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by samlevine 10y ago
> Remarkably, slightly more than one-third of students – or 1,147 children – are defined as homeless here, mostly sharing homes with other families because their parents cannot afford one of their own, and also living in RVs and shelters
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by samlevine 10y ago
Plato needs warning labels.
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by samlevine 10y ago
Privacy allows us to be ourselves, to make mistakes, to be right or wrong without it bringing the wrath or ridicule of the general public. Privacy is a fence. Tall fences make good neighbors, because they help define what is and is not your
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by samlevine 10y ago
"fashion is clothing so terrible we have to change them every six months"
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by samlevine 10y ago
It's worth sharing this again: http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html For what it's worth, Thiel seems to have the view that Trump isn't actually going to do horrible things, and will invest in infrastructure and
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by samlevine 10y ago
Sometimes it means I do the development work that developers don't want to do, sometimes it means I do the operations work that ops doesn't want to do. At it's best, it's a process for communication between ops and dev w
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by samlevine 10y ago
I would pay $10 a year to use Twitter. It's just that good for live news.
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by samlevine 10y ago
> How does that help the USA? Do we really make it up in the goods we export to Mexico? We run a trade deficit with Mexico, which can be looked at as arbitrage of the USD as a reserve currency. We pay an IOU and get cars, they give us ca
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by samlevine 10y ago
> Automation will not put everyone out of work and it will not spell the end of capitalism. The problem isn't going to be putting everyone out of work, it's going to be putting a quarter of the country out of work or loosely a
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by samlevine 10y ago
> Are we not human? Do we not know ourselves? These are aren't mutually exclusive. But suffice it to say people just happen to have similar opinions about fashion, religion, ideologies, etc. as what is needed to fit in and global me
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by samlevine 10y ago
This is a bit dated, but it's a good start: http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html
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by samlevine 10y ago
> I'm 29 years old. I finished with my Business Administration degree(major) and now I just feel completely LOST! Has anyone ever felt that way? Life is short, dark and unfair. The fact that you can recognize this means you're
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by samlevine 15y ago
> To test this proposition, make college free. In this case you'd still be taking money from rich men and women and giving them to the people going to college, only without the services rendered. It's like asking whether I'd still do IT
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by samlevine 15y ago
This applies to guys as well as girls. My parents made sure that I learned that people judge me on how I look, smell, speak, etc.
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by samlevine 15y ago
The same thing that happens to a salesperson that doesn't sell enough to justify their (usually small) salary.
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by samlevine 15y ago
This is a great marketing gimmick for the keyboard they're selling: http://www.razerzone.com/swtor/keyboard At around $200 this is a lot more likely to sell.
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by samlevine 15y ago
Of course web surfing helps at work. First search result for "vim highlight search" on Google is: http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Highlight_all_search_pattern_match... Just to make sure we're highlighting everything we search for set: :set hlse
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by samlevine 15y ago
If just now learned how to play chess and only played it for an hour every week you'll likely find that people that play it every day (and have been playing it for years) have an advantage over you. This isn't the fault of the game, it's a
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by samlevine 15y ago
Obligatory: http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/mel.html
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by samlevine 15y ago
If you asked someone how to improve how they got from point a to point b in 1890, they'd have told you they wanted a better locomotive or a better horse. If you asked someone in 1990 how to improve how they keep in touch with friends they w
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by samlevine 15y ago
Just like how Microsoft bought out Google and IBM bought out Microsoft.
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by samlevine 15y ago
>Climate change is a great example of a wicked problem: Quick, somebody tell me what the acceptable maximum amount of CO2 in the atmosphere should be, in parts-per-milion! Provide me with the answer to that question, and you win a pony!
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by samlevine 15y ago
>Value to whom? In the case of the labor of an employee or a contractor, the person you're working for. Value is what someone is willing to pay, or trade, or work, for something. For example, diamonds aren't valuable because they are ra
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by samlevine 15y ago
>they get paid well, but they're also doing work of dubious value. Unless they're getting paid at a rate determined by regulations, by definition the value of their work is what their employer is willing to pay.
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by samlevine 15y ago
Defaults are very powerful. You won't get a button in the middle of a call that takes you directly into Google Talk on an iPhone.
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by samlevine 15y ago
If you can learn the material you can pass classes by examination.
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by samlevine 15y ago
No, because it would be a waste of ink. Fortunately monitors don't have this problem.
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by samlevine 15y ago
We have a space program. NASA isn't going away. It puts probes on/around planets and asteroids and advances science (but not SCIENCE! which is what people tend to get miffed about). If need be we could even start using our own rockets to ge
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by samlevine 15y ago
The only reason he's not a hero is that he didn't put all the PDFs up on a torrent. We are the library now.
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by samlevine 15y ago
> Is that a missing element in our education? The missing element may be learning itself. If you don't come out of college with an ability to learn new things on your own or with the help of others you may have missed the point. I've sp

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