discussion. Consider tacking on some further qualifiers to support your claim. * In what actionable ways do you think they are missing the mark
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by news_hacker 8y ago
Same, ha. OP said what we were all thinking. That being said, I'm a big fan of the author's work, so no harm no foul and I'll look the other way.
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by news_hacker 8y ago
How much capital is driving that?
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by news_hacker 8y ago
A link to the actual paper with more detailed sample images: https://dl.acm.org/ft_gateway.cfm?id=3274359&ftid=2013951&dw... [PDF]
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by news_hacker 8y ago
From later on in the Twitter thread: > Without the founders around, Instagram is likely to become more tightly integrated with Facebook, making it more of a product division than a company within Facebook, sources say Given the "b
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by news_hacker 8y ago
I don't really understand the point of your message, it feels like forced cynicism around the cultural reception of the term. Perhaps you're saying that the phrase is akin to "big data" or "AI" in that it doesn