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by unclesaamm 9y ago
Tyson's Corner being "in the middle of Virginia" is the perfect Northern Virginian equivalent of the New Yorker's "View of the World from 9th Ave"
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by unclesaamm 9y ago
Although I disagree about the value of hedge fund managers, it is true that the rise of these "supermanagers" is a huge component in income inequality trends in the US. Here's a thoughtful and spooky comparison with the corpo
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by unclesaamm 9y ago
oh you're right! it must have been cached.
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by unclesaamm 9y ago
The most annoying part is still there -- of the home page morphing into the search results page as soon as text is typed. It is a totally nonsensical design. 1) Type stuff into google.com 2) Delete all the text You are now on a totally empt
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by unclesaamm 9y ago
This article buys way too much into the concept of "democratic efficiency", that "being heard" leads directly to government action, and therefore lack of action (or the wrong kind of action) is _caused by_ a lack of &quo
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by unclesaamm 9y ago
Congratulations, I think you managed to set a new record for ableism on Hacker News. I'm actually struggling to formulate a response because disqualifying people from discussing their issues because of mental illness is so extraordinar
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by unclesaamm 9y ago
A crucial element that wasn't mentioned here was the lack of play-testing. Having a dozen people play the game and give feedback would have informed the makers that it was too hard, and where. It ties in with the lack of time and resou
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by unclesaamm 9y ago
Surprised nobody has mentioned turning the heart back into a star.
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by unclesaamm 9y ago
There is a broad coalition of people who are excited about socialist ideas. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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by unclesaamm 9y ago
No, they're making the point that anxiety is both sociological as well as biological, and that the sociological dimensions of anxiety have worsened. I'm not sure I agree either, but is that so hard to gleam from TFA? Here's a
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by unclesaamm 9y ago
This isn't true -- there are worker cooperatives, where workers own the means of production and sell the goods to others: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worker_cooperative Which isn't to say that Sparkfun is a
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by unclesaamm 9y ago
GNU Radio is another example of this succeeding with manipulating flows of data. But I agree that's an intrinsically different problem than what OP is describing, which is essentially a WYSIWYG editor.
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by unclesaamm 9y ago
If said bar friend were to offer me free drinks forever, I would make the shit out of that website
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by unclesaamm 9y ago
Somehow you think the expenditure of money is exempt from moral consideration. This is the most amazing thing I've read on HN in a while. The "cause he believes in" is banning same-sex marriage... in other words, homophobia.
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by unclesaamm 9y ago
Much more likely for it to be the ole "Download it quickly and I'll make it private" Edit: After reading the article, I have no idea what could explain this. They had a dozen passwords in there as well..
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by unclesaamm 9y ago
Google Sheets isn't open sourced and MIT licensed is one big difference
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by unclesaamm 9y ago
This is the most neoliberal thing I've ever read. No, doing nothing will not make the world a better place. And no, our mindless slide into capitalism-in-all-things is not actually good for most people. For one, see the Clinton Foundat
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by unclesaamm 9y ago
Non-paywalled link: http://facebook.com/l.php?u=https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s...
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by unclesaamm 9y ago
> As much as you guys love to hate on Uber, do you honestly want to go back to a world without it? Why is the choice about going back? I want to move forward into a world with driver-owned Ubers (aka platform cooperatives). I like ride h
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by unclesaamm 9y ago
The Ringling College of Art and Design is a reputable design school. Doesn't have much to do with clowns or PT Barnum.
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by unclesaamm 9y ago
The purporse of anti-net neutrality advocates is basically to make the web less free so their clients (large telcoms) can capture more profits. I think big money realized fairly late in the game that the Internet's decentralized struct
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by unclesaamm 9y ago
Is there a standard for "real-world conditions"? I could easily see Waymo driving their cars up and down the highway near their headquarters for 50 million miles and calling that "real world".
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by unclesaamm 9y ago
Not sure what the Portland Loo comparison is meant to suggest -- from what I've read, they also cost ~130k, and at least in a few cases, much more: http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/politics/sdut-portl.
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by unclesaamm 9y ago
Read the full sentence: > "Ms." began to be used as early as the 17th century, along with "Miss" and "Mrs.", as a title derived from the then formal "Mistress", which, like Mister, did not original
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by unclesaamm 9y ago
For everyone whining about how this is "newspeak" and brainwashing, consider how the pronoun "Ms." didn't exist until the 60s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ms . (edit <- the period is part o
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by unclesaamm 10y ago
I think Facebook also connects people who appear at the same wireless access points, so you could have received the suggestion once your phone connected to the Internet at the doctor's office.
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by unclesaamm 10y ago
Definitely 3, at this point. Most libraries are Python 3 ready, and it doesn't make sense to start with 2: http://py3readiness.org/ .
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by unclesaamm 10y ago
Community operated and moderated. It's amazing how the entire tech community has come together on a message board run by venture capital. It's not a neutral forum. At the very least, a GNU-friendlier alternative would be appreciat
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by unclesaamm 10y ago
Can we migrate to an open-source alternative to Hacker News already?
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by unclesaamm 10y ago
This is ridiculous. By this logic, the working poor in areas of the country where jobs are scarce would be paid much, much more, to offset the extremely damaging effects of getting laid off.

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