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by sethg 17y ago
I think you have it backwards. Being a tenured economics professor is Krugman's day job. Nobody makes a living writing New York Times op-ed pieces, even though Krugman may be more famous now for his op-eds than for his academic work.
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by sethg 17y ago
Introversion is a personality trait . Introverts can socialize, but we prefer one-on-one environments or small groups to crowds, we prefer spending more time with intimates to meeting new people, and in general, we see social life as a co
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by sethg 17y ago
Asperger's != introversion.
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by sethg 17y ago
I click the link and get "504 Gateway Time-Out".
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by sethg 17y ago
New business model: design a pet carrier that can run in the cargo tunnel, and rent out cats....
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by sethg 17y ago
I'm reminded of the trouble that LiveJournal has had balancing the interests of its users and investors. They have millions of users, but many of those users post on topics that are, ahem, not what mainstream deep-pocketed advertisers want
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by sethg 17y ago
I suppose it's worth trying, although the victim may not be so keen on having his or her own victimization recorded for posterity. I have also heard that among girls, one common form of bullying these days is to pretend to be the victim's
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by sethg 17y ago
Of course everyone knows, but if the people who actually witness the offense aren't willing to come forward (because they think that the victim deserved it or because they want to stand with a fellow student against Authority, or whatever),
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by sethg 17y ago
And the thug says "What do you mean, 'the next time you do XYZ'? I never did XYZ! If he says I did that, he's lying!" And since the third parties to the abuse are other kids who don't want to have reputations for being snitches, the thug
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by sethg 17y ago
I don't think the authors are claiming that bullies are geniuses. You don't need to be a genius to know who you can get away with bullying. You just need to know that if you abuse X then the only people who might witness the abuse are peo
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by sethg 17y ago
ISTM that if you're in a school where not-bullying is seen as the crusade of one individual parent, rather than an issue that a group of concerned parents and teachers are working on together , then the school culture already has serious
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by sethg 17y ago
I suspect that Ehrenreich was writing for an audience that sees recreational pot use as one of those "technically illegal but who cares" crimes, like jaywalking or driving five miles over the speed limit. The smell of marijuana comes out of
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by sethg 17y ago
IIRC the protocol for a three-way split is: One party gradually moves the knife, pointing downward and poised to slice, over the surface of the cake, until either of the other two says "cut". The person who calls "cut" gets that slice. Th
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by sethg 17y ago
I'm not sure whether this clause would stand up in court, especially if AT&T were discovered to be doing something skeevy that only a class-action lawsuit would provide effective relief for. However, in general, a lot of consumer contr
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by sethg 17y ago
I'm surprised they haven't done that sooner. IIRC AT&T amended the terms of their "Universal" credit card to include binding arbitration and forbid class actions... right after they lost a class-action suit for having a flexible defini
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by sethg 17y ago
Back during my year of unemployment after the first dot-com bubble burst, I met a woman who had been unemployed for two or three years, and she had COBOL experience. We got jobs within about a month of each other (she recommended me for a
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by sethg 17y ago
If I eat soup with a spoon rather than a fork, does that prove that I have an eating-soup-with-a-spoon gene that was passed down to me by my Pleistocene ancestors, while carriers of the competing eating-soup-with-a-fork gene died of thirst?
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by sethg 17y ago
I quibble with one small part of this article: [Evolutionary psychology] has had the field to itself, especially in the media, for almost two decades. In large part that was because early critics, led by the late evolutionary biologist Ste
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by sethg 17y ago
My advice is to focus on a niche market filled with people w/ money, willing to pay for stuff. Cf. Tom Lehrer's line about the doctor who specialized in "diseases of the rich".
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by sethg 17y ago
I am reminded of Joel Spolsky's observation ( http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/CamelsandRubberDuckie... ) that there's no software priced between about $1,000 and $75,000, because anything that costs above $1,000 has to be approved by
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by sethg 17y ago
[x] [related to point one] "They love us just the way we are" [until we stop raking in profits for them]
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by sethg 17y ago
I think working with your spouse is a special case, because if your company hits it big (or crashes and burns), then your spouse is likely to share in the joy (despair) whether or not he or she is officially a co-founder. So if the spous
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by sethg 17y ago
TV, analog with digital-broadcast-converter box and DVD/VCR combo. The kids watch a few hours of broadcast TV a week; when it switches from Fetch with Ruff Ruffman to The McNeil Lehrer News Hour or whatever WGBH puts on at 6:00, the ki
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by sethg 17y ago
I took a class on "Revolution in the 20th Century" as an undergrad, and the professor there pointed out that Chinese agriculture is built on marginally-fertile land; they absolutely depend on large irrigation networks and on using human was
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by sethg 17y ago
They may not have turf was between parties (since one political party controls the entire government), but don't they have turf wars among factions within the party ? (I am not anything close to an expert on Chinese politics but this see
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by sethg 17y ago
Madoff's marks trusted him because he belonged to their ethnic group. That ethnic group happened to be "Jews" but it would have worked just as well with "Italians", "African-Americans", "Swedes"....
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by sethg 17y ago
Daniel Davies once pointed out that much of the cost of maintaining the credit-card payment infrastructure scales by number of transactions, not their dollar value. It costs just as much for the issuer to process a dispute over a $1 charge
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by sethg 17y ago
Beat me to it.
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by sethg 17y ago
"Well, the pay sucks, but I like the company uniform..."
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by sethg 17y ago
One interesting detail from the site is that the Codex Sinaiticus is a technological milestone as well as a religious milestone: it's one of the oldest known books that puts such a large number of pages together as a bound volume rather t

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