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swehner··on Jeff Bezos Surpasses Bill Gates as World's Richest Person
You guys haven't been keeping up the boycott, have you?!
swehner··on Uber's predatory pricing is undermining public transit and density
Please!
swehner··on Uber's predatory pricing is undermining public transit and density
A service that is not sustainable cannot be said to be superior.

As in each and every Uber ride is subsidized to the tune of a few dollars???!!!!

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/uber-true-cost-uh-oh

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-08-25/uber-lose...

swehner··on German research institutions boycott Elsevier
I look at titles and abstracts, not at journal names, in my literature searches.
swehner··on A neural link between affective understanding and interpersonal attraction [pdf]
I don't know if the authors are trying to avoid it, but what they are describing hints at a similar conclusion for the opposites of attraction: hate + racism
swehner··on Yahoo discloses hack of 1B accounts
Easier to list who was not affected??!!
swehner··on AMD responds to Linux kernel maintainer's rejection of AMDGPU patch
Nice: so many we's in the last paragraph.
swehner··on 'Clean your desk': My Amazon interview experience
Just avoid amazon.

It's really not that difficult.

swehner··on Dark Patterns – User Interfaces Designed to Trick People [video]
Good idea to avoid amazon.

Did you try unsubscribing from all their newsletters?

swehner··on Vinyl snobs rejoice as study shows MP3s make music less pleasurable
The "study" is based on 20 test subjects.

Doesn't seem right to publish a paper based on such low numbers, especially when, as here, the experiment seems to be pretty cheap.

Direct link to study:

http://www.aes.org/tmpFiles/elib/20161206/18523.pdf

swehner··on Tell HN: Political Detox Week – No politics on HN for one week
I guess that covers posting articles from the economist too?
swehner··on Amazon States Language – A JSON-based language to describe state machines
Doesn't look too pretty, ugly in parts. Something strange about it. The ARN business looks very suspicious.

Maybe this is supposed to be pre-alpha?

Consistent with the Tim Bray blog article saying the validator's "implementation is kind of gross."

But then again: stay out of trouble, avoid Amazon.

swehner··on Homeschooling as a right, and a needed practical alternative
In my experience, which is not too much, people who "home-school" their children, would better not be allowed to do so.
swehner··on AWS Organizations: Centrally Manage Multiple AWS Accounts
As usual: better stay away from Amazon!
swehner··on Professors Make More Than a Thousand Dollars an Hour Peddling Mega-Mergers
Don't worry about the down-voters. They are just learning
swehner··on PoisonTap, a $5 tool that invades password-protected computers
Wonder if this could be a useful device in some other way (e.g. PC not responding)
swehner··on Is Nuclear Power Vital to Hitting CO2 Emissions Targets?
You (down-voter) guys really are the hoot!
swehner··on Is Nuclear Power Vital to Hitting CO2 Emissions Targets?
The short answer is, no, it's not vital. (That was easy)
swehner··on How Green Is That Grocery Bag Ban? (2014) [pdf]
Is it true or is it reactionary drivel? Come on.
swehner··on We’re Scientists, Moms, And We Avoid Non-GMO Products
Looks and smells like a well-funded marketing campaign. See also this comment, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12894370
swehner··on Quick fix for an early Internet problem lives on a quarter-century later (2015)
IPv6?
swehner··on Dear Microsoft
Ironic. I don't think Slack is particularly well designed.

Use it every day. And it's always unpleasant.

Why does it say "New mentions" when I wasn't actually mentioned, just someone said something in some other chat.

Also, I find it pretty tedious to switch back and forth between discussions.

In terms of UI design, I suspect they don't have a good team.

Maybe it just tries to please too many people?

swehner··on No One Saw Tesla’s Solar Roof Coming
The 30% tax credit for solar installations may well be adjusted. These kinds of things are not so absolute.
swehner··on The eye of hurricane Matthew passes directly over a weather buoy
Does a speaker count as a moving part?
swehner··on Apple loses patent retrial to the litigious VirnetX, ordered to pay $300M
They call it checks and balances
swehner··on Body fat link to bacteria in feces
There are some here, https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/michelle.beaumont.html
swehner··on Google’s lawyers are asking to find Oracle’s lawyers in contempt of court
Why now? The blurting happened in January.
swehner··on Why billions of dollars of goods are stuck at sea
Doesn't look good for them. See http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-09-06/hanjin-s-g...

But am not aware of reports about how things are for them this week.

swehner··on Some bad Git situations and how I got myself out of them
I would not expect a university to teach git. Maybe the theory of version control systems, their history, or a comparison of different version control systems.

But not how to use the tool.

swehner··on How Mathematicians Cut Cake
I didn't think “I cut, you choose” is that fair.

Since often it's difficult to cut fairly, so the other person gets to pick a bigger piece always.

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