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by Afton 10y ago
I'm most interested in the enshrinement into law of these risk assessments, where if you disagree with the risk assessments you get flagged for CPS or criminal judgement. Even if you 'win', society just imposed a massive, ma
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by Afton 10y ago
While I don't doubt that the author could fix this up, you are not helpless either. If you have colour/vision problems it is often worthwhile to install a client-reader bookmarklet or plugin to your browser, which may come along w
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by Afton 10y ago
I'd like to know about this. Can you link to something about the incentive programs? I thought that they were heavily regional, but I admit that I haven't looked too deeply.
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by Afton 10y ago
IANAL, but am a Canadian. My belief is that TN status is a "non-immigrant" status. It is, by definition, temporary. Applying for a GC declares immigrant intent. H1B, by contrast is 'dual-intent'. OTOH, I don't think
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by Afton 10y ago
Cold-brew methods, or via directly cooling the coffee without adding water are the usual alternatives. The downside of both of the two methods is that they take significantly longer, so you can't quickly satisfy and urge for cold coffe
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by Afton 10y ago
This is a general problem with any punitive measure. There will be some false positives (unfair punishments). I actually do know someone who was not able to get a CS degree because of 'cheating'. His story was that he was working
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by Afton 10y ago
I've taught university classes, and failed students on the class for cheating. But it's true that I haven't seen anyone kicked out of a program or a university for cheating.
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by Afton 11y ago
Huh, they do say 'relative to face value'. I still think that reasoning is flawed, but I'm not going to argue with the RCM. Thanks for the link!
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by Afton 11y ago
I don't think this is true. Coins are multi-use. Obviously the government wants to pay as little as possible in production costs, but there isn't any reason that the production cost has to be strictly less than the unit-cost of th
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by Afton 11y ago
Maybe not 'literally', but the point is well taken. I got actionable feedback when I was applying as an intern at Microsoft, and I ended up working there a few years later. The feedback I got was crucial to my getting the job at M
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by Afton 11y ago
The point I was making is that it is odd that when teachers are evaluated for their ability to identify phonemes and morphemes, that their abilities don't seem to match what I saw in first and second year university students taking lin
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by Afton 11y ago
"First, let’s agree that the way to evaluate teacher training is to test teachers. " Oh. Uh... Can I agree that testing teachers is a sensible part of an evaluation plan instead?
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by Afton 11y ago
" When asked to identify the number of phonemes in a word, they were correct 62 percent of the time. They struggled more with morphemes, correctly identifying them 27 percent of the time. " I'm surprised. When I was TAing mor
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by Afton 11y ago
Incidentally, this is now explicitly taught in elementary school math classes. They call it 'number bonds' and it often drives parents crazy because "OMG IT ISN'T HOW I LEARNED IT!", but it is clearly a better strat
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by Afton 11y ago
It is always either neutral or negative is probably what OP meant here. I.e. it is never in your interests to have such a clause. In theory, you could use that clause as leverage for a better salary or benefits or other positive outcomes, b
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by Afton 11y ago
Ah, perhaps I should have been more specific. Having mandatory arbitration be a part of an employment contract seems like it is something that should be disallowed as part of employee protections. Or perhaps disallowing the choice of arbitr
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by Afton 11y ago
There was a real suggestion buried in this piece. Ban mandatory arbitration. I'm most interested in knowing what HN thinks about that piece, since I have no informed opinion of working conditions on Wall Street. Mandatory arbitration s
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by Afton 11y ago
Neither the article nor the survey "tells men to be less aggressive". If you have substantive criticism of the survey, you should produce it, not make a straw-man.
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by Afton 11y ago
This is great. I wonder how these statistics differ from other workplaces?
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by Afton 11y ago
My spouse agrees with my logic, but occasionally has pangs of visceral concern. We discuss these issues like adults. :)
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by Afton 11y ago
The closing of this article is actually the key for me. I've been trying to teach my kids that if they have a problem, and I'm not around, they should pick an adult and ask for help. The odds that they will pick an adult that has
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by Afton 11y ago
I can do 6 chinups right now (I happen to have tested last night of all things). If I tried to do 100 chinups, I would certainly be scheduling a Physical Therapy session tomorrow to deal with the pain in my elbow. Unless I was having surger
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by Afton 11y ago
These techniques are useful when you have a large pool of young extremely healthy men. Then when they blow out knees, shoulders, back, etc you can just select the ones who didn't break. Claiming that this is a useful and effective way
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by Afton 11y ago
It's not right. There are linguistic restrictions on gender-neutral, singular 'they'.[1] When the referent is known, it can't be used (i.e. it's not about 'patrick' and 'he' matching up, it'
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by Afton 11y ago
Everything you do in an interview will be judged. Some people will give you an incomplete problem spec and mark you down if you don't ask questions. Some will give you the same problem spec, but feel that you were too hesitant to &quot
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by Afton 11y ago
Outlook 'delay delivery' option (or whatever your email client supports) is an even better way. If you don't intend someone to read and act on it until morning, you can enforce that trivially!
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by Afton 11y ago
Hmmm I just assumed that the bookstore was a book-store wrapper around Amazon Lockers. The proximity to U-village denizens would make it a good place to put some.
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by Afton 11y ago
I'd also mention that what counts as 'R&D' is often paper thin. Normal developer activities can count if they are spun correctly. Whether that's a problem depends on the amount that you think of this as a general sma
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by Afton 11y ago
I leave it playing overnight (plugged in, or course). The combination works much better than either alone, plus I can play the white noise much louder without it bothering me for extra power.
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by Afton 11y ago
Good quality ear plugs and a brown/pink/white-noise generating app for your phone. I have children who get up early and stomp around the house. Doing this (and a sleep mask) have radically improved my sleep-time)

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