scottLobster

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by scottLobster 10y ago
It's passive-aggressive health advice. She sets herself up as an authority and then gives a perspective. She also has language like this: "If, like my friends and family, you choose to continue to eat seafood, I would urge you to
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by scottLobster 10y ago
Honestly I'm so tired of the latest "hey, there's potentially nasty-sounding stuff in common food category that could possibly do vague bad things under vague unspecified circumstance , so stop eating it!" From al
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by scottLobster 10y ago
You realize that's specifically talking about farmed Norwegian Salmon and not all fish everywhere, right?
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by scottLobster 10y ago
Meh, it's popular to crap on the F-35 Program (and with good reason, it's been horribly mismanaged), but it's best to remember that at the end of the day this is one case where public opinion on its capabilities does not matt
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by scottLobster 10y ago
I said the Senate solved a problem present as far back as Ancient Greek democracy, not that it originated there.
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by scottLobster 10y ago
You're judging a system by standards it was never intended to meet and declaring victory. If you're going to argue that small states are over-represented, do it well. Plenty of examples of Gerrymandering as well as the electoral
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by scottLobster 10y ago
I get your point, but bad example. The Senate was never designed around population. In fact it's original purpose was to represent the incumbent state governments vs the house representing "the people". It wasn't unti
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Ask HN: What are some good educational resources for machine learning?
5 points by scottLobster 10y ago|1 comments
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by scottLobster 10y ago
You really want it broken down? The story is about a celebrity giving a commencement speech at MIT. You then make a provocative observation that celebrities are "held in the highest esteem above all categories of occupation". W
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by scottLobster 11y ago
The problem is "people who currently hate their jobs" are the vast majority (70%), at least in the US. http://www.ryot.org/gallup-poll-70-americans-disengaged-jobs... Sure we can talk about making jobs better for
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by scottLobster 11y ago
Perhaps. I'll admit most of my "evidence" is anecdotal, and I've read the studies about giving free money to tribes in Kenya and the Cherokee and how it greatly elevated them in general, although both studies come with
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by scottLobster 11y ago
Unfortunately it's not as simple as a UBI. Give the average person money without structure, instruction or necessity and they cease to be productive in any sense of the word. We'd ironically have less equality, with a minority o
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by scottLobster 11y ago
I'm glad you had a positive experience, but I'd like to point out that thinking about legibility, whitespace, naming etc should be done regardless of highlighting. I don't blame you, IMO it's one of the major issues with
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by scottLobster 11y ago
Agreed, it also depends on what you're trying to do. If you have time to read and comprehend each and every line of code then that's obviously ideal, but time is the most precious resource we have. I find properly implemented sy
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by scottLobster 11y ago
While I agree with this in theory, I can't help but imagine that 20-30 years ago you could take this post, replace every instance of "C" with "assembly" and it would relate to a lot of developers at the time. The ma
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by scottLobster 11y ago
Given that military funding is likely the main reason this amazing tech might see the light of day, I'm not so sure. Also, that GPS in your phone? You can thank the military for that. Not to mention the foundations of the internet, a
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by scottLobster 11y ago
None of it. I was commenting on the implications of the information that the article presented. However, particularly with that line about twitter, it seems to imply that modern methods of communication are more about confirmation than di
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by scottLobster 11y ago
I'm curious as to the rhetorical implications of all this research, particularly regarding modern media. A TON of dialog takes place on message boards and comment sections like this one, certainly more than on any traditional media. I
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by scottLobster 11y ago
Seems that article is more about interfaces for the handicapped than anything specific to the elderly; probably because being elderly in general doesn't preclude one from technology. In my experience it's the elderly people who h