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by samd 16y ago
Anecdotes are hardly evidence, but here are some articles that I've found agree with my experiences and the experiences of others I know. http://philip.greenspun.com/careers/women-in-science http://blog.penelopetrunk.com/2008/06/18/seven
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by samd 16y ago
Non-scientists love to talk about how important science is and how we need more scientists, but the reality is that smart kids with some worldly knowledge practically couldn't do worse than to go into science.
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by samd 16y ago
It's not my responsibility to pay for the privilege of giving them data. If they want to know why someone switches they can ask.
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by samd 16y ago
Those things are all bad, but Wikileaks still publishes raw data from whistleblowers to the public. The other stuff is, as you said, a sideshow; it doesn't detract from their primary function. The only thing that would make actual-Wikileaks
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by samd 16y ago
What are some of the ways that actual-Wikileaks differs from ideal-Wikileaks?
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More on payroll and efficiency(37signals.com)
3 points by samd 16y ago|0 comments
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The World Cup Ball(economist.com)
9 points by samd 16y ago|0 comments
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The Most Widely Read Ebook in the World(dilbert.com)
2 points by samd 16y ago|0 comments
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by samd 16y ago
If justice is just a meta-rule which says that all rules in an ethical framework should be followed then the only rule in consequentialism is: "do whatever leads to the best outcome." Doing whatever leads to the best outcome can involve bre
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by samd 16y ago
Does Mahalo store lots of people's private information and continue to make more of it accessible to the public?
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by samd 16y ago
It depends on what your ethical framework is. I'm a consequentialist, so whichever action produces better consequences I think is the right action regardless of the rules. You sound like a deontologist, to whom following the rules (not nece
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by samd 16y ago
Was he merely concerned with financial waste or is that how he sold the problem to his superiors?
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by samd 16y ago
It's more important to be just than consistent. Edit: Are there many cases of misguided whistleblowers that caused significant unintended harm while doing what they thought was right? It seems that in most cases the whistleblower feels stro
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Bootstrapped, Profitable, & Proud: Logik(37signals.com)
72 points by samd 16y ago|13 comments
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by samd 16y ago
Not really, if anything it's more like Brave New World. The goal of that society was maximizing happiness for all citizens. 1984's society was about maximizing power and control for the Party.
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by samd 16y ago
Wait, so it's bad that reporters ask hard questions?
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by samd 16y ago
If bootstrapped means profitable (or at least not unprofitable) from day one then I don't think any company could be called bootstrapped. Most "bootstrapped" companies rely on outside money, that money just happens to come from the founder'
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by samd 16y ago
I think their original idea was great and could definitely have grown into a viable business given time. Looks like the VCs didn't want to wait for that to happen and now they have to do all this social network bullshit.
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How The Mainstream Media Stole Our News Story Without Credit(daggle.com)
15 points by samd 16y ago|1 comments
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by samd 16y ago
This is an awesome tutorial not just for programmers new to Rails, but also people new to programming and web development. I'm glad you gave an overview of editors, IDEs, version control, and all the other tools associated with development
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by samd 16y ago
This has been a common practice at media companies for many years.
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by samd 16y ago
That's a pretty awesome niche you've got yourself in, and your website/product looks better designed than most industry-specific software I've seen.
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by samd 16y ago
Does this mean that we're going to start seeing a wider variety of startups funded by YC? Most of them seem to be consumer facing, but there is a lot of room for innovation in behind-the-scenes software.
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by samd 16y ago
Is there some reason that using Google isn't good enough? Most of my trouble searching reddit is because it's hard to translate "that picture of a guy with a bacon helmet" into something Google understands.
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No, Facebook, Your “Extraordinary Gift” Did Not Create The Personalized Web(daggle.com)
33 points by samd 16y ago|8 comments
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by samd 16y ago
I'd think this would be more successful if you didn't have a national brand behind it. Nobody feels guilty taking things from a big corporation.
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by samd 16y ago
Is it safe to say that Yahoo is no longer a tech company?
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Linux kernel 2.6.34 adds scalable Ceph filesystem(arstechnica.com)
14 points by samd 16y ago|2 comments
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by samd 16y ago
I think a lot of us have read Founders at Work. How about this, has your wealth made you happier?
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by samd 16y ago
In general how far along is the startup by the time you invest?

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