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by rfrank 9y ago
> That is, I don't think it's very common for someone to say "I want to sell a lot of drugs because I can't afford to kill enough people otherwise," This depends very much on who you're talking about. http:
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by rfrank 9y ago
And 'small time' drug dealers get their supply from the bigger fish. The value in prosecuting them isn't in stopping end users or sales that max out at like $200, it's in working towards shutting down large international
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by rfrank 9y ago
My take on the matter too, particularly the hiring freeze thing. Yeesh.
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by rfrank 9y ago
This seems strange, given that another article from TechCrunch today states that the layoffs bought them very minimal runway. https://techcrunch.com/2017/07/12/soundshroud/ > Instead, sources at Sound
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by rfrank 9y ago
The broader conversation about the desirability of separating ourselves from our humanity is what made me think of the novel, because it's ultimately about the importance of choice (especially the UK version with the final chapter incl
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by rfrank 9y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Clockwork_Orange_(novel)
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by rfrank 9y ago
A friend of mine kinda does this, a lot of the content on his site is comparable to what you're describing. http://www.verticalsolutions.com/papers.html
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by rfrank 9y ago
Ah nice, I need to do the same with House of Leaves, I'm a big fan of stories with unconventional structuring. Sometimes a Great Notion by Kesey is my favorite; it's told from multiple first-person perspectives that shift pretty r
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by rfrank 9y ago
I wonder how Pale Fire by Nabokov would look after this sort of analysis. For the unfamiliar, per wikipedia, "Starting with the table of contents, Pale Fire looks like the publication of a 999-line poem in four cantos ("Pale Fire&
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by rfrank 9y ago
It's pretty variable, but this is still the case for some releases. The opposite is also true as well, particularly with electronic music releases from small labels, with a low quality masters becoming the source material for the press
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by rfrank 9y ago
Virtual reality. Telerobotics. Initiatives for improved rural internet access. All of these problems are addressable without forcing people to move.
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by rfrank 9y ago
> What's stopping them from pursuing online education or skills training in their current location?
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by rfrank 9y ago
What's stopping them from pursuing online education or skills training in their current location? That's what I did when I supported myself at a minimum wage canvassing job that really sucked. Why are they only worth helping if th
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by rfrank 9y ago
How many people in Appalachia can afford a down payment on any house? From a quick search of the addresses you linked, all are in places with high rates of property & violent crime. None of them seem like better options than being poor
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by rfrank 9y ago
No, it's not beside the point, and it's actually a huge portion of the point. Those same constraints exist in the majority of major cities in America. For people on the low end of the earning spectrum, the lack of tangible benefit
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by rfrank 9y ago
> The main difference is that there are at least jobs in cities. There just aren't any houses, so their quality of life takes a greater hit than staying put in the form of huge commutes and dramatically increased cost of living. See
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by rfrank 9y ago
> They are the enforcement arm of the ruling class seeking to take away whatever privacy we have left. Does that make tech employment in general the research arm of the ruling class trying to take away whatever privacy we have left?
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by rfrank 9y ago
The examples in the article are trite, but the culture clash is a very real thing. I would point to things like the acceptance of alcohol in the workplace, expectations around work/home balance, the comparatively uniform social/po
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by rfrank 9y ago
Hah, you're definitely right (I work at an EMS provider). In the context of the piece it seems to me like they're more focused on SF type startups than places like where you or I work. I agree very much with: > ...culture clash
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by rfrank 9y ago
I think people from most industries that are at the worst risk from automation are willing to help companies who make said automation products, as long as said company doesn't exist solely to put them out of a job and actually listens
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by rfrank 9y ago
> This is a company that employs truck drivers, is how the talk begins. The coders are sometimes taken aback—this differs from the usual change-the-world spiel deployed in hiring meetings. Truckers have very different ideas and different
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by rfrank 9y ago
https://medium.com/@taliajane/an-open-letter-to-my-ceo-fb73d... edit: hn thread from the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11138086
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by rfrank 9y ago
What percentage of companies in SV pay their customer support staff a 'livable wage' for the bay area? If I recall correctly, this community wasn't kind to the Yelp letter girl.
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by rfrank 9y ago
I think it's more of an audience targeting thing, I'd guess there's not many people who are into competitive games and unaware of twitch. For me personally, I watched twitch pretty regularly when Starcraft 2 was popular, to l
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by rfrank 9y ago
Agreed on all counts, my lungs definitely feel significantly better.
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by rfrank 9y ago
Hah, feels like it's been that way for a while now. Definitely strange to me, and I'm going on two years of only my vape after being about a pack a day. Imagine people treated patches or nincorette like they do e-cigs.
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by rfrank 9y ago
None of that influences the way Google's spiders see their site, bad results are bad results. WSJ could leave their content freely available and sell banner ads, vs. locking themselves into the subscription model they're familiar
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by rfrank 9y ago
That's WSJ's job to figure out, not search providers. From google's perspective, a search which leads users to a page that doesn't load, which the user immediately abandons, is a bad result. WSJ isn't entitle to tra
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by rfrank 9y ago
Comparing injury rates between sports without acknowledging the fundamental differences in the games and how physical they are is an incorrect way to view the problem. Attempting to force teams to bench their best players for injury prevent
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by rfrank 9y ago
More games = more potential for injury. People need time to rest and recover after those games, Monday & Thursday night games are already extremely demanding on their bodies.

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