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Data Firm Says ‘Secret Sauce’ Aided Trump; Many Scoff(nytimes.com)
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by facepalm 10y ago
I must admit I can not really relate. What about somebody who can not FizzBuzz, but claims they can code? Most whiteboard interviews I had were not much harder than FizzBuzz. I was asked to implement Quicksort once, but they gave me the spe
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by facepalm 10y ago
What are the options for men who want to have a family/live with their children? I guess men who just want to have sex might benefit, because they can just sleep with women and then leave, and society takes care of the single moms. Lik
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by facepalm 10y ago
You think it is men deciding not to marry, as in "no thanks, I'd rather be alone and unemployed than change diapers"? The article said it is women making the decision.
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by facepalm 10y ago
People fall in love with colleagues all the time.
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by facepalm 10y ago
I'm not saying she is wrong, just asking why is it wrong to investigate her claims? Although the numbers you cite are not really evidence of a problem imo - there could be any number of reasons. Assuming sexism is the only explanation
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by facepalm 10y ago
Is Snapchat strictly for entertainment, or is it also a way to stay up to date by following Tech influencers (like Twitter)?
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by facepalm 10y ago
people are scared and want to follow others so they don't have to decide everything for themselves. Humans are pack animals.
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by facepalm 10y ago
I really enjoyed the AI class by Thrun and Norvig. Nothing against Databases (I didn't take it), but AI class was fine - great, actually.
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by facepalm 10y ago
Why is this wrong - or is it? Seems like a pretty normal reaction to being attacked? Is it wrong because a woman's statements always have to be believed?
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by facepalm 10y ago
Why would anybody pay 35$ for crappy TV if Netflix is only 10$?
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by facepalm 10y ago
Or maybe it is/was obvious that there are certain flaws in the US health care system and Obamacare that definitely have a better solution. There are other health care systems in the world, so it is obvious that Obamacare is not the onl
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by facepalm 10y ago
I thought it was meant in another way, that the article blames lazy developers for not providing good privacy solutions. Of course certain developers implemented Facebook and whatnot, and are therefore to blame. But "developers" i
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by facepalm 10y ago
"how would you distill an unwieldy set of options into a concise API?" I'd rather implement Bubble Sort, tbh...
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by facepalm 10y ago
Somehow I still don't buy that dhh would fail to implement Bubble Sort.
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by facepalm 10y ago
I remember the complaints that he wasn't proposing something specific before the election. So actually I don't think most people are aware that it is complicated. Otherwise they wouldn't have expected a simple solution.
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by facepalm 10y ago
But how can you change the situation, if consumers don't care enough to educate themselves? A government decree wouldn't help in this case, as governments can't be trusted with protecting privacy.
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by facepalm 10y ago
There seem to be many privacy solutions, but little adoption. Sorry, but I have to blame the consumers, not developers. I am actually amazed at how much manpower is being poured into doomed privacy projects. Like how many encrypted messenge
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by facepalm 10y ago
Why is it not an issues, the dosage is too low? Afaik lead enters through the skin, too - washing hands after soldering sufficient?
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by facepalm 10y ago
How do you avoid it with lead solder? Common soldering tutorials don't mention the issue.
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by facepalm 10y ago
What if I own a company and don't want my employees to have a voice in how things are done? Why shouldn't that be allowed? And what if I hire workers to build me a house - should they be entitled to parts of the house after they b
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by facepalm 10y ago
I haven't looked at their comments - but sure, why not make such an analysis? What do you mean by "we are all smart people here" - everybody knows the earth is flat? Edit: perhaps you could at least provide a link to a typica
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by facepalm 10y ago
It sounds like a nice move to give employees shares in one's company. But what is stopping employees from simply buying shares from their salary? Giving them a high enough salary so that they could buy any shares they want seems like a
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by facepalm 10y ago
Benefits, but I think also some obligations?
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by facepalm 10y ago
The discussion should not be about marriage, but about the right to adopt children and to grant citizenship to spouses. Next I wonder, what are the arguments against marriage for polygamists? And if I can marry several people (how many - 10
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by facepalm 10y ago
What do you mean? Edit, since HN doesn't let me reply: the point is the article suggest something sinister going on, whereas it is mostly just business as usual. Note that claims about the effectiveness of CA also come mostly from CA e
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by facepalm 10y ago
didn't know, thanks - haven't actually watched it. (edit, sine HN doesn't let me reply: why would it be important to have watched it? According to Wikipedia, it is set at JFK. Watching it would not have added a new impression
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by facepalm 10y ago
The point is - everybody could have employed CA, or other firms with similar offerings. That is the game of the presidential election, which one candidate won. To suggest something sinister went on is far off.
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by facepalm 10y ago
Maybe it is precisely because people have more information sources available now that they realize more often how lacking some articles are. For example, I have witnessed first hand the campaign for banning ads on Breitbart (which was often
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by facepalm 10y ago
It's not news that Trump employed Cambridge Analytics. Their actual impact is overblown. I think that has been discussed several times before. In any case, as you say, it is nothing new, and open to everyone with enough money (as Clint

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