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by ruswick 14y ago
In coloquial terms, the average is synonymous with the mean, and the median is treated as distinct. Moreover, if he truly meant that half of the population was below the median, why would he use an ambiguous term like the "average?" At wors
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by ruswick 14y ago
You're asserting that, simply because people are capable of holding down jobs, owning homes and producing kids, that the general stigmatization of sciences and pervasive anti-intellectualism is insignificant because people can still intuit
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Where I'm from, theft requires intent. Fraud requires intent. If money is lost through unintentional error, there may be legal repercussions, but it will almost assuredly be a civil suit. I don't see how it would be untenable to charge anyo
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I'm not saying that what occurred was not bad, merely that it was not necessarily malicious and did not constitute theft.
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Obviously, this is an error that needs to be rectified. However, the way that the article regards Facebook's actions is an abject misrepresentation. He states that Facebook is "stealing" from him, when, in fact, no conscious theft took plac
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by ruswick 14y ago
In my opinion, Tumblr has far more endurance than Posterous ever did. Tumblr is a social hegemon and is making money, neither of which could be accomplished to any meaningful extent by Posterous. Even if it was acquired, it's far too valuab
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I'd recommend http://justmigrate.com/ , which facilitates migrating to Tumblr. I've always been of the opinion that Tumblr was the superior platform all along, and certainly beats shelling out $5 per month.
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This is true of any remotely complex process or occurrence. The proletariat is dumb, and the news media that caters to them feels compelled to dumb their work down so that it can be read by the most technically-naive person. As a result, th
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I think that any model that bifurcates coders based on skill is absurd; but this description was uniquely outrageous. It assumes that skill is binary, and that there is never any room to improve beyond being a competent developer. If the ma
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He seems to present a polarized interpretation of work. Either one can race towards burnout by working 100 weeks or they can enjoy 6-hour days, frequent vacations, etc. Both of these are untenable for most people. The majority of people wor
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I think that's fair. Honestly, I tend not to spend time in shops that are at capacity, as it tends to be quite loud and difficult to maneuver. Certainly, the crowdedness will change the calculus. But, in cases where the shop is not close to
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If the restaurant provides free bread (and a large portion of them do), I think it's entirely permissible to combine them. The coffee shops make the their condiments available so that people can use them. Why does the milk exist if not to b
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by ruswick 14y ago
I'm not really sure what this service is. Their explanation was pretty ambiguous, and they never clarified whether this was a subscription service, an a la carte rental service, or just a social layer on top of other content providers. The
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I find his point about "overstaying your welcome" to be of significance. What constitutes such an intrusion? Is there some sort of universal time limit? Is it commensurate with the amount of money one spends? I've always operated by the ten
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The idea is novel, and I certainly commend you for being audacious with the UI. However, this is not worth the money for me. The app's functionality is not particularly distinct from any other timer app. The UI is nice, but I honestly don't
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by ruswick 14y ago
This is an excellent piece of strategic PR inasmuch as it refocuses the debate on the email issue (as is evidenced by the below posts), and obfuscates the real issue, which is that Instacart changed the terms of service and proceeded to cha
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Honestly, the pricing structure of this company is so convoluted and their fees seem so usuriously high, I just can't see how this is preferable to simply walking to the nearest store in 99% of circumstances.
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I take issue with the term "abuse." The implication is that people are unfairly taking advantage of the service, and that the companies are justified in altering obfuscating their pricing structures in a way that is at best disingenuous and
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This is why I'm weary of relinquishing my credit card information to companies. I have no oversight and the companies can alter the terms arbitrarily. Despite the fact that this may be illegal, the amount of effort and money spent litigatin
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This is fairly tangential, but do startups and/or medium-sized companies place emphasis on education when selecting interns? As a student in high school, I see effectively no advantage to informing a potential employer of the fact that I at
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I generally avoid services that operate under this model. I don't appreciate my experience being limited after some arbitrary amount of time. I vastly prefer freemium-based business models, where I know that I will have indefinite access to
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But writing scores (as with all human-graded tests that involve any sort of comprehension of the part of the grader) are massively arbitrary. The first reason for this is that people, being largely irrational animals, grade inconsistently,
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I don't think that systematic relegation of poor people to state colleges is ever preferable, even if it prevents brain drain. We should never artificially limit our nation's lower-class youth simply because it has collateral positive effec
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This sort of seems like a misuse of Github. Github is a place where individuals or organizations can store an actual product and the community can interact with and contribute to said product. It's not a place where one should solicit life
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I find his hyper-self-deprecating tone at the beginning of the talk to be a little off-putting. He's obviously fairly qualified considering that he managed to secure a job at Github (which is a very well respected company that is, at least
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As a current high school student, I can say that the trend away from tracking, at least in my district, is largely a product of parental indignation: they feel as though their kids are being systematically disadvantaged or academically repr
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It's a necessary discussion insofar as it was major news and will have a non-trivial effect on how gender-identity is interpreted and argued within the community.
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I think that there is a clear distinction between pure negativity and "snark" or sardonicism. It is possible to be genuinely, objectively critical of things without being arrogant or sarcastic. Criticism is a necessary facet of discussion,
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It is for that very reason that everyone on HN is so fixated on it: any competent person can see that something is amis here, and the outrage on HN is a reaction to the reductionism and hyperbole of the media, which eats this shit up. Of al
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