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by over 10y ago
I think quietly doing good is okay, it's the people who talk about it that are risky.
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by over 10y ago
On the contrary, I think the people who know whether an action is right or wrong don't spend a lot of time arguing either way, they just go ahead and do what they think is right. It's the people who don't know whether an act
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by over 10y ago
Maybe, but for the silent majority it's pretty straightforward: 1) we view information as fundamentally different from currency, goods, and services; 2) we don't want to pay for information if we don't have to and we're
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by over 11y ago
I dunno, someone was asking why the downvotes, that's all I could think of. I agree it's nasty to highlight the words like that.
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by over 11y ago
Tell that to the bicycle.
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by over 11y ago
The main problem I have with the prevalence of adblockers is that now you have to "block" the meta-advertising people in discussion forums that criticize you or attempt to make you feel guilty for blocking ads on your own property
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by over 11y ago
Unfortunately I think this makes universities less hypocritical because it's more in line with the way academia works on the inside.
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by over 11y ago
I think it's just that there's a lot of dramatic and hyperbolic words and phrases in there, here's a list from a quick pass: > religion, anyone, conviction, enemy, must, silenced > most, pitiful, cowardice, all, should,
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by over 11y ago
There's just way more capital per capita for developers in SF. You might want to consider why bankers in SF are paid so poorly relative to London.
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by over 11y ago
I stfw'd a little and found these links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privacy_laws_of_the_United_Sta... http://www.criminaldefenselawyer.com/resources/revenge-porn-...
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by over 11y ago
Inch / foot / yard / mile is a really small range compared to what metric can handle (anything), so in practice most science is done with metric units.
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by over 11y ago
Yeah, but the claim was: > Companies never give substantial raises to current employees. and a single counterexample is enough to counter it.
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by over 11y ago
What are the pros and cons of Silicon Valley being the VC capital of the world? How do you feel about it on the whole? Do you guys ever talk about diversifying, either inside the US or out?
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by over 11y ago
Sometimes people cross their arms because it's a comfortable resting position. It's common in overweight men, the arms rest on the belly quite naturally. Often people will lean back against the chair or wall at the same time.
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by over 11y ago
The FSF considers BSD a free software license, it's just non-copyleft. There was a lot of discussion on Groklaw about taking BSD code, modifying it, and slapping a GPL license on top. I believe the consensus was this is OK, since you
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by over 11y ago
The key for me was to change my personal definition of success from winning the lottery to simply doing things well on a consistent basis.
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by over 11y ago
At the very least I think Musk would have been a good engineer, and PG would be inspiring young people to try.
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by over 11y ago
Yes, but I think there's also something to be said for learning to swim in life's ocean of ups and downs, making the most of your situation. For me, a successful person is someone that knows how to swim, not someone that caught a
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by over 11y ago
keep-telling-yourself-that-ocracy
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by over 11y ago
I've seen the same thing at companies, where employees get in trouble for talking about confidential information that is known outside of the company. I think the rationale is because sometimes the file gets updated internally such tha
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by over 11y ago
What's the argument?
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by over 11y ago
I think the misogyny claim is because the analogy portrays the choice between a rich woman and poor woman as obviously being in favor of the rich woman, and on top of that it characterizes the poor woman as needy and annoying. Further, he
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by over 11y ago
> Bing has hardly dented Google's search marketshare. Bing has 21% market share vs. 64% for Google.
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by over 11y ago
1.7x faster means oldRunningTime / newRunningTime = 1.7. Or in your example, 8 seconds / 2 seconds = 4x faster. Sometimes this is called a speedup of 4x or a 4x speedup.
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by over 11y ago
Agreed, the test is instructing vs. making instructions available.
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by over 11y ago
The inevitability of friction is one part of the human condition, and the drive to eliminate it is another. What separates humans from animals is that we can evolve intellectually by amassing tools and knowledge over generations about what
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by over 11y ago
> It doesn't matter what you own, the government will win every time. You are guaranteed to lose. I think this isn't true if enough people decide to attack the government in concert, say 10% of the population, that's 30 mi
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by over 11y ago
Except that optimizing cold code is writing software that doesn't fulfill a compelling need.
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by over 11y ago
Discouraging certain questions is at the core of most/all religions/cults/belief systems, it's how you maintain group integrity and subservience to leaders and deities/pseudo-deities. Questions are ultimately disru
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by over 11y ago
Sure, you don't personally need guns, but you do need physical safety at each end of the communication. Physical safety is provided by people with guns.

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