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by warcher 9y ago
> Because it's Anonymous. This is part of what it is. Sucks, but that's what it is. It's an important part. Dude, there is no reason you can't collect medical data responsibly and with respect to privacy. Cmon man.
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by warcher 9y ago
It's happening, it's just happening slowly. Point of fact, addiction is a disease and must be treated like a disease. This is pretty mainstream and not really all that controversial. The issue we're working through, glacial
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by warcher 9y ago
AA is all volunteer, run by people who are doing their level best to help with a monstrously difficult problem, with demonstrable success. I do think they got some things right. I don't think their work is finished, and they do nee
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by warcher 9y ago
Fun fact: The current standard within the US is AA/NA. AA and NA are not only wholly unscientific, being invented of whole cloth by a layperson in the early 20th century (for context, lobotomy was a totally accepted psychological tre
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by warcher 9y ago
For now. The others didn't, until they did.
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by warcher 9y ago
This ties into a phenomena that I've noticed with a lot of social networks lately-- fake content. What I mean by that specifically is putting things into your feed that nobody actually intended to share . e.g. "XXXX liked this t
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by warcher 9y ago
Why play an instrument at all, when you could just hang out and listen to music? Why paint when you could use a Wacom? Why slap a clump of mud on a pottery wheel when you could 3d print a bowl? Because, for whatever reason, when you put a
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by warcher 9y ago
An excellent point. Who's the smart one at the end of the day? Woz seems to have all the money he needs and all the fame I think he can stand. There's a lot to be said for quitting while you're ahead.
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by warcher 9y ago
And vice versa. Jobs got where he was by (not likely coincidentally) finding a person with Woz's combination of genius and gullibility. Woz didn't get a remotely fair shake from Jobs, and there are not a ton of guys dumb enough
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by warcher 9y ago
The trouble with this, and several other recent companies, isn't whether there's a business there. Cab via app? Way better. I love it. It's still an open question whether there's a 100 Billion Dollar Business. That&#
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by warcher 9y ago
I would argue that the readership of that blog would merit at least a discussion of his argument, which you will not even attempt. Like it or not, people know who he is and they read what he writes. If he's wrong, it's doubly im
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by warcher 9y ago
That was quite the ad hominem right there.
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by warcher 9y ago
It's a pretty decent way out of the whole "I'm rich, and I will destroy you with lawyer bills irrespective of the right or wrong of the situation" loophole. Any time you spin the wheel of fortune, bad things can and oft
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by warcher 9y ago
Binding arbitration is a real, real smart move if you don't plan to fuck anybody.
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by warcher 9y ago
I suspect the pamphlet would be a short read: "Stay off our breaks, kooks." And then like a picture of beach rats slashing your tires. (Obviously I'm kidding, but HN doesn't do irony, so I'll make it explicit. Jo
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by warcher 9y ago
Is it a straight MS in Computer Science, accredited and all, from GA Tech? Or some other thing?
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by warcher 9y ago
I only skimmed these papers, but they seemed to be dealing with contract terms that caused later shares to have value not totally reflected in the per-share price, including but not limited to things like ratchets and liquidation preference
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by warcher 9y ago
So, this might be me just being dumb, but I don't understand how Benchmark has made any money whatsoever on this deal. Not yet. And what I mean by that is this: they gave Uber money for shares. But they have not yet sold the share
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by warcher 9y ago
I'd like to hear your reasoning that the ship isn't sinking. My reasoning is their burn rate, unit economics, the writedowns, and VC's taking some controversial hardball steps to protect downside risk. Since they're pr
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by warcher 9y ago
I get in a lot of arguments with dudes who believe they have a right to stuff other people made without payment or consequence. The last one I remember is a bunch of DJs who didn't want to get permission to use samples. I find the arg
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by warcher 9y ago
I think the argument would be that, say, the New York Times wrote an article, and that article included ads for their sponsor. This third party tool is making unauthorized edits to the New York Times' copyrighted material. I'm a
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by warcher 9y ago
You say you owe your country nothing. If you truly don't think so, we're all the poorer for it. A very modern malaise. The right wing in this country has taken a curious turn of late. I think embracing these imagined grievances
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by warcher 9y ago
The whole "power imbalance" definition is a tremendous wedge to divide and conquer groups that would ordinarily be on the same side of an issue of basic human decency. "I can say what I like and it's not racist because
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by warcher 9y ago
This is a curious strawman, but I'll play, what the hell? I believe you and I agree that there has been systemic oppression against, let's choose african-americans in particular. Slavery, Jim Crow, the War on Drugs, Block-Busting
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by warcher 9y ago
I fundamentally reject the new definition of racism and sexism as requiring a power imbalance. Racial or gender prejudice is racial or gender prejudice. Full stop. Don't do it. This novel attempt to muddy the waters of racial preju
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by warcher 9y ago
In fairness, I'm aware of the hypocrisy in using positive discrimination to combat negative discrimination. I just haven't heard any better ideas to fix the problem. And the argument that we owe a debt to continue our forefather
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by warcher 9y ago
I think if you take a population that has been the subject of generations of systemic government oppression, remove it (allegedly), and then declare "fairness accomplished! You are free to complete on a level playing field! Pay no at
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by warcher 9y ago
This is increasingly my concern-- There really seems to be a prevailing opinion that racism and sexism are just fine when directed towards white men. You can drag a white guy for pretty much any societal ill you like on the internet these
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by warcher 9y ago
I believe clojure's made a lot of progress porting to android's JVM. Last I heard the clojure runtime took a couple seconds to boot, which is shitty if you're real serious about your apps, but not a dealbreaker. And the las
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by warcher 9y ago
Ehhhhhh hard ass real time stuff like heavy dsp or a game engine, you're on the metal and you're pitching your code to the CPU, not to humans. And the CPU thinks (kind of) imperatively. And the GPU does its own thing which is ba

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