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by CarpetBench 10y ago
Also an excellent point!
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by CarpetBench 10y ago
The most surprising part about this to me is that this matters at the top. Sure, for a middle manager it makes sense that it matters quite a bit. I'm pretty surprised that it matters much at the top, though. If Elon Musk decided to hea
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by CarpetBench 10y ago
Eh? Does it matter? Some people are referred to frequently by their first names (Sergey, Larry, Joel), some by their last name (Woz, Jobs), some by both or either. Are you trying to imply something?
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by CarpetBench 10y ago
I don't disagree with you, but that isn't really what the article is saying. The article is all but making a blanket statement that "unpredictability = bad in any context": > Behaving unpredictably with one group — cu
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by CarpetBench 10y ago
Interesting article. Not sure I totally find this persuasive: The author tries his damnedest to draw a distinction between "unpredictability" and "secrecy", but it ends up being pretty murky. For example: > Keeping se
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by CarpetBench 10y ago
The author expands on what they mean by "strategic" in the following paragraphs.
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by CarpetBench 10y ago
I hate to get into an internet pissing match, but I think this is important (especially so if you're a healthcare professional, because this obviously has ramifications for you). Still, I really have no desire to argue with strangers o
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by CarpetBench 10y ago
Television and film are particularly bad about this. For obvious reasons. It's more exciting to shock someone with paddles than it is to pump them with 1mg of epinephrine.
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by CarpetBench 10y ago
> nor should you do CPR on someone with a weak pulse Absolutely untrue. CPR is recommended by the AHA for anyone who isn't breathing, regardless of whether they have a pulse [0]. By "she may have had a weak pulse", I mean
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by CarpetBench 10y ago
AEDs (defibrillators) are only good for specific types of cardiac conditions. Since they were performing CPR on her, it's likely she had a very weak or no heartbeat (asystole), which defibrillators are no good with. Defibrillators are
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by CarpetBench 10y ago
It's almost certainly multi-faceted, but I don't think it's just "conservatives discovering the internet," or at least anymore than it was 4 years ago. Two things that I think contribute heavily to the phenomenon yo
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by CarpetBench 10y ago
Really interesting that so many people went straight for the "welfare queen" of this current economic specter (s/"welfare queen"/"art therapist") while ignoring this. I mean the article all but says t
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by CarpetBench 10y ago
I think you're doing a great job. Moderating threads and submissions that are basically guaranteed to be shitshows (like this one) is an incredibly thankless job. Thanks for keeping it together, and thanks for keeping this from going o
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by CarpetBench 10y ago
Interesting response. Really interesting given that white supremacists also tend to be anti-semitic, and most of the same tropes about Asians also apply to the Jewish community: Focus on education, low rates of crime, etc. Maybe that's
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by CarpetBench 10y ago
> I'll stick up for coding bootcamps as a general concept Sure, and similarly there isn't anything inherently wrong with for-profit universities: You can certainly find people who excelled in an environment like DeVry and don&#
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by CarpetBench 10y ago
> I did not receive much support either from the HN crowd I think there's a reason for that, and you touched on some of them. There's undoubtedly an ageism to the tech industry, and being an older junior developer is likely to
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by CarpetBench 10y ago
> Taxation is definitely an effective tool for social control. Do you have an alternative? Or do you suggest that government should not be involved in social control? I hope you can appreciate why some people would say the answer to that
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by CarpetBench 10y ago
My guess is that Gopman posted something incredibly insensitive in a moment of frustration and probably really regrets voicing his opinion, even if he still believes it. It's hard to have sympathy for him given that. Still, this argume
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by CarpetBench 10y ago
> It seems like consolidation was a lesson we learned a few decades ago and are in danger of forgetting. Despite groans to the contrary, I don't think consolidation is the reason services like Netflix/etc. are so popular and wh
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by CarpetBench 10y ago
It's just a bad analogy. It sounds silly if you replace movies with physical goods. If you, unauthorized, print out a photo and hang it in your apartment to enjoy you've probably committed IP infringement of some kind. Have you co
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by CarpetBench 10y ago
> But does this mean that you are suggesting the members of this tribe convened and decided to put rules in place to define a member's behavior and potentially institute punishment if these rules were broken? No, although I could tr
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by CarpetBench 10y ago
> We didn't consider lying and cheating to be frowned upon until we decided we were a civilized society with rules based on Eh, what? Where are you getting that from? Any organism with cooperative dynamics also has to contend with c
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by CarpetBench 10y ago
Even that is a little contentious though, no? Even if we define sentience as the ability to feel pain (which is a bit of a simplification of sentience), the definition of pain seems fairly vague when talking about non-human animals. AFAIK f
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by CarpetBench 10y ago
It's an interesting question because it informs where we draw arbitrary lines about what's ok to eat and what's not. Honestly, and not to just be a smart-ass, but what are the acceptable life forms to eat? We've drawn th
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by CarpetBench 10y ago
> The border between hilarious and disgusting is sometimes tenuous Bit of a digression but just because sometimes it causes friction, particularly amongst people who think laughter is an inappropriate response to serious situations: I do
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by CarpetBench 10y ago
I found it hilarious the number of comments that are tirades about student loans and "personal responsibility," like it was even a significant part of the article.
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by CarpetBench 10y ago
> You can also make a good opinion just by looking at the place from the outside. Ehh, isn't this textbook "judging a book by its cover"? It tells you nothing about the quality of the food, service, etc. unless you
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by CarpetBench 10y ago
You're thinking of rehabilitation in the "recovery from addiction" sense. The poster you're replying to is using rehabilitation in the "correct this person's future behavior" sense. > lock up a heroin d
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by CarpetBench 10y ago
Uh I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but "hard" science has a shitload of problems with reproducibility as well. It's actually a big problem with modern research in general.
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by CarpetBench 10y ago
I dunno, I think it's a refreshing reminder to take a step back from the "be hyper-productive, always learning, don't waste a second" mindset that pervades HN pretty heavily sometime. I honestly stepped into the article

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