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by perfmode 7y ago
it’s helpful to articulate the status quo as a first step toward authorizing an alternative. i agrée it doesn’t have to be that way. and i agree it’s not a natural law. what we need is for people among is to articulate alternatives. and for
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by perfmode 7y ago
pareto means optimizing one dimension without sacrificing the other. the frontier is the points in space where neither can be further optimized without impacting the other.
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by perfmode 7y ago
you don’t necessarily need meat, dairy, other animal products, bread, rice, and other cereals.
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by perfmode 7y ago
an apparatus of justification when i played counter strike we called it spray and pray i should call it the portfolio theory of ballistic delivery
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by perfmode 7y ago
is it reasonable readers might notice “preening narcissists”?
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by perfmode 7y ago
what is it about collective action that triggers contempt so quickly and automatically for those attempting to organize? many comments in this thread show contempt for the organizers in a way that is readily visible.
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by perfmode 7y ago
why the contempt? i suspect you might brush it off as humor, but your statements belie a contempt for the group. why, in this context?
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by perfmode 7y ago
your statements are somewhat reductive. collective action is possible outside of employment.
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by perfmode 7y ago
i’m so disappointed that i, early in my career, fell for the palantir koolaid.
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by perfmode 7y ago
you may have missed this thought-provoking passage on the intractability of avoiding the political: > Down the page, another user expressed disdain for the experiment. “The idea that we can carve out a space that exists outside of politi
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by perfmode 7y ago
what’s your fasting schedule, roughly?
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by perfmode 7y ago
> Baumol and Bowen pointed out that the same number of musicians is needed to play a Beethoven string quartet today as was needed in the 19th century; the productivity of classical music performance has not increased. it’s kind of odd to
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by perfmode 7y ago
how many generations will roaches have passed through within the space of one year? tens? hundreds? thousands?
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by perfmode 7y ago
you’re only further making the OPs point. NIMBY is at odds with freedom.
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by perfmode 7y ago
this feels like a superfluous nit
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by perfmode 7y ago
imho, this strengthens the OP’s use of the quote. successful Tech founders are especially guilty of producing what they strive in vain to relieve.
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by perfmode 7y ago
how? wouldn’t they just see TCP packets?
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by perfmode 7y ago
bees are a central part of ecosystem.
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by perfmode 7y ago
the random function in itunes employs heuristics like this. specifically, it avoids multiple songs by same artist in a row.
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by perfmode 7y ago
what toolkit do you use?
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by perfmode 7y ago
you are asking.
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by perfmode 7y ago
we’re not in a free market, though.
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by perfmode 7y ago
easily but perhaps not convincingly
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by perfmode 7y ago
take antibiotics!
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by perfmode 7y ago
in which state do you have the most experience with the justice system?
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by perfmode 7y ago
the picture you paint seems to not actually reflect the reality of the american justice system.
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by perfmode 7y ago
Build Facebook on it, I suppose.
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by perfmode 7y ago
If Las Vegas is the platonic fruit of civilization, then yeah!
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by perfmode 7y ago
sites don’t need to collect data. it’s a choice which comes with a cost
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by perfmode 7y ago
Judging from the quality of discourse in this thread, Hackernews are evidently some of the least enlightened people I encounter in a peer-group setting.

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