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by richmarr 7y ago
> She was breastfed, so feeding her at night was a minimum hassle at night... Appreciate you may not have meant to imply this, but breastfeeding does not mean minimum hassle at night. We lived on about 3-5 hours a night for about 18 mo
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by richmarr 7y ago
> With a bit of mining, you could probably identify other likely BS papers by looking at what they cite. Has that been done before? Yep. http://www.citnetexplorer.nl/
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by richmarr 7y ago
Anyone who's in a position to use Tweetdeck instead of Twitter's web UI will find a free, Twitter-maintained, product with no annoying algorithms and no advertising. It's the version of Twitter targeted at newsrooms, etc. I a
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by richmarr 8y ago
> I'm currently going cold turkey on certain social media... Don't you consider HN to be social media?
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by richmarr 8y ago
> ... it doesn't address the large problem with modern reporting, which is inaccuracies or misstatements on technical topics. If I was going to pick a journalism problem to solve, the accuracy of technical details would not be i
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by richmarr 8y ago
I think the petition will need more than 17m (genuine) signatures before it'll have the effect it's aiming for. Not saying the signatures so far aren't genuine, just that to have the desired effect it'll need to be reaso
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by richmarr 8y ago
In the UK's case, I think the future is a massive house price crash triggered by the depression following Brexit.
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by richmarr 8y ago
> So don’t buy from Sunrun. It’s that simple. That’s how capitalism works. That's how laissez-faire capitalism works, within bounds. Capitalism just means private ownership and trade; it doesn't dictate, or even imply, anyt
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by richmarr 8y ago
I see where you're going with this, but to be useful you need to split cognitive load (and the complexity it processes) into two groups. There's complexity inherent to the problem and complexity that's incidental to the p
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by richmarr 8y ago
My understanding of this is different. Streaming services are at the mercy of the prices determined by those who own the content. If they make lots of money, up go the licence fees. The decision to create their own content seems like an ine
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by richmarr 8y ago
One of the reasons to establish off-world colonies is to allow persistence of the species in the event of a catastrophy making the Earth unlivable. Given the history of extinction events found in archaeology this isn't an entirely unre
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by richmarr 8y ago
> software will be able to notice when you’re feeling down This feels dystopian to me too, not least because in order for software to diagnose this problem you'll need to spend sufficient time generating relevant usage data... usa
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by richmarr 8y ago
> How does one prioritize from among the jillion things that might be tested? Importance. Polluting the oceans is a fairly important problem, and we have the capacity as a species to attempt to address more than one issue at a time. &g
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by richmarr 8y ago
If you look at this post by cultus you'll see how to share the exact opinion you describe, without violating the HN posting guidelines like glibgil's comment did: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18730865
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by richmarr 8y ago
Apparently it'd cost $4.7tn [1] to deploy enoug low-carbon tech worldwide to keep us within 2 degrees, and the top 1% collectively have $127tn [2], $26.5tn of which is hidden in offshore tax havens [3]. Presumably that $4.7tn estimate
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by richmarr 8y ago
Even functional requirements... "roll out" is likely to include the cost of setting up staffing, training, compliance, risk and liability assessments, data storage, security, hardware... the list goes on, and on, and on.
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by richmarr 8y ago
What's your reasoning? How to you claim to know the motives of the people that planned that product?
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by richmarr 8y ago
> I'm not sure if that self-interest thing was misinterpreted. What I meant is that when people are alienated by corporate politics enough to not buy their things - then it's no longer in the economic self interest of the comp
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by richmarr 8y ago
This article is disengenuous. The lead example given is Ben & Jerry's anti-Trump ice cream, which is being painted as "virtue signalling" because Unilever apparently sells skin-bleaching creams in India. Let's just d
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by richmarr 8y ago
> self-interest alone At risk of blasting straight through Godwin's Law, this is the logic of 1930s IBM... and it should be resoundingly rejected.
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by richmarr 8y ago
> I think it is important to distinguish between "freedom to act as you see fit" and "discrimation" per see By all means try to distinguish between them. You haven't yet done so.
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by richmarr 8y ago
Does it matter that the content is encrypted? Surely the main issue in a non-neutral world is the throttling of traffic from specific sources based on commercial priorities. The sources can be identified by IP regardless of whether the cont
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by richmarr 8y ago
"Schools of thought" seems generous. Most of the opinion on the subject (aside from reasonable criticism of cack-handed implementation) is shallow and visceral. That said, most of the evidence that at least has the dressing of emp
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by richmarr 8y ago
ONSITE in London: Applied is a company on a mission - we're passionate about hiring the best person for the job regardless of race, gender or whether you come from the wrong part of town, whether you're not what they're used
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by richmarr 8y ago
Well, apparently not everyone agrees with you. Since you haven't laid out an argument there's not really much ground to see where you and this ruling disagree.
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by richmarr 8y ago
US content is much deeper than UK, most likely due to (a) operating for longer in that market and (b) better economics for going hunting for licencing rights for not-even-that-long long-tail content. In case anyone hasn't seen it, here
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by richmarr 8y ago
There are two distinct things here. One of them is a meme, the other one is a job ad. You're talking about the meme, the Swedish ad watchdog is talking about the job ad.
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by richmarr 8y ago
The intent of my question was an answer that doesn't require reading 40 pages of mathematics proof (and before that learning how to read 40 pages of mathematics proof).
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by richmarr 8y ago
Are you a lawyer?
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by richmarr 8y ago
Why three? Anyone have a theory (or the answer)?

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