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by pnathan 9y ago
I buy paper for books that I think are likely to be worth reading years down the road, long after Amazon has collapsed.
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by pnathan 9y ago
> I feel like there might a tremendous amount of tension in the economy that isn't as visible as one might hope. Seattle, by any number of metrics, is one of the Boomtowns in America today. But when you walk down almost all the maj
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by pnathan 9y ago
> You're clearly entirely unaware of the context of any of the diversity conversations that have gone on in tech in the last 5-10 tptacek is, uh, not someone those words apply to. He's been involved in these discussions for the
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by pnathan 9y ago
> Finally, an obvious point: evaluation of the performance of an individual software developer is one of the great unsolved problems of software engineering. I don't think it's obvious at all. That an experienced engineer or ma
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by pnathan 9y ago
My point was that I have a big sympathy for people who do see it as a moral issue, because of the very real consequences. I do understand what you're saying. I think I disagree with some what you're saying, but I think I significa
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by pnathan 9y ago
> Every dirty rhetorical trick to twist their words is fair game, and attempts from decent people to even point out that the other side is being misrepresented is giving aid and comfort to the enemy. I avoid a lot of liberal "popula
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by pnathan 9y ago
I think you're right. There are a lot of cranks out there. But history suggests a lot of lone voices who got ruthlessly suppressed while actually being right. The important bit - to me, at least - is we don't run a witch hunt ag
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by pnathan 9y ago
How would we know? In all likelihood, we'd be in the majority then too... Are we actually right ? is a good question. Are we letting people ask the provocative questions to move forward is the bigger question that must be asked. Wh
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by pnathan 9y ago
What happens when the lone voice is in the right, and the mass of people are in the wrong, and all of the preponderance of current science and wisdom is against the lone voice? It's no great stretch to find examples through history of
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by pnathan 9y ago
natecull@mastodon.social is someone I engage with a lot. I follow liberally, engage strangers liberally. It's not twitter, there isn't a "GET OUT OF MY TIMELINE" thing going on where it's not welcome to talk to peop
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by pnathan 9y ago
Scheme is better. It's more powerful and far smaller.
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by pnathan 9y ago
This is pretty much my favorite new online place for the past 5 or so months. A lot of great conversations.
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by pnathan 9y ago
Too many crooks. Too much hype. Too much ignorance of how the real world works. I'd be interested in working with large and boring financial institutions on those sorts of projects, because they don't offer the failure modes as ab
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by pnathan 9y ago
Quite so. The cranks are coming out in force, unfortunately. Historically they have been generally rejected in the US, but with the increasing populist tendencies of the last decade, their reach has grown and gullible people are suckered i
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by pnathan 9y ago
It's what came to mind as "sports that are likely to have injuries". Although I did plenty of skiing growing up a blue collar worker's kid. :-) I do hear you though, adult ski tickets are beaucoup bucks, it's why
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by pnathan 9y ago
Thanks for the detailed answer. This seems super sketch. :-(
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by pnathan 9y ago
Hard for me to say, as I live in Seattle, but American football love is definitely non-partisan here. But certain sports carry too high a risk for me to support my child getting into them before 16ish. They must have a glimmering of a per
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by pnathan 9y ago
I would suggest that the narrative I choose is "educated people not committed to right wing ideology". :-)
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by pnathan 9y ago
> Trucking is badly broken, especially in the US. why do you say that?
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by pnathan 9y ago
do you want to make money or do you want to hack? you need to answer that for yourself.
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by pnathan 9y ago
I pay for New Yorker and NY Times. WaPost is pretty ok. I also read BBC and Deutche Welle, as well as scrabbling through bits of Le Monde and the francosphere. generally if it's free, you're getting what you paid for.
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by pnathan 9y ago
No. You don't know enough to be expert at everything, and if you were to become expert at sourcing information etc, you'd become a journalist, the very elite you decry. (it's ok to have experts, honest!)
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by pnathan 9y ago
I rather liked their mayo (I grabbed it at semi-random off the shelf once). Was saddened to hear allegations that they were doing weird buyback stuff in grocery stores. But this isn't a red flag to me, it's the refs walking off th
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by pnathan 9y ago
> The hard part about this industry is that there is no single incumbent to disrupt, but thousand of very small businesses who have personal relationships with their clients. Also whereever you jump into the process, you have to deal wit
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by pnathan 9y ago
Common Lisp is great. :)
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by pnathan 9y ago
Oh hai Hacker News! vindarel on Github has been doing an enormous amount of contributions in the past two weeks, and the modern look and feel (and some of the more modern content bits) are entirely due to their hard work. eudoxia0 spent
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by pnathan 9y ago
I'd be interested in links to your blog. I have been persuaded for a number of years now that the 35-year World War broke Western civilization thoroughly and deeply, with an interregnum to ensure a whole generation and its children got
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by pnathan 9y ago
Sure, but Portland is like legendary for that kind of thing.
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by pnathan 9y ago
> fill the empty shoes of a missing full-time wife and mom because there are more two career couples and both spouses now "need a wife" and it can't be found. This can be true when one person is the breadwinner and the oth
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by pnathan 9y ago
The bulk of the Old Testament was transmitted orally prior to being written down. It was a time of oral literature. https://www.amazon.com/Lost-World-Scripture-Literary-Authori... If one is up for reading a book written by

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