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by hammerzeit 8y ago
If you see a piece in the NYT that's making fun of those weird tech nerds , odds are high it's in the styles section. Choire Sicha, formerly of Gawker, took over the section last year, and since then there's been a rash of p
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by hammerzeit 9y ago
Please, before this degrades into the inevitable shouting match, let's please consider that there are two things that can both simultaneously be true: 1.Tech is less bad than many, many other industries. I can personally speak to overt
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by hammerzeit 9y ago
My spouse is a doctor as well, and I've also observed the issues the author discusses. I don't think your read of the causes here is correct. It's worth reading more about the history of medicine to truly understand what&#x27
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by hammerzeit 9y ago
I really enjoyed the frustration of the article's author in trying to attribute Ted Chiang's writing to his personal life or history. We as humans seem to have this unceasing tendency to essentialize -- to believe that everything
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by hammerzeit 10y ago
This is a really interesting question to ask, but survey-based responses only tells us how venture capitalists think they make decisions. Obviously this is a secretive industry but I think the far more interesting question to answer is ar
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by hammerzeit 10y ago
This is a problem we've managed to solve for dozens of other dietary preferences, from kosher status to gluten-free, without insisting on mandatory labeling. Why is GMO so special? It's hard to believe the sincerity of your claim,
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by hammerzeit 10y ago
That's ridiculous. Excluding the subway, there's still approximately 110k riders each way on the LIRR[1] and 90k each way on NJ Transit[2]. Plus amtrak, you're talking about ~450,000 daily rail passengers. That would still ma
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Four pieces of advice ahead of your Y Combinator interview(medium.com)
2 points by hammerzeit 10y ago|0 comments
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by hammerzeit 11y ago
This article, and its reflection on the creative process, on the insecurities felt by those who take part in it, on the pain of how long it takes to get anything done resonated very strongly with me. I think there's a lot to learn here
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Sanctum Sanctorum for Writers(nytimes.com)
1 points by hammerzeit 11y ago|1 comments
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by hammerzeit 11y ago
I have a young child at home. He eats bamba, peanut butter, and a worrying amount of New York City dirt. That said, this is such a dangerous article, and I'm honestly surprised the NYT published it. It's written by a non-scientist
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by hammerzeit 11y ago
100 times this. Eliminating structure just transfers the heavy lifting to informal mechanisms -- i.e. your "culture." No culture is sufficiently well-defined that everybody has a consistent definition of it, meaning you will inevi
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by hammerzeit 11y ago
There's already an internet-scale mechanism to avoid seeing ads while ensuring that publishers are compensated for the content they're creating -- it's the very ad exchanges that show us all the terrible ads we see. All you&#
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by hammerzeit 11y ago
Forget ethical questions, then, and let's talk economics. If you're not generating revenue for them, why should anybody who hopes to make money off of content choose to show you anything? What value do you represent to them? Why s
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by hammerzeit 11y ago
But... why? I don't understand why an entrepreneur would prefer crowdfunded money to venture capital. And if he can't raise venture capital with the glut of money in venture right now, that's doubly worrying. The only thing t
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by hammerzeit 12y ago
While this doesn't invalidate his arguments in and of itself, but it's worth noting that John Gray's core philosophy seems to be diametrically opposed to even the idea of Pinker being right. Gray's philosophy, at least
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by hammerzeit 12y ago
I'm sure there's a point you're making here, but I'm not interested in finding it among all the insults you're slinging my way. Chill out, dude.
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by hammerzeit 12y ago
There are certainly plenty of folks in silicon valley who could care less about quality as long as it hits the numbers. It may or may not be the case that the new management at TNR are folks like that -- if it is, that's depressing t
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by hammerzeit 12y ago
Evgevny Morozov is a great place to start; he can go a little off the rails but much of his critiques of technological determinism are well-located. I don't fully subscribe to all of Model View Culture's political aims but their a
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by hammerzeit 12y ago
There are many, many critiques of silicon valley that are relevant and problematic and need to be heard and engaged with more. This is absolutely not one of them.
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by hammerzeit 12y ago
If Wieseltier's aim was to provide an ex post facto justification of what went down at the New Republic, he's certainly nailed it. The strawmen he constructs without a whit of evidence wouldn't pass freshman comp; that he&#
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by hammerzeit 12y ago
This reads like a classic Graeber piece, in that he's starts off by tackling some fascinating questions -- why are there 2x the administrative workers in the US as in Europe -- but then skips straight to the anarchist polemics. Most of
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by hammerzeit 12y ago
I applaud this article for challenging the received wisdom in libertarian communities that our prison problems are a function of drug laws -- indeed, if there's one thing this article does well, it's establishing that we cannot so
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by hammerzeit 12y ago
Is there any information about the actual incidence of this kind of thing? Best thing I can find is from the ACLU report, which suggests 5 non-suicide fatalities and 46 injuries -- but that's clearly from their limited subset.
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by hammerzeit 13y ago
The reason so many campaigns use "raising awareness" as a goal is because it is trivially, almost tautologically achievable. Let's say the numbers were 10% of what they are. Hey, raised awareness, success! Let's say they
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by hammerzeit 13y ago
This response should be exhibit A as to why HN was better when PG was enforcing the no-politics rule. It's phenomenally rude, emotionally charged, wildly unfocused, and somehow actively advocating being loud and uninformed. It's
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by hammerzeit 13y ago
You respond to the author's uncited claims and rhetorical flourishes with much of the same. To pick at a few things: * I'm not sure about you, but I'd think that a bittorrent-like outcome is not a successful one. Bittorrent i
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by hammerzeit 13y ago
Math is a good analogy, because I think it illustrates the real question here -- to what degree should we care about the pipeline into the meritocracy? Is a meritocracy effective if it's selecting the most deserving candidates from a s
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by hammerzeit 13y ago
We're living in an era of unprecedented airplane safety, as no American airline has had a mainline crash since 2001. I'm speaking largely as an outsider, but it seems probable that the increased automation has helped facilitate th
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by hammerzeit 13y ago
Easily. I know at least two people clearing $100k/year by being 'airbnb slumlords.' Real estate agents are keeping apartments off the market and renting them out as hotels. Airbnb is clearly forcing a convergence between hote

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