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Doesn't look too bad in 2014... http://www.amwater.com/ccr/scranton.pdf

A moderator just a hair left of your current moderation approach on the authoritarianism scale would "flag and remove" PG's entire recent article about income inequality with a not…

I wouldn't read too much into it... dang is basically a professional tone policer. An extremely biased one at that, he doesn't like "ideological speech" but only when it's politica…

Considering how ingrained authoritarianism and hierarchical thinking is to humans, good luck.

The internet has already been a massive boon to fighting boredom in general, sure. If you are highly literate (~15%) it's difficult to be bored when all of the world's knowledge is…

I grew up in an area like that. One of my goals if I ever get wealthy is to simply open up something cheap and fun to do in small towns to combat this. Like rock climbing gyms for …

Well, I appreciate the response, but as you might have guessed I disagree with your approach and assumptions. Flamewar material could basically be any contestable subject people ge…

He's a professional tone policer, I wouldn't read too much into it. Literally fluctuates between DH0 and DH2 on nearly all of his comments. [1] It's just articulate name-calling. W…

The technology world has grown so much in the last few years that any niche technology articles simply don't generate a widespread enough appeal, so what we see on YC today is high…

I don't even like Facebook much, but I still strongly preferred the design of it over Google+. Not to mention Google+ was truly asinine about forcing users to merge their YT and G+…

You know, when you put it like this it all makes so much more sense.

What part(s) do you consider dross? To me, "flamewar material" sounds like "stuff many people would disagree with" [1] and "tedious posturing" sounds like, "Unfortunate realities I…

I changed the downvote line, thanks.

Yep. Personally, I could not care less when violent criminals like Michael Brown get shot by the police. Fewer violent criminals is a good thing. Articles like this presume I must …

>While pg's essay contains a fascinating call: to imagine a world where we have to chose to live with increasing economic inequality, I do not believe such a world would be easy to…

Might makes right. Or, more accurately: Might muddies the waters enough to do whatever it wants regardless.

>solely to avoid programming for the web? What is it about the web you dislike so much? People can simply be uninterested in certain types of work..

Aliens of the gaps? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_of_the_gaps

Sure, that's why every college relies on them for admissions, not to mention everyone taking the GRE / MCAT for grad school. Are applied sciences grad programs not "creative work" …

Considering I managed literally thousands of agents over a period of years, you would statistically be an extremely rare exception to a rather well-examined trend. Did you ever tak…

"Hire anyone with decent standardized test scores," would be my baseline after managing a large, technical support callcenter where many new hires were simply not able to learn the…

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I still can't fathom how monetizing what are basically just shared network drives, a feature already built into windows, is a successful venture. Hire an IT guy and have him setup …

He resold cereal dammit, he's practically a miracle worker. /s