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by scott_s 7y ago
Correct. It was a personal political statement made during his participation in the tournament. And I agree with jcranberry and PeterisP: the rules do not prohibit that.
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by scott_s 7y ago
Two HN threads from around when the project started: Show HN: KeyDB – A Multithreaded Fork of Redis, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19257987 KeyDB: A Multithreaded Redis Fork, https://news.ycombinator.com&#
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by scott_s 7y ago
The tension between privacy and child abuse is laid out in the linked NYT piece (which I also recommend reading): many of the images and videos of child sex abuse are created because they can be shared. They can be shared because the creato
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by scott_s 7y ago
The title is too strong, while the message of the piece is more subtle: Microsoft no longer has the Windows-or-bust strategy. Their goal used to be to fight to be the computing platform. Windows is still important , but they're no l
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by scott_s 7y ago
If the project isn't read for a deadline, then it's not product development, it's research. (And I feel I have some standing to say this!) Phrasing it that way may help get people's lightbulbs to go off.
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by scott_s 7y ago
I've learned there are arguments that are not worth winning, and if you find yourself in one, your priority should be getting out of the situation that created the argument.
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by scott_s 7y ago
I think this tension is fundamental to the concept of genres across all mediums of art and entertainment.
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by scott_s 7y ago
Fifteen! The album "Lucky" was a revelation to me.
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by scott_s 7y ago
I ignored Green Day when I first got into punk because they seemed like radio-rock music. But years later, when I was in grad school and stopped caring so much about how I classified bands, I was blown away by "American Idiot." Th
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by scott_s 7y ago
Training for and playing the game is their labor, which generates enormous revenue for the institution they belong to. In any other setting - including professional sports - we would call them workers. And it's brutal, punishing work t
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by scott_s 7y ago
I think profit is the right concept. People see the massive spending of these programs, and even if it strikes them as extravagant, they also see the massive revenue of these programs. I think most discussions around this issue take as an a
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by scott_s 7y ago
I think an illuminating question is what do you consider more important, fair compensation to the workers, or maintaining the sports magic? Or, even, do you care about the tension of the two at all? For example, I don't care about the
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by scott_s 7y ago
Is USC's football program wildly profitable? The Washington Post published a great investigative piece in 2015 showing how most big football programs are in the red: https://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/sports/
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by scott_s 7y ago
That's a different product than a can of corn, which you can sometimes find a coupon for.
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by scott_s 7y ago
Coupons are typically for low-margin goods, such as groceries. There's not much "more" to deliver. And companies do it because they tend to get more profit than if they didn't do it.
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by scott_s 7y ago
He needed the car, and was worried you'd go higher!
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by scott_s 7y ago
I prefer your sentence to the more mathy one. But space constraints are real, and I could end up choosing the more mathy one because it's shorter.
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by scott_s 7y ago
Great explanation. I think many people have the wrong default intuition for what an orbit is. I don't think they realize that it means going so fast that you fall perpetually around an object rather than just eventually hitting the o
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by scott_s 7y ago
More efficient but less likely to exist next year is not a sustainable niche.
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by scott_s 7y ago
For a startup, raising less money, and a new employee getting more equity, also generally means the position has more risk. So the reaction you see is not necessarily irrational.
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by scott_s 7y ago
In addition to the advantages others listed, I think a big advantage of a large corporation is risk management. If you're a "small" company managing a handful of buildings, and something catastrophic happens to one of those b
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by scott_s 7y ago
How you think about things matters. They may help you think about you and your mistakes differently.
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by scott_s 7y ago
Reviews are never "objective." They are always a single person's experience with a thing.
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by scott_s 7y ago
That's fair, it may be a provided phone. But then that puts him in a similar situation as any site that has a review for the phone now. You know his relationship with the phone itself and Apple. Consider his review with that perspectiv
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by scott_s 7y ago
I've been taking pictures with my iPhone for years and I never knew about the guidelines as an option. (Or I did, and I turned them off many phones ago without realizing their benefit, forgot, and the settings have been dragged with
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by scott_s 7y ago
I'm not sure what you mean. I understand it to be a review by a professional photographer - but one with an obvious bias towards Apple, as they have been a client of his, he uses their phone's cameras in his work, and he has a boo
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by scott_s 7y ago
This reminds me of the Instagram account, @insta_repeat ( https://www.instagram.com/insta_repeat ), which is much more fun if you visit rather than reading my explanation.
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by scott_s 7y ago
I did not come away with that impression. Rather, what I came away with was: people tend to misunderstand these visualizations, so we should re-evaluate using them.
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by scott_s 7y ago
That some ethnic groups disproportionally are more likely to suffer from poverty is caused by racism. It’s not possible to fix that problem without addressing racism. Yes, not all poverty is caused by racism, but some clearly is. So if y
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by scott_s 7y ago
But what I think you're missing is that in order to have an art director who is capable of delivering on what you're talking about, Jeff would need another person. And he clearly explains why he does not want to risk hiring anothe

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