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by whybroke 10y ago
>If you are more concerned with rules and respecting other applications by not standing out, you are just playing the game poorly. So say sleeping with people from HR is ok? Either we have social norms, fairness and an (attempt at) a rat
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by whybroke 10y ago
Well it's easier than a facelift and memorizing comic books to maybe help an engineer qualify on culture fit.
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Or you could just announce you have such a technology and thereby slightly inhibit the organization of uprisings via the Panopticon effect. All for the cost of sending a few emails. Of course the reason what I say is unlikely is because act
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by whybroke 10y ago
Perhaps so, I did not screenshot the posts of the last week. Certainly scores that were very positive yesterday are now negative. And certainly it began immediately after a post to wikipedia's marginal utility page which apparently dis
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by whybroke 10y ago
Downvoting currently sure is broken. An hour ago, when daring to suggest the Russians might actually be responsible for the DNC hacks, everything I've posted for the last week silently earned a down vote. And while I don't particu
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by whybroke 10y ago
I recently had about a dozen old posts silently downvoted without comment because I linked to a wikipedia article about marginal utility which apparently deeply annoyed an ideologe. So the de facto workings of the site make me wear downvote
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by whybroke 10y ago
So The Director of National Intelligence and the Department of Homeland Security are conspiring to provoke a serious intentional problem solely to distract from an already admitted to and apologized for personal server that is only importan
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by whybroke 10y ago
An even more interesting problem is how HN will deal with 55 Savushkina Street
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by whybroke 10y ago
I am infinitely glad there are people with your sprint putting effort into making things work at burning man or anywhere else. I sincerely wish you the best.
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by whybroke 10y ago
I hope you are right about some culture production still going on, I can not speak to the whole event or even a statistically significant amount. Perhaps limiting ticket sales to a tiny time window has helped. Yes, the bulk of the community
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by whybroke 10y ago
The confusion stems from the idea that Burning Man is still a cultural phenomenon rather than just entertainment/art installation. An erroneous belief that the promoters seem to have internalized to their own confusion. Indeed, part of
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by whybroke 10y ago
We work in a surreal field were knowing a bit of Node.js and nothing else is considered superior to knowing a bit of Node.js and alot of .NET Obviously you may substitute any fashionable/unfashionable language pair in the above.
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by whybroke 10y ago
You are using high school math incorrectly which is what results in the many obvious contractions I have listed above. In the unlikely event you are actually interested in the correct formulation, you start to find the answer here [1]. [1]
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by whybroke 10y ago
No it does not. If you received no utility for your work but instead a 1:1000,000 chance of a million incomes, you would starve to death. The math you are using does not describe reality and rational people, since about Galileo anyway, have
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by whybroke 10y ago
And the necessary next question: how fast did ideas travel at the time given technical, linguistic and cultural borders. I'd love to know the first mention of Galileo's (or Copernicus') ideas in Moscow, Terran, Mumbai, Mexico
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by whybroke 10y ago
Or by that logic you could cut your pay from $100K to $1K and give your CEO $10M and be just as happy. There are plenty of people who live on $1K a year after all. Although in the CEO's case, often no further harm is done, if half of a
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by whybroke 10y ago
>Our industrialized food system nourishes more people, at lower cost, than any comparable system in history... It does puzzle me though why in Spain, among most other food, bread is 1/5 and Tomatoes 1/10 the price. Particularly
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by whybroke 10y ago
No, the result of increased wealth inequality, even if you maintained the same level of social mobility, will worsen not improve situation. The description of a rise in absolute mobility would be a misunderstanding of the issue. If that is
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by whybroke 10y ago
So the main team that made KSP is now all available on the job market? Who dose not immediately hire that team en masse has missed a huge opportunity.
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by whybroke 10y ago
After wearing cameras, police then stopped wearing them but complaints continues to be low even when there were no cameras. The likely explination is that the police's behavior had changed and continued in the changed state after the c
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by whybroke 10y ago
That too would be a good result although given that complaints remained lower after the cameras were removed, it would seem false complaints weren't the problem. But either way, it seems to work
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by whybroke 10y ago
>The second question which required a choice between killing homeless people and wealthier ones made me too disgusted to continue. Then you're not going to like this factoid. In wrongful death civil suits in the US, the monetary awa
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by whybroke 10y ago
You do know you can calculate the likelihood of a proposition from inductive evidence.
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by whybroke 10y ago
While you statement is hyperbole and your logic is Tu Quoque, it's clear the US does some very bad things. But you can be absolutely certain that anything that Putin is trying to do is absolutely guaranteed to vastly worsen that both i
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by whybroke 10y ago
>..imaginary.. um, no A hostile foreign power hacking a government related server containing potential sensitive data and then spewing that data such as to disrupt a US election is vastly more significant than putting that data on the se
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by whybroke 10y ago
My imagination isn't that good but I'm more than willing to take the risk of an ego bruise if seceding states wanted to go. In fact, I'd be willing to pay for them to leave. Even willing to fund a wall on the Mason-Dixon line
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by whybroke 10y ago
With no historic federal interference, Mississippi would out do Switzerland in happiness, education, prosperity and general liberty? Somehow I doubt that. If anything, the Federal government is overly distracted bringing the slow parts of t
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by whybroke 10y ago
Those negative cultural attitudes that can hold back a vast country packed with resource that has oceans separating it form two world wars maybe should be fixed. Otherwise one must wonder what is the point in remaining a single nation if th
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by whybroke 10y ago
And anyway I think you'll find it just as 'impossible' to do any zoning change that reduce any asset on the mortgage holder's books: Anything that actually reduces land price is equally politically 'impossible'
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by whybroke 10y ago
I know unions are a popular whipping boy on hn but blaming them for today's overpriced housing? And up-voting this nonsense? wow

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