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by rndmize 9y ago
> Aldi makes absolutely no effort to tempt through sensual delight. It’s a perfect example of spare, unfriendly German efficiency. All the goods are displayed on metal racks in their original cardboard shipping containers—no labor wasted
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How “The Nutcracker” danced all over world(economist.com)
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by rndmize 9y ago
Come now, Zuckerberg doesn't even need public office. He's more powerful where he is now than he could ever be in an elected position. Just based on the information in the article, he could offer technical embeds to campaigns he l
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by rndmize 9y ago
Normally I'm a fan of the "it is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it" idea, but not in this case. If Musk gave a shit about his livelihood, he would have banke
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by rndmize 9y ago
I don't think controversial ideas are the problem, or changing cultural standards of what is acceptable to do or discuss. I think at the core, discussion itself is less valued. To have an useful discussion with someone, there needs to
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The working homeless isn't just a tech bubble problem(axios.com)
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by rndmize 9y ago
Contrary to the article's stance that this would be used to create fake revenge porn or celebrity sex tapes that are taken as real, I'd expect this to devalue the real thing and give space for people to claim anything with their f
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by rndmize 9y ago
> Now Congress is considering another way to legislate how science is used. The Honest Act, a bill sponsored by Rep. Lamar Smith of Texas, is another example of what Levy calls a “Trojan horse” law that uses the language of transparency
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by rndmize 9y ago
I suspect this isn't only averseness to taxation. Loss aversion is a well known human behavior, and when you have to write out a huge check to the government at the end of the year instead of having it taken out of your paycheck automa
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by rndmize 9y ago
For the love of god, could you build the thing in Hayward? Fremont? Pleasanton? Anywhere that isn't the peninsula?
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Demolition Man(1843magazine.com)
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by rndmize 9y ago
I'd be interested to know more on this. Sources/links?
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by rndmize 9y ago
It's easy to point and smirk at the quality of someone else's codebase from a distance. But as a long time player of League, it's been very rare that a software bug has affected my enjoyment of the game. The quality of my int
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by rndmize 9y ago
What critical thought? The electorate, especially on the right, as spoon-fed narratives and outrage pieces by pundits, analysts, talk-show hosts and entire news organizations. Information that doesn't fit the theme is downplayed or ign
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by rndmize 9y ago
I'll be honest - I think that Amazon's recommendation engine is deliberately bad. There was an article a few years back on Target and their efforts to track/manipulate customers: http://www.nytimes.com/2012&#x
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by rndmize 9y ago
I would also throw in that board games have blown up in the last decade or so, especially with the advent of Kickstarter. There's a lot of crossover between between the communities (as the article illustrates) and, I think, a bit of a
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by rndmize 9y ago
Why would it matter whether his political party is on board? The GAO puts out a report regardless of whether it expects one party or the other to disagree with it.
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by rndmize 9y ago
> Now suppose you are tasked with drawing 5 districts for this region. Or, we could go with proportional representation, make it a single district, and now we can reasonably expect to get 2-3 blue reps and 2-3 red ones, handling both the
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by rndmize 9y ago
It feels like the author of this piece lists a variety of interesting observations, some useful facts, and then completely misses the boat. As a society we put effort into finding ways to help sick people that are not old because we can gen
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by rndmize 9y ago
Agreed. There's been some movement towards better voting systems, but proportional voting seems consistently to be bottom of the barrel of priorities. http://www.fairvote.org/ - Promotes IRV, and I think they were in f
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by rndmize 9y ago
I'm not sure how useful it is to look at the effects of robotics in Germany in isolation. Germany exports a fair bit more than they import, and I'd expect if there are people being unemployed as a result of German use of robotics,
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The large parts of America left behind by today's economy(axios.com)
53 points by rndmize 9y ago|89 comments
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Louisiana fights the sea, and loses(economist.com)
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by rndmize 9y ago
As another salty house-hunter looking around Hayward for the last couple months, you have my sympathies.
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by rndmize 9y ago
Agreed. I grew up in the Walnut Creek/Alamo/Danville corridor, and this article feels way off the mark. > Heading north from Fremont is basically sadness. Hayward, Oakland, San Leandro, Richmond, Vallejo. They’re all poverty st
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Revenge of the Lunch Lady(highline.huffingtonpost.com)
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by rndmize 9y ago
Rural areas went strongly for Trump and the Republicans, and now Republican appointees are making policy decisions that will have negative effects on those areas. The conclusion I draw from this is that those voters either don't care a
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by rndmize 9y ago
> But during the Obama administration, the FCC determined repeatedly that broadband isn't reaching Americans fast enough, pointing in particular to lagging deployment in rural areas. No skin off my back. I already have internet serv
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by rndmize 9y ago
I'm going to have to disagree. Here's my default article I turn to on the matter - http://www.npr.org/2012/01/01/144550920/physicists-seek-to-l... . The problem, up until the advent of MOOCs, w
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by rndmize 9y ago
Given how half the comments are complaining about the colors and there's a whole thread on whether 3MB is "small" or not... I doubt it.

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