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by lavamantis 6mo ago
Yep, great book. Also dispels the Lord of the Lies myth that people have taken as gospel.
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by lavamantis 6mo ago
And some people really WANT to believe it's true. They've built their entire worldview around it and the idea they've been duped would cause a massive narcissistic injury.
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by lavamantis 6y ago
It a way science is very similar to free speech. Its can be very harmful when misused, but generally the answer to bad science is not LESS science, but BETTER science. The proper role of the education system of any given country, and a good
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by lavamantis 7y ago
HUMAN RESOURCE MACHINE is pretty good, though about 1/2 through, the challenges started to seem like my actual day job. Definitely would recommend for kids interested in picking up programming.
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Show HN: ClashHoles – Clash Royale clan management made simple(clashholes.com)
1 points by lavamantis 7y ago|0 comments
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by lavamantis 8y ago
Somewhere, in a corner office on the higher floors, an "Americans for Prosperity" PR manager reads this comment and smiles.
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by lavamantis 8y ago
Wow, what a great and unexpected talk by John Cleese. Thanks for that.
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by lavamantis 9y ago
Is there a distinction being made between the quantum computer being impossible, and it being impossible without a future breakthrough in engineering or physics?
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by lavamantis 9y ago
But the top tax rate has been steadily declining since the Eisenhower administration. This tax bill furthers that decline. Over that period we've seen an increase in inequality. Are they correlated? I'm not sure the bit about what
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by lavamantis 9y ago
And in California we still have Prop 13, which effectively locks long-term owners into their existing houses.
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by lavamantis 9y ago
Hacking is exploiting flaws in systems. Is not lobbying itself exploiting a flaw in the system?
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by lavamantis 9y ago
But your experience is just anecdotal yes? You (and frankly me as well) have a resistance to the FB addiction, but the numbers of people on the platform are staggering and cannot be ignored. And China has their own version of FB, what will
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by lavamantis 9y ago
With all the resources at their disposal, they could perhaps bring in a professional editorial staff to rank each news source based on some unbiased (ahem) and transparent criteria like # of sources for a story, past accuracy, level of bias
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by lavamantis 9y ago
"Just because you do not take an interest in Facebook news, doesn't mean Facebook news won't take an interest in you" - Perecles
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by lavamantis 9y ago
The best thing about this is, Google will have to bring back wireless charging now for future Pixels.
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by lavamantis 9y ago
Specific issues causing Ayo's creation: https://thenewstack.io/node-js-forked-complaints-repeated-ha...
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by lavamantis 9y ago
Who among us have called in sick to the day job just to put in a solid block of daytime hours on a side project? It's happened to me a few times over the years, and I've been 97% guilt-free about it.
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by lavamantis 10y ago
> flabbergasted Not really surprising at all. http://m.motherjones.com/politics/2016/09/opioid-lobbying-ph...
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by lavamantis 10y ago
Is it weird that there's no Sarah Palin speech scheduled?
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by lavamantis 10y ago
Both (all?) countries could benefit from doing one thing: legalize everything.
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Elon Musk is doing for executive compensation what he did for electric cars(marketwatch.com)
44 points by lavamantis 10y ago|9 comments
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by lavamantis 10y ago
Discussions like these, among many clearly intelligent people, can sometimes get lost in the weeds. What's missing is a basic contextual foundation, without which all the wonky details in world are nearly meaningless. Why discuss AMT
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by lavamantis 10y ago
Yes I think everyone has had one of those "Wanna get away?" moments. Hopefully they're very early in your career and only ever happen once. Mine was small and I was very Jr so nothing more than my pride got hurt. The worst is
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by lavamantis 10y ago
"rekeying all our accounting data from printouts" I am cringing.
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by lavamantis 11y ago
I have to wonder if you're doing it wrong. We have a very large angular/node app, which has been in production for 2.5 years, with many packages. We npm-install several times per day on different networks and different machines. T
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by lavamantis 11y ago
"filter out a bad hire" Good teams have a balanced skill sets I've found. You need some uber-algorithm guys who can pass questions like this, but you also need engineers who can fill in all the rest of the tasks that make up
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by lavamantis 11y ago
I ditched my car for a bicycle, and I've never been happier. Except when I almost get hit by a car. But that's mostly rare. Mostly.
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by lavamantis 11y ago
If you drive > 10 mins for Mexi, you're definitely doing it wrong. There are countless places at any price point and any style. Personally I prefer Gilbert's and Don Antonio's (homestyle; both on Pico). The best tacos I&
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by lavamantis 11y ago
The mayor has a plan for LA. Opinions are mixed, but at least someone is trying to do something. http://la.streetsblog.org/2015/04/08/garcetti-unveils-sustai...
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by lavamantis 11y ago
Mass transit is the way to go but folks need to speak up. Call or email your representatives so they know to fight for the right things. Everyone knows traffic is awful in LA but the status quo will remain in effect if no one seems to car

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