BearGoesChirp

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by BearGoesChirp 9y ago
>Getting angry at Apple et al for following their incentives rationally is silly. That logic doesn't work because people do get mad at things they view as wrong even if they are currently legal (or were legal when they happened). I
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by BearGoesChirp 9y ago
I'm a billionaire. I buy a couple local news companies and tell them to run what ever content I want. How do you stop this without limiting free speech of the individual as well?
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by BearGoesChirp 9y ago
Are we counting only monetary payments? I'm assuming there is some benefit that is given to the scientist for publishing, especially in cases where the scientist pay to publish. It isn't likely at all a simple relationship betwe
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by BearGoesChirp 9y ago
I think one of the simplest ways to illustrate this is with sounds. Humans who spend their early years in an environment devoid of certain sounds lose the ability to differentiate those sounds. The classical example that many seem aware o
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by BearGoesChirp 9y ago
>If you know somebody's basic decision making capability is damaged and you intentionally abuse that damage to your self satisfaction Wouldn't this include a lot of advertisement? Simply informing a person that an option exist
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by BearGoesChirp 9y ago
>If eliminating unnecessary abstraction is offensive to you If the hiring individual dictates what trade offs are made so far in advance that it happens in the interview, it means they aren't just eliminating unnecessary abstraction
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by BearGoesChirp 9y ago
>I would tell them jQuery isn't available in this job. Half would immediately drop out. Good. Unless the job description made clear why it wasn't available, I would take this as a sign of a toxic workplace and avoid it. It isn
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by BearGoesChirp 9y ago
If you use a technique that cuts a lot of people, but cuts more bad people than good people, you'll still end up with plenty of good people. The difference in comparison isn't between the average and the good person who was cut,
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by BearGoesChirp 9y ago
>When you become a tenured professor, the amount of work you do is far less than the vast majority of other jobs with a similar salary. I think you are mixing up the amount of work a tenured professor has to do with the amount of work th
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by BearGoesChirp 9y ago
>if you look at the respective incarceration rates by race. Yet the theory breaks down once you look at a breakdown of race, gender, and SES.
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by BearGoesChirp 9y ago
>Instead of "Black = Slave", it's "Black = criminal , criminal = slave". Except data shows this isn't the case. A closer match is male = criminal, criminal = slave. The legal system is far harsher on a whi
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by BearGoesChirp 9y ago
This argument can be applied to anything, even black market industries. The commerce clause ruling allows congress to make a law about anything explicitly not forbidden in the Constitution or given as a power of a different branch. This w
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by BearGoesChirp 9y ago
If the Supreme Court interprets the Second Amendment to apply to the upper appendages we call arms, that is a factual error, not just a different interpretation. It is possible for an interpretation, given the evidence, to be factually wro
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by BearGoesChirp 9y ago
>Some recruiters tend to be a lot more pushy about it, The simplest solution for recruiters is to lie. Best case scenario you get a much higher offer. Worse case scenario you have to explain to someone at the job that there must have b
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by BearGoesChirp 9y ago
>I would imagine that the majority of people who are underpaid are underpaid not due to discrimination, but due to poor negotiating ability, lack of awareness of the market rate, etc. That is due to discrimination. Discriminating agains
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by BearGoesChirp 9y ago
>Step into the shoes of someone holding an H1B for one moment, please. Step into the shoes of the person who was demanding a fair market wage until the company used an H1B visa to bring in someone who accepts far worse conditions because
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by BearGoesChirp 9y ago
Do you think this is the only bag holding a cat? Their is a very clear message to everyone to not let the cat out of the next bag.
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by BearGoesChirp 9y ago
They should follow the law. Granting an exception is not the way the law should work, because such exceptions are arbitrary and without any sense of justice or ethics. The best way to fix a bad law is to consistently enforce it. If two ac
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by BearGoesChirp 9y ago
The underlying problem seems to be that the rules of the road are broken. We need to ensure everyone drives to the rules, and if the rules are out of date, they need to be updated. Selectively allowing rules to be broken is an extremely b
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by BearGoesChirp 9y ago
>My understanding was that independent game authors were writing games and making cartridges for these games which they then sold. In most the cases I'm familiar with, the official release is only a patch file. You have to patch th
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by BearGoesChirp 9y ago
While I support YAGNI, I only support it when there is a copy somewhere in the source control history. I don't understand why they would permanently delete it even if they weren't planning on ever using it again? Was space that
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by BearGoesChirp 9y ago
Just a word of caution for anyone looking to buy rom hack cartridges, many rom hacks were never intended to be put on cartridges and the original rom hack developers do not support nor benefit from doing so. It's also possible the rom
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by BearGoesChirp 9y ago
I'm not sure what would be earned for developing such a game verses developing one on a modern system that looks like it could have been from that era. It would likely cost less to develop and would be easier for the average consumer
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by BearGoesChirp 9y ago
I know of companies with typos in their links that they email. These typos lead to scam sites. I've contacted them and they haven't yet fixed it. There needs to be a serious re-evaluation of the costs associated with failing su
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by BearGoesChirp 9y ago
That isn't impossible to do, especially for family.
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by BearGoesChirp 9y ago
Part of the comment I quoted indicated that they only did it for women. If they were calling this out as something they do for all candidates and were just talking about how it helps women, I wouldn't see an issue with it. For example
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by BearGoesChirp 9y ago
The biggest issues that would prevent me from getting something like this for those in my family who wear bracelets is the lack of color customizing and bulkiness of the bot. But I like the idea and I'm guessing both of these issues w
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by BearGoesChirp 9y ago
>They hire women without the regular qualifications and are willing to train them on the job, which is refreshing to see. It's a shame they only apply it to female candidates though. I'm trying to imagine what would happen if a
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by BearGoesChirp 9y ago
It depends upon what the options are. If you can demand and get good data, then people will ask for good data. If they don't think it is possible to get good data, then they may demand no data because no data is better than bad data.
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by BearGoesChirp 9y ago
>and even work against collection of, objective data The problem is that many times the data collected is not objective at all. Statistics can be twisted by even just the definitions of words used. For example, a CDC study on rape cons

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