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by seanccox 12y ago
"The long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead. Economists set themselves too easy, too useless a task if in tempestuous seasons they can only tell us that when the storm is past the ocean is fl
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by seanccox 12y ago
200+ level history, literature, philosophy, or anthropology: something combining creativity, debate, and methods, but not just an intro-level course. You'll probably find an in-depth study of a topic in those areas more redeeming than
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by seanccox 12y ago
What's the best way to get in touch? I'd like to hear more about the project. My email is in my profile.
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by seanccox 12y ago
Thanks for being understanding. I'm going to have to reign in that impulse to shoot the messenger.
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by seanccox 12y ago
Many apologies. I sat through a conversation last night, the gist of which was, 'Women are not exploited by the tech industry'. I didn't turn on my brain, and reacted. I'm sorry, Choult. Thanks for directing my attention
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by seanccox 12y ago
This is the definition of (s)exploitation. Apologies for reacting without reading clearly.
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by seanccox 12y ago
I would suggest hosting an event that benefits the members of your 'underground society', but that attracts the attention of the college population overall. I was a non-business minded, non-tech person that haphazardly attended a
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by seanccox 12y ago
I recently had a problem with a client as well, and to assuage the headache of dealing with them, I took a half hour to re-watch Mike Monteiro's brilliant talk on the subject: http://creativemornings.com/talks/mike
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by seanccox 12y ago
You need to hire someone like Tom Smykowski, from 'Office Space': "I deal with the goddamn customers so the engineers don't have to." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nV7u1VBhWCE
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by seanccox 12y ago
I edited the parent to overcome the confusion I caused some people. Sorry about that.
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by seanccox 12y ago
It's a Vonnegut quote. I think he was lamenting the shift he had witnessed in American culture, from his common personal childhood experience – in a very large family – to the 'nuclear' family that tended to characterize Amer
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by seanccox 12y ago
Quoted text below from this source: http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/300997-ok-now-let-s-have-som... OK, now let’s have some fun. Let’s talk about sex. Let’s talk about women. Freud said he didn’t know what women wante
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by seanccox 12y ago
Awww... YouTube is Banned in Turkey. Seems like a great concept though, but the first thing I saw upon loading was the Ministry of Communication's announcement that they have deemed the content of part of your page 'unfit for view
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Twitter assists Turkish state in crackdown on dissidents(hurriyetdailynews.com)
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by seanccox 13y ago
That's an interesting observation. I had thought it was really more the result of the prevailing economic conditions, rather than the result of a strong, nurturing relationship. These are hypotheses that I would really like to see test
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by seanccox 13y ago
Alternatively, the idea that the internet should be treated as a public utility could be extended to include certain fundamental core services: search and email, for instance. The server space could just be maintained by tax revenue, or thr
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by seanccox 13y ago
Totally fair. It's the NYTimes' fault for not bothering to examine the site, but Kudos to Vox for getting a 500 word press release.
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by seanccox 13y ago
"Perhaps more important for its long-term survival, Vox’s formats attract attention directly, so the site does not have to turn to gimmicky features like quizzes, teasing headlines or lists to generate traffic through Facebook or Twitt
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by seanccox 13y ago
Aha! I understand now, and I also agree that our positions aren't that different. I happen to work for a media operation, and I tend to think they would outsource the whole operation (writing, editing, layout) to a computer, if given t
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by seanccox 13y ago
It is a leap, true, but not an unfathomable one. My point is that such software is a nod to the primacy of expediency in the field of breaking news. I'm not certain that other kinds of breaking news would be treated differently, partic
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by seanccox 13y ago
Bizarre how? Work is work, regardless of whom the work is done for or their income (taxes vs. sales). A worker can be as easily exploited by a state entity as by a corporate one, which is why teachers, firefighters, and police tend to have
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by seanccox 13y ago
Agreed. The internet burst the bubble that news agencies possessed editorial integrity, and that has cost them business. This just helps online media transition faster in the direction of link bait bullshit. The only people who benefit from
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by seanccox 13y ago
Have you sought help? Alcohol is an addictive chemical, and if you have a dependency, you don't have to overcome it alone. If, on the other hand, you are like me an you simply drink too much, I can share how I got the situation under c
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by seanccox 13y ago
It's interesting that the author describes an alienation from work that sounds exceedingly Marxist and appears to be the result of failed bargaining power. This isn't an article about the pressures of academia, but about how those
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by seanccox 13y ago
"If a writer never had to compose a fifty word earthquake report again—few would complain. Better to leave the short, dry, purely informational articles to the bots." The logical extension of this software is to replace the phrase
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by seanccox 13y ago
This is going to complicate my last-minute application to Y Combinator...
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by seanccox 13y ago
OK. Looks to be working fine now. I registered.
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by seanccox 13y ago
Hmmm... My email must've ended up in the spam box...
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by seanccox 13y ago
I am. I was having problems loading it though... maybe because I'm in Turkey?
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by seanccox 13y ago
I tend to agree. Though the carrot of EU membership has been instrumental in motivating a few, minor reforms, mostly it just becomes a distracting process (for both parties). It was the dream of Ataturk that Turkey be a European nation, but

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