svenkatesh

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by svenkatesh 13y ago
Maybe it would help reduce the incidence of citation cartels, but the other issue is that some fields are very small -- especially in highly technical fields like math and in some sub-fields of biology. In those cases, papers that are cited
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by svenkatesh 13y ago
Yeah, it's Big Food paying all of these nasty commenters to bash Soylent because it's so disruptive. /s
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by svenkatesh 13y ago
Because if they did, we'd be bitching about how Google has too much marketing-speak on their copy about Drive, and how it's not that innovative since other remote storage companies do the same.
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by svenkatesh 13y ago
Except for all of the security problems DropBox has had over the years, right?
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by svenkatesh 13y ago
There isn't. Apparently some HNers don't understand how to reason about economics.
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by svenkatesh 13y ago
You're right. Since you don't use that much storage, no one else could possibly find this price reduction useful.
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by svenkatesh 13y ago
I would prefer that innocent people's names are not dragged through the mud and that the parents of innocent college students not be harassed over social media. I don't see how accusing Sunil was "informed." It was a bas
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by svenkatesh 13y ago
>You cannot seriously be blind to the implications or consequences can you? There seems to be a serious lack of empathy on the parts of many of the users on HN who are commenting. They're forgetting that Sunil was a person, and that
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by svenkatesh 13y ago
It moved to a subreddit when the thread in /news or /worldnews got too big (I don't remember specifics). In any case, the effects of the witchhunt weren't limited to that subreddit anyway... the users started harassing S
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by svenkatesh 13y ago
FYI Heroku is reporting that the site is down.
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by svenkatesh 13y ago
You're right, that was the only instance in which Reddit was wrong. Ever. /s
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by svenkatesh 13y ago
Yeah, I found Reddit's investigative journalism superb during the Boston Marathon Bombing /s
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by svenkatesh 13y ago
holy astroturf batman!
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by svenkatesh 13y ago
So what you're suggesting is that the taxpayer subsidize Amtrak's infrastructure, even though Amtrak runs a profitable business already and practically has a monopoly in northeast commuter rail.
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by svenkatesh 13y ago
So what you're saying is that a monopoly is preferable?
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The F.B.I. needs informants, but what happens when they go too far?(newyorker.com)
2 points by svenkatesh 13y ago|0 comments
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by svenkatesh 13y ago
That makes even less sense; they invested billions of ripple in venture capital into making... ripple? This investment of billions of ripple gave value to... ripple?
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by svenkatesh 13y ago
Wow, I had no idea that billions of dollars were fed into ripple. Do you have any links that delve into more details (such as who was behind the funding rounds)?
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Why Are So Many Farmers Killing Themselves?(modernfarmer.com)
4 points by svenkatesh 13y ago|0 comments
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My Life as a Writer (Philip Roth Interview)(nytimes.com)
2 points by svenkatesh 13y ago|0 comments
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by svenkatesh 13y ago
Not using all of the tools at their disposal means that tens of millions of tax payer dollars are being inefficiently spent though, with few results to show for the effort
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The Military is Leaving the Missing Behind(propublica.org)
29 points by svenkatesh 13y ago|18 comments
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The Collapse: How a top legal firm destroyed itself(newyorker.com)
114 points by svenkatesh 13y ago|23 comments
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Google's Eric Schmidt: 'let us celebrate capitalism'(theverge.com)
6 points by svenkatesh 13y ago|0 comments
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Twitter Pays $36 Million to Avoid IBM Patent Suit(wired.com)
93 points by svenkatesh 13y ago|68 comments
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Tomorrow's Apps Will Come From the Bitcoin Protocol(wired.com)
66 points by svenkatesh 13y ago|47 comments
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Why Bitcoin Doesn't Want a Real Satoshi Nakamoto (wired.com)
13 points by svenkatesh 13y ago|1 comments
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by svenkatesh 13y ago
Weird, you might want to talk to your ISP about issues with your connection. GP actually said: " This is dumb; my handwriting sucks. I'd hate to give a hand-written talk."
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by svenkatesh 13y ago
Uh, how do you know this is Dorian's address? Vanity addresses are easy to generate.
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Global genomic data-sharing effort kicks off (Nature)(nature.com)
1 points by svenkatesh 13y ago|0 comments

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