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by tenpies 9y ago
Agree. It's also worth noting that while they may not have the capability to do much with the information today, they probably will in the future. I could very much see a future where with just a couple of profile names they can reaso
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by tenpies 9y ago
With time, Facebook is becoming the white pages[1]. Sure, people have profiles there, but just like the white pages, it's entirely passive and something that's there because you forgot to opt out. That publication barely exists
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And anyone who has ever moderated a community knows how frequently people get reporting for having a contrarian or unpopular opinions. This is ripe for abuse and setting a path for MS to castigate thoughtcrime.
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> It can only be fixed by replacing the whole thing. Sounds like our electronics these days. We made progress, then completely un-made it.
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I'd say it worked fantastically. For the sake of timing lets compare Shkreli and Holmes. She committed a much larger fraud and lost people huge amounts of money. She is spending exactly zero days in prison. She is getting a $500,00
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by tenpies 9y ago
I'm definitely not Twitch's key demographic, but a large part of it is that YouTube feels like a negative place, whereas Twitch is largely positive in my book. YouTube comments/chat are notoriously awful, probably worst than
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Perhaps it was still incredible by previous years standards, but it did not keep up with the journey inflation?
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by tenpies 9y ago
Right, the "path" to be an NBA player starts in high school. You ideally get scouted by a college with a top team and after four years you get an offer to play for an NBA team. This is very similar to how we do admissions for mos
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by tenpies 9y ago
> Also, how the hell is college so damn expensive when the people teaching classes are paid 12 bucks an hour because they're "adjuncts"?? where tf is the money going?? (see above) A non-trivial portion goes to legal expens
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by tenpies 9y ago
I'm surprised it's that high at all given the likelihood that a child will ever be in a school shooting. It's not quite in lottery-winning territory, but as a child you are more likely to be killed by a vehicle than a gun by
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by tenpies 9y ago
Extremely anecdotal, but has anyone else also noticed an alarming amount of anti-male sentiment in K-12 teachers? Even thinking back to my education, it is pretty clear there was not just a lack of male educators, but also female teachers
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by tenpies 9y ago
This list is always quite depressing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_destroyed_libraries
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> What interventions can be made to reduce this pay gap? I don't see how you could do this without rewarding inefficiency and inexperience. More efficient workers with more experience should absolutely get paid more than new worker
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Because as much as people love to hate on the West and its faults, it is also the most tolerant system and allows for the most freedom in every category. The Chinese do not value things like freedom or tolerance very much, especially if the
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by tenpies 9y ago
Keep in mind this is based on two anonymous sources. The track record for those has been less than stellar since Trump began his administration.
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by tenpies 9y ago
I'm very glad that they didn't go with "Person of the Year: #MeToo" and instead opted to create this exclusive group of "Silence Breakers". It strikes me as very important to separate these accounts from a has
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by tenpies 9y ago
That seems like a big assumption. There is a very rich upper class in Afghanistan that lives a nearly-Western lifestyle. If a student is female (1), in a robotics class (2), attending a school that had a robotics class (3), and planning a
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by tenpies 9y ago
> Work is important, but your work can't love you back. Work is where we spend the majority of our time and I suspect that >50% of adult friendship originates at work. It is important to think of work as a social activity and pu
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by tenpies 9y ago
Yes, this is a very accepted theory. A country with only Liberals would cease to exist because they would be invaded or be unwilling to enforce any sort of borders or law. Even if no external threats exist, it will eventually succumb to t
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> it's useless without some semblance of structure. If you are starting out (so literally know too little to provide your own structure), then looking up student handbooks is a good place to start. Here is the relevant section of H
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Counter-point: our traditional role models and real life heroes have proven to be so fallible that we are returning to folklore for models of what to aspire to.
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by tenpies 9y ago
> It sounds like someone is trying to game the advertiser by correlating ad views with sales. Shhh. If advertisers realize how utterly wasted most of their advertising spending is you'll destroy about 80% of "tech" compan
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My first job out of university was at IBM. I distinctly remember thinking "this is just like being a part of the Borg" about a month in. You're connected to the hive mind through Sametime (internal IM client). Anything you
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by tenpies 9y ago
This is scary because it points to a potential future where they're treating cars like software. Weekly/monthly visits to the garage to get the car equivalent of "Weekly bug fixes and performance improvements" would be
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by tenpies 9y ago
Prepare for the daily prompt to update.
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> The level of differentiation is so small I don't think much of that matters. My experience has been otherwise. The apps are commodities, but Lyft drivers have been consistently nicer humans that seem to care more about their cars
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> I'm beginning to wonder if our ability to sympathize only serves to advance the agendas of those who want to make money on us. Using your adversary's virtues against them is a strategy as old as humanity. With social media i
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> You cannot escape the data collection systems in our society without going all Henry David Thoreau. Or living suspiciously like a drug dealer (without money laundering).
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> do you really feel that society rests on secrets? Even on a first pass, you have to answer yes. The legal and medical fields exist on a foundation of secrecy. A lawyer that cannot keep secrets is a terrible lawyer and cannot defend h
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by tenpies 9y ago
One aspect no one seems to mention is just how absolutely terrible the selection is at the LCBO. They want consistency at every location, so if you're looking for small-batch or a wine that isn't grossly mass-produced, you have n

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