swehner | 8 years ago | on: Jeff Bezos Surpasses Bill Gates as World's Richest Person
You guys haven't been keeping up the boycott, have you?!
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swehner | 9 years ago | on: Uber's predatory pricing is undermining public transit and density
Please!
swehner | 9 years ago | 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 | 9 years ago | on: German research institutions boycott Elsevier
I look at titles and abstracts, not at journal names, in my literature searches.
swehner | 9 years ago | 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 | 9 years ago | on: Yahoo discloses hack of 1B accounts
Easier to list who was not affected??!!
swehner | 9 years ago | on: AMD responds to Linux kernel maintainer's rejection of AMDGPU patch
Nice: so many we's in the last paragraph.
swehner | 9 years ago | on: 'Clean your desk': My Amazon interview experience
Just avoid amazon.
It's really not that difficult.
swehner | 9 years ago | on: Dark Patterns – User Interfaces Designed to Trick People [video]
Good idea to avoid amazon.
Did you try unsubscribing from all their newsletters?
swehner | 9 years ago | 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:
swehner | 9 years ago | on: Tell HN: Political Detox Week – No politics on HN for one week
I guess that covers posting articles from the economist too?
swehner | 9 years ago | 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 | 9 years ago | 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 | 9 years ago | on: AWS Organizations: Centrally Manage Multiple AWS Accounts
As usual: better stay away from Amazon!
swehner | 9 years ago | 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 | 9 years ago | 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 | 9 years ago | on: Is Nuclear Power Vital to Hitting CO2 Emissions Targets?
You (down-voter) guys really are the hoot!
swehner | 9 years ago | on: Is Nuclear Power Vital to Hitting CO2 Emissions Targets?
The short answer is, no, it's not vital. (That was easy)
swehner | 9 years ago | on: How Green Is That Grocery Bag Ban? (2014) [pdf]
Is it true or is it reactionary drivel? Come on.
swehner | 9 years ago | 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
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