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Yep, great book. Also dispels the Lord of the Lies myth that people have taken as gospel.

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.

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 predictor of its success, is how well it teaches us to evaluate the difference.

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.

Somewhere, in a corner office on the higher floors, an "Americans for Prosperity" PR manager reads this comment and smiles.

Wow, what a great and unexpected talk by John Cleese. Thanks for that.

Is there a distinction being made between the quantum computer being impossible, and it being impossible without a future breakthrough in engineering or physics?

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 share of income tax is paid by the wealthy is meaningful here, outside of right wing think tank PR releases (your linked site is funded by the Koch Brothers btw. Just a heads up).

And in California we still have Prop 13, which effectively locks long-term owners into their existing houses.

Hacking is exploiting flaws in systems. Is not lobbying itself exploiting a flaw in the system?

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 that be used for in the hands of a totalitarian government?

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, etc. Still let people click and post whatever but apply an easily visible and understandable "news" score.

"Just because you do not take an interest in Facebook news, doesn't mean Facebook news won't take an interest in you" - Perecles

The best thing about this is, Google will have to bring back wireless charging now for future Pixels.

Specific issues causing Ayo's creation: https://thenewstack.io/node-js-forked-complaints-repeated-ha...

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.

> flabbergasted

Not really surprising at all.

http://m.motherjones.com/politics/2016/09/opioid-lobbying-ph...

Is it weird that there's no Sarah Palin speech scheduled?

Both (all?) countries could benefit from doing one thing: legalize everything.

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, Germany, and tax loopholes without first agreeing on inequality.

Most would agree that in a capitalist system there MUST be some inequality to provide incentive; extreme inequality is unsustainable; an economy (and society) is at it's best when inequality is low; and progressive earnings taxation is in fact the only proven and viable solution to address extreme inequality.

I rarely see this foundation laid here or in "the media". We can bitch and moan about the 0.1%ers and the tax code they've written for us, and it's certainly entertaining. But let's try to agree generally on where we want to go before discussing how to get there and who's going to drive.

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 when someone else notices it before you. We came in to work on Monday and some reported that they couldn't log into the system. We checked logs and noticed there were timeout errors on some SQL queries. Huh, that's odd, why is there a query "update Users set deletedat=now()" with no "where" clause running in production??? Turns out someone was in a hurry and tried to make a test pass without thinking to much about what the code was doing. Then - push right to prod on a Friday evening!

"rekeying all our accounting data from printouts"

I am cringing.

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. The only time we have had problems is when the actual npm site itself goes down (thankfully that's rare now but it was annoyingly frequent "in the beginning"). Npm-shrinkwrap is a little painful but gets the job done. I don't hear a lot of people having problems with npm. It kind of "just works" for almost everyone.

"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 a production worthy system. I have not found that the uber-algorithm guys always pay attention to detail, put in good comments, think of all the edge cases, communicate well with outside teams, etc.

Those types of engineers are what you consider a "bad hire", and won't be working at Google.

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.

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've ever had tho were from a street vendor outside of Liquid Kitty. Just outrageous.

http://www.yelp.com/biz/liquid-kitty-los-angeles

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...

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 care about changing it.

Personally, I gave up on the commute and just rented an apartment 9 minutes away from work and 5 minutes away from the new expo line (train line from Santa Monica to downtown LA) by bicycle.

It's a pity you're getting downvoted, I thought it was funny.

On a serious note, presuming a significant increase in trust among all parties, wouldn't this idea radically change an ominous situation (Iran having weapons-grade plutonium laying around) into one with peaceful, mutually beneficial, trust-building cooperation between formerly antagonistic nations? Have not stranger things happened?

> "An LLC is pretty often abused for fraud"

Do you have any stats on "legit" LLCs vs. "fraud" LLCs? I would imagine that the VAST majority of LLCs are started by honest people just looking to create something new. There will always be social hackers in all fields of human endeavor looking to exploit loopholes for personal gain, but my assumption is that they are a small minority.

It seems like the benefits of LLCs to a society would outweigh the negatives.