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thuuuomas··on The Trials of White Boy Rick (2014)
It's better to couch your prejudices in euphemistic language? Why is such minute dishonesty more credible? Do you fancy yourself capable of perfect impartiality?
thuuuomas··on Study: Women Twice as Likely to be Hired in STEM Tenure-Track Positions
And e=mc^2 is a gendered equation.
thuuuomas··on Epistemic learned helplessness (2013)
"Rationality" is the new "atheism".

All I got from this article:

"Sometimes, it's best not to commit to a position when you don't have all the facts (or if 'the facts' are essentially unknowable). But it depends!"

OP has a lot of ten-dollar words, tho.

So, what'd I miss?

thuuuomas··on Entrepreneurs don’t have a gene for risk – they come from families with money
I bet that line goes over well at the golf course.
thuuuomas··on Let Students Sell Equity in Their Higher-Education to Finance It
The punchline:

> To help limit adverse selection, the government might also gradually withdraw subsidised loans, which the best students will usually prefer to equity. The main role for government would then be to help to collect payments through the tax system, as the administrative burden of monitoring incomes would be too great for investors to bear.

"Ultimately, this would only prove profitable if the government didn't compete with us & instead did all the legwork on our behalf."

thuuuomas··on What is going on with SoundCloud?
What is it about sample-based music that makes it so inferior to acoustic music (on average) that culling it en masse "will result in a net increase in quality"?

edit: of order words out

thuuuomas··on A Company Copes With Backlash Against the Raise That Roared
The crab's "intentions" are immaterial!

Like, if a human meerely intends "to grab on anything they can to get out of the [human]-pile", & they're quite rude/destructive while doing so, they're still rude/destructive regardless of how sympathetic we may judge their intentions to be.

thuuuomas··on A Dutch city is giving money away to test the basic income theory
> but they'd spend it on crap

Sounds like a good deal for the crap vendors. Also, maybe the instant-gratification app scene...

thuuuomas··on Hiring: The First Librarian of Congress for the Internet Age
Change the Federal E-Rate guidelines to allow non-library-science master's degree holders to "be librarians", & for the districts that employ "nontraditional" librarians to receive full funding. Through regulatory capture, the American Library Association subsidizes a program of study that has an astonishingly narrow scope, to the exclusion of anything more technical than MS Word & General Reference Center Gold.
thuuuomas··on Y Combinator growth equity fund?
> there's no reason he couldn't go by Michael or Moe.

One might be disinclined to cater to hateful ignorance, for starters.

thuuuomas··on Twitter’s CEO Dick Costolo Is Stepping Down
I thought I could do anything & everything before I learnt to code. :)
thuuuomas··on What Is Code?
Resizing my browser window (Firefox 38) in the middle of reading causes a section of the story to loop infinitely.
thuuuomas··on So Your Company Has Been Found Using Alex’s Photographs Without Permission
Only The Market can determine value tho, right?
thuuuomas··on Why Racket? Why Lisp? (2014)
Tho in its infancy, Kawa scheme can "paper over" some of the XML in Android dev[0].

[0] https://www.gnu.org/software/kawa/Android-view-construction....

thuuuomas··on Too little is known about whether money spent on higher education is worth it
The measure is implicit when said thing is assigned a cost!
thuuuomas··on Ask HN: Front-end “design patterns”?
Code producing bad UX is bad code.
thuuuomas··on Many McGill Education Students Cannot Calculate an Average
Their possession of advanced degrees says, sadly, little of their overall educational achievement.
thuuuomas··on The $9B Witness: JPMorgan Chase's Worst Nightmare
Regardless of the letter beside the person's name, money talks & shit walks. Either party (nationally, on the whole) could truthfully be described as "Centrist-Corporatist".
thuuuomas··on When Robots Take All the Work, What'll Be Left for Us to Do?
>"But customer service itself is a human problem."

...Says an unnamed academic who, in all likelihood, hasn't worked retail in the 21st century.

Tho, you'd think they'd go to a grocery store once in awhile & be subjected to the customer service atrocity that is the self-checkout. (Or touch an ipad barista at a coffee shop, or patiently repeat "speak to a representative" to an automated telephone system...)

thuuuomas··on This is a motherfucking website. And it’s fucking not completely perfect
Why would one prefer pagination over scrolling? Is it just about the clicks?
thuuuomas··on Show HN: Wavepot – Digital audio workstation of the web
Sharing Supercollider snippets was a thing for awhile on twitter. THE FUTURE IS NOW.
thuuuomas··on Inferring Status and Competence from Signals of Nonconformity (2013) [pdf]
"Everything rich people do is correct!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGPjUyVtTQw

thuuuomas··on Python 3 can revive Python
I thought `repr backticks` were convenient, but alas "there is only one way to do it".
thuuuomas··on A Developer's Perspective On Porting Games To Linux
Not all deaths are failures. Sometimes things just end.
thuuuomas··on Facebook acquires Oculus VR
Except that hardware has very slim margins, & all the woes associated with shipping a physical product. Ad revenue is cheap & easy.
thuuuomas··on Tim Draper Gives Details on Initiative to Split California into Six States
Anyone want to explain the significance of their chosen boundaries to a non-Californian?
thuuuomas··on Rate-design wars are the sound of utilities taking residential PV seriously
I'm uninformed, "grid saturation" meaning what?
thuuuomas··on NMPA Targets Unlicensed Lyric Sites, Rap Genius Among 50 Sent Take-Down Notices
How is a list of people in a proprietary movie legally distinct from a list of elements in a proprietary compound?
thuuuomas··on Why Microsoft Word must die
> The world won't just use the pieces of software that you want, you are going to have to live with other people's choices.

Choice- singular. The real problem with Word, as highlighted in OP's post, is its longstanding market dominance & attitude of outright hostility towards interoperability.

thuuuomas··on How Copyright Made Mid-Century Books Vanish
In pursuit of their business interests, not out of constraints inherent to writing/music/film/art.
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