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by timoth3y 6y ago
Those are fairly centrist publications. If you want left-leaning you might want to check out The Nation or Mother Jones.
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> The best measure for the quality of the codebase is whether at a glance you can understand what's going on. I agree with you in spirt, but I would change "you" to "a new teammate" in the above sentence.
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> Irregardless, the fact that so many I see what you did there.
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The world is not so binary. Just because one member attended a BLM rally and another was photographed with an Anarchy flag behind him does not mean they were immune to radicalization. These people are part of the larger militia movement tha
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by timoth3y 6y ago
> There are traders who demonstrate skill, by consistently making profits With a large enough group consistently making profits would not necessarily be a demonstration of skill. Even if the returns were completely random several traders
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> Can someone explain how they thought taking over a state within the US would do anything? There is no logical case to be made, but there is a strong emotional one. People need to belong and have a sense of purpose. For years, these peo
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by timoth3y 6y ago
The hikikomori are written about a lot in the Japanese and western press, and I think it's great that Japanese society is making a conscious effort to reach out to people and see how they can be made more happy and productive. The stat
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by timoth3y 6y ago
> Do we stress about the risks nuclear power far out of proportion to how safe it is? Yes. Even accounting for the worst accidents, it kills a very low number of people per TWh. That statement is true, but you are overlooking that fact t
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by timoth3y 6y ago
It more convincing to look at it the other way. It's not what such civilizations would have left, but what they would have taken. Our early civilizations found easily accessible deposits or tin, copper, gold, etc that would have been d
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by timoth3y 6y ago
I'm a developer who hated sales and was pushed into it because all the other members of the team were developers who hated it more than I did. Some great tactical recommendations have been made here, but the author who got me to re-thi
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by timoth3y 6y ago
Paul leaves out one fo the most important numbers in this model. The threshold. EW's proposed wealth tax only applies to the money you have above $50M. You can argue it's bad policy, but it seem pretty disingenuous to argue that b
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Modeling a Wealth Tax(paulgraham.com)
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I agree with the spirit of this article. However, the problem is that most of the time when we think "I could build that in an afternoon!" we are underestimating the complexity involved. Sometimes it takes an afternoon of coding a
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by timoth3y 6y ago
I've found the best way to learn from Tim Ferriss is to ignore what he says an watch what he does. I've never found much value in his books, but he is an amazing marketer and promoter.
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There is always a relevant XKCD.
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For many years, writers of all political persuasions have divided people into the "independent-thinkers" and the "sheep". Of course, people who think like they do are the independent-thinkers and the others are the shee
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by timoth3y 7y ago
It is now. It's been verbed.
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Efficiency needs to be viewed with target storage times in mind. For example, the reason batteries are not used for seasonal storage is not just because of their cost, but the fact that they lose their charge pretty quickly. They are 90%+ e
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by timoth3y 7y ago
I didn't see anything in the article that supported this conclusion. We did not evolve from chimps, we share a common ancestor, but we evolved (and continue to evolve) independently. We may have lost this ability or we may have never h
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by timoth3y 7y ago
The general idea behind the question is brilliant, but I doubt its usefulness as an interview question. When I read that in his book, my first thought was how I would answer it in an interview, and I think the unstated subtext to the questi
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by timoth3y 7y ago
Balancing that out, of course, is that professional engineers (I'm talking about PEs here, not programmers) can be held liable if they sign off on something they knew, or should have known, to be defective. They would be held liable ev
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by timoth3y 7y ago
It should probably be made null in non-negotiated contracts like EULAs. If two parties of equal power and status want to agree to resolve their issues trough arbitration rather than litigation, that's a great thing. Traditionally that
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by timoth3y 7y ago
It's already happened. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jul/08/police-bo...
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by timoth3y 7y ago
I'm a foreigner who has started a number of companies in Japan over the past 25 years. Right now is a great time to be starting a company here. BTW, shameless plug for my podcast: https://www.disruptingjapan.com/ Howe
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> Regulating freely consented exchanges _you_ don't like I believe the argument they are trying to make is not about whether they like the transaction, but what constitutes "freely consented". If someone's alternativ
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After years of experimenting, I've concluded that it's not the medium, it's the ritual. Things like meeting minutes I take electronically, but I still use physical notebooks as my main idea capture. I then go through and tran
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I'm sad to see them go. I think Pando really demonstrates how hard it is to make money in contrarian journalism. Not just investigative journalism, which is expensive, but it shows us the danger of going to market with a contrary voice
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by timoth3y 7y ago
> They can't be made prisoners of war and tortured, and they can't really be hostages, either captured or because of proximity to the combat theater. That sounds like a feature, but it has a very important downside. One of the
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by timoth3y 7y ago
The more I read about WeWork, the more I am convinced that it's the Webvan of the current bubble. A huge amount of hype and money involved. They have the biggest and "best" investors behind them. Those who point out seemingly
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by timoth3y 7y ago
Why not charge them with a few 100,000 counts of reckless engagement and a few thousand counts of depraved indifference? The punishment for causing this level of death and suffering should not be limited to writing a check.

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