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by spinchange 8y ago
Cowards
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by spinchange 8y ago
Recommendation for Plato at the Googleplex by Rebecca Newberger Goldstein. A very fun set of thought-experiment/narrative dialogues exploring why philosophy (still) matters.
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by spinchange 8y ago
The Odyssey
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by spinchange 8y ago
I don't understand replacing the onmouseover shortcut to all mail from/to a given address with shortcuts to other google apps actions (add to contacts, compose, schedule event, hangouts, etc.) I'm mostly a keyboard shortcut p
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by spinchange 8y ago
UCP's monthly free ebook page http://press.uchicago.edu/books/freeEbook.html
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by spinchange 9y ago
>So at what point should a company stop trying to grow at all cost? This is an important philosophical question and underscores why company codes of ethics / conduct, statements of values, etc., aren't just feel good, rhetorica
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by spinchange 9y ago
FWIW (admitedly not very much, anecdotally from another rando HNer) The newsroom side of the Journal is among the vanguard of quality journalism and has largely remainined that way post-Murdoch. The editorial pages on the other hand are ext
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by spinchange 9y ago
I've never seen people claim the Koch's literally aided and abetted the Nazis (this is something that's actually claimed about Soros in spite of fleeing Europe with his parents as an adolescent). There's a hatred and fea
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by spinchange 9y ago
If you want to know more about him or his philanthropic work, I suggest checking out what his charitable foundation: https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/about He's also written a number of books, some a better read
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by spinchange 9y ago
This isn't strictly a recommendation because I've never used it, but this always looked helpful to me. They have some self-contained tutorials and courses that are all within an Excel workbook https://exceleverest.com&#
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by spinchange 9y ago
Henry James and St. Augustine on the front page at the same time? Digging the literary flavor, HN.
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by spinchange 9y ago
Now, I feel foolish - I thought both those consoles ran on RISC chips. (I know that Xbox used to be an x86, but thought that had changed). Admittedly not a gamer or HW gamer buff, my kids are.
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by spinchange 9y ago
Is this an x86 device? Are there any other consoles or STBs (anymore) in the market that are? Strange product positioning...
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by spinchange 9y ago
At one point, Microsoft was reported to be earning somewhere in the neighborhood of $2B per year in revenues from IP licensing agreements with Android ODMs. I think that's largely fallen away now, but it's not as if Microsoft didn
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by spinchange 9y ago
Two (sort of) unrelated observations: Lloyd Blankfein, CEO of Goldman, has talked a lot over the years about how important he thinks it is for young people to try to become really well rounded with a broad range of interests and experiences
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by spinchange 9y ago
Talk about wasteful, frivolous, and counterproductive government... This is the politicization of settled science and at cross purposes with the agency's mission, but what else is new in 45's America?
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by spinchange 9y ago
"...the power of the masses, that we are so used to, is rooted in particular historical conditions, economic, military, political, which characterized the 19th and 20th centuries. These conditions are now changing, and there is no rea
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by spinchange 9y ago
That. It's an old joke about bear investors.
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by spinchange 9y ago
>Both ETFs and hedge fund are financial funds that a person considers putting their money in with the intention of maximizing their return. To say that they "play different sports" is at best stretching the truth, at worst a li
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by spinchange 9y ago
Your bet can remain wrong longer than you can remain solvent.
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by spinchange 10y ago
Even though tech is my primary passion, I find I use his Memeorandum site (for political news) way more than I ever used Techmeme. For me, the front page of this site serves my tech news needs better than any other. EDIT: Didn't mean t
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by spinchange 10y ago
I didn't say it was impossible, just maybe not entirely practical (due to time or inclination, etc)
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by spinchange 10y ago
Even if they should , not everyone needs to, or is inclined to learn and live in emacs. Thinking especially of technically inclined folks (or managers, etc) who don't really write code or have any reason to live in an editor, but ge
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by spinchange 10y ago
>it's an indicator that they lack a basic ability to evaluate a handful of economic choices and choose the most appropriate (and thrifty) one. It's the smartphone equivalent of getting chrome rims on your car wheels. You act li
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by spinchange 10y ago
For years I've wished to see an implementation of the basic feature set of Org and Remember, et al., as a javascript/node app that could be re-packaged as an outlook plugin, browser extension, or electron app, etc., ...for those o
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by spinchange 10y ago
Awesome, thank you for the link. I don't know why I've not seen or found that yet!
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by spinchange 10y ago
I wonder all the time why we don't have more widely available, "consumer grade" tech like handheld ECGs, etc., to help better detect stuff like this. (There are products like this, but not in U.S. markets to my understanding
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by spinchange 10y ago
>every operation the US army did so far was the cause of destabilisation. The 20th & 21st centuries have seen thier share of blunders but our NATO partners and allies in Asia seem to still want an active United States presence. The p
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by spinchange 10y ago
>The reluctance comes from what I expect to be some chaos as the world shifts to a multi-polar world. As a fellow taxpayer, I just want to point out that another way to look at ROI on our military industrial complex is global stability s
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by spinchange 10y ago
>And if you like your bookmarks synced between mobile and desktop, that makes Chrome on desktop no-go option too. The extensions/ad blocker argument is 100% legit, but unless I misunderstand you, Chrome has had history and bookmark

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