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by sbussard 6y ago
I remember the internet before google - when you would search for anything there would be like a 25% chance that a given search result would be a porn site targeted for random keywords. Google has done a great job figuring out content curat
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by sbussard 6y ago
> Which is definitely not a claim he can make authoritatively Did you also get your PhD in evolutionary biology?
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by sbussard 6y ago
How can I upvote this twice?
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by sbussard 6y ago
Continuing on that thought - gamification of social media is a mechanism of mass manipulation. I think the author’s intent is to create resiliency. Kudos!
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by sbussard 6y ago
It makes sense to me (B.S. Physics, 2010) it’s easy to tell arbitrary stories with quantities defined up to a constant.
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by sbussard 6y ago
Ugh it’s not helpful to make judgments without substantiation. This post is just contributing to the echo chamber and I can’t let you get away with it. It’s not constructive.
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by sbussard 6y ago
The appeal is to “listen to these people.” Unfortunately intellect doesn’t imply integrity, and appeal to authority is what got America to where it is. I would’ve preferred a framework for critical thinking, or at least more emphasis on tha
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by sbussard 6y ago
This sounds like a direct pull from Adam Thornhill’s CodeScene.io
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by sbussard 6y ago
Here’s another comment for you to downvote - thank you very much. Next time you think you know what’s best for the country, consider people who don’t have the privilege of keeping a job and staying at home. Not everyone is a tech worker, an
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by sbussard 6y ago
Now we’re resorting to name calling are we? Let’s consider first principles, like microbiology, before jumping on the bandwagon of “everyone else is doing it” because circumstances vary widely. What is selfish is to ignore other factors tha
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by sbussard 6y ago
That’s the secondary issue at best. The primary issue is that the government has done exactly that to the people and media has taken it upon themselves to shape and enforce sociological norms. Shelter in place causes major health risks to a
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by sbussard 6y ago
Agreed. But the main content of the article was more about Covid 19 than the employees, and it seems more like a piece to shape thoughts by reinforcing ideas about public health policy than to discuss the employees’ welfare. More shame than
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by sbussard 6y ago
Bad habit, sorry. America doesn’t have the benefit of learning from operating at the scale of cities like Shanghai. It’s hard to avoid politics because China’s system of government is completely different than the US, and incompatible philo
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by sbussard 6y ago
Unpopular opinion: articles like this are just designed to shame people who don’t buy into the popular opinion. Not even all medical experts agree on the best course of action regarding herd immunity, sip, etc. For the other 5% of the artic
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by sbussard 6y ago
Social networks are failing us and we want independence and community. The web used to be that, then it turned into a gated gossip community.
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by sbussard 6y ago
Study leadership. Surprisingly technology lacks good leadership, and thus creates toxicity.
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by sbussard 6y ago
> Only that’s not just Amazon, it’s how 21st-century capitalism is done This type of business practice is a big threat to capitalism. Bottom-line thinking is over-optimization w.r.t. to revenue that doesn’t even consider those who genera
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by sbussard 6y ago
Unfortunately that is not entirely accurate. Even rigorous non-controversial scientific papers have been rejected due to their contradiction of current trends, resource constraints, etc. Science has politics too. Anyone who's done rese
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by sbussard 6y ago
> There should always remain a sharp dividing line between non-scientific/scientific and for good reason. That is a patronizing statement. If science can't defend itself then we're more screwed than we thought. Truth exist
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by sbussard 6y ago
Off the top of my head I can only think of the one where you need to merge two linked lists in sorted order. It seems like most fall into being iterative or recursive. The iterative solutions tend to involve mutations. Doing them functional
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by sbussard 6y ago
Agreed. Interest breeds talent and competence. Interest may come from a deeper sense of purpose. The truth will set you free.
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by sbussard 6y ago
It sounds like you're looking for growth and significance but need direction. Listen to the Ken Coleman podcast.
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by sbussard 6y ago
It would be incredibly helpful to have tips for solving leetcode problems in a functional way. There seems to be a category of problems that are most conveniently/efficiently solved using mutation, though I'm personally not a fan.
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by sbussard 6y ago
Terrible
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Ask HN: Why are load balancers so expensive?
4 points by sbussard 6y ago|1 comments
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by sbussard 6y ago
I get the feeling that unless Amazon finds some integrity they will not last long as a company. If you read Blind, they're the company that everyone loves to hate - even their own employees.
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by sbussard 7y ago
node_modules
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by sbussard 7y ago
Is the poster a demon, a god, a bot, a human, or speaking on behalf of one? Of course I know the poster's intent, but the point is obviously controversial, so I was just calling it out. Plenty of religious people on HN with as much or
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by sbussard 7y ago
I didn't make them, did you?
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by sbussard 7y ago
I loved Google Wave. I even wrote a Gadget for it

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