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Comment · 7 years ago
As long as it also applies to juice. It's usually the same amount of "bad sugar" but since it says "orange" on the bottle, people think it's healthy...
Comment · 7 years ago
And what's your objection? Zork good Fortnite bad?
Comment · 7 years ago
This seems... Unsustainable?
Comment · 7 years ago
Really curious how shutting down every service works as a business model.
Comment · 7 years ago
The MMPI-2 is the big reference right now. Legally you'll probably need a licensed psychologist to administer it (depending on your state/country), but that would be true of most useful tests.
Comment · 7 years ago
This was a few years ago, so things may have changed by now. But as they say, once bitten twice shy, and the wisdom of "just cron it" doesn't work with highly experimental tools like LE was for what I estimate to be the majority of its lifetime.
Comment · 7 years ago
Hi, psychology student here. It's not very good in a psychometric sense, but its validity problems aren't really a concern when it comes to idiographic data ie: "helpful tools for getting to know the people with whom she was creating a new company".

It's not the devil we memed it into, there are better tools for categorizing and rejecting candidates based on objective-ish traits but this wasn't the purpose according to thr article.

Comment · 7 years ago
Yeah "just" a cron job except the implementation changes several times a year. Somehow this automated process was more time-consuming than the previous, manual one.
Comment · 7 years ago
For the life of me I can't parse that title.
Comment · 7 years ago
Not a radio engineer, but it's the shape of the Faraday cage that matters I think, not the size. The required shape most likely depends on the wavelength, as the idea is to distort the waves... Basically if your grid is too tight (ie a sheet of metal) the waves keep their shape, but if the grid is too loose, the waves just pass right through.

That's what I've been told by fellow meshnet hobbyists anyhow ;)

Comment · 7 years ago
And Coke kills people (union leaders) in South America as a cost of doing business. So yeah.
Comment · 7 years ago
Agreed. I remember thinking "what don't I get? Why do we need getters and setters?". After some years (and discovering Python), I realized there's nothing to get, it's just ridiculous overengineering 95% of the time. Same goes for a lot of stuff in OO. I attribute it to the corporate mindset it seems to thrive in, but I could be wrong.
Comment · 7 years ago
This is as useless as art, which is to say it appeals to a need not readily apparent to people not familiar with the culture.
Comment · 7 years ago
I thought it was the Qualcomm Apple settlement? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19676499

Surely it can't be a coincidence. Though the weather thing might not be either, but if so this was a very well coordinated response.

Comment · 7 years ago
It's become irrelevant because technology is now the measure of all things. It's an outdated mindset to view science and the pursuit of knowledge as sacred things that must have an order. If the technology is progressing, then the field is, therefore there is no need to care about the abstract concept of "progress of science", as it is tangential in practice.

I think many comments are missing the point though, people care about Kuhn because of his epistemological innovation and the implications of his work on the very idea of science, not because of its reception by science historians, however great it may have been.

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