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by tjic 18y ago
That's not what "begs the question" means. The phrase you want is "suggests the question". "Begs the question" means "a circular argument".
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by tjic 18y ago
With my right hand; clutch with the left foot.
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by tjic 18y ago
When a small area is 0.1 degree above average, that's a symptom of global warming. When a small area is 1.0 degrees below average, that's "just weather, not to be confused with climate".
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by tjic 18y ago
> Support your local economy! Why? Seriously. This is the mantra of a certain sector of society, but why should I discriminate against one perfectly good set of humans who live 100, or 1000 miles away, in favor of another perfectly goo
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by tjic 18y ago
Don't conflate "organic" and "healthy" - foods raised purely organically (without pesticides, fungicides, etc.) have more natural contaminants. Also, using organic fertilizers (manure, etc.) opens up a few contamination pathways that are no
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by tjic 18y ago
There's a ton of info on the web. Google things like "picking a brand name", etc. From a trademark perspective, you don't want to be "books.com" - it's too generic. From a mindshare perspective, you also don't want to be "wrejiorgsdf.com".
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by tjic 18y ago
> when businesses have too much power is that they corrupt those watchdogs It's called Regulatory Capture: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture It happens all the time. The vast majority of regulation ends up doing nothing
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by tjic 18y ago
You're confusing the last 12 months with a 4,000 + year longterm trend. Human lifespans, human wealth, and human knowledge have been growing exponentially for a long time. Check out a graph of American income over the last century - the Gr
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by tjic 18y ago
> there is no simple comparison on efficiency between the 2 different technology battery vs gasoline. What's wrong with "km/J" ?
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by tjic 18y ago
> "This is a disruptive technology," Anderson says. "It's a game-changer." It certainly is a slick hack, but "disruptive technology"? ...I do not think that that word means what you think it means...
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by tjic 18y ago
Personally, I wouldn't mind a bit of high-quality churn on the front page.
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by tjic 18y ago
Reed writes: The reality is that the boards of public companies hate overpaying for anything, including executives. But picking the wrong chief executive is an enormous disaster, so boards are willing to pay an arm and a leg
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by tjic 18y ago
This is amazingly interesting. Thanks for sharing. I read the first few chapters, then forced myself to defer the rest until after work!
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by tjic 18y ago
This reads like a long list of "employees should GET x, employees should GET y, employees should GET z". ...and there's absolutely nothing in there about how employees GENERATE utility. It's always fun to sit around and speculate on how you
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by tjic 18y ago
Were the instructions "do not use a computer solution" specified ahead of time? If this was either in the syllabus or otherwise discussed, then it's your bad, and you have to eat it. Otherwise, it's outrageous that rules are made up on the
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Ask HN: how to learn principles of DB schema design?
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by tjic 18y ago
I first ran into this issue several years ago, while I was using PERL (blargh). PERL has packages that allow you to put your HTML inside your code, or allow you to put your code inside templates. It soon became clear to me that neither is t
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by tjic 18y ago
> given a Microsoft machine... the interviewer put me in a position where I was made to look and feel stupid, despite the fact that the recruiter had told me that I was interviewing for a Unix-type position. Yeah, maybe. ...but do you
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by tjic 18y ago
> Not all coders do it for fun. These are the ones I try not to hire.
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by tjic 18y ago
Lose the splash screen and the "enter" link. I already typed in the URL, of COURSE I want to enter! You've only got one goal with people visiting the website: get them to buy one. With your website, what's my next action as a customer? It s
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by tjic 18y ago
I'm sure that there are women out there who are better programmers than I am (probably thousands of them!), but - as Camille Paglia argues - the bellcurve of female drive and talent is narrower than the bellcurve of male drive and talent.
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by tjic 18y ago
I certainly don't argue that the current CEOs of every firm receiving a bailout are doing a great job. ...but I love the message here: "Attention, world class CEOs who could earn 1,2, or 4 million dollars by working in the tech sector, or e
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by tjic 18y ago
Most people are incapable (either by lack of talent or lack of drive or lack of comprehension) of generating enough value in a 20 year career to feed themselves for the next 50 years.
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by tjic 18y ago
Here at SmartFlix we're pretty analytical about it. When we're batting the idea around, we create a page in the wiki, and the first section is "rationale / analysis". In there we put the number of customers it will attract, or the plausibl
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by tjic 18y ago
> Jamis is a cool guy, but his newfound obsession with wood carving is a little off-putting. As a pretty hands on person (I do woodcarving, woodturning, and am taking blacksmithing lessons right now), I actually enjoy these sorts of dig
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by tjic 18y ago
I offer a 120% guarantee at SmartFlix.com. I've only had one customer ask for it.
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by tjic 18y ago
Agreed. <i>Everybody</i> feels that way when starting their first company.
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by tjic 18y ago
> Parks on Fire is the latest short graphic film creation of digital artist Scott Pagano. It is an exploration of the complex, interpenetrated, and reflective relationships of structure, form, and motion that both bind and conflict the
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by tjic 18y ago
> I frankly dont want to be associated with porn Here's some business advice: What exactly is your secret sauce that's going to make your site better than (or even halfway as good as ) all of the thousands of competing sites? There's
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by tjic 18y ago
This isn't a regular researcher. This is a researcher in the "social sciences". ...wherein the word "social" works to invalidate the word "science".

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