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by richmarr 11y ago
...and downvotes. Pathetic guys, really pathetic.
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by richmarr 11y ago
Down votes aren't incorrect because of the definition of 'recruited'. Down votes are incorrect because downvoting someone merely because you disagree is the embodiment of confirmation bias. That makes it the enemy of debate,
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by richmarr 11y ago
or... noun a person newly enlisted in the armed forces and not yet fully trained. • a new member of an organization or supporter of a cause.
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by richmarr 11y ago
So she has good qualifications but poor interview skills. If this is true then Google are hiring wrong. 'Interview skills' is pretty much a euphamism for allowing confidence bias to dominate your interview process.
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by richmarr 11y ago
I was surprised by this, like other sibling commenters. I was under the impression that common assault is only enacted when the victim is threateningly contacted or injured, or has reasonable fear of that being about to happen. Maybe threat
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by richmarr 11y ago
... dismissing the statement as a truism means that we can't talk about morality at all. I just think we need to be more careful with words, as you point out. Same goes for a given law. Yet with laws there is an oppor
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by richmarr 11y ago
I'm not sure Asbostos doesn't want to... Sure, I'll concede an assumption there. I am also not convinced that vigilantism is always wrong 'Wrong' is subjective so that statement is a truism. For a giv
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by richmarr 11y ago
See discussion a few hours back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9914024
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by richmarr 11y ago
@Asbostos is victim-blaming and defending viglilantism. Anyone who supports the rule of law should want to see the perpetrator of this on trial. Maybe the company who was breached should also be in court, but that's a different matte
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by richmarr 11y ago
Correctness is subjective, as are ethics. All we have is consensus, and the benefit of exposing ideas to debate. If you allow individuals to take the law into their own hands, without counsel maybe one time in 100 you'll get an Edward
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by richmarr 11y ago
While that's true, I think it's a little misrepresentative. Obviously it differs by state, but as a whole the US take on adultery is (broadly) religious, so aligns it more closely with other strongly religious countries like Pakis
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by richmarr 11y ago
Travel, absolutely, but it seems to me a bigger benefits are in import/export accountancy and greater (convenient) access to suppliers. An increase cross-border trade would make a flatter, more efficient, marketplace for the win. Don&#
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I suspect the dumbing down of news says more about the state of the news industry than it does about the capacity of the public to understand.
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by richmarr 11y ago
I think there are some pretty good ideas in here, although am wary of piling on features. The specific-use-case clients idea feels like it has legs. It does feel like Twitter burned a lot of external developers with their API changes &
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by richmarr 11y ago
For reference, another approach to 'flat' leadership is the Consensus approach used by the Quakers and Occupy movement, amongst others. Discussed recently here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9617665
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by richmarr 11y ago
Holacracy and other 'flat' structures, as far as I'm aware, don't claim to get rid of management (the verb). My understanding is that they aim to distribute decision-making to the front lines so either get rid of managem
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by richmarr 11y ago
I didn't think you were being snide, nor did I intent to be. Really don't understand the downvoting behaviour around here.
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Analysis of which cities best stimulate entrepreneurship(citie.org)
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by richmarr 11y ago
I was going to make a snarky remark comparing it to the recent second usage of 'isomorphic' but, to be honest, people will figure it out. I'm putting all this stuff on my list of things not to waste blood pressure on.
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by richmarr 11y ago
Exactly, you've got Hobson's choice here: Pay for the content again on a new platform, or don't have the content. I think implicit in Hobson's choice is that you can knock Hobson over the head and have your pick of any d
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by richmarr 11y ago
Seems likely Amazon (and Apple, etc) are the targets of this. If they remove that feature and it causes 5% fewer CD tracks being ripped to mp3, then a few more music execs will get to look smug while clicking their associates through a ghou
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by richmarr 11y ago
Maybe, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was used to beat on companies like Brennan (who are awesome BTW, I have a JB7).
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by richmarr 11y ago
My interpretation is that you agree with each other. I think @hyperion2010's point was that this interpretation of law can't be taken seriously, and by extension that if this part of law can't be taken seriously then law in g
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by richmarr 11y ago
It's hard to read your question without thinking about how String Theory has dominated Physics for that entire timeframe (and more)... and how ineffective that family of models have been at progressing humanity's understanding of
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by richmarr 11y ago
I said change, not reduce. Mods want 'more power to protect their users' because they want to protect their users, and having more personal power themselves is the first solution a mod would think of, but doesn't address the
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by richmarr 11y ago
There are degrees of communication though, and degrees of distance between languages. For example, Scandinavians can typically make themselves understood with speakers of other Scandinavian languages, but they're not the same language.
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by richmarr 11y ago
Oh dear
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I don't know, I think making anonymity more expensive is addressing the symptom rather than the disease. I'd be more interested in looking at ways to nudge the behaviours exhibited in those groups so that the degree of groupthink
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by richmarr 11y ago
The fundamental problem here is that the charitable sector is packed full of moral hazard, broken incentivisation, inefficiency, lack of transparency, and ignorance of customer needs. There are very few markets where I'm willing to go
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by richmarr 11y ago
Totally agree, it'd be really hard deciding where to draw a line if you start banning subreddits. Plenty would disagree with whatever choice you made. That said, banning isn't the only option on the table. Part of the problem is t

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