xanados

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by xanados 10y ago
I'm not sure what to call this but... problematic? It is not too much to ask from your government but that they give everyone equal rights and privileges under the law. I don't necessarily mean that as an absolute, but it should a
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by xanados 11y ago
It's not 10 people. This is data that Facebook gives you and each of those numbers is per user in the selected region. The proper way of reading that first graph is that for all Facebook users in San Francisco, on average they liked 6
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by xanados 11y ago
I think you are significantly overstating the extraordinariness of these claims. People are entitled to their own priors, I suppose, but if someone asked "What is the probability that there is at least one player that has taken money t
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by xanados 12y ago
It seems likely that he would have done the same to a male in the same situation, so I fail to see how that relates to misogyny rather than a general culture of violence.
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by xanados 13y ago
I do not envy the College Board. We are in a social and political environment where many issues that bear directly on the test are things you can't discuss in polite company (e.g. whether IQ is a real and relevant phenomenon, the 0.8 c
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by xanados 13y ago
> The second paragraph amounts to a sexist version of "I'm not racist! I have black friends!" It bothers me unduly much that it has become a common meme that saying this amounts to saying "I am a racist!" That ma
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by xanados 14y ago
If you think there is no victim I think you may not have a very firm grasp of economics. In particular, small negative consequences borne by many economic actors adds up to legitimate negative economic consequences, even if there is a colle
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by xanados 14y ago
I think you may not have read the linked post. Scroll down to the bottom and you can see the device he built, which he wears on an armband.
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by xanados 14y ago
The drop from 90 to 45 is shown in Tesla's own graph.
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by xanados 14y ago
You are referring to a "randomized response" survey[1]. There are also list experiments and endorsement experiments for eliciting responses to sensitive questions[2]. 1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randomized_response 2: http://graemebl
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by xanados 14y ago
What is misleading about the number of people who have viewed your profile information?
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by xanados 14y ago
What is the distinction in this case? Is the sexism the beliefs and mindset, and the actual hiring actions are the sexual discrimination?
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by xanados 14y ago
First, let me say that in general I hate the negativity that has come to infect Hacker News, so it is only with much self-consciousness that I provide the following negative reaction. The mixergy post says "If you’ve heard me say that entre
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by xanados 14y ago
Given the capitalization on the Github repository, it looks like that is intentional.
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by xanados 14y ago
This is pure evil, and morally worse in my opinion than going after Swartz. At least he almost certainly actually violated a law. Trying to fill government coffers by seizing the assets of innocent bystanders is ridiculous.
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by xanados 14y ago
Wow, that's a lot of vitriol. I didn't mean to upset him so much, but I apologize to him for the offense. I understand that this is his baby so any criticism feels very personal. I could have been nicer. That said, I must disagree with some
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by xanados 14y ago
This betting site has a really stupid betting system. It appears that the amount of money you receive isn't based on a pricing of the bet, as is done on all real prediction markets, but based on a simple payout of all the bets received on t
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by xanados 14y ago
This game reminded me of Sword and Sorcery EP[1]. It had a similar aesthetic and used music in the same way that this piece did, although it was music from Jim Guthrie who sounds completely different from Skrillex. The main character even l
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by xanados 14y ago
Under U.S. federal law, age discrimination not only protects exclusively the old against the young, it also protects only those over 40.[1] Discrimination in the workplace and in public policy against the young is a big problem (in the mora
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by xanados 14y ago
There used to be more information on his website that I remember reading, but this thread will probably tell you what they do: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3012956
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by xanados 14y ago
Since this is a marketing piece, they should have to put some real money where their mouth is. Typical SLAs don't come close to being punitive for downtime. They might offer to refund the hosting fee for time down in excess of the benchmark
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by xanados 14y ago
I think this would be ok if they said upfront that this is a simulation of a meeting and so to pretend that you are someone attending the meeting, and so explicitly take it out of the context of an interview. When I've been interviewed, we
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by xanados 14y ago
That article is one in a series. Perhaps I was wrong and it is not clear or well-argued without the context of the broader series to draw from. It's a shame because it is actually painstaking in its argumentation and attention to nuance, an
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by xanados 14y ago
The existence of bingo cards is not an argument, even if patio has made it so easy for us to generate them. You may find the following article interesting: http://squid314.livejournal.com/329561.html > This tendency reaches its most f
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by xanados 14y ago
A sweeping generalization is not the same as a grand statement.
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by xanados 14y ago
You may be interested in http://examine.com/ which is a project similar to yours but focused mostly on fitness supplements specifically (although it has articles on major other supplements like fish oil). Their editors have actually provi
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by xanados 14y ago
In San Francisco the iOS 5 maps app doesn't have real-time schedule information on the buses, so it's not that useful except for the route itself.
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by xanados 14y ago
Gemesis is the company mentioned in the article and they still exist. You can buy lab diamonds from their website, even. Of course, they haven't transformed the industry because they are profit motivated, so they just sell their diamonds at
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by xanados 14y ago
It's not appropriate for the Executive branch to make requests to remove content that is political for political reasons. This has a chilling effect[1] and can thus be rightly judged by the populace as being against our shared reckoning on
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by xanados 14y ago
Thank you very much for posting this. I've been working on a Backbone app and have never seen this before!

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