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by temphn 9y ago
Hi Larry, I for one thank you for your contribution. Hacker News can be a bunch of jackasses at times. You are absolutely right: distributed version control led to git, which completely changed programming. And though Satoshi didn't ci
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by temphn 10y ago
Several points: 1) Google has Android because they did something very similar to Apple: Eric Schmidt was on Apple's board and used his inside info to drive smartphone development at Google. A massive lawsuit then transpired, but for Go
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by temphn 12y ago
The FDA is not elected, or even indirectly elected. They are career bureaucrats with career tenure who cannot be fired. How would you even know that they are doing a good job? Last I looked, Americans have terrible health care relative to o
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by temphn 12y ago
The answer is to stop arguing with words and start targeting Gawker's business model. Their advertiser list is in plain view. Go to their about page to see all the megacorps that have done sponsored ads with them. Now take the worst th
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by temphn 13y ago
What Silicon Valley does better than anyone is create exits. They know how to get people who they have made money for to turn over a lot of that money to buy the companies they have invested in. They know how to put on a s
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by temphn 13y ago
startups which provide deluxe on-site benefits could extend their daycare, meal and on-site walk-in health care to people who have WIC or EBT cards and can show that they live in the neighborhood. The bonus here? You can meet
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by temphn 13y ago
Let's also make sure the person criticizing said "assholes" is not paid to be a professional asshole themselves, like Sam Biddle or Nitasha Tiku at Valleywag.
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by temphn 13y ago
Hank Greely is not a "genetics prof", he is a bioethicist in Stanford's Law School. He doesn't develop new genetic technologies. This is like calling a film critic a director. http://www.law.stanford.edu/
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by temphn 13y ago
How many women and non-Asian minorities does Matasano end up hiring with that process?
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by temphn 13y ago
The fundamental upstream question here is whether men and women should show the exact same patterns of ability and interest given their measurably different organs, hormones, chromosomes, lifespans, physiology, and so on. Much of the rest o
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by temphn 13y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoughtcrime#Crimestop Crimestop means the faculty of stopping short, as though by instinct, at the threshold of any dangerous thought. It includes the power of not grasping ana
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by temphn 13y ago
Huh? Nature Publishing Group, where Rowan Manning works, makes its profit margins from extorting scientific libraries rather than superior code. http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2010/06/boycotting_the_n...
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by temphn 13y ago
Well, it looks like the mediocre developer's qualities are on display in this tool, as Rowan Manning sure seems to care a great deal about whether you drink beer or not. We are talking about the kind of person who thinks "cutting
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by temphn 13y ago
> is totally a fascist looking to hunt down fellow citizens for the state. That is exactly what it is. http://www.eeoc.gov/laws/statutes/
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by temphn 13y ago
I'm sure he doesn't. Just as I'm sure we don't want to work with religious fanatics. Go forth ye neo-Puritans and build a startup without a competitive environment, where no one can curse or drink beer and must be "
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by temphn 13y ago
This is the same kind of person who would write software to find anti-Islamic comments had he been born in Iran, or to hunt down dissidents if born in China. The kind of person who reflexively genuflects towards the current state-sponsored
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by temphn 13y ago
Avatar was quite negative. Syriana, Rendition, and Jarhead were as well. Your general point definitely stands, post 9/11 at least, but those are notable exceptions.
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by temphn 13y ago
This plot compares an inferred model to the instrumental record. Here is the study expressed in the words of Real Climate: http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2013/09/paleoc... Over t
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by temphn 13y ago
They have, just on a category-by-category basis. Many of the sharing economy companies are included. http://cdixon.org/2012/11/23/some-problems-are-so-hard-they-...
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by temphn 13y ago
It is easy to justify "inaction" on this. 1) This kind of article is pure propaganda, intended to make money for Business Insider by "raising questions" and selling ad revenue against the pageviews. 2) "We" are
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by temphn 13y ago
There ARE people who refuse to help themselves. They do exist. The only way you can believe to the contrary is because you haven't worked with the homeless. No amount of money can currently cure mental illness or drug addiction, or mak
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by temphn 13y ago
That's a silly response. There are seven million people in the Bay Area. A tiny fraction are homeless. Try lifting up an adult human being sometime. It's not easy. These people are frequently mentally ill, addicted to drugs, or ot
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by temphn 13y ago
What is the difference in your view? Very interested to hear this. The sums involved in this case ($20000) are less than those involved in most employment scenarios.
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by temphn 13y ago
Ha. Methinks you doth protest too much. But I'll be very precise. Show me the equations and code that Krugman wrote in 2009 that predicted the unemployment curve over the last four years. OMB (full of economists!), to their credit, at
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by temphn 13y ago
Interesting. What's the best study you have, with scatterplots, that shows that the "very old" models performed "very well"? Insofar as we have seen actual quantitative predictive modeling by Keynesians of macroecon
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by temphn 13y ago
Now all we need to see for the other side of the story are the Soviet archives. Given that the Soviets were behind most worldwide communist revolutions (including the Cuban, North Korean, Ethiopian, etc.), did they plan to do something with
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by temphn 13y ago
You know what, looks like you're right on this one and I am wrong. It wasn't clear on a first read whether they were saying "his father" as in "his biological father" or "his adoptive father", but on
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by temphn 13y ago
The twins' father, Walker Inman, 57, lumbered from the mansion, his tattooed sleeves visible under a black T- shirt, drinking his morning rum ... He'd been full of dangerous mischief since he was a child. As a 13-year
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by temphn 13y ago
Sounds bad. But almost certainly was not simply a spur of the moment decision, but rather that Lenz was on the list of people to be fired later in the day and had done things that Armstrong knew about (like leaking Patch information). Still
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by temphn 13y ago
Re: "Reforms" and "change"...it might be time to become a bit more cynical about what Obama means by these things. He was never going to reduce his power, or the government's power, voluntarily.

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