pbateman

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by pbateman 12y ago
We are the ones who serve them coffee, deliver them food, suck their cocks, watch their kids, and mop their floors ... To this end, we now make our first clear demand of Google. We demand that Google give three billion dollars to an anar
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by pbateman 12y ago
Well, it's not going to be a popular opinion but I think it's a shame he's been forced out. Simply having the wrong views shouldn't make him ineligible for a job.
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by pbateman 13y ago
socially inept Good to see we're staying classy. Next time you might like to work in a zinger about autism, neckbeards and/or fedora ownership.
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by pbateman 13y ago
I'm sick of it. Goodbye, Hacker News. I know this is going to come across as unfriendly, but I'm always bemused when people make these little plays for attention. It's a massive site, you're not one of the notable com
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by pbateman 13y ago
You're getting downvoted because: 1) Despite your disclaimer you are sounding unfeeling. 2) It seems convenient for a (presumably) relatively healthy and youthful person to be advocating large sacrifices that will hit others first. 3
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by pbateman 13y ago
Here is exactly how you deal with some guy writing in to tell you you're too fat: delete the email and get on with your life . It's simple, it's easy, it solves the problem. Of course it's not the modern solution of pub
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by pbateman 13y ago
My, how entitled we are! Lord! Do it yourself! Your complaints infuriate me! It feels like at some point the quality of the discourse on hackernews went downhill.
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by pbateman 13y ago
I've got one of the schnozzle bags with a compatible mat. It is categorically not cumbersome, not tedious, weighs the same and is filled with down so it has an R-value[1] of 5.9 instead of 1 which is what really matters when you're usi
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by pbateman 13y ago
You've made, on average, one comment per hundred days you were here[1]. Nobody noticed you were here in the first place and I doubt they will notice you are gone. I have no idea why you are telling people you are leaving instead of simply
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by pbateman 14y ago
Agreed. It's also a massive red flag for the future of the relationship if you can't negotiate over something like this.
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by pbateman 14y ago
I would personally enjoy some kind of hack that causes the White House to respond to successful petitions with something other than glib dismissal.
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by pbateman 14y ago
Great point! Perhaps we should also hobble the Africans who manually track poachers so we create twice as many jobs!
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by pbateman 14y ago
This is a blatant advertisement masquerading as an article. The new incarnation of SimCity might turn out to be a great game but this is nothing but an EA press release.
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by pbateman 14y ago
I see a few problems with this: * The website doesn't have critical mass or any special hooks (like pg's essays and pg himself, for instance) to help build it * I'm not "applying" to post on a website * Costing people karma is going to driv
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by pbateman 14y ago
It's news because Joachim Kempin has got a book to sell and he or his publishers have hired sufficient PR talent to make it news.
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by pbateman 14y ago
His net worth is $15.7 billion[1] so I doubt he's concerned about "squeezing as much out of it as he can". [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Ballmer
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by pbateman 14y ago
From the link in the article: Depending on how many of the counts Swartz is found guilty of, the sentence could conceivably total 50+ years and fine in the area of $4 million. What an absurd and unreasonable level of punishment. Carmen O
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by pbateman 14y ago
1) It pretty obviously is gentle. In the most extreme scenario pg is bullied into briefly making a minor change to the CSS. 2) HN is a community site, which exists and thrives largely because of the community. I can't see anything wrong
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by pbateman 14y ago
Calling a gentle suggestion from the HN community to make a minor change to mourn one of our members "very offensive" is a bizarre overreaction.
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by pbateman 14y ago
I'm being quite restrained. I'm calling for a feeling of guilt, not their public lynching. If I'd been involved in the prosecution I'd be feeling guilty for proceeding in too heavy-handed a fashion and I'm sure most of the people on this
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by pbateman 14y ago
Probably. To be honest if I had to imagine the people at the attorney's office who decided to prosecute this I'd imagine vaguely malevolent bureaucratic dullards who derive validation from enforcing the rules in a heavy handed fashion.
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by pbateman 14y ago
A tragedy that this caring young man has taken his own life. My heart goes out to his family. This feels a bit inappropriate but at the moment I hope that some members of the US Attorney's Office are wracked by guilt.
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by pbateman 14y ago
I'm a bit puzzled why both the $30 and $100 levels both state that Your donation can purchase 1 USB bracelet for 1 youth! . Surely the $100 level should be able to provide at least three.
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by pbateman 14y ago
Zoe Fox (the author) probably has a quota of articles to hit and cranking out anything but the barest impersonation of journalism would cause her to fall behind. The tragedy is that people still give views to these shoddy content mills.
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by pbateman 14y ago
An interesting idea but there is no way stuff like this should be patentable.
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by pbateman 14y ago
I'm not sure the government is particularly concerned about cost containment. It's the canonical example of people spending other people's money.
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by pbateman 14y ago
Two points: 1) Kahneman's model is probably too high level to apply to solving NLP problems. It's an interesting abstraction, not a road map to human reasoning. 2) System 2 is Effortful Reasoning , not just doing math. For example, if yo
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by pbateman 14y ago
Ideally your thoughts/experiences with all of them but my first two preferences would be Thinking With Type and Understanding Color .
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by pbateman 14y ago
I remember what I learn more if it's relevant to work I'm actually doing. So if, for example, I'm thinking about landing pages and I read some links on HN about building better landing pages then it gets lodged in my brain and I learn somet

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