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by jazzdev 4y ago
I don't think of it as virtue signal as much as it is community building, which certainly has a reproductive advantage if the community is stronger because of it.
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A corrected history of mRNA vaccines(philip.greenspun.com)
11 points by jazzdev 5y ago|0 comments
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by jazzdev 5y ago
Did Instagram avoid that fate by never allowing porn in the first place?
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by jazzdev 5y ago
"the internet is better and faster for basically everybody than it was when net neutrality ended—in fact, it's better and faster than at any point in the past." Were we wrong about net neutrality?
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4 Years After the FCC Repealed Net Neutrality, the Internet Is Better Than Ever(reason.com)
1 points by jazzdev 5y ago|5 comments
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by jazzdev 5y ago
The notion of "using force" to get someone to agree is interesting. If someone wants to pay me $X for Y. Then you think there's force involved there somewhere? If is X is too large, is that force? If I'm very poor and
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by jazzdev 5y ago
I think I might pick fan fiction. I'd like craft a story that somehow ties together Xena: Warrior Princess, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Veronica Mars.
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Ask HN: What charities are you donating to this year?
20 points by jazzdev 5y ago|16 comments
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by jazzdev 5y ago
I guess not. Github terms[1]: Actions should not be used for: - any other activity unrelated to the production, testing, deployment, or publication of the software project associated with the repository where GitHub Actions are used. [1] h
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by jazzdev 5y ago
So GitHub Actions is essentially a free server to run any background cron jobs I want?
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by jazzdev 5y ago
DocuSign | SDET, Frontend, Backend | Full-Time | Onsite / Remote | Seattle My team at DocuSign is looking for someone that enjoys waking up in the morning to see the results of last night's test run. And loves tuning those tests t
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Amazon effect’ sets the tone for US workers’ remuneration(ft.com)
1 points by jazzdev 5y ago|0 comments
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by jazzdev 6y ago
Fatal car accidents in the United States spike by 6% during the workweek following the "spring forward" to daylight saving time, resulting in about 28 additional deaths each year. [1] 1 = https://www.sciencedaily.com&#x
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by jazzdev 6y ago
This story was on the Freakonomics podcast too. It definitely seems like a bubble, but there's no external pressure to make the bubble pop. With the mortgage crisis, eventually, people can't make the mortgage payments and the bubb
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by jazzdev 6y ago
I found this book a good education in critical thinking skills when consuming news sources: https://www.amazon.co.uk/How-Make-World-Add-Up/dp/1408712245 Video link and summary of some of the books points can be fo
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Private Money from Facebook's CEO Saved the 2020 Election(npr.org)
2 points by jazzdev 6y ago|0 comments
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by jazzdev 6y ago
"more than 1,500,000 business applications were filed between July and September of this year. It's a dramatic spike in new business applications, which average about 800,000 per quarter and rarely deviate very far in either direc
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Americans Are Starting a Staggering Number of Businesses During the Covid-19 Pan(reason.com)
3 points by jazzdev 6y ago|1 comments
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by jazzdev 6y ago
It seems like this is a space where a non-profit might be more successful. Any profit-based company is going to have incentives to game reviews. Consumer Reports is published by a non-profit. They have a decent reputation. Reputation exists
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by jazzdev 6y ago
Makes me want to build an ML system to rate ratings. Of course that could escalate into an arms race.
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by jazzdev 6y ago
This is why innovation happens in startups where the incentives are better aligned.
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by jazzdev 6y ago
TLDR: "Today’s rightwing populists have proven so successful at appealing to those for whom the traditional bonds of the workplace, religious institutions and the wider community have broken down. Their success also lies in this: an ap
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Why Loneliness Fuels Populism(ft.com)
6 points by jazzdev 6y ago|2 comments
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Apple customers can now buy or rent titles directly in the Prime Video app(techcrunch.com)
2 points by jazzdev 6y ago|2 comments
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by jazzdev 6y ago
You can already open the camera app when the phone is locked by swiping left on the lock screen.
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by jazzdev 6y ago
Seems like a creative way to abuse someone online. She was able to get it corrected, but only because her sister happened to notice it. She also had to get Google to correct one of their "Knowledge Panels", another downside of Goo
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by jazzdev 6y ago
Applying the most generous interpretation principle[1] I suspect the binary tree test is not an old fart screen. Just a poor test of job aptitude. Unfortunately, hiring is fairly broken in our industry, if you want a job, the best use of yo
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by jazzdev 6y ago
I think that's called regulatory capture when politicians task experts to come up with legislation.
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by jazzdev 6y ago
Interesting video. Pychil claims that procrastination is a weakness of will. For another perspective, check out the book, "Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much" [1], which claims it's not just about will (executive f
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by jazzdev 6y ago
> Right now, companies artificially constrain their talent pools in search of the next Zuckerberg, while the country’s best coders are actually at schools such as Arizona State, USC, and UC Irvine. Companies unable to recruit based on ge

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