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plonh··on Amazon’s $50 Fire tablet reviewed
They have had trouble getting support for new tablets/OS versions, and it is a huge pain to reset an Amazon device. No developer switch like on Nexus
plonh··on Zuckerbergs' New “Primary School”: Private but Free
Created by who?
plonh··on Zuckerbergs' New “Primary School”: Private but Free
Extracting profit from a system is different from efficiently allocating resources. At an extremely example, consider bank robbery. Then consider LIBOR.
plonh··on Zuckerbergs' New “Primary School”: Private but Free
The space shuttle program was a horribly expensive sideways step that help back space exploration.
plonh··on Japan's hidden caste of untouchables
Been seeing this announcement frequently recently. Thank you!

Of course, you could also collapse subthreads automatically (like reddit) when a comment gets downvoted very low) instead of policing manually.

plonh··on Japan's hidden caste of untouchables
Reminds me of why I was so happy to leave school debate and focus on math and computers where arguments were productive;, and how sad when I realized how relevant school debate nonsense was to actual political and legal reality (about the same time I realized that I should drop out of law school because I cared too much about finding logical answers to questions)
plonh··on The FCC has voted to end exorbitant phone fees for prison inmates
"States rights" only gets brought up when the Repulicans don't like a Federal decision. If they'd quit the special pleading, people might believe them.
plonh··on The FCC has voted to end exorbitant phone fees for prison inmates
Was this because the phone system had the only people the prisoner could talk to about their problems?
plonh··on Amazon Is So Nice It Makes Your Personnel Information Public If You Criticize It
Amazon PR guy's behavior is debatable and has been debated, but this article and its misleading title do not improve the debate. HN itself is host to dozens of Amazon employee/critics that have not seen personnel info leaked. also, "criminal activity" is a bit beyond "personnel info". Am I leaking personnel info when I tell someone about a coworker who scammed a customer?
plonh··on Hilbert's paradox of the Grand Hotel
Yes. Infinitely large sets are decidedly unphysical, and taking the metaphor too literally can be misleading.

Imagine: how could the proprietor even communicate with those infinite guests?

plonh··on Destroy all hiring processes
Do you allow linear space?
plonh··on Destroy all hiring processes
Look like either bad communications or some sort of discrimination about your in person appearance, or they filled the open headcount with someone they liked better.
plonh··on Destroy all hiring processes
That may be true for the person who interviewed you, but that isn't any sort of official standard
plonh··on How MindGeek transformed the economics of porn
All I see is a full page pop-up ads for their email list, with no escape control in view.
plonh··on How MindGeek transformed the economics of porn
VR seems mainly for providing an environment ("celestial sphere"). To use it to examine a target (such as a human performer) you'd gave to walk around in a ring, which seems a weird movement while watching porn. Unless you were watching a scene with many performers?
plonh··on The fall of the meritocracy
In probability , the fraction of the population at exactly 50%ile is approximately 0.
plonh··on The fall of the meritocracy
The Left hates TBC. The Right loves it. The Left (who invented the word) believe "meritocracy" is sheep's clothing covering the wolf of privilege. The Right believes they have better genes. There is no common ground, both sides think the others are unsound.
plonh··on The fall of the meritocracy
Has the intent shifted? The 2001 article specifically called out the Blair government for , well, Blair tbought it was good intent, but that is the problem: Young argued that it was being used to negatively impact society.
plonh··on The fall of the meritocracy
You miss the key: a huge amount of my value is generated by tools created by our ancestors -- who deserves credit for those tools? Me? Those dead people's children?
plonh··on The fall of the meritocracy
Why?
plonh··on Amazon Sues Fake Reviewers on Fiverr
These sound like problems in Amazon's system, Amazon mistakes mislead customers.
plonh··on Amazon Sues Fake Reviewers on Fiverr
> "company gave me the product for free to write an honest and unbiased review."

Those are Amazon Vine reviews, promoted by Amazon to generate reviews for new products.

plonh··on Former Stanford dean explains why helicopter parenting is ruining a generation
It isn't about dignity of the job. It is about health insurance and living wages.
plonh··on Former Stanford dean explains why helicopter parenting is ruining a generation
His Facebook unicorn success was hugely dependent on the Harvard classmates who hired him to start the project he branched from, his Harvard cofounders, and his Harvard employees. He couldn't have done that at UMichigan.
plonh··on Former Stanford dean explains why helicopter parenting is ruining a generation
What does the end product show? Doctors kill plenty of patients.
plonh··on Former Stanford dean explains why helicopter parenting is ruining a generation
There are more people with perfect scores than seats for them. The SAT iant a hard enough test to distinguish elite students -- it is a high school level math and English test.
plonh··on Big Beer’s 5-Point Plan to Crush the Craft Beer Revolution
Customers don't care what they are getting when they get a bud light, except that it is a cheap buzz.
plonh··on Ask HN: How to Be a Good Technical Lead?
The problem with #1 is when you get fired for not building anything sophisticated and your teammates get promoted to replace you, because they built something fancy. Unless you manage to take credit for their work. Externally imposed politics is what kills the team.
plonh··on Page Weight Matters (2012)
Because the weight is hidden behind the visible page content, which had a different size. Page weight is the sum of the sizes of the resources used to build the page.
plonh··on Page Weight Matters (2012)
Still, I imagine it would be better to forget the 2MB page load issue, and drop frames/colors/resolution to cut 50MB off the video size.
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