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by arstin 8y ago
English major here! I never got the McDonald's gig, but I am now helping the economy and keeping the world turning by making money as a useful software engineer. :) I wouldn't use the stern-faced "useful" language, but I
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by arstin 8y ago
Just curious: why try to publish in an academic journal if you're not an academic? In many fields, if you have the resources to do the research you wouldn't be asking this question. And fields where single author, more creative (l
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by arstin 8y ago
Yea I’ll admit I’m skeptical of dockless bikes as well. We have docks and since there’s basically always one within half a mile or (usually much) less, it works perfectly fine imo. Maybe dockless would be nice on a beach with a boardwalk, b
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by arstin 8y ago
I'm an avid biker, and I also make heavy use of my city's shared bike program. I go more miles on my own bikes, but I ride shared bikes more often. I think you're overlooking many significant use cases for shared bikes. Here&
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by arstin 9y ago
I don’t see why HN doesn’t require every down vote to have a comment. Judging from the sheets of gray on most threads, most down voted comments aren’t actually in violation of site policy, off topic, trolling, etc. It’s just a few little pe
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by arstin 9y ago
Yeah the Bible is typically overlooked these days. Even most Christians probably don't read it. And many of the type who discovered Seneca or Dogen through a self-help blog probably take pride in how intelligent and "rational&quo
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by arstin 9y ago
I order something or other from Amazon every couple weeks and, living in Chicago, have often gotten it via Amazon delivery for a year or two now. It just seems like one problem after another: not actually dropping the package off, hiding th
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by arstin 9y ago
Well for one, Facebook, through crass negligence and a failure to own up to the duties that go along with their position in regulating the flow of information between people, played a key role in the election of an administration which supp
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by arstin 9y ago
Thank you for the link! I was actually wanting to read a survey on this topic. I'm obviously sympathetic with the general approach of focusing on augmenting rather than replacing humans in teaching. I confess I'm more skeptical of
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by arstin 9y ago
This is such a complicated statement to respond to! :) You could follow the thread of irony, of the kinds of abilities "analysis" is equivocal between, of what relevance evidence might have...what it might be applied against, what
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by arstin 9y ago
I don't disagree, but to add some additional complexity: cog-sci-y "learning science" literature mostly just captures one (very significant!) part of what goes on in a college course...learning things in the sense of being ab
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by arstin 9y ago
I hate being a downer, but was anyone else struck by how...uninteresting so many of these answers were? I love reading this series, but it seems this year's question was just too hard. Seriously, I have no clue what I'd answer eit
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by arstin 9y ago
Indeed! Google seems to have been doing a good job so far of trying to preempt being called a monopoly by not really abusing their power. (On the consumer services level at least, no opinion here on others.)
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by arstin 9y ago
Yeah, I guess I agree with everything you say, really. But since you emphasize asking about the "ridiculous" quality, I'd just propose what's ridiculous (kinda? but too strong) is that switching from Google to DDG is jus
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by arstin 9y ago
"I'd be keen to hear why you think that switching to another search engine is ridiculous?" I think you answered your own question: "I reckon that most users wouldn't even notice/realise if they were using anoth
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by arstin 9y ago
On the whole, I've probably learned more at conferences from talking shop over drinks than from the talks. Many talks are hastily put together and poorly presented. And many are simply above or below whatever my skill level for that th
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It’s Time for Apple to Build a Less Addictive iPhone(nytimes.com)
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by arstin 9y ago
Wow thanks for that Pearl link! I know how I'll be spending my afternoon......
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by arstin 9y ago
Nice article. For anyone wanting to try more pepper, I like going to The Meadow when in NYC. Sometimes get a random vial of (expensive!) pepper. Plus you can sample a wall of bitters! Any one else have a good source?
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by arstin 9y ago
Some more info on how the old line that "saturated fat is bad" might not be so simple. https://examine.com/nutrition/is-saturated-fat-bad-for-me/ You can even find people who are into various forms &quot
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by arstin 9y ago
Stimulate fun discussion? Organize your own thoughts? Teach readers new things in a way that directly ties the information to their current experience? And so many more.
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by arstin 9y ago
I think this attitude vastly underestimates how messy of a process knowing actually is. To give just one point here: understanding a topic---even a single assertion---isn't like a switch, something you lack one moment and have the next
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by arstin 9y ago
Aye, Lightning Bolt was one of my favorite shows ever too. Had just finished college. Saw them play on the floor of a dive bar with just a few other local patrons. I stood right in front of the band---could have kicked the drumkit---with my
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by arstin 9y ago
Oh yeah no denying the X improves on the 6, especially screen and camera. And if I took pics regularly I’d upgrade. One of these days... What would make me personally enthusiastically pay a lot to upgrade would be a blazing fast e-ink displ
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by arstin 9y ago
Exactly, only 3.3 years ago. :) I still use a beat-up 6 with a wonderful patina and have no interest in upgrading. For me the 6 seemed to be the point where everything was "good enough". Until there's a big advance in what ph
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by arstin 9y ago
Does anyone know about grassroots efforts to provide internet in major cities? Any links to follow updates or just for more info? Being completely ignorant, it should be feasible with so many people in a few square miles. I would absolutely
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by arstin 9y ago
Yea I usually don't even know exactly what I'm looking for. I'd love an ebook reader which can nail something roughly like the experience of browsing library stacks.
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by arstin 9y ago
The relative straightforwardness is exactly the appeal to me. There are nights when nothing works better. I had people over to play games last week, for example, and turns out it had been a long day for all of us and we didn't really f
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by arstin 9y ago
Until just the past month I didn't have room for a dedicated dining table. My trick was to store a hollow door (yes, a closet door I carried back from Home Depot) behind my clothes in my closet. And when I had people over for board gam
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by arstin 9y ago
Perhaps some ancient ones, but also more modern historians. When this list was written almost 50 years ago it seems that tradition was already fading, and now...as far as I can tell...it's covered in dust. Old histories inevitably cont

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