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by riggins 13y ago
I understand that. And this isn't about me trashing the operator. But I also have a logical mind and I can't avoid the implication that if his JTAC was a bad apple, he'd do what the JTAC said.
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by riggins 13y ago
my belief isn't based on just the AMA. Its just another example of the dynamic. my observation is there's no shortage of willing participants for officially sanctioned, military actions where the participants believe there will be
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by riggins 13y ago
Considering Bryant is one of the only operators speaking out, his conscience seems to bother him more than the average. Here's a comparison (an IAMA thread from reddit). http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments&#
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by riggins 13y ago
I agree. the pros seem to far outweigh the cons.
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by riggins 13y ago
Amazon is an inventory turnover business. This is the fundamental point that's usually not understood. I'll explain by analogy. Assume 2 businesses with the following assumptions Store A: -sells jewelry -capital cost of store
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by riggins 13y ago
deliberate practice. that means continually practicing harder and harder problems. The very things you're not good at. I think it's easier to explain with an analogy. What does an Olympic figure skater do that regular skaters don&
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by riggins 13y ago
just reading a Howard Hughes bio. Howard Hughes was no Elon Musk. Musk is way more impressive. Hughes inherited a fantastic business from his father and made a lot of terrible business decisions.
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by riggins 13y ago
what I immediately thought is what a contrast. On one hand we have technologists at github who believe the government can and should be improved ... and are doing something about it. On the other hand we have pessimists who are so anti-gove
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by riggins 13y ago
I always find it a little sad to reflect on education because I think we can unleash a generation of geniuses. I don't think it even takes a radical teaching method. I think it takes a radical reordering of priorities. Instead of glori
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by riggins 13y ago
I don't think that was sarcasm. I think jacquesm is on your side.
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by riggins 13y ago
I though sugar was the new smoking? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2443316
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by riggins 13y ago
I don't know. I haven't seen these financials. this made me chuckle. nothing like have a strong opinion based on nada.
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by riggins 13y ago
this made me chuckle.
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by riggins 13y ago
Cool. Thanks so much.
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by riggins 13y ago
did you make your own cards? or are pre-made cards available?
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by riggins 13y ago
I'd like to learn Mandarin. Can you give details on how you're doing this? Like what you use for initially learning the material and what you use for SRS?
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by riggins 13y ago
my first thought was getting 6 months of his time for 20K seems like an incredible bargain.
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by riggins 13y ago
Ya I don't understand some of the comments in this thread. I didn't read this as a guy that was blindsided. I think there's some conscious choice at work here. He could see what his finances were going to be if gave his savin
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by riggins 13y ago
I gotta say I respect this guy a lot. For a lot of people their ego wouldn't be able to handle the step down in status. This guy took care of his family and now he's taking care of himself.
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by riggins 13y ago
Should Illinois Institute of Technology? it is certainly going to be interesting to watch. I'm a huge fan of MOOC's. However I'd like to see some facts on their impact on employability so far.
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by riggins 13y ago
law enforcement incentives are a different discussion.
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by riggins 13y ago
cool. so some countries already have % of income based fines.
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by riggins 13y ago
I don't know. that's why I said it'd be interesting to separate the behavior from the price sensitivity.
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by riggins 13y ago
I didn't like the intersection example. They say drivers of high end cars are more likely to 'break the law'. That's true but in this case I think it's just a civil issue. I phrase it differently. Since this is a ci
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by riggins 13y ago
In airplanes once you are behind the curve there is literally nothing you can do which will prevent you from eventually crashing. The same it true in companies. I'm going to say the physics of aerodynamics is not a good analogy for b
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by riggins 13y ago
I'm kind of torn. Played HS sports. And I agree 100% with what you're saying. The US glorifies athletics in an unbalanced way. To quote Bill James http://www.slate.com/articles/sports/sports_nut/2011
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by riggins 13y ago
yep. In light of this being satire, the HN news comments are 10x funnier than the article itself. Some unsolicited advice (you're lucky, you found out it was a crap company in 2 hours) and some PC outrage (why does it have to be an Asi
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by riggins 13y ago
this remains the most profoundly meaningless, if not outright stupid, thing that anyone in this industry can mutter. do you really not understand what this means? here's an awesome idea. A sensor and software that can read your brain
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by riggins 13y ago
thanks for the article
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by riggins 13y ago
This reminds me of how pretty much everyone believes they're a better than average driver. Everyone also thinks other drivers are terrible. Both claims cannot be true. I'd say its appropriate to call 'most/typical code&#

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