thanatropism

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by thanatropism 13y ago
What you just said, plus this: http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2014/01/randi_zuckerberg.html "....not all women are the target demo of Randi's lip synching, the CEO of General Dynamics is a woman, I think
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by thanatropism 13y ago
> Amy admits she'll "never know" if she wasn't hired by Google because she's female, because she's not an engineer, or whether there was something else wrong with her application Because she's not an en
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by thanatropism 13y ago
Duly schooled.
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by thanatropism 13y ago
Kickstarter is not a store. Kickstarter is very weird, actually. Kickstarter is not investment. I've never invested money in a company, but I've invested labor in exchange for shares; I was, thus, a stakeholder, and had a say in a
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by thanatropism 13y ago
I hate that expression. What's the point of a single-edged sword? Swords are supposed to puncture and penetrate; a single-edged sword won't be able to do that, because it's unable to cut on one side.
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Topocracy and meritocracy in an economy embedded in social networks(nature.com)
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by thanatropism 13y ago
Meh. Two things would be problematic: 1) The composition of the 1%, 0.1%, 0.01%, etc. never changes -- not in generations. I.e. there's an entrenched aristocracy. 2) Topocracy: people are making money for their social connections rathe
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by thanatropism 13y ago
To be fair, american government bonds have been ZIRPish since... You could invest in third world governments with interest rates that are too high for their S&P/Moody's/Fitch ratings. Look how revolutionary this idea.
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by thanatropism 13y ago
Point here is -- if you want a stake, buy a stake. If you want a steak, you get to sigh if the restaurant gets turned into a Hooters. Me, I think Kickstarter is to fault for being sold as a tool for contributors. You go to kickstarter.com,
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by thanatropism 13y ago
STOP MESSING WITH WEB MAIL. I have to get OwnCloud running on the server I already rent for an inane IRC bot.
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by thanatropism 13y ago
Duck typing is borderline psychotic. Is it a number? Is it not a number? What's the logarithm of an hour?
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by thanatropism 13y ago
Don't you find exponent notation to be neater? 1E+03 = one thousand 1E+06 = one million 1E+09 = a thousand millions / an american billion 1E+12 = an american trillion / an european billion .. and that's as far as you nee
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by thanatropism 13y ago
This keeps coming up. I read pretty much everything Stafford Beer put up about the functioning of the system, but we never really saw a specification of the system dynamics-based model of the chilean economy it was supposed to be based on.
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by thanatropism 13y ago
This would be where keyboards with hardware-level macro support (like the Kinesis Advantage) come to be useful. ... to be honest, I can't think of another scenario. I have an Advantage for every place I spend extended computer time in
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by thanatropism 13y ago
The API and mobile clients are better too. Though the Google Docs API is awesome; apps like IFTT's "add row to Google Spreadsheet" might just eat the cloud DB space from below.
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by thanatropism 13y ago
> normally financial or market sizing ones A-ha. Here's the hidden assumption. You're looking at sheets that have a handful of parameters/assumptions and span out their consequences. (You want to stake out the market of pe
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by thanatropism 13y ago
You can stream from a GoPro to an iPhone. There's an app for that. Not sure about that distance. (I didn't see the video) The GoPro opens a wi-fi connection.
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by thanatropism 13y ago
This is not statistical analysis, this is "descriptive statistics" at best. This: > One of the infamous memes about Hacker News is programming language elitism, with favoritism for languages such as Lisp and Erlang. > Lisp a
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by thanatropism 13y ago
The physics are off from the iPhone Flappy Bird. This is easier.
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by thanatropism 13y ago
Not if you delete your reddit account once a year like me. Hell, I have two different news.yc accounts, one at work, one at home. I don't "shitpost" on either, so it might just be an interesting machine learning task to match
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by thanatropism 13y ago
I just discovered that 4chan works great on mobile phones. The great barrier to entry, for me, was the high risk of not only NSFW, but very weird NSFW stuff randomly popping up (even if I stay in /mu/ and /pol/) at work.
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by thanatropism 13y ago
Then again, this is based on Thatcher-era BBC's "The House of Cards".
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by thanatropism 13y ago
Excel is a much larger problem than PowerPoint. Not only it costs millions in eventual errors, it also impedes low-hanging-fruit automation that should be there -- Suzy from HR should be used to something like Mathematica for _everything_,
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by thanatropism 13y ago
Yes, but not due to the traditional Control key positioning. Rather, I switch Tab for Caps Lock. Since I use bowl-design Kinesis keyboards both at home and at work, the usual position for Caps Lock (where I put Tab) is just a tad bit more