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by realbarack 7y ago
This is an interesting question, but the situation that's being studied here is not the one that you describe. The "Moving to Opportunity" study upon which this new research is based is primarily not concerned with children w
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by realbarack 7y ago
"[The poor] are not allowed to decide with whom they associate." That's exactly what this study ISN'T saying. The entire point of this research is to determine if the reason very poor people stay in very poor neighborhoo
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by realbarack 7y ago
You may be totally unwilling to work at a startup (a very reasonable position), but I haven't seen company phones become a thing until the company becomes fairly well-established.
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by realbarack 7y ago
If by "sufficiently complex things" Stent means "things like consciousness," I found Max Tegmark's hypothesis in "Life 3.0" compelling: that just as information can arise from an arrangement of matter (dat
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by realbarack 7y ago
I totally agree. I do drink but would prefer to do it less and frequently end up using it as a bit of a social crutch. Coffee shops are fine during the day but I really wish there were more booze-free places to hang out at night.
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by realbarack 7y ago
I saw an article recently[0] based on a Stanford study[1] that found 40% (!) of relationships that began in 2017 originated online. [0] https://qz.com/1546677/around-40-of-us-couples-now-first-mee... [1] https:/&
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by realbarack 7y ago
Yeah. It sucks that there's not a great solution here (at least not one that I know of; I haven't looked to closely at the various buffet-style options). Currently I pay for three subscriptions: one local (Long Beach Press-Telegra
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by realbarack 7y ago
Are there specific instances you have in mind? I actually think they do pretty good job on the whole.
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by realbarack 7y ago
I pay to read the news because I prefer to get information from high-quality organizations that I trust to hire skilled, relatively objective journalists who will work hard to accurately report a story. So much of unpaid journalism is blogg
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by realbarack 7y ago
I'm working on developing a programming course for teenage students from a range of socioeconomic backgrounds, some of whom will not have access to their own laptops. I was thinking the Pi could be a great option here (of course it req
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Seattle Faces Backlash After Easing on Crimes Involving Mental Illness(npr.org)
249 points by realbarack 7y ago|430 comments
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Present value of discounted future earnings: an example(blog.zachwf.com)
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by realbarack 7y ago
I currently work remotely and enjoy it for a lot of the reasons you say. However I've had a pretty tough time with loneliness. I moved to a new city (relationship reasons) which is always challenging, but I think remote work has made t
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by realbarack 7y ago
Passion is a tricky thing because even great jobs require some combination of cool, interesting things and wading through shit. A job that you're passionate about doesn't mean one that's shit-free--it just means that you get
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by realbarack 7y ago
This is the news site for Y Combinator, a startup accelerator. Anyone interested in startups should also be interested in how to build a culture that's conducive to happy, productive employees, because startups that do that will probab
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by realbarack 7y ago
Beverly Hills has a population of 35,000. It's a neighborhood. Silicon Valley has a population of a few million (depending on how you define it). A luxury city is more absurd than a luxury neighborhood because a city requires people wh
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A parable for the relationship between social networks and their users(blog.zachwf.com)
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by realbarack 8y ago
This is the value prop of tools like Airtable, right?
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by realbarack 8y ago
Wow, over half? Is this a finance company?
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by realbarack 8y ago
Who in particular is trying to set up a great firewall-type situation in the US? That doesn't seem like a legitimate risk to me.
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by realbarack 8y ago
What? No, words mean different things in different contexts. For example, to most people a "graph" means a thing with an x and y axis, but to computer scientists it means a thing with nodes and edges. So yeah, in certain contexts
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A humble alternative to technical interviews(blog.zachwf.com)
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(2/7/04) Miss a Catch? Life Goes On, Ordinarily(nytimes.com)
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by realbarack 8y ago
Are you the one who gets to decide which ageist (, sexist, racist, etc.) employment practices are legal because they benefit a party you see as more deserving?
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by realbarack 8y ago
People are talking about total compensation, not just cash.
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by realbarack 8y ago
That's true to a point. Still doesn't explain Palo Alto, Mountain View, Cupertino etc.
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by realbarack 8y ago
Sounds like you should leave New York maybe.
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by realbarack 8y ago
I had a product idea (maybe it is even a business idea) a while back to do shell autocompletion based on an autocompletion engine which was trained across multiple users. Kind of like a cloud-connected fzf. The problem this solves is that t
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by realbarack 8y ago
A couple things: 1. Age distribution is not uniform: the histogram of people's ages really is multimodal ( https://www.census.gov/newsroom/blogs/random-samplings/2016/... ) so talking about generation
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by realbarack 8y ago
It is absolutely not unethical to remain somewhere once you've decided to leave. The agreement between you and your employer is that you provide your work in exchange for their money. If you're employed at-will then the company is

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