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New Insights into Self-Insight: More May Not Be Better(scientificamerican.com)
1 points by patagonia 7y ago|0 comments
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by patagonia 7y ago
This answers my comment how? Please see below comment regarding vertical integration. I would never argue that “Elon related company X” will succeed because Elon. Honestly a lot of vitriol in these comments. I’m out.
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by patagonia 7y ago
“Dumb”. Is that a financial term? Or a legal term? Perhaps we are able to benefit from hindsight? I’m just saying that, calling vertical integration by a company that doesn’t have widespread industry support and is moving very fast and nee
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by patagonia 7y ago
A company that was founded based on his suggestion, with his financial and leadership support. He was there from day zero. Solar City is not just a solar cell company. It is a power generation and distribution company. Which clearly ties in
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by patagonia 7y ago
Damned if Elon does. Damned if he don’t. “An electric vehicle is worthless without electric charging stations.” So Tesla makes a risky move to save one such company that happens to provide an answer to that criticism. People pile on. Predic
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by patagonia 7y ago
To those complaining about the commute. You’re complaining about city and transportation architecture, not workplace design. We are social creatures. I don’t understand the complete lack of addressing the issue: 8 hours a day I’m cut off fr
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by patagonia 7y ago
Comments accompanying downvotes always appreciated.
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by patagonia 7y ago
Just a thought. The entire user data / data broker business is just businesses “scraping” my digital presence. No one is respecting my terms and conditions. They’re making trillions off that.
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by patagonia 7y ago
You don't address CAP or Active Management Areas. You can't talk about Arizona water without talking about CAP and AMAs. There is a real issue of water usage outside of the AMAs. There has been since I left AZ in 2007. But yes, it
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by patagonia 7y ago
I find it weird we worry about a “Malthusian” catastrophe still. The theory being proposed in 1798. What is the Information Age version? That deals with, “when do we kill the earth by our attempts to get everyone a cellphone?”
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by patagonia 7y ago
If you're curious you could have googled something like "rate of growth of amazon deforestation". If you would, you'd have seen in the summary of the 1st result from Wikipedia: "The annual rate of deforestation in t
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by patagonia 7y ago
If you’re gonna use math to show how unimpressed you are, I’d be more impressed if you factored in the increased rate of clearing over time.
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by patagonia 7y ago
I think what most comments critical of this article are missing is the “History” portion of the title. Sure. At the moment it isn’t ridiculous to create headphones that must be broken and thus trashed to replace the battery. But, when clima
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by patagonia 7y ago
Or how about the video of the orangutan fighting the bulldozer destroying its home? I used to think people just didn’t realize that animals have internal emotional, social, intellectual lives. But I’m now convinced we know and choose to lo
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by patagonia 7y ago
> introduced species like stoats, rats, possums, etc. that kill our endangered wildlife Yep. Like. Humans?
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by patagonia 7y ago
For a moment I was so excited. I thought my favorite road trip oddity made it to HN. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_(roadside_attraction...
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by patagonia 7y ago
JCrew credit card requires a post card mailed to opt out of arbitration
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Russian Sailors Appeared to Be Sunbathing During Destroyers’ Near Miss(businessinsider.com)
3 points by patagonia 7y ago|1 comments
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by patagonia 7y ago
Exactly. I would welcome changes that would bring software engineering to a state where it was a protected term. If someone used that term I could have a high degree of certainty that they would abide by certain standards both professional
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by patagonia 7y ago
From Wikipedia: Engineers, as practitioners of engineering, are people who invent, design, analyse, build, and test machines, systems, structures and materials to fulfill objectives and requirements while considering the limitations imposed
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by patagonia 7y ago
I never, ever, said “All code must be beautiful. I never even implied it. Unless there is some general agreement that I am unaware of among architects and builders that building codes exist to make building plans “beautiful”. And about that
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by patagonia 7y ago
This bothers me. As code continues to eat the world, this is akin to saying “building codes don’t matter”. That is dangerous. And it isn’t professional.
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by patagonia 7y ago
For a job that I may get shot and die on any given day, no. I do not.
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by patagonia 7y ago
Well. Then it would be over time? So they are paid more for the time worked during a protest, but that doesn’t make them “well paid” overall. I guess, I’m not seeing any more data in your comment. But. Even if I grant that they make 80k or
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by patagonia 7y ago
A quick google, the top three results said average was 50k-60k. One result said the top 10% make low 6 figures. I doubt the majority of officers in those lines are top 10%, almost by simple math.
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by patagonia 7y ago
You ever been to a legit protest? Have you been near the police line at a protest when there are thousands of protesters and hundreds of police officers and tensions are high and really not nice stuff is being said all around? And the polic
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by patagonia 7y ago
I cannot speak to “these videos” as I do not know their exact content for each video. I’m against removing content because it is “extreme” or objectionable or even abhorrent. I am pro free speech and willing to pay the cost of allowing spee
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by patagonia 7y ago
Touché. Guilty. I didn’t read. Thank you for pointing out. Pessimistic me says that not much will change because as the other person’s comment says, algos are there to maximize the viewing time of people, and that have their views challenge
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by patagonia 7y ago
I assume based on my own use of it and pretty much all the memes and anecdotes from everyone. I make no assumptions about what people are exposed to outside of YouTube. It’s not the platforms job to challenge one’s views, rather one’s views
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by patagonia 7y ago
Will YouTube also remove their algos that send people down rabbit holes of “extreme views” and encapsulate individuals in information bubbles that seem to validate and fail to challenge their views? The platform should shoulder as much or m

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