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Kakonomics, or the strange preference for Low-quality outcomes(edge.org)
2 points by opminion 13y ago|1 comments
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by opminion 13y ago
"Hate" is a proper subset of "negative reactions".
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by opminion 13y ago
Is CBA = cannot be bothered, or "arsed"? This is the first time I see an acronym used as a verb.
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by opminion 13y ago
Would the issue of personal safety not be a main difference between both domains? I would (wildly) guess that KiteForum contributors benefit from safer approaches to known and potential tricks, in a way that other innovators do not.
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by opminion 13y ago
Indeed, http://www.oxfam.org.uk/what-we-do/about-us/working-at-oxfam...
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by opminion 13y ago
Although it is fair to have an opinion about this based on personal experience, remember that performance when reading is a personal matter (anecdotal evidence: the crowd that highlights text for reading [1]; scientific evidence: dyslexia).
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by opminion 13y ago
Rather than "truly horrible", it's fairer to say that it's controversial in the UK. For example, on one hand there has been a long standing boycott at university Student Unions, on the other about everybody has a Nescafé
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by opminion 13y ago
No, you'll live another day :-) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4370206
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by opminion 13y ago
To fulfill the Amish model we'd have to get better at relinquishing as a group. Social relinquishing. Not merely a large number (as in a movement) but a giving up that relies on mutual support This is interesting. We have regulations
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by opminion 13y ago
Antirez is spot on describing the problems of English as a foreign language in Europe (although I don't think it has much to do with PG's remarks and I wouldn't draw any conclusions from it). My favourite example is the pronu
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by opminion 13y ago
Try to reason from first principles: karma is a property of a HN username. A username is attached to a human identity, even if not enforced. Karma is used to predict future quality of that human's posts based on previous posts, and for
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by opminion 13y ago
At risk of simplifying too much: they fulfill very different goals, acquiring public knowledge vs getting rich. You might be forgiven :-) for thinking that an academic research project can be identified with its publications and declared ou
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by opminion 13y ago
Nothing compared to being in a war zone. Many foreign women live on their own in Dubai, working for multinationals, by choice. One thing is to boycott it in principle, which either a man or a woman might want to do, and another is to rule i
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by opminion 13y ago
The reason might be not cluelessness, bad attitude, rigid thinking or bad marketing, but the hidden costs of your suggestions. Many migrants tend to spend an inordinate amount of time, during the first months, thinking about how they might
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by opminion 13y ago
Note that's the 5 million population region (Valencian Community), not the 0.8 million population city.
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by opminion 13y ago
i tried it once... There's something about "the future" that brings us closer to film-like situations in real life. Not only the obvious sci-fi ones. Maybe it is the speed at which things are done, don't know...
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by opminion 13y ago
Conversely, all other conditions being equal, employees in an at-will state have more incentives to mislead their management.
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by opminion 13y ago
More than a language, Morse is a script (or whatever is the generalisation of "script" to other transport layers than the written page), isn't it? The fact that you experienced learning Morse similar to learning a new langua
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by opminion 13y ago
I find this beautiful and pleasant to use, at least for a few nodes. At first it feels odd not to be in control of the exact location of some nodes, very much like when using Graphviz, but once you let go it becomes quite comfortable. I won
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by opminion 13y ago
In some European countries panic buttons for the elderly are provided by public health organisations. Perhaps Amulyte could target those organisations, aside from marketing to individuals.
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by opminion 13y ago
It cannot be on trains.
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by opminion 13y ago
It looks like an old world rule applied to the new world. In the old world it was expensive to publish, so it was accepted that publication takes place in non-free (as in free beer) media. In the new world publication is almost free, and pe
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by opminion 13y ago
Monopoly on what?
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by opminion 13y ago
Interesting invention. For me, the main thing to learn from this is how much some people depend on artificial light during daylight hours (a reminder of how important hands-on experience is when hacking things to help others).
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by opminion 13y ago
It is just a general concern, not derived from this particular announcement. As marshray says the company has commercial interests in making people pay for their tool chain, so it's only healthy to be a bit sceptical when they free a s
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by opminion 13y ago
No w.org, for Wikipedia?
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by opminion 13y ago
I hope that they keep the possibility of running it stand-alone and not force Visual Studio down their users's throats.
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What Is It Like When One of Your Parents Gets Alzheimer's?(slate.com)
1 points by opminion 13y ago|0 comments
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by opminion 13y ago
I was thinking the other day that I have seldom seen the purpose of mankind discussed in public (beyond religious belief). This list of ideas could be an interesting trigger of such discussion.
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by opminion 13y ago
Maybe there's an infinity of worlds, forked from ours, where the many worlds hypothesis is testable... :-)

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