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by pjlegato 10y ago
> Because who is saying something colors the merit it brings Not at all; this is the "ad hominem" logical fallacy. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem ) The claims being made are objectively true or
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by pjlegato 10y ago
How is that fascinating? Libertarianism as an ideology is overtly based on the theory that everyone ought to have extreme and full personal freedom to do whatever they like, so long as it does not affect anyone else. They have long advocate
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The study seems to be making a sincere effort to be objective and evidence-based, with proper citations and such. In my opinion, it largely succeeds. The fact that it was partially funded by someone I may not like is irrelevant (the ad homi
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The original thesis I was responding to was the theory that, due to historical experiences, Europeans are somehow much more concerned with personal privacy (in general) than others, which is is empirically false. State versus corporate surv
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And yet Germany operates a massively well-funded federal security service that is conducting exactly that sort of mass surveillance today -- only now far more sophisticated than even Facebook, since they can surveil the entire Internet, in
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Unfortunately, in practice, Agile almost always devolves into a cargo cult: perform the ritual of the Standup at the appointed time, etc. and all will be well. Any actual personality management is papered over with appeals to authority. I t
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To the extent that naturopathic remedies actually work, that fact is easily demonstrable through the scientific method, and they become known as just "remedies" rather than "naturopathic remedies."
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The hacking is fine. Passing it off as a "traditional" cure through appelation to the cultural cachet associated with Exotic Others is not; it's naive at best and actively disingenuous at worst. Kindness should not function a
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^^ The difference between management and engineering.
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It's because nobody ever got fired for choosing Oracle. If anything goes wrong with the database, it's Oracle's fault. The boss finds that proposition attractive, because the alternative with in-house databases is that it&#x2
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I'd love to hear more about this. pjlegato at databaselabs dot io
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It's not about whether the technology will die per se; it's about whether they are contractually guaranteed that there will be a professional support team in place to support it for X years, and whether the vendor's ability
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Not so. Even in ancient Athens, with direct democracy, decisions were taken through majority-rules voting. Direct democracy itself has not been a feature of any major democratic instance since then. Nor has any modern democracy (at least on
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It's true. Source: I went to Helsinki and forgot my camera charger. That's what they told me in the shop when I expressed shock that they wanted over €100 for a simple charger.
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... whether they want to or not. Whether some would prefer to have Friday, or Wednesday off instead of Sunday is irrelevant. The state has decided that having time off on Sundays is the only acceptable way of organizing one's life, and
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by pjlegato 10y ago
This is a bit of a romantic way of viewing the situation. This non-consumerization of Scandinavia is not optional or voluntary at the individual level. It is imposed forcibly by the government on everyone, whether a particular individual ac
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by pjlegato 10y ago
So why have Japanese games been so extremely successful in the west? They suffer from all of the same supposed drawbacks, which were even more marked during their period of peak success in the 1980s and 1990s -- think Super Mario Brothers,
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by pjlegato 10y ago
The term "BS" should appear far more often in "serious" discourse. Far too much of what is currently being passed around as "serious" is, in fact, BS. And that wasn't sarcasm!
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California's Boom Is Poised to Go Bust(forbes.com)
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Cool. Can they also stop tech bubbles from churning? Sorry, couldn't resist.
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New grads only get more than 100k at a tiny group of elite companies. Almost all new grads lack the credentials to get into those places.
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This. Many SF tech startups overtly believe that actually planning your code before you write it is just, well, not very "agile" -- that's old school, that's waterfall , proven to be deficient, that's not how we
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by pjlegato 10y ago
But you just repeated my exact points. Those reasons are precisely what makes it a moral hazard to have this structure. Without the government guarantees, banks would think hard about whether a loan was repayable, and schools wouldn't
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by pjlegato 10y ago
It's a moral hazard for the banks and schools, not for the students. It induces banks to knowingly make loans that are unlikely to be repayable. It induces schools to tell students to take loans to attend programs that are very unlikel
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by pjlegato 10y ago
Sounds good! I look forward to it.
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by pjlegato 10y ago
This is somewhat interesting, but relies on the all too common tautological device of "hustle," a quasi-magical activity whose details are usually elided over. Start a small company. "Hustle" diligently for a while. Prof
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by pjlegato 10y ago
Looks promising. How about a gameplay video, more screenshots, and a short description of how the gameplay works on the homepage (without digging)? You have to give us something more to go on...
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Yes, it is. Zen as such is a religion and philosophy from Japan; it is intrinsically Japanese, by definition, just as Judaism is by definition intrinsically of the Hebrew ethnicity. I am aware of the use the term has taken on in popular cul
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Can we please stop prefixing "Zen-" onto things as a sort of trendy, cool "hey, it's well designed and simple" signifier? It's borderline racist. Would you call a project management tool "Jewhub" or &
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by pjlegato 10y ago
Of course, not all poor people were confined to the city. As you say, some came from a village where they still had relatives... who were not going to be very happy when a walking disease vector showed up from London and recent exposure t

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