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by samd 16y ago
It's one thing to try and keep the group small to create a better, more comfortable experience for everyone, but denigrating anyone who doesn't present as "leechers" and keeping them out to maintain the purity of your group is disgustingly
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by samd 16y ago
There are endless posts about why, how, or what various famous people in the industry are doing. Psychoanalyzing Steve Jobs is basically a requirement in any blog post about Apple these days. So why are people so offended when the target is
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by samd 16y ago
Just tell them you are willing to relocate. Hiring an employee is a big investment, if the business is too short-sighted to pay a few thousand dollars to recruit the best possible people for their several hundred thousand dollar investment
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by samd 16y ago
I don't think minimum wage laws are a significant cause of unemployment, but there is plenty of dispute about that. Even if you're right, what good is having a job if it gives you nothing more than the ability to spin your wheels and never
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by samd 16y ago
Enforce minimum wages that people can actually live on. Most poor people work significantly harder than your typical white collar office worker. The only thing that separates most of the middle class from the poor is that the middle class h
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Racial and Ethnic Map of US Cities(flickr.com)
7 points by samd 16y ago|0 comments
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by samd 16y ago
I buy a couple Groupons per month, but I've never read their emails entirely. The secret to their success with me is cheap prices for fun activities that I would have otherwise never done.
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by samd 16y ago
The argument isn't that some people don't make money, it's that the users and probably the founders are better off building a company that lasts. The users get a great product and the founders get to build and run a profitable business. Par
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by samd 16y ago
I recommend the Scratch Perverts mix at: http://thenine.ca/essential/2004/2004.08.22%20-%20Essential%...
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The web's new walls: How the threats to the internet’s openness can be averted(economist.com)
2 points by samd 16y ago|1 comments
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by samd 16y ago
The points and comment sorting system discourages thoughtful posts in favor of quickly formulated quips which capture the mainstream view and are posted soon after the article is submitted. Like this one.
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A Facebook Hospital(anondoc.blogspot.com)
2 points by samd 16y ago|0 comments
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by samd 16y ago
Key takeaway: In the words of [David] Chalmers this is "just another example of a familiar phenomenon, the strange behaviour of infinity".
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by samd 16y ago
It's not about control; the world-controllers are not power-mad dictators, they are the architects of a great society. They decided that happiness was the most important thing to maximize and created a society in which everyone is happy. Th
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by samd 16y ago
I'd like a Best of Hacker News that, like Best of Reddit, links to exceptionally interesting comments. The comments on HN are usually far more interesting than the stories, and often interesting comments are attached to uninteresting storie
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by samd 16y ago
Let's say you're not really a developer and you have 6 months to write a functioning Rails app or you're homeless. Now what's the best roadmap for learning Rails?
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by samd 16y ago
A/B testing is great, but your data is severely limited. How do you know that sticking with the vision doesn't pay off in the long run? Unless you've been running A/B tests for years with doppleganger-Patrick who eschews the cold, mechanica
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by samd 16y ago
You'd probably encourage more women to start companies if you gave them free day care and household services. If we had an adequate social support system there wouldn't have to be such a trade off between work and family.
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by samd 16y ago
In the comments they said that they started working with comScore about 5 months ago and are still waiting for a report, apparently comScore mangled their first 3 months of data.
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by samd 16y ago
But you can't really pick up most primary sources and actually get anything out of them without understanding the historical/philosophical context they were written in. If you can find someone with little to no philosophical background who
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by samd 16y ago
The above books are great, but unless you are really into philosophy I don't think you'd gain much from reading primary sources. (With the exception of Hume, he's brief and brilliant.) I think someone casually interested in philosophy would
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by samd 16y ago
There are many factors that lead to Google's success, but I know what made me switch to Google back in its early days. It was faster (probably because it was sparse), it got good results, and I felt cool for using it (maybe because it was t
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by samd 16y ago
You could write the same article about almost any plan we've tried to end some social ill. America's social problems run deep and would require a massive reorganization of society and existing institutions along with widespread cooperation
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by samd 16y ago
I thought they chose Just In TV because streaming content is always just in, but it awkwardly sounded like someone's name. Now it's awkward for a different reason: what does that guy's name have to do with streaming internet TV?
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by samd 16y ago
Does anyone else notice how all the top ranked answers address the technical differences between GitHub and Gitorious? GitHub certainly has a great product, but that is not a sufficient condition for being popular (it may not even be necess
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by samd 16y ago
"Over the coming months, we’ll be advancing current projects and working to simplify the way we work in order to deliver products and services faster, and with a laser focus on quality." That sentence is particularly vacuous. Who do they
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by samd 16y ago
The screenshots are from Clive Barker's Jericho. He probably used them because he spends a couple of paragraphs talking about discussions he had with Clive Barker. Unfortunately Jericho is a horrible game and not a good example of games as
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by samd 16y ago
No more a waste of time than anything else we do.
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There is nothing inherently wrong with consumption. Any strong economy must have a balance of consumption and savings (investment). Without consumption there is no income for businesses, and without investment there is no growth of business
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by samd 16y ago
Why do you think poor people are lousy at managing their resources? Do you really think that people are only poor because they can't manage their otherwise bountiful resources? How exactly would you manage the finances of a family of four m

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