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by rndmize 10y ago
It would be nice if you would cite your sources. ( http://dailycaller.com/2016/06/17/fact-checking-snopes-websi... ) Your quotes look like little more than personal attacks, and a glance through Lacapria's
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by rndmize 10y ago
"The Hard SF Renaissance" is one of my favorites and usually sits on my coffee table when I don't have it loaned out to friends.
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The Hard SF Renaissance So many of the stories in this collection impacted me heavily or changed my thinking. Some of the ones I felt stood out: "Understand" - Ted Chiang "Reasons to be Cheerful" - Greg Egan "Bicycl
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by rndmize 10y ago
Arguably, some of this is already happening. IMO there was a much better article a few months ago - https://morecrows.wordpress.com/2016/05/10/unnecessariat/
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by rndmize 10y ago
In the case of this particular article, it looks like most of the denial posts are a single account (sameoldsameold, 2 hours old currently). Since all the posts by that account are now marked flagged/dead, and the account climatedenier
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by rndmize 10y ago
While unfortunately I don't have time to finish reading it at the moment, this is a very interesting post, even for someone with no interest in brexit. It feels more like a discussion of effectiveness/efficiency, organizational st
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by rndmize 10y ago
> That runs entirely counter to human nature. Not so. Tribal societies inherently function on everyone in the tribe working for the overall good rather than their individual gain. Socially, this is how we function by default - people wil
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by rndmize 10y ago
Eh, I had a look earlier today and noticed they had a story on climate change. http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/11/18/global-wa... > Yet as the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has
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Not even remotely close to true. Obama put in a ton of effort into crossing party lines, and was rejected, delayed, lied about - I remember how the discussion of the ACA was going on for months and month and MONTHS of stonewalling, how he w
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For God's sake man, don't leave a huge, fast gif infinitely looping where I can see it while trying to read your blog post. Make it activate after I scroll down to a certain point, or on hover, or anything that doesn't make
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by rndmize 10y ago
From the actual report - "18F Branding – Staff spent 727 hours (valued at an estimated $140,104) developing the 18F brand. An example of one of their branding projects is the 18F logo change, seen below in Figure 8." Pretty poor j
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by rndmize 10y ago
"What if it was me?" is exactly what I'm considering. Life doesn't have infinite value in and of itself. Consider - if you were in a coma or vegetative state, is that a life worth living, even if we have the technology t
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by rndmize 10y ago
I don't find the fact that some people are found innocent to be a convincing reason to be against the death penalty. The replacement, which is life in prison, strikes me as even less appealing. How is sending someone to jail and leavin
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Alternative reality in Reno(economist.com)
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Not so (imo). The neutralpolitics subreddit has grown continually for some years now, especially in the last 12 months, and I'd say that the moderators are doing a solid job of maintaining appropriate discussion and keeping things wher
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Silicon Valley’s geeks are trying to turn themselves into jocks(economist.com)
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I thought this was going to be something interesting until I hit the "Environmental Consequences" part. I mean, really? We have environmental problems as a result on agriculture and manufacturing and transportation and constructio
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by rndmize 10y ago
ENFOS | San Mateo CA | ONSITE | Full Time Looking for backend and frontend engineers. We make a SaaS enterprise app for mananging environmental liabilities. This is an opportunity to do real, actual good for the environment with your coding
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by rndmize 10y ago
Funny you should mention breadth first search - there was a post about hiring just a few days ago where the author was complaining about its used as an interview question: https://medium.com/@evnowandforever/f-you-i-qui
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by rndmize 10y ago
Here's some of the better advice on hiring I've seen after bring on HN for a while. One of tokenadult's posts on hiring - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8232963 tptacek - http://sockpuppet.or
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by rndmize 10y ago
It's already not handled 100% of the time. I'll settle for 75% less freeway blocking by crashed big rigs.
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by rndmize 10y ago
As a heavy EDM listener, Soundcloud is an amazing resource. Unfortunately, I see a variety of problems with the platform. * The company was founded eight years ago but only added subscriptions to the artist side two years ago (I think?) and
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by rndmize 10y ago
I've been wondering if perhaps we should be looking into new submarines that can launch drones from missile tubes and surface to collect them at a later point. Seems like it would allow faster, more flexible and more stealthy power pro
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by rndmize 11y ago
Wasn't able to read the article since it was paywalled, but I'd guess this Economist piece is on the same matter: http://www.economist.com/news/international/21693922-organis...
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We the networks(economist.com)
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Here's some classic advice on equity from Joel Spolsky (probably a decent place to start) - https://gist.github.com/isaacsanders/1653078
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> Most people are passive. They want a teacher to lead them and guide them through the learning process. Bull. Most people have any interest in learning beaten out of them by our crappy factory/prison like educational system. Becaus
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The Rise and Fall of a Small Orange(reviewsignal.com)
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No, its not ridiculous. What's ridiculous is our approach to the problem. Reconstructing Earth's ecosystem away from Earth is a monumental task in any situation, whether you want to terraform a planet, build a orbital colony or ju
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by rndmize 11y ago
Not on the technical side. But I would consider that to be almost secondary - I think the important part is demonstrating that you can do this over a span of days and have real, serious improvement; and that the outsiders (18F/GSA) wor

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