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Step 1: Establish disciplines that ridicule radical criticism. Step 2: Hire undergraduate math/stats students who took criticism courses at gun point and hated them. Step 3: ... St…

> Why do you want to move out of academia? Get a tenure and you'll be doing your research plus you'll secure a job for the rest of your life. In short, the privatization (education…

Do you happen to have any open positions for techie non-programmer education / social sciences people? -Thanks.

> Windows is one of the top 5 most profitable software products in the world. Trust that they know how to make money. Monopolization of the markets. I do trust it, but only when I …

> Trees are a renewable source of energy / building materials. You are too. :) > So again, its not that much of a big deal. ...

> EFF-card-carrying subset of the tech community, people who are most able and least ethically inhibited from piracy anyway. Good rhetoric. They are evil because they believe in et…

(I'm the OP, was on my phone so ended up with a diff account.) Unfortunately, I am trying to move from academia to the private / non-profit sector's 'research associate' etc roles.…

That sounds like (GNU Social) + (Diaspora) - (Distributed Content) Sounds great until your (sub)domain(s) gets censored or targeted.

How did you afford a 6-year long mac warranty?

This was helpful, thanks for the reply.

> An acre and a half of Amazon rainforest disappears every hour, and this is the deforestation you get upset about. According to this logic, I ought to not get upset, nor criticize…

Nope, the author says they pretty much had the trees chopped, in a later comment. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9503287

> They directly processed the trees to firewood, which they were intended for. :) I honestly do not understand why you take video and pictures of a planet you do not care about. To…

> The local authorities helped us a lot, the forester aranged the cutting of two trees for us We killed two trees for a 15 minute long youtube video. Is this how little respect we …

> opening the box was unscrew the case and change the drive for an SSD Does that not void the warranty?

> The police officer is 100% at fault here. The paramedic has medical equipment. The cop has weapons. This is not a zero-sum game. They can be (and, I think, are) 100% at fault. Th…

> Did you read the article? Yes. > The patient did not go to jail. The patient was almost taken to jail. The EMS left him there to be transported to jail. > There was a 10 minute d…

> After a long and complicated trial, the jury agreed that my client was not at fault. The client EMS is as much at fault as the police officer. He let someone whom he knew in his …

> Citizenship required. Why? > Technologists/Developers Can you add a job desc please.

> all EU computers mandated to run OpenBSD That kind of social change would require a change in the econo-political system.

> Specifically /r/programming vs HN. HNers /behave/ more knowledgeably about startups and software. > Is the user-base different? No. White middle class men. Anything else is downv…

Politicians in EU and US call various institutions a "NGO" when they disagree with it and want to ridicule it to intentionally reduce its public reputation. EP is a high reputation…

> systemd has replaced Upstart as the standard boot and service manager on all Ubuntu flavors except Touch. At the time of the 15.04 release there are no known major problems which…

Good article by Eagleton but I do wonder very much if it would have made headlines on HN if the title was "the slow death of the university as a center of humane critique" and the …