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swagv··on The Ugly Indian

That's brilliant, really. A beautification movement.

You don't have to be wealthy to have clean streets, manicured gardens, etc. It starts with a lack of tolerance for substandard conditions.

swagv··on Show HN: HackerRank's app guarantees an interview call after a coding challenge

Sorry, Hacker Rank can't make me guarantee anything.

swagv··on Tesla chief Elon Musk says Apple is making an electric car

Call Mike Wallace. Who knew?

swagv··on How a 90-Year-Old Missing Person Became a Hit on Spotify

And yet why only Spotify? In fact, the article makes no mention of it and the word "Spotify" only appears in the title.

Perhaps I should be thankful that this wasn't a blatant advert for Spotify. But you have to ask...

swagv··on [dead]

Lame

swagv··on To Catch a Rapist

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10847966

swagv··on ‘Making a Murderer’ Left Out Crucial Facts, Prosecutor Says

Why are we pretending binge-watching entertainment is the same as the judicial process?

swagv··on Netflix Is Now Available Around the World

F* Netflix, really.

swagv··on Many See I.R.S. Penalties as More Affordable Than Health Insurance

You can pay and get something or pay and get nothing.

swagv··on Surgery Performed with Google Cardboard Saved a Baby's Life

Redbook

swagv··on Why Are 20-Somethings Retiring?

The article did a poor job of explaining its titular premise, imo

swagv··on Should Facebook Be Forced to Fight Terrorism?

Facebook IS terrorism

swagv··on Why We Created the Yelp Elite Squad

Somebody saw that South Park episode on them.

swagv··on [dead]

So what would the inverted classroom look like in this case?

swagv··on 12 Coders Get Naked for a Good Cause

Stole it from the Dice ads all over town

swagv··on Diagnosing Yahoo’s Ills: Ugly Math in Marissa Mayer’s Reign

Yahoo is FuckedCompany.com in slow motion

swagv··on Who's Profiting from $1.2T of Federal Student Loans?

The question is silly. It's common knowledge that the degree inflation masters of the University of Phoenix, APUS, Liberty, DeVry, Capella, Kaplan U, etc., are all the ones cashing in on this.

swagv··on Banksy: “Steve Jobs – The Son of a Migrant from Syria”

Was this supposed to reason to ALLOW Syrian migrants? It's not.

swagv··on How the Food Industry Engineers the Need to Eat

Is it 2013 all over again?

This book is old news.

swagv··on Highly educated women no longer have fewer kids

This means population control requires poverty once again

swagv··on My dad will now read your kids a bedtime story. Thank you internet

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swagv··on Kickstarter hires Journalist over Zano failure

Crowdfunding: a tax on people too stupid to understand business loans and venture investing.

swagv··on Moving the Washington Post to HTTPS

Sadly, like too much engineering writing, no attention is given to the "why".

swagv··on Only 20% of people who can use Apple Pay have done so

More a solution in search of a problem

swagv··on [dead]

jebbush is redundant, btw. At least the B in J.E.B.

swagv··on Schwarzenegger: I don’t give a damn if we agree about climate change

He has infinite wisdom that failed the 97% of the scientific researchers who make it their profession to review this stuff.

swagv··on Starbucks Prospers by Keeping Pace with the Coffee Snobs

I've been for 15 years. Never understood why new roasters feel the need to prosthelytize, however. But they always do.

swagv··on Starbucks Prospers by Keeping Pace with the Coffee Snobs

This is an investor relations puff piece if I've ever seen one.

swagv··on Slack is down

Or not. Is this really news?

swagv··on EverythingMe is Closing Down

Discovery for anything is always overrated

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