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alexandercrohde
6,253karma·1,447submissions·April 18, 2014
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It sounds to me like the implication here is --Snowden disrupted our intelligence agencies by preventing us from crucial information, therefore he harmed our government--. The assumption being that Am…
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>> "Dry is an optimization. What is the cost of DRY? What are the costs of not being DRY?" Agreed 100%. I actually made a javascript programming game to try to find explore that balanc…
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Agreed. Who says social comparison (discarded by this article as "carnival tickets") plays no role in satisfaction? Research shows that making more than peers is a better predictor of happin…
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This is a genuinely interesting piece that touches a number of loosely related points. They are (as I read them): - Engineering jobs are not primarily being about problem-solving (like he had hoped) -…
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I guess I don't really get the point here. This video walks a line between comedy and fact where I'm not really satisfied in either. I can't always tell what's a joke, does he actu…